Love these. They always look like a clockwork design… But look… five fold symmetry on one level, and then an asymmetric three-sided design to top it all off! Who ordered that?!
This is the common variety of Passion flower by the way. Aren’t they lovely?
-cvj
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What a beautiful photo! Is that a passion flower? The structure is certainly amazing, and wonderful to see.
Yes… I should have mentioned that somewhere. Sorry. I tried to think of a title that had both it and clockwork in, but went for the one I chose in the end….. forgot to put the name in the end…. I’ll update at some point soon.
-cvj
Oooooooooooooooooooooh! I’d bike to Cali to see one of those up close…
Stunning! Is this in your garden?
This is not in response to your wonderful passion flower picture but may have some relationship to time. Wonder if you would care to comment on the thing on the editorial page about setting up a system which would generate a shadow, and then rotate so that somewhere out in the heavens, the shadow would be moving faster than the speed of light?
We’ve got one similar in our garden in southern England. They’re amazing but spread like wildfire. I’m forever pulling up shoots sprouting from underground runners…
garet m:- Sorry, I don’t really know what you’re referring to, but my guard immediately goes up when I hear about schemes to get things to move faster than the speed of light…. So if it is some new scheme to get some measurable signal to move faster than the speed of light, it’s most likely probably a non-starter…
cheers,
-cvj
Mary:- They are growing wild just outside my garden, interestingly enough. I wish some of the wildfire (see astromcnaught’s comment) would spread to at least one part of my garden which has (right now) an annoying lot of Ivy I am always in conflict with…..
-cvj
Well, I’ll be damned. The passion flower also grows in my garden! But sadly enough the fruits never grow to real passion fruits :(.
I’m an artist working in glass, I’ve done several pieces about the similarity in form of passionflower and clockwork, hoping to illustrate the fleeting nature of passion. I love the dream of a shodow moving faster than the speed of light…think I’ll use it
that sounds like a weak version of a sonic boom(b)….
those glass sculptures sound good.. any info?
does any one know much about the politics… or theory.. or ideas or hell.. jokes about the geometry and design of flowers?
lb
Stunning!amazing, and wonderful to see:)great photo!