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Blooming agave
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I’m glad this one was published vertically as that presentation enhances the scope of the plant and other subjects caught by the photographer, e.g., irony of the bloom of industry’s indicators in the same general space as nature’s bloom.
Time of day is a factor here as well. Left to her own devices, Mother Nature would redecorate the building with longer lasting growth, perhaps using the shadow and its sun-mapped path as initial patterns.
I don’t know where agave’s natural habitat is located, but the robustness of this plant backs up what I told one of my Canuck friends down for a visit one time: We grow a lot of stuff really well all over California, unfortunately, including concrete, asphalt, and congestion.
It’s good to see blue sky and a tough, insistent plant assert themselves.
Wow! Bartlett Street tequila, anyone?