Evolvulus alsinoides, 7.25.17
(a common name is “Blue My Mind”)
Tag: blue
First Shot
(And NOT a shot I’ll use, but I have to share this with my story!)
I went out today for my first walk with the new camera. I was determined to go two miles before I used it, but then I spotted these blue things and, having shot them a short time ago with no success, I had to stop.
The last time I sent a few photos off to a friend asking her if she knew what they were. From my photos she couldn’t identify it, so I thought this time I’d run it through the Garden Answers app. Now please understand that app is sometimes problematic: it is trusting that people who identify plants are correct, and I’ve found a number of errors. But it’s a great place to start.
This time it came up with the correct answer. (I always verify by searching other images and reading about the plant.) I was pretty darn happy with that.
As I finished up, the homeowner came out and said, “The flowers?” I said yes, that they were really great. He asked if I knew the name.
“I do now: I just searched on it!”
“Blew my mind!”
“Why?” (Thinking maybe he’d seen that the plant is used for “its purported psychotropic and nootropic properties” (thanks Wikipedia).
“No. That’s the NAME!”
TOO funny! I explained that I was going to give him the Latin name (which is Evolvulus alsinoides). He suggested I stick to what I now realize is “BLUE my mind”. 🙂
Sometimes my walks are quite fun!
First Shot: Evolvulus alsinoides, 7.25.17
The Blues
Sometimes the blues aren’t so bad!
This is my newest card series, which was put together after a friend asked me about a blue series.
Time To Organize Better!
Survey: If I were to start putting up better organized galleries for my flora, how would you prefer things? By color? (But sometimes there are multiple colors, as you know.) By flower? (But sometimes people don’t know names of flowers.) By something else? I’d love to hear. I know just displaying the thousands of photos on one page (thumbnail versions) would be ridiculous and quite overwhelming.
After putting together box sets of cards I realized that people might prefer to see things in smaller and perhaps a more organized manner. I would love to be more organized and since I have no performance work until September now would be a good time to have at it!
Meanwhile, have some blue and green from today’s walk:
Billardiera heterophylla (I), 6.14.17
Goodnight Flower
(This is from my latest series, On White, which is now available.
Bird on White, 2.16.15
Goodnight Flower
Blue & Green, 9.29.15
Goodnight Flower
Blue Hydrangea (I), 7.7.15
Goodnight Flower
Forget-Me-Nots & a Pink Tulip, 4.21.15 
Yosemite
Someone I know and love gets to go to Yosemite this weekend. Someone else does not, so she is making herself feel worse by looking over photos from trips in the past. But so it goes. The life of a musician includes a lot of weekends where other people go off on trips and the musician stays home to work. It’s just the way the job works!
Tunnel View Ice (II), 12.31.15
Winter Trees (II), Yosemite, 12.31.15
Goodnight Flower
Forget-Me-Not Flowers, 3.19.15