2-22-2014
This morning a trip down
to Moruga, proved to be very fruitful.
My brother teaches agriculture out of the Cowen Hamilton High School in
Moruga. On his school farm he has
different types of chickens and foliage galore.
Many of the trees are in its flowering mode and they offer the
opportunity for some beautiful flowers.
I captured some nice long exposure scenes and many different
flowers. I like this particular shot the
most for my 365project.
Here we have what is
referred to in Trinidad as the BottleBrush.
Callistemon is a genus of
34 species of shrubs in the family Myrtaceae, all of which and endemic to
Australia. Like many of our other
plants, they made their way across the ocean to find home in the tropics. The Callistemon species are commonly referred
to as bottlebrushes because of their cylindrical, brush like flowers, resembling
a traditional bottle brush.
This tree was laden with
ants, the flowers were beautiful and covering the entire tree. It was windy, so I was unable to hold the
flower still for a real macro shot, after all I didn’t want to get biten.
I almost took the school’s
security guard in a picture. His attire
looked very close to plumage. Both his
shirt and pants were equally colorful.
His shirt consisted of blues, whites, oranges, and his shorts yellows,
reds, blues, and greens. With this
combination he wore an off white beret and donned an entirely different shade
of red flip flops. My daughter asked me
if he slept at the school, and if that was his sleeping attire. We had a good chuckle in the car.
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