Saturday, January 15, 2005

Since HelloPhotoKitty asked 4 more....


For HelloPhotoKitty... Electric Fucia?

These are a succulent called "Ice plant" (I think) that tend to bloom in the spring (March) around here. They can only survive in places without winter, since a good freeze would pop all their cell walls and they'd then thaw into green mush. Having grown up in places with actual winter, they were new for me. They seem impervious to exhaust, oil, rubber, gasoline, dog piss and trampling, and require no irrigation. So they're all over the roadside. Brilliant stretches of them.

The purple on the green does something funky to your eye. They have an electricity to the color. Plus I like taking pictures of flowers. My pathetic digital homage to Georgia.