Orange Pixie

Photo Information

Taken:	20 March 2008 15:23 in The Meadows at Brushy Creek
Camera:	Canon PowerShot A550
Exposure:	ISO 80
	5.8mm, 0 EV
	f/7.1
	1/100

Backstory

I love this lilly. I even used a seriously cropped version of this picture to illustrate a “Friday’s Feast” on The Hermitage.

It’s an asiatic lilly of some variety identified only as “Orange Pixie,” although I see more red than orange. Suna and Declan can probably see the color distinction, but….

Here it is adding a pop of brightness in the front flowerbed when nothing else is really awake yet. The sun plays with its foliage and its flower.

Epilog

This beauty was another victim of last year’s drought. For three years it brought new happiness in Spring as it and its children arrived and bloomed while the rest of the flower bed was wiping the sleep out of its eyes.

The drought of 2011 devastated it. By Spring of 2011, there were a half dozen orange pixies greeting visitors coming up the walk. This spring, only one spindly lilly poked its head above the soil. It withered and died back within weeks, not having been able to store enough energy to survive its initial growth spurt.

I’ll miss these guys.

—27 July 2012