I’m taking an online course on Natural History Illustration. The homework for Week 4 was to illustrate a flower. We have this honeysuckle on our back fence (and it’s blooming!), so I snipped off a piece and used it as my subject. As soon as I submitted this photo for my homework, I noticed I hadn’t listed the measurements or even the color of the leaves. Lesson learned? Maybe.
From Grandmother’s Flower Garden in La Grange, Texas. It’s a wonderful garden and I always roam through it when I visit the Texas Quilt Museum next door to the garden. These caught my eye. (Taken with my smart phone.)
Trichopsis hybrid cv. Apricot Glow at the Mitchell Lake Audubon Center, San Antonio, Texas.
I don’t know if I have ever seen this flower before. It looks a bit more pink than apricot, don’t you think? Maybe it was just the time of day I came across it. I saw it just as I was starting out on a walk around the center. I loved it so much I went back after I finished my walk. It had been raining lightly and I wanted to see how the flower looked with raindrops on its petals.
There it was: one glove
Yellow its only color
Where’s the other one?
I passed these while on a hike at the Mitchell Lake Audubon Center in San Antonio, Texas.
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My photograph isn’t crooked; the little building is.
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What a luxury: a covered port-a-potty.
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A delux port-a-potty.
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Maybe this bird blind used to have a door. And some walls? The pond is mostly hidden by overgrown vegetation anyway.
It's a long story ... 