The old lady thought about the notary public, his long clean shaven face. He had a tidy appearance and comely hands, levigated by disuse – that was her sardonic sense of things. She then looked at her fingers, stained by the ink of the newspaper. A nonpareil feeling mounted as she came upon a page where a photograph, prone to desaturation in such publications, nearly leaped out of its confines. The face to the extreme right was of someone she recognized, yet seen in a different context, identification was troublesome and proffered only effete assurances. The search of her memory seemed to her like a painful jarring of a mechanized shutter, locking in to different locations with the surfeit of a clouded lens. Only the sight of a tropicbird refocused her mind, and she decided to take a walk in the garden under the protean clouds.
nasturtium
trumpet
limestone
air plant
wild flower
nasturtium
protean clouds
Astrophytum asterias
Bauhinia monandra.
Both these differently colored flowers are on the same tree!
Bauhinias (Orchid Trees) have a characteristic butterfly shaped leaf (perfect for those of us with butterfly dogs).
Lux aeterna
Sisyrynchium seed pod
Reptilian respect
Astrophytum strikes again
Galaxy
Van Gogh
Four
Adenium obesum (one of my favorites)
