NPR: Getta Load of Your Plant Pics

Getta Load of Your Plant Pics

Wanted to catch you up on what's happening over at our TP photo club, membership cruising towards 300. If you have no idea what I'm on about, here's how to play.

And now for a glimpse of some of the most evocative and enticing from the last few weeks:

As it was originally described by photographer and admired TP regular aleth11, "Sadly, the last zinnia photo of the year. As the frost melted, so did their color, and then they were gone ... "

photo credit: aleth11

Simple, unpretentious, and universal. I also like to say the photographer's e-name, Grundlepuck. Grundlepuck. Grundlepuck.

photo credit: Grundlepuck

With any luck, photographer bear.bonnell will swing by the blog and tell us where he/she took this. I do recommend checking out the bear's other pix.

photo credit: bear.bonnell

If you're a TP regular, you'll know the gent who took this pix, Andy Carvin. He's a gift to both NPR and TP, plus one hot flower photographer (what, me, prejudice?). The featured plant is my longtime late fall favorite, Leonotis leonurus. Let me know if you want me to blog about it sometime.

photo credit: Andy Carvin, NPR

I've saved my favorite for last. I am crazy, crazy, crazy for this photograph. It speaks to me; hell, it screams to me. Childhood, the Berkshires, Russian writers, the associations are endless. This is a photographer you must meet (and a pix you've got to see larger), so follow the links. Thank you, Jen!

photo credit: Jennifer Yu

So of course you're thinking, what's the big deal? I can shoot as well as this. Well, what are you waiting for?

11:46 AM ET | 11- 8-2007 | permalink

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OOooh, tell us about the Leonotis Leonurus!

Sent by Lauren Uroff | 5:45 PM ET | 11-08-2007

What an honor it is to have a photograph selected for the article. Thank you. My photos are taken in Meadville, PA. We are about 35 miles south of Lake Erie, 90 miles north of Pittsburgh and 100 miles east of Cleveland. The autumn here is breath-taking, and the seasons inspire radical amazement!

Sent by Bear Bonnell | 2:39 AM ET | 11-10-2007

I was so pleasantly surprised and honored to see my photo on the npr home page, thanks!! I, too, would love to hear more about that beautiful leonotis leonurus, and whether I can grow it here in PA. It's beautiful.

Sent by Aleth | 10:55 AM ET | 11-12-2007

OK, I just published the Leonotis blog. Thanks for the encouragement, Lauren and Aleth.

Sent by Ketzel Levine | 1:49 PM ET | 11-13-2007

Sadly, I canNOT shoot as well as that, so I'll keep coming back to see your winners. Fabulous! Susan

Sent by susan harris | 9:28 PM ET | 11-23-2007

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