Queen of the Night

I just spent some time photographing this beauty, which blooms for only one night. It’s the only flower I got this year, after neglecting the poor plant over last winter as it was in a back room where I forgot about it. It survived looking hardly worse for it.

This is one of my favorite flowers: very showy, large, and nicely scented, though that gets a bit heady after I’ve been closely photographing it for half an hour. So you can enjoy it from afar. It’s around 19 cm across, or 7.5″.

This is Epiphyllum oxypetalum:

Happy Halloween!

Got His Costume On…

 

Ghost Spider

 

Crabby

 

Sorry I haven’t been around; I needed a break. It’s going to continue, but I thought I’d drop by with these treats for Halloween. I’ll figure out if and in what form this blog might continue…

Day 37

Teeniest Baby Green

 

Shroomland, Pt. 2

 

Textural

Day 36

Keeping It Together

Shroomland, Pt. 1

 

Girded

Day 35

Colorful Duo

Not Flowers, Pt II

You saw this moth in its previous incarnation on Day 30, wrapped in plastic, and a close-up of its posterior in yesterday’s post.

Stairlines

Day 34

Tiny Jumper

 

Not Flowers

 

Untitled

Day 33

 

Orange Rims

 

Sunset Blind Lines

 

Storm A’Comin’

Day 32

Magnolia Green Belly

SOC

Electric Joker Kale

SOC = Straight Out of the Camera, no manipulation. The purple one was delicious; yellow is next.
The kale had too much yellow in the image, so I did mess with that one. I like it better this way. 😉

Day 31

Reflections 

 

Scaredy

 

Miniscule

Truly – it wasn’t much bigger than this period.

Day 30

Arachober 5 – Magnolia Green Jumper

 

A Matter Of Perspective

 

Plastic Pupa

Two views of the same thing – that’s the cocoon of the caterpillar that wrapped itself in the plastic.