fall flower
now, i'm not one to feel that the world needs a whole lot more flower photography, but i really couldn't help myself. i was studying microbiology in the back yard, minding my own business, and looked up to see this GIGANTIC flower on a succulent that has been bravely surviving in a lonely corner of the yard with little water and less love for, oh, 10 years. this is it's first flower, and there may be more budding. i guess desert plants like to be left alone.
more photos of its weird alien parts over with this one.