Supposedly some of the Aborigines of Australia had a belief that a thing does not exist until it has a name. Case in point: once I had a name to tack onto the bladderpod bush, it began to exist with a vengeance--or at least, I started noticing a good deal more of it. Perhaps it isn't the clearest illustration at this size, but those bushes on the hill are all Isomeris arborea!"If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time." -G.K. Chesterton
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Yet More Yellow Flowers
Back at the end of January, I was rather obsessed with identifying a yellow-flowered bush that bore rattling seed packets. It turned out to be bladderpod, Isomeris arborea. I recently got a picture of the pods in a green and growing state:
Supposedly some of the Aborigines of Australia had a belief that a thing does not exist until it has a name. Case in point: once I had a name to tack onto the bladderpod bush, it began to exist with a vengeance--or at least, I started noticing a good deal more of it. Perhaps it isn't the clearest illustration at this size, but those bushes on the hill are all Isomeris arborea!
Supposedly some of the Aborigines of Australia had a belief that a thing does not exist until it has a name. Case in point: once I had a name to tack onto the bladderpod bush, it began to exist with a vengeance--or at least, I started noticing a good deal more of it. Perhaps it isn't the clearest illustration at this size, but those bushes on the hill are all Isomeris arborea!
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