Common Nature

Strelitzia reginae in bloom in a bedding of white seashells, with low-growing palms and (agave?) also visible in the flower bed, taken on 18 August 2023 at 15:43 US Eastern Daylight Savings Time:





The mature male specimen of Homo sapiens var. euroamericanus was a passerby and did not give his express consent, but the color of his T-shirt coincided so perfectly with the blue nectary petals of the flower that I decided to keep him; the measure I took to respect his privacy somehow completes the composition.)

The temperate Euro-diasporic spring/summer/autumn/winter model really doesn’t apply where I’m living now (nor in the tropics in general.)

By way of creative tax, have a haiku about habitat dissonance:

You sweet winter child,
You make Florida shiver!
Put a sweater on!