Tiny Kowhai Flowers . . .

for Tiny Tuesday.  Last week I noticed these flowers on a little Kowhai shrub in the school garden.  It is a compact dwarf form that is used as a groundcover.  It flowers in late winter well before the other species of Kowhai.  I snipped them off this morning and now they are brightening up my desk.  Not feeling the brightest today and I hope it is just a cold and doesn't develop into anything else.  A lot of the children are coughing and spluttering everywhere.