Nosegay
Where did I find this nosegay? Not real, but pretty?
On this sugar skull made by one of the few kids who braved the threat of the weather to come to the sull decorating yesterday. The afternoon session was cancelled, schools shut down and I was advised by Proteccion Civil to leave my house as they feared landslides. I’m back in my house after a big and frustrating adventure which I am about to write about.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/23/flower-of-the-day-october-23-2015-dahlia/
Hide-And-Go-Seek
The rain started while we were watching an incredible Iranian film at the Lake Chapala Society. When we emerged, the rain was a surprise, even though we’d been warned about the big tropical storm about to hit–a long arm of Hurricane Patricia that is predicted to arrive with full force at midnight tomorrow. I have started to prepare–butane camp cooker, bottles of water freezing in the freezer, candles and oil lamps out, cooking food ahead as I’m about out of gas and I know I have a gas leak. How could I use $200 worth of gas in three weeks?
Anyway, we decided to be kids and enjoy the block long walk to the car in the rain and were rewarded, when we ducked under cover of the little outside restaurant that was halfway to the gate of LCS, with a view of an incredible orchid tree. (My name. I don’t know what it is.) An added bonus was that I was under the cover of the roof of the open air little restaurant and so I didn’t have to risk getting my lens wet.
It was only after I got home and started playing with the pictures that I spied the various little characters hidden in the flowers. See if you can find them.
Can you find the koala bear? Some may think he has more in common with a polar bear.
Mr. Frog is enjoying the rain.
Little bird is hungry, but old grandfather mouse is just wet and disgusted.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/22/flower-of-the-day-october-22-2015-dahlia-backs/
Spanish Dancer at Midnight
The name of this variety of hibiscus really is Spanish Dancer! Another of my shots taken after midnight with the help of a flashlight. From this angle you can’t see the pinkish red at the center of the inside.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/21/flower-of-the-day-october-21-2015-dahlia-bud/
Vampire Hibiscus
Another shot taken on my after midnight photo shoot in the garden. This one was taken with only a flashlight for illumination. The richness combined with the deep red of the anthers brought to mind another denizen of the night.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/20/flower-of-the-day-october-20-2015-tulip-bud/
I’ve never tried to take pictures of flowers at night before!!! I took a flashlight and popped out the flash as well. Kind of nippy out there in my nightgown, but it was so much fun!!!! I always thought hibiscus closed up at night, but here is proof they don’t! Tomorrow, I’ll show the color shots, but for some reason I preferred the black and whites. Ghostlier, I guess.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/19/flower-of-the-day-october-19-2015-rhododendron/
Zinnia Zoom
I am constantly amazed by what happens as I zoom in on a flower. There is an entire new world revealed at each stage of the zoom! In this way, a flower is a good parallel to everything. The closer we look, the more complex everything is revealed to be. This is why I like poetry. It is the microbiology of words.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/18/flower-of-the-day-october-18-2015-maran-dahlia/
Plumeria (Mixed Messages)
How to honor the last three frangipani (plumeria) blooms on a tree doomed to the axe? This tree has grown to block the view, and for 14 years I’ve suffered from its scent that others find intoxicating. Finally, weeks ago, I told Pasiano it must go. He hasn’t been swift in following requests. I haven’t been swift in asking why.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/16/flower-of-the-day-october-16-2015-day-lily-in-black-and-white/
Couldn’t resist another bougainvillea!
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/15/flower-of-the-day-october-15-2015-dahlia/
“Brokedown” Zinnia
I don’t know why this “brokedown” zinnia appeals to me so much, but it does. It looks like it took a bite out of this little berry hanging over its shoulder a week or so ago and then just let it hang!
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/13/flower-of-the-day-october-13-2015-bearded-iris/
