Many plants:
Here is a large cluster of plants, with a red Drosera purpurascens in the
foreground.
The sun was still out, so photographing them required a lot more shower curtain work. Also, the wind had become incorrigible, so
to shield the plants I constructed a small upwind igloo out of the dead skeletons of dense shrubs.
Madness, truly madness. But this was Drosera platypoda, and I had lost all sense of balance!
Funny, isn't it. You look at this image and infer an entirely natural setting, when just out of site an insane photographer
holding aloft a wind-flapping shower curtain was hopping around a small berm constructed from dead bushes. I imagine I looked
like some interpretive dancer in some post-modern dance troupe. And a not-very-good one, at that. I can only thank heavens that
Phill (and his nasty camera) was busy helping Beth.
Here is another D. platypoda image, sort of a pair of
"leaning towers of sundew," with another scrambling sundew in the background; from its color I would
guess D. menziesii.
(Incidentally, after I was done, I carefully disassembled and dispersed the elements of my bushy architecture.)
