Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Macro-fun. Spring blooms...

...on my lunch-break...
Yesterday hit a record-high for Tucson: 91 degrees--about 20 degrees warmer than 'normal.'
And so things are in bloom earlier than normal.
Yesterday afternoon, I spent a few minutes with the camera in our little yard, experimenting with macro shots...


...freaky up close, eh? Reminds me of the head on one of those Chinese lunar new-year dragons...or some undersea creature...it's a lemon bud just before blossoming...

...another shot of the lemon bud, along with more tightly-closed newer buds...

...orange blossoms, just opening...too bad no one has come up with a way to transmit smells on-line; the fragrance is heady, and our trees are full of bees...

...the common hibiscus...intense in the afternoon light; the stamens are otherwordly up close, no?

...and as intense as the color is, I like hibiscus in b&w; the texture really takes center-stage...

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