Time and Purple all in one post...

[waldo]

First I have a picture of "Time".  I put out a home-made snow gauge during the blizzard earlier this month and ran out hourly to get a picture as the snow accumulated and blogged the storm.  At one point I went out, got my 9:00 shot, walked around the block for a bit getting pictures of the buried cars and unplowed streets and dogs in the snow.  When I got home, 12 minutes later, we'd accumulated another inch of snow.  AN INCH in 12 MINUTES!

And some purple flowers.


This is my favorite flower ever.  It's a Mr. Fokker Poppy from the Chicago Botanical Gardens.

Today a local meet-up group went to the Garfield Park Conservatory.  There was Grape Hyacinth... (I think I need to do a 2 sec timer when I'm doing Macro work... :(

And then there's these.  These are just AWESOME!  They're called the "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Plant" for the way the flowers change from purple to white quickly.  I seem to have caught all three days at once on this branch! :)

Comments

[ephemera]

oh, those are beautiful - the yesterday today and tomorrow flowers particularly

[notabutterfly]

I'll be glad when we don't have to measure snow anymore!

And nice shots of those flowers, I'd never heard of them before (except for the grape hyacinth). I'll keep them in mind next time I find myself wandering around a garden.