boiler beauty
or, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder....
(Original photos were taken by husband, then much loved and played with by me!)
a volunteer
This datura emerged in my pot of sweet bell peppers, not quite as large as the one that grew in another pot three years ago.
As it did back then, it still makes me think of some prehistoric giant plants, ready to take over the world, maybe coloured by a book that I'm currently rereading some twenty years later: Rumors of Spring by Richard Grant. Highly relevant in today's troubled ecology, I must say, even as it is fantasy/science fiction.
shadow play
This afternoon's moment of shapely shadows playing on white curtain,
recalling yesterday's fleeting, precious ephemeral instant:
a hummingbird's shadow,
too quick to be captured with camera,
as he feeds at the hanging red ivy geraniums.
contrasts
cool and drizzly after hot and dry days and nights
soft leaf on hard angular body and sharp spines
dark against light,
a hint of coming change of seasons
still
still here, too hot to think
enduring another heat wave
by keeping still
seeking cool corners
in these dog days
triskaidekaphobia
Another new word for me!
It is Friday the 13th and though I'm not a sufferer of this 'ailment' I found this article about its history very interesting.