The prompt asks that we post black and white photos of subjects beginning with “s” or “t.”
“T” Is for Tillandsia.
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Tilandsian loves to grow on electrical wires. I was told its seed is carried in on the feet of birds that roost there. The first shot was taken through my car windshield to show scale. I like the distortion.
https://ceenphotography.com/2017/05/04/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-letters-s-or-t/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
An interesting plant — what color is the flower?
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It is all a dusty green. A bromeliad and that little part at the end of the arm that looks like a claw is the flower.
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Aha — I know of it as an air plant, although I’ve never seen it so big, or on wires! A very pretty little plant.
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They are actually very small, Janet. The ball is about 1.5 inches across.
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Thanks, Judy — that makes them more like what I’ve seen before!
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Bromeliads are such interesting plants. Almost impossible to grow around here, so I love them on the wires there.
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I’ve heard of air ferns, but to see them growing on wires like that…Wow!
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I know. I pick them up when they fall and put them in small vases or bowls or on windowsills.
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A friend was wondering, don’t they get to be a nuisance? If they grow anywhere, do they take over?
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Had heard of “Tillandsia”, but could not remember where. Now I know, they are very popular now, you see them in masses in the garden shop. To think they grow so easily this way. Do they interfere with the wire? Do they have to be cleaned off periodically?
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They don’t seem to have cleared them off in the 16 years I’ve been here, Carol. Certainly prettier than the wires themselves. I had heard that when they are on telephone wires that they can distort the sound, but I have no proof of that and they are all over so I think that is probably an old wives tale. New wives tale?
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Great photos. That must have looked weird when you first got there. But common place now. Interesting how the seeds get up there, but makes sense.
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Yes.. The seeds are very sticky, I forgot to say! So they stick onto the birds.. feet and feathers, I imagine. When they reperch, they replant.
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Quite wonderful Judy.
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Remarkable! I knew they would grow anywhere, but somehow, I never imagined electric or telephone wires!
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