Orange Thunbergia: Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Hard to believe that yes, this, too, is a thunbergia! I bought this plant years ago and had Pasiano plant it, but it was invisible–obscured by bougainvillea and ferns. I thought it had died out long ago, then yesterday I saw it rising up from the thick undergrowth and twining up this wire at the entrance to my house. Perfect!
Now, go HERE for Cee’s perfect detail of an iris and flowers by others!
Hibiscus Incline
The ramp to my studio is lined with a new crop of hibiscus peeking through the guard railings.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/08/17/flower-of-the-day-august-17-2015/
Tradescantia Pallida: Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge, 8/15/2015
The common name for this purple-accented vining plant is “Wandering Jew” This particular variety has such beautiful little flowers that I had to present them.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 8/12/15
Today I just wanted to play with a detail of one rather wilted Thunbergia blossom that I snapped a picture of. I just wanted to use it in a painterly way to see how far the image could be stretched. I’m rather limited in my editing choices, but it was fun.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/08/12/flower-of-the-day-august-12-2015-ryan-c-dahlia/
Mexican Color: Cee’s Flower of the day Challenge
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/08/11/flower-of-the-day-august-11-2015-wild-flower/
Still Don’t Know the Name of This Flower!
I am still trying to remember the name of this flower. I have a paler variety at home but these beauties are in bloom on the Lake Chapala Society grounds. I love the seed pods as well, so I’m showing one above. They burst open and spill out the black bee bee seeds, insuring a new generation of plants.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/08/10/flower-of-the-day-august-10-2015-rose/
Heartleaf Ice Plant, nee Baby Sunrose, nee Red Apple Ice Plant
I have loved ice plant ever since I first spied it in CA and brought cuttings back to my greenhouse room in Wyoming. I have been known to pull off the hiway to pinch off a chain of ice plant. The beach was another favorite gathering place. Now I live surrounded by it–growing from planters, along sidewalks and crawling over pumice grinding stones hundreds of years old.
See Cee’s and other flowers of the day HERE.
I sprinkled seed from an earlier zinnia plant over this plot of dirt left after I dug up a big cactus to transplant. My plans were to put a fish pond here, but I can’t bear to dig up the zinnias which have been blooming almost constantly since. You’ve seen them at other stages, but this is what they look like now. They are loving the rainy season!
I love the detail of the shadow in this closeup.
For more flowers, go here: http://ceenphotography.com/2015/08/08/flower-of-the-day-august-8-2015-dahlia/
Tulip Tree with Kiskadee
This fellow was at the opposite end of the lot at the top of a giant African Tulip Tree. Thanks to the wonderful zoom on my new Canon camera, I captured him! Thanks, Canon.
He was catching bugs as they went by. You can see one in his beak in this photo.
Here you can see him going after yet another fly. It was an almost constant repetition of a theme. A great hunting ground! My shutter speed wasn’t fast enough to freeze his movement, but at least the flowers were in focus!
And then he flew away! He always returned, but my mind turned to other things, and two days later I had this nice surprise on my camera when I finally got around to downloading the pictures from my camera. Another day’s challenge met!!!
(In Mexico, the name for the African Tulip Tree is Tulipan. It is also sometimes called a Fountain Tree.)
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/08/05/flower-of-the-day-august-5-2015-delphinium/
Tabachine: Showy, Outrageous and Beloved by Butterflies
Known also as the Poinciana, Dwarf Poinciana, or Bush Poinciana–this smaller version of the Royal Poinciana Tree is known as a Tabachine in Mexico,
To see Cee’s outrageous hibiscus macro, go HERE
