Friday Flower Blogging

[ellarien]

Night-blooming cactus Early morning on the UA campus, June 2009

I do love these fragile, flamboyant flowers, though I have to get up uncomfortably early to see them. Yesterday's expedition was a good one; six flowers on the big plant on the chaplaincy corner and a couple in the grove in the shade of Centennial Hall. It was cloudier than usual, which gave me softer light to work with but rather took away the point of being up that early in the summer -- it was no hotter at lunchtime than it was at 7am, really.

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[peoppenheimer]

This morning I saw a dozen on a cactus in someone's front yard. Uncharacteristically, I was walking with someone, so I didn't photograph any of them. I do have some good photos from earlier in the week waiting to be posted, including one from my front yard. I particularly like photographing them when the bees are working in them.

[ellarien]

I almost captured a bee on one of the flowers the other day, but it flew away too soon. I do have some shots of bees on prickly pear and hedgehog cactus, though.