Saturday, December 09, 2006

I finally GOT 'em!

This is a completely unretouched, unzoomed foto of these little RED guys that I've been seeing along the "driveway" inside the estancia. They not only blow the red sensor on my Sony DSC-S85...the blow the red sensor on your eyeballs as well.

They've been there for months. The first time I saw them I thought they were so delicate and intense that they would never be there the next day. Then I saw them again...and again. Since they are on the road that leads to the casco from the tranquera I either didn't have my camera, couldn't access my camera, or just felt plain stupid wanting to stop the car for a flower picture.

Thursday, however, we ran into a scheduling problem that left me with not much else to do in the middle of the hottest part of the day after a morning of work and an ice-cold shower...while all the rest of us animals were taking a siesta.

They are so intensely red that you can see them far in the distance. They grow by themselves and in little clumps.

They last such a long time that I would be surprised if they are not well known to gardeners. Anybody know what they are?

1 comment:

miss tango said...

No, but I took a photo of the same flowers up in Cordoba!