Spring Flowers in Orange, at the Ruth Bancroft Garden.
Posted for the DP Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange.
Perfect morning light in the greenhouse. More photos HERE.
Agave filifera
Some fibrous succulent and cactus forms at the Ruth Bancroft Garden.
cactus closeup
Agave flower – fraying
Posted for the DP Weekly Photo Challenge: Fray
combo in the hothouse
Just going to share a couple photos of succulents today. Â See more photos at www.flora-file.com
Pest protection at it’s best. One of my favorite predators stalking through the garden.
Posted for the DP Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette
Texture is a feeling. Texture is an appearance. Texture is a consistency. Texture implies depth. Texture can be used to describe the look, sound, taste, or feeling of an object. Texture makes things interesting and delights the senses with contrast. There are so many competing textures in the world around us that sometimes they get lost in the sensory overload that is the modern experience, with all its immediacy and umbilical attachments to technology .
But one thing about texture is that it denotes a depth of experience that is best experienced in person, in three dimensions, and for that reason texture is difficult to convey on the flat surface of a video screen. But that will never stop us from trying.
Posted for the DP Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture
See more garden textures HEREÂ (on my dedicated garden photography blog)
While nature provides many shapes that are pleasing to the eye, such as the parabola, the spiral, and the ellipse, the straight line is far less common in the natural world. It is human’s folly to try to impose such rigid regularity onto our constructs and architecture.
The zig zag is also a pattern that is seen regularly in nature, and sometimes it seems like an attempt at at straight line before the invisible artist that shapes the universe changes it’s mind.
Posted for the DP Weekly Photo Challenge – Zig Zag
intrinsickness 