I've been photographing flowers this spring and summer. It's something my granny often did, although she would get to work with her watercolors or oils after the prints came back. Like her, I'm interested in a flower's color palette, but the objects I'm studying are pollen grains. It's a refreshing break from the hard-nose science that these past months have brought.
This Casablanca Lilly is a recent addition to my meditation rock garden. It stands tall over the eclectic menagerie of stone shapes, colors and weathered textures, each carrying a bit of history that I use to launch episodes of time travel. The Lilly seems to be getting along well with the adjacent horseradish patch (which, for various reasons, is what I would certainly be if I was a plant).
Its copious pollen will give me much to study. Ah, if only its fragrance would repel the millions of mosquitos that our wet summer has spawned!
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Dear Dr. Sam,
ReplyDeleteIt’s nice to read your blog. So many beautiful pictures and I can get to know what’s going on when you and your colleagues were stayed in Antarctica although I haven’t read all the posts.
As studying with pollen grains, well, I don’t quite understand it. Hopefully I can get more details about it. Also looking forward to see the result. What I can say is that Albany does have a lot of various kinds of flowers in spring and summer and I cannot name most of them. You surely have adequate materials to study with.
Best wishes!
Jie