A couple of specimens I found in the hall at Figments & Filaments this evening.
Category: Photo gallery
Flowering crab, afterwards
Big ones, weird ones
I finished going through the orchid show pictures. Here are a few more. You can see many more at my Flickr site.
Springtime in Wichita
Hail and sunshine, simultaneously? Yep, it’s Kansas.
Terrestrial and epiphytic
There was another orchid show at the botanical garden, and I spent yesterday there taking too many pictures. It’s going to take a while to go through them all and edit the better ones for my Flickr site. Here are a couple of the weird things.
Hanami 2015
The Okame cherry is in bloom at the nearby botanical garden. ((I was surprised to learn that this cultivar, a hybrid of two Asian cherries, is of British origin.)) The Yoshino cherry is lagging a week behind, but it should be photogenic next week.
From the archives: Melonie Buchanan
An image from the days of black and white film and wet darkrooms. I took this picture 15 or 20 years ago in the Friends University dance studio.
Quiet afternoon
It was a bit awkward getting around in my neighborhood when I got home yesterday. I’ve never seen so many firetrucks in one place. (Click to enormously embiggen. How many red trucks can you find?)
Don’t touch
It’s spring again for the moment, and I made another trip to the botanical garden today. There was even less color evident this afternoon than there was two weeks ago, back in February, but I did find a few things to take pictures of.
Enough already
I want my global warming
Fuzz, felt, hair, prickles
I visited the botanical garden this afternoon to see if I could find any color. There wasn’t much, but a few things did catch my eye.
Why God made microwave radiation
Art or vandalism?
Whoever was working on the project across the street either finished the job or got bored, and it looks like this is its final state. It’s too ugly to be graffiti, so it must be art.
Art or vandalism?
This recently appeared across the street. I suppose it’s preferable to gang symbols, but a blank wall would look better.
So much for fall
Many people declare that fall is their favorite season. I’ve never understood why. Sure, there are pleasant Indian summer days when you can read Keats and admire fall foliage, but it always ends in cold and desolation. This year winter came very early. The maples never reached full intensity, and other late fall trees were still mostly green when the January weather arrived. Where’s global warming when you need it?
From the archives
While going through old pictures, I came across this from a Renaissance Faire a decade ago. As threats go, that’s fairly mild. More frightening are promises to give stray children sugary snacks and free kittens.
Oranges and reds
It’s been a mediocre fall so far here, but there is some color out there if you look for it.
Garish and bizarre
A few more pictures from this weekend. Click to greatly embiggenify.
Calling Brenda Starr
I hoped to take a picture of Dracula at the orchid show today, but there weren’t any there this time. However, I did find a black orchid for Basil St. John.
