Conjoined rain-lilies beginning to shrivel | Portraits of Wildflowers
Perspectives on Nature Photography Conjoined rain-lilies beginning to shrivel
Written by Steve Schwartzman June 30, 2011 at 5:16 PM
Tagged with flowers, macro photography, native plants, nature, nature photography, photography, plants, Texas, wildflowers	« Snow White
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OK, I’ve learned a new word – I thought at first it was a typo, but three posts in a row…”tepal”. Learn something new every day.
June 30, 2011 at 7:17 PM	Reply	I was pretty sure some readers would take tepal for a typo, so I’m glad you looked it up. I thought about including a footnote or adding an explanatory link but I didn’t; now I’ve gone back and done it. The language person who shares a brain with the nature photographer would also like to point out that tepal is an anagram of petal.
June 30, 2011 at 8:06 PM	Reply	“I was pretty sure some readers would take tepal for a typo”. Well, yes, I did, when I saw the word for the first time. But the second time I figured you are too much of a perfectionist to make such a mistake twice, so I looked it up too and ended up studying blossom anatomy.
July 2, 2011 at 7:57 AM	Reply	Happy blossom anatomy to us all! I’ve learned a few words from your blog, too, though they’re all in German. For example, throughout my life I’ve seen American books published by the well-known publisher Alfred A. Knopf, and now I know that Knopf means ‘button.’ It must be cognate to English knob.
July 2, 2011 at 8:20 AM	Reply	this photo really caught my eye, the colors all together are so lovely. such a unique flower, to me that is.
July 3, 2011 at 2:34 PM	Reply	Thanks, Tammie. I agree with you that all the colors work well together. Rain-lilies are among my favorite wildflowers to photograph.
July 3, 2011 at 2:40 PM	Reply	I love looking at the beauty of flowers as they fade away. Perfect! Thanks so much for sharing your photos with me, and also visiting my blog!
September 21, 2011 at 2:56 PM	Reply	I’m always glad to welcome a fellow appreciator of flowers as they fade.
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Conjoined rain-lilies beginning to shrivel | Portraits of Wildflowers
Perspectives on Nature Photography Conjoined rain-lilies beginning to shrivel
Written by Steve Schwartzman June 30, 2011 at 5:16 PM
Tagged with flowers, macro photography, native plants, nature, nature photography, photography, plants, Texas, wildflowers	« Snow White
The 2 + 3 = 5 that got away »
OK, I’ve learned a new word – I thought at first it was a typo, but three posts in a row…”tepal”. Learn something new every day.
June 30, 2011 at 7:17 PM	Reply	I was pretty sure some readers would take tepal for a typo, so I’m glad you looked it up. I thought about including a footnote or adding an explanatory link but I didn’t; now I’ve gone back and done it. The language person who shares a brain with the nature photographer would also like to point out that tepal is an anagram of petal.
June 30, 2011 at 8:06 PM	Reply	“I was pretty sure some readers would take tepal for a typo”. Well, yes, I did, when I saw the word for the first time. But the second time I figured you are too much of a perfectionist to make such a mistake twice, so I loo
ked it up too and ended up studying blossom anatomy.
July 2, 2011 at 7:57 AM	Reply	Happy blossom anatomy to us all! I’ve learned a few words from your blog, too, though they’re all in German. For example, throughout my life I’ve seen American books published by the well-known publisher Alfred A. Knopf, and now I know that Knopf means ‘button.’ It must be cognate to English knob.
July 2, 2011 at 8:20 AM	Reply	this photo really caught my eye, the colors all together are so lovely. such a unique flower, to me that is.
July 3, 2011 at 2:34 PM	Reply	Thanks, Tammie. I agree with you that all the colors work well together. Rain-lilies are among my favorite wildflowers to photograph.
July 3, 2011 at 2:40 PM	Reply	I love looking at the beauty of flowers as they fade away. Perfect! Thanks so much for sharing your photos with me, and also visiting my blog!
September 21, 2011 at 2:56 PM	Reply	I’m always glad to welcome a fellow appreciator of flowers as they fade.
September 21, 2011 at 3:18 PM	Reply	Leave a Reply Cancel reply
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