Although it has started to get a bit warmer, lots of snow remain, snow that has lost its initial pristine beauty and is now flecked with brown road dirt and various chemicals. I feel a need for color, so I am posting some shots I took last month of a tropical plant in the greenhouse at my local county-run garden.
One of the challenges in shooting in this small space was the often cluttered background. I tried to frame these shots in such a way that background is not too distracting. I have no idea what kind of a plant this is, but that doesn’t bother me, for it is the color, texture, and shape of the plant that I find most interesting.
It won’t be long before I’ll see bursts of color like this outdoors—I can hardly wait.
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Lovely, Mike, and a great antidote for dirty snow. I have no idea what kind of flower it is, either.
Mike, looks like a mimosa to me – in the Brazilian Amazon, they use them instead of umbrellas to top off the national drink, a Capirinha – perfect!
Lovely, now I need some indoor garden therapy!
And the indoor gardens have humidity! I miss that in the dry cold winter.
There definitely was humidity there, Sue, so much that I worried my lens might fog up. It felt nice at this time of the year, although the humidity in the Washington D.C. area gets oppressive in the summer–it’s all relative.