Urban Oasis: Purple Enigma

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Purple Enigma

Here's another mystery shot for tonight, but for most gardeners, this should be a pretty easy one. It's actually a detail of a bud in a photo I took that I wasn't really very happy with, so I just cropped the part that I thought turned out well and liked the result very much. This is actually a pretty common flower that you'll find it in a lot of gardens around here. I'll be posting more of this variety soon, but I thought I'd post at least a "teaser" of things to come.

Tell me what images come to mind when you look at this up close ... to me it looks like some kind of sea creature reaching out with its tentacles to grab something ... while for Fernymoss it resembles four exotic birds grouped together having a very purple tête à tête. I'm sure it conjures up other things for other people, so if you feel like saying what it evokes for you, leave your thoughts in the comments!

5 comments:

olivia said...: Morning IVG, Fernymoss! It reminds me of one of those hats a court jester would wear.; 5/19/2007 09:40:00 AM
Iowa Victory Gardener said...: Hey there Olivia! I hadn't thought of a jester hat myself, but that's a good one! That's why I wanted to just throw this one out there and see what others saw in it... will be interesting to find out what others think!

Hey, what do think about my new badge? I managed to get it installed with no help ... slight incremental improvement, eh?; 5/19/2007 03:37:00 PM
olivia said...: Yep! The badge looks great!; 5/21/2007 11:18:00 AM
Family Man said...: Hi IVG.

I've got so much catching up to do.

It reminds me of a SciFi space ship. Don't ask me how, it just does. :); 5/21/2007 05:41:00 PM
Iowa Victory Gardener said...: Hmm, sci-fi space ship, eh FM? I like that one too! I like the idea of purple space ships actually, but then again, purple always has been one of my favorite colors (right up there with orange and red).

Thanks for weighing in on that one ... I hope others still do that before it scrolls off the page, even though it's no longer an enigma, since I posted the full shot of the flower afterwards. Still, for just a crop of a picture I wasn't happy with, I'm pretty proud of it, lol.; 5/22/2007 01:39:00 AM

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Transforming one urban corner, one season at a time

Welcome to our little corner of the Plant Universe!

I started Urban Oasis almost three years ago with the intent of both chronicling the seasonal changes of our gardens, as well as to serve as a kind of "rough draft" for a gardening book I've been wanting to write for about six years now. Well, the book remains unwritten, but readers will still find in these pages, the seeds of what it may eventually become when I'm gifted with adequate time and resources to really apply myself to writing it....

When we moved into our house in 1998, (affectionately dubbed Casa IVG), it was a practically barren garden canvas just waiting to be reborn. Our urban transformation project began in earnest in Spring 1999, and continues to this day, with some major changes occurring along the way (such as the boulder beds in 2003) ... and the evolution continues to this day.

Urban Oasis itself has evolved too, from its original exclusive focus on the plants to postings on some of my other more personal interests, such as Politics, International and Independent Cinema, and one of the enduring passions of my life: our dogs. 2008 was a year of many transitions for us, the saddest of which was the loss of our beloved Pepa and Rolly in December.

But, as in any garden worth its petals, we are now experiencing a joyous renewal with the recent adoption of our new pup, Hanna, who will be appearing regularly here as the seasons progress. She'll never truly replace Pepa as the official "mascot" of the blog, but she's an eager "intern" who will go far in filling the enormous paw prints left behind by her predecessor ... and fill them well, she will!