The things I’ll do…
Here’s another shot, from a different trip, of the very same wall in Marfa. This time, though, I spotted the yucca that had been very considerate to send its wavy stalk up right in front of the white line on the wall.
In the interest of full disclosure*, I want to point out that the yucca wasn’t the only, uh, spiky plant in the area. And that I wasn’t standing upright to shoot this. If you see what I am getting at. Also: red ants. There were a lot of red ants. And they weren’t all that happy to have an itinerant photographer show up and walk around their front yard.
Marfa, Texas
photographed 8.16.2013
*Or, as it is also known, too much information.
Posted on August 21, 2013, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, abandoned buildings, architecture, black and white photography, marfa, marfa texas, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 7 Comments.
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In Arizona they used to call these Spanish daggers. No red ants tough. There are so many varietits of yuccas and they are all very interesting.
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I’ve seen entire fields of yucca in bloom and it’s a lovely sight!
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sharp!
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Oh, yes: very sharp!
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OUCH! I met up with some red ants on a trip to Colorado a few years back. I don’t think they liked me either. The yucca photo is striking, though.
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Thanks, Ken. I was glad the yucca sprouted just where it needed to be for the photo.
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I had a run in with fire ants, in a tent in California. That story would be more like full exposure than full disclosure. However, now I am thankful that there were no sharp plants around. The poison oak was not sharp like this.
Considerate of that flower spike to arrange itself in a that way. Do you think it was an anti-ant conspiracy of some kind – a photographer trap designed to trample a nest or two? A means to clear yucca skirts of a pest.
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