Pretty!
Ooh, this is a very pretty plant. I like how the coloration of the hood venation is
red on a golden-yellow background with peach highlights. Contrast that with the earlier plants, that have
red on green venation.
The sun had emerged from behind the veiling clouds and was burning brightly. So in order to avoid
the intensely contrasty light I unfurled and assembled my big diffuser--first I erected a PVC-pipe cage around
the plant, then I clipped on a shower curtain. Yes, it is a pain to bring this on hikes, and yes it is a little annoying to
assemble the diffuser in a wobbly bog, but I am glad I did--when I got my slides developed I rejected the photographs taken without
the diffuser faster than Brittney Spears dumped husband #1.
