spots!

[piranha]

you can now click on the images to see a larger version!



i have no idea what this plant is, but i shall endeavour to find out. it was nothing special during the summer, but now it is changing colours and those dots have appeared on the leaves, which are just gorgeous.

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i've moved the first images to smugmug, where i've registered a trial account. i looked at a lot of photo hosting sites, and the organization and features there sound like they'll suit me best. it requires a minimum of effort to set up pricing, and the quality seems to be good (i have samples on order), so i should be up and ready quickly so people who want to can actually order prints (and cards, posters, tshirts [1], mugs, calendars, etc).

[1] the sizing here isn't friendly to us larger people, so i'll have to set up a separate account for this elsewhere, or impress upon the smugmug people that large bodies want nice tshirts too.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Holy moley (moly?), that's some color. And the image looks almost as if it's solarized.

[eub.livejournal.com]

(that was me.)

[piranha]

i boosted the contrast a little, but not very much.

[holyschist]

Oooh, that is a very striking plant. Something about the dots reminds me of snakes. Love the angle on the photo.

[piranha]

cat level. :)

[holyschist]

I wish I could strap a tiny video camera to my cats to see what they see all day. But this would really, really not work.

[piranha]

hm. well, they make really tiny cameras now. you'd just need a cat who'll put up with it, and therein lies the rub.

[holyschist]

IF I could get it on in the first place without being eviscerated, I'm thinking it would stay on for exactly as long as it took them to scrape it off.

We once stuck a holiday bow to my roomate's cat, and he ran around frantically for a while and then hid in the closet. So the video might not be of normal cat activities, either.

Alas. I like the Museum of Animal Perspectives, but I guess cows and armadillos are just more cooperative.

[sio]

Looks to me like the "Marantha", and I think we call it the 'Ten commandments plant', but I don't know why ;)
It could also be the "Calathea makoyana".

We only keep them indoors as houseplants, so I don't know what they do in autumn outside.

[piranha]

no, not a marantha or calathea -- they're native to central and south america, and it's not warm enough for them here to grow outside :). also, these leaves are much smaller, 5-7 cm in length.