I’m fortunate enough to have vibrant heliconia growing right outside my lanai. They begin to blossom in the spring and continue through the summer and fall, spiking their bright orange petals skyward in fiery displays of orange and yellow and black.
After several years of brilliant spectacle, I noticed for the first time just last month how lovely the blossoms are as they decay, per the artwork above. The inner petals of bright orange fall away and only the outer petals — dilute and delicate — remain: a demise most graceful and elegant, a lesson for those lucky enough to notice, and a little cause to smile…
(De)mise en place … “French culinary phrase which means "putting in place" or “gather”."
“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi0Lbjs5ECI
Mises, Moses, let my people goeses …
Good shutterbugging, Jeff. Like that bronze sunset, too.
I was asked to use someone’s ‘smart’phone to snap an un-composed pic for her ‘instagram’ recently. If I’d had better composure I’d have refused.