"When I am with you, the only place I want to be is closer."
(author unknown)
This pink hibiscus was dancing in and out of the dappled sunlight, lighting the golden pollen up as the breeze dangled it like a fishing lure flashing in the water..
Seems to me that the closer one looks at it, the weirder it gets, with the red velvet-gloved hand reaching out at the end of a pure white stalk.. And closer yet, and you can see that the red pods are covered with unimaginably small hairs, so that it's actually quite hard to focus sharply enough to see them in real life.
And yet, those hairs are probably every bit as critical to the function of the flower as the huge, billowing pink petals that lure pollenators in from far and wide. The petals are for show - it's the little bits that do the real work of ensuring the next generation.
Kinda reminds you of certain people we know, right? (lol)
"When I am with you, the only place I want to be is closer."
(author unknown)
This pink hibiscus was dancing in and out of the dappled sunlight, lighting the golden pollen up as the breeze dangled it like a fishing lure flashing in the water..
Seems to me that the closer one looks at it, the weirder it gets, with the red velvet-gloved hand reaching out at the end of a pure white stalk.. And closer yet, and you can see that the red pods are covered with unimaginably small hairs, so that it's actually quite hard to focus sharply enough to see them in real life.
And yet, those hairs are probably every bit as critical to the function of the flower as the huge, billowing pink petals that lure pollenators in from far and wide. The petals are for show - it's the little bits that do the real work of ensuring the next generation.
Kinda reminds you of certain people we know, right? (lol)