Coreopsis bud
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Yesterday you saw a broad colony of goldenwave, Coreopsis tinctoria. Now, also from the wet spring of 2010, here’s a very different view of the same species, a close-up of a bud beginning to open. The location was the Mueller Greenway, a prairie restoration that’s part of the redevelopment of Austin’s former airport. The contrasting color is from a pink evening primrose, Oenothera speciosa, out of focus in the background. Note the bits of white pollen from another species (probably one of the nearby pink evening primroses) that are wasted in the places where they ended up.
© 2011 Steven Schwartzman
The pink background works really well with that bud. Altogether most arresting.
Syncopated Eyeball
July 28, 2011 at 6:39 pm
I’m happy that you’re happy to be arrested in that way. I enjoy making, when the plants cooperate and positions are right, nature portraits with such different colors in them simultaneously. Another example with the same colors, but in reversed positions, is that of a Texas thistle I posted early in the month.
Steve Schwartzman
July 28, 2011 at 7:03 pm
The pink took me aback too! In another world, the bud could be a cupcake.
Garreth Wilcock
August 1, 2011 at 3:32 pm
A good taking aback, I hope. Don’t know that you’d enjoy biting into this cupcake of a bud — except, as you said, “in another world” — but for me a lot of the flora at the old airport has been food for photographs.
Steve Schwartzman
August 1, 2011 at 3:56 pm
Gorgeous photo. Poetic and beautiful.
Tristan
August 8, 2011 at 9:32 am
Thanks, Tristan; both adjectives are fine with me.
Steve Schwartzman
August 8, 2011 at 1:06 pm