We’re just a tad late, but not too much, and so we’ll see November out on its own (but always welcome to visit, as long as it’s not overnight) with the month-end abstracts. And this month, we have two (urk!) smutphone examples, because that’s what I had in hand at the times.
Nice textures, but probably not too confusing or mysterious. We were transplanting among the last of the plants (in this case a butterfly bush) near an elephant ear plant when I noticed the sunlight coming through the leaf, and the smutphone was the only thing handy, not to mention that my hands were dirty and it was the only thing that I wanted to handle anyway. Still not sure of the exact species so that information will wait for another time. Gave a little boost to saturation and contrast to make it look how I remembered it, as well as more closely matching the phone display.
And then, we were out and about yesterday and came across this ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) tree just losing its leaves, which was a little surprising to The Girlfriend and I, since most other trees are largely bare. I found a patch of blue-ish shy and fired off a few frames.
We’re waiting to see if the one we transplanted a couple weeks ago takes hold in the spring, while two others, much smaller, reside in the greenhouse for now; the pot of one of those has been chosen, twice, for fire ant infestations – I mean, not by us, but by the ants themselves, despite our disapproval. I think the second attempt to convince them of their folly (by wholesale slaughter) might have worked. They probably wouldn’t hurt the tree by being in there, but this whole thing about swarming and attacking anything that disturbed the pot, even by watering, wasn’t flying with us.
I might try and get some more pics up a little later on today – we’ll see.