Summertime tends to slow me down. I look back on my younger days and wonder
that I once played tennis at high noon—just for the challenge of heat and sun. Sunscreen?
That term was not in my vocabulary.
These days my morning bike-rides and evening walks
remind me how much I love the bayside breeze; and how much I now struggle with
the summertime heat and humidity. I am a
Gulf Coastie; an aging Gulf Coastie.
Long hours birding in the field will wait for cooler
temperatures; but that doesn’t keep me indoors.
Daytrips continue; noontime hiking (and tennis) does not.
And so this past Friday found me photographing
Galveston’s post-Ike tree sculptures. As
I photographed these wooden sculptures, I found my eyes drawn to the living testaments
that love this island’s noontime heat and humidity: the summertime flowering plants.
I thought I’d pause from the development of sculpture
photos and share a few of Galveston’s summer flowers. Aren’t they cheerful?
This last photo is an unknown flower. The bloom was tiny, on the end of one long
stem, on a solo plant that I almost missed. I want to turn this flower into an
orchid, but I’m not sure that is correct as I couldn’t find a similar bloom on
the web. If you know the name of this
lovely flower, please share:
It's too pretty for a name!
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