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common_nature2025-03-08 02:36 pm
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Bird of Paradise flower at a Gulf Coast Florida strip mall.
Strelitzia reginae in bloom in a bedding of white seashells, with low-growing palms and (agave?) also visible in the flower bed, taken on 18 August 2023 at 15:43 US Eastern Daylight Savings Time:
The mature male specimen of Homo sapiens var. euroamericanus was a passerby and did not give his express consent, but the color of his T-shirt coincided so perfectly with the blue nectary petals of the flower that I decided to keep him; the measure I took to respect his privacy somehow completes the composition.)
The mature male specimen of Homo sapiens var. euroamericanus was a passerby and did not give his express consent, but the color of his T-shirt coincided so perfectly with the blue nectary petals of the flower that I decided to keep him; the measure I took to respect his privacy somehow completes the composition.)
Re: Wow!
(This affords a useful cue to remember that “exotic”, as the word has popularly come to be used, is a word that says more about you than about whatever you’re describing; it’s a matter of perspective rather than an innate and fixed attribute. Here’s Nigerian expat Tiktoker, dancehall musician, and prison activist Yinka “Lamb” Lawanson, at long last! getting to enjoy an archetypal exotic Global North experience, to the amusement of his American-born wife Taccara “Ling” Rae:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TPqdYupAkoY
This wasn’t deliberate on my part, but during the subsequent Kelly Clarkson interview, danged if Lamb isn’t clothed in Bird of Paradise flower colors!)