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15_the_circle) wrote2006-08-11 06:20 pm
15_the_circle) wrote2006-08-11 06:20 pm
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amaryllis belladona
[OT from cottage renovations]
this week in the Grove has been good for Amaryllis belladona, it's blooming all over the place. these ones have come up over across the Circle.
late afternoon sweetlight has a way of accentuating the contrast and subduing the traditional pink of these flowers.
(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)
the Circle
Amaryllis belladona "naked lady lilly"
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the LJ profile showing one of my interests as "botany for dummies" is no joke; some of these plants I've known for a long time but many I've been learning about ever since they started showing up in this space last year. funny how I had lived here for years without knowing ... I am quite fortunate to have knowledgeable neighbours who are quite helpful with species identification.
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yes, and the way they catch the light really brings that out. it was pushing dusk when I was taking these, it really was the last of the light.
the days are noticeably shorter and we're starting that long slide into winter (though I only noted that when things got rather cool over the past few days). fortunately there's plenty of this season left, with a tremendous variety of effects of the light. I don't seem to be running out of material.
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That thought excites me.
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(insert Gary Cole impression): I don't think Georgia got that memo.
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I feell like I can reach in and touch the beauty of the petals and yet I know if I do it will damage the delicateness of them somehow.
Really good and thanks for showing them
Wish I knew all the names like that :)
Helen x
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> I feell like I can reach in and touch the beauty of the petals and yet
> I know if I do it will damage the delicateness of them somehow.
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they live outside and weather happens to them, so they are probably at least a litle sturdier than they might appear. but with an appearance so delicate why worry about the finer points of their structural engineering? I'm content to be able to look at them and to share the occasional image.
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> Wish I knew all the names like that
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I don't know them all, or even very many. when that happens I post it as unknown and sometimes a knowledgeable neighbour will supply the name. I have also found Google image search and wikipedia to be useful resources for the stumbling abotanist.
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When IS this calendar happening? And how, with all these incredible images you've produced, will you narrow it down to twelve for a calendar?
Forget the calendar. You need to produce a coffee-table book of Grove images with your comments accompanying them. Some of your comments are as beautiful and perfect in structure as these flowers.
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> When IS this calendar happening? And how, with all these incredible
> images you've produced, will you narrow it down to twelve for a calendar?
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> Forget the calendar. You need to produce a coffee-table book of Grove
> images with your comments accompanying them. Some of your
> comments are as beautiful and perfect in structure as these flowers.
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thank you for you kind and encouraging words.
I'm still looking to have a grovescape (http://www.livejournal.com/~15_the_circle/tag/grovescape) calendar available before end-of-year (talk about an absolute deadline -- the built-in obsolescence of calendars drives a tremendously accelerated depreciation curve).
we've discussed this in the WG writers' group: the calendar is both an experiment and a precursor to a potential book project. experimental in that it will show whether demand exists for these images in printed form, but also scaled down to something reasonably attainable yet providing a usable experience base for the next stage should there be such a thing.