Sorry for more of the same - but not really. Orchids are a wonderful set of variations on a theme. The color can be so luscious. I wonder if any of these would work in black and white, thinking of Robert Mapplethorpe’s lilies, but they are nearly monochrome to start with. We are traveling Thursday so there will be some new stuff.
The Missouri Botanical Garden has excellent plant scientists, and it’s a subject I don’t know much about. (The area where I grew up had a lot more concrete and asphalt than soil.) The variety of shapes, sizes and colors amazes me. There is a name for each variety but it doesn’t help. Just enjoy the visuals.
Another image from the orchid show at the Missouri Botanical Garden. So many of these flowers look alien, something I couldn’t classify. This one makes me think of shrimp.
I mentioned that I didn’t have any material other than this stuff (not that it’s bad) but my granddaughter and her bestie wanted to go to the Arch yesterday so there will be something from there. And, um, I forgot, we’re going to New York Thursday.
It’s cold and gray February around here, and there’s not much to shoot outside. Fortunately, it’s the time of year for our wonderful botanical garden’s orchid show. I took a tour through yesterday. Lacking anything else of interest, I’ll go with this for a while.
The last part of how a barge flotilla gets through Lock and Dam 26 on the Mississippi. The group has been broken into two sets of two barges long. The lock has been closed behind the front set. In a moment, the front gates will open, bringing the water level down to that of the next section of the river. One of the tan tug boats on the left will come around and pull this group out. Then the second half will repeat the procedure.
