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TUESDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER ...
HAPPY TUESDAY, EVERYONE!
I hope your week is going well!
I'm not sure of my ID of this beautiful flower. It didn't look like the Iris I'm familiar with. This is very short. Only a few inches from the ground. Maybe someone out there might know the correct ID. Thank you.
UPDATE: I found out today from the park ranger that this is a California Native Iris. Iris Pacifica (Pacific Coast Iris)
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Yes, the flower is a beautiful. More important, I took this with my left eye on Thursday. Darn near had to hold the viewfinder away from my face to see what I was "capturing." It was one of the 11 shots I made that day. It was tedious, uncomfortable, and problematic ... until I got this up on my monitor which is also uncomfortable, tedious, and problematic ;-) But, it's certainly in focus, and I was pleasantly surprised by the depth of field. I'm going to perfect this posture of using the nondominant eye. The timing of this new method will probably occur right after I can see again ;-) Go ahead, view large.
Now then, the Kangaroo paw is the common name for a number of species, in two genera of the family Haemodoraceae, that are endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. These rhizomatous perennial plants are noted for their unique bird-attracting flowers. The tubular flowers are coated with dense hairs and open at the apex with six claw-like structures, and it is from this paw-like formation that the common name "kangaroo paw" is derived.
The red and green kangaroo paw was adopted as the state emblem of Western Australia in a proclamation on 9 October 1960.
Both red and green Kangaroo Paws have died in pots on my patios. It would probably be more cost effective, albeit not aesthetic, to buy them dead and cut out the middle whatever killed them off. I'm sure I didn't water them enough or perhaps I watered them too much. Or perhaps I have whatever the opposite of a green thumb is. PC keeps me from speculating.