Spring Flowers in Orange, at the Ruth Bancroft Garden.
Posted for the DP Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange.
plant orgy in progress
When most people think of spring and plants they immediately think of flowers. How disgusting. Did you know that a flower is the sexual organ of a plant? Most 7th graders don’t know this, and you should see the look on their faces when they find out. Priceless. I tell them that every time they sniff a flower the plant is using them to perform its sexual biddings. I tell them there are unmentionable things happening between the plants and their little “friends” the birds and bees. I make sure to use air quotes when I say “friends.” Really it’s a depraved nature orgy. And people like to cut the flowers off and display these colorful and pungent reproductive sculptures in their homes. How sick are we?
Personally when I think of spring I think of young, green leaves filling in on the trees and other plants. The leaves are the true workhorse of the plant, creating sugar money in their little chloroplast factories. Sure, they get some help from the stem and the roots as they help collect resources and deliver them, but really the true magic happens in the leaves. They are turning sunlight into food, storing the sun’s energy in their bodies until those calories can trickle down the food chain to all us hungry heterotrophs downstream. Keep your filthy flowers. Give me leaves, and I will know the world will be fed for at least one more trip around the sun.
Compiled for the DP Weekly Photo Challenge: Spring
and, DP Weekly Writing Challenge: Student, Teacher
* disclaimer #1 – this is meant to be humorous and sarcastic. I do not tell my students that sex is disgusting and depraved. I tell them it is wonderful and life affirming and they should all go home after school and engage in it immediately.
* disclaimer #2 – disclaimer #1 was meant to be humorous and sarcastic too.
* disclaimer #3 – I actually do like flowers, even though they are monuments to sinful fornication, and kinda stinky.
I went to Annie’s Annuals in Richmond, CA yesterday to help fuel my plant fetish. Just a few photos of the amazing flowers I saw in their display gardens. I basically wanted to buy one of everything.
See way more plant photos HERE
Spring is in full effect in California. Sunny days and chilly nights really bring out the colors in the succulents.
Way more plant photos HERE
A DP Photo Challenge – Three Picture Story
“I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.” – Pablo Neruda
Okay, so it’s actually a plum tree, but I think you get the picture.
May your spring be covered in blue skies and blossoms.
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