Bull nettle and red phlox
Cnidoscolus texanus and Phlox drummondii on March 19th in western Bastrop County.
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A beautiful composition that impresses with the focused bull nettle in a blurred background!
Peter Klopp
March 25, 2023 at 10:02 AM
An unfocused background allows attention to fall on the sharp (and sharply focused) bull nettle.
Steve Schwartzman
March 26, 2023 at 6:53 AM
Nice one, no bull.
Robert Parker
March 25, 2023 at 11:11 AM
Clever!
Steve Schwartzman
March 26, 2023 at 6:51 AM
This dark red’s as effective as black for showing off the bull nettle flower. Even thought it’s far more likely that dewberries will draw blood before these nettles, the blood-like color seems appropriate, too.
shoreacres
March 26, 2023 at 9:36 AM
What kept coming to mind was the title of Stendhal’s novel Le Rouge et le noir, The red and the Black,, even though that leaves out the pristine bull nettle flower entirely. My experience bears up your conjecture: many’s the time I’ve gotten a dewberry prickle in my skin, which has fortunately so far remained exempt from bull nettle needles.
Steve Schwartzman
March 26, 2023 at 9:48 AM
That’s a lovely combination.
Steve Gingold
March 26, 2023 at 4:23 PM
And not one I recall ever photographing before.
Steve Schwartzman
March 26, 2023 at 5:35 PM