A lot going on: another instance of “more is more”

On May 18th I spent an hour and a half at a pond on the Blackland Prairie in far northeast Austin. Giant bulrushes (Schoenoplectus californicus) grew lushly in places around the pond, as you see in both of these busy photographs. In the second picture the bulrushes formed an eccentric* frame for the purple flowers of a pickerelweed colony (Pontederia cordata).

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* Eccentric is literally ex-centric, which is to say ‘off-center.’ The familiar sense applies here too.

© 2020 Steven Schwartzman