#cornales

Sad Christmas gnome still feels the Trump-betrayal sadness.

Melbourne, Vic

I decided to photograph the beautiful Rio Hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla) growing beside the left side of my house!

I participated in a New Year’s ceremony that involved using a twig to visualize the “buds” in my life that I wanted to nurture and encourage over the coming year. Afterwards we were told that we could bring the twigs home and put them in water, and that the buds might actually grow. I was pretty skeptical about it, but tried anyway, and was thrilled to discover tiny new leaves in the midst of a week of -30 weather. 

(via The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian)

I was having some difficulty thinking of how to mash these two together in an interesting way, and then I remembered that I made this project up, and that I make the rules. So instead of being combined, the mock orange plant is hitching a ride to earth on a lunar meteor, which has formed pigeonite crystals.

Melbourne, Vic

Silky Dogwood, Cornus amomum (by me)