I have seen a small weed around that has needle-like leaves, but I've never seen it flower. But I'm on the East Coast and maybe not the same plant at all.

Can you take a picture?

Taking a picture is not the problem. Unfortunately, I don't know how to send a pic to the message board. I may have to just knock on the owner's door! Would love to have a plant like this one.

A longshot, but maybe ipomopsis? Personally, I'd knock on the owners door; I love it when people ask me about my plants ;)
If you take a picture, upload it to Photobucket (free account) and copy the "HTML Tag" that they provide and paste it here in your response.
I'd love to see it...

I think you saw cypress vine, which can look red or orange depending on the light. It has dark green cypress-like foliage. My hummingbirds like it, although they seem to like some other things like honeysuckle and salvia better. I grew mine in a container with a slender support about 18" tall, but it wanted to go higher, so I just clipped it when it started reaching over the balcony. I also saw it grown in a container with a heart-on-a-stick shape. Really cute.

No, myoneandonly, it wasn't Cypress Vine. I am very familiar with that one. However, Tracey, I am going to take a pic and TRY to post it. Thanks so much for the instructions. Sure hope I can do it!

I finally found out the plant is a Russelia Equisetiformis (firecracker plant). The owner gave me a sprig of it which I am really "babying" until the spring then it will be smooth sailing. It's Dec. and hers still has blooms! I'm so happy she offered to share.

Dude we have the same thing! These weird orange flowers all over our pine trees. They have never been there before but this year (2018) they ALL have them... sorta weird looking noodle flowers. They’re real slimy too

Have a look at Penstemen pinifolius, pine leaf Penstemon.

LOL!! Anthony, those are not flowers but fungal organisms similar to mushrooms :-) And your "pine trees" are probably junipers. What you have is cedar-apple rust.

Where was the picture?

I think I know part of what was previously seen and what’s going on here. I noticed an orange round object this morning on a pine tree which I thought was a bird but it never flew away. Anyway, I took some pictures. Before this blossom the branch had a tubular deformity like a bulge. I’m not sure, but the bulge could have been caused by insect in a prior year. This blossom occurred after three days of rain to include lighting and rain last night. This pine

tree is also in a lower part of the yard where it get a good share of the water.

Here is another shot of the same pine tree.

Carl, please reread this thread. Those are not pine trees but junipers and the orange growth is not a flower or a blossom and not due to any insect activity but is the fruiting body of a fungal organism commonly known as cedar-apple rust, Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae,

That was very enlightening. Thank You