June 10, waiting for my ride

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My ride picked me up next to the new parking lot across the street from the library.

The same people maintain this parking lot as the Huron/First/Washington/Ashley one we've admired so many times.

Ooooh.

Very hot pink, white, green, and a maroon grass.

Pentunias, verbena, and I don't know what kind of grass.







Petunia leaves and stems are fuzzy. And kinda sticky, as anyone knows who has dead-headed one.

If you click on this next image to embiggen, you can see how fuzzy the opening bud (lower right) is.





The planter is chartreuse. Maybe they think that's enough contrast for all this pink? I think it needs some yellow, at least, and maybe a bit of orange....

You can see the flowers of the grass. At least I think that's what's going on here.





Not to say I'm not grooving on the pink. But. A bit of yellow.... A nice palatte cleanser before more pink.

I love this shot. The blue in the centers of the verbena, the bud in front, the ruffle lifted so we can see behind.....





If you embiggen the next, you can see droplets of ... sticky stuff ... on the ends of the hairs on the stem. Also a bug on the bud at the right edge.







Ok.

Cleansing breath.

Enough pink for the nonce.

Alium, setting seed. Cool when they bloom, and cool afterward, too.





I can't choose the plane of focus on the little camera. Here, it chose to focus on the center of the sphere of ex-flower.





Here it chose the outside bits. The regular focus algorithm gets a greater depth of field, but it can't focus on anything as close to the lens as this was.

So I decide that I like the contrast between sharp and blurry as another way to get people to focus on what I mean to be showing. (So much of life is in how you spin it......)

You can see that not all the flowers were pollinated, but a lot more of them were than on that euphorbia we looked at yesterday!



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