Spring Photo Roundup

Some photos from around Salt Lake City and City Creek Canyon, during a wet spring.

Spring Fire Tulips

A particularly colorful set of tulips. The pointed petals fan open to reveal a star blossom during the heat of the day, more like a lily than a tulip. In the background, purple tulips look on jealously.

Bumble Bee in Tulip

A bumblebee hatching from a tulip in the spring.  Where did you think bumblebees come from?

Late Winter Hyacinth

A late winter / early spring Hyacinth, given as part of a Christmas present.

Day of the Dead Altar and Montage

Late Summer Dragonfly

The Odonata order comprises dragonflies and damselflies.  Dragonflies are well-regarded in Japanese culture - on par with Japan's and other cultures attitude towards butterflies.  In western cultures and in early United States, the dragonfly was understood to either sew your eyelids shut during sleep, or simply pluck your eyes out entirely.  There are no documented reports of anyone ever waking up to his or her eyelids sewn shut, but one must be ever vigilant.  These creatures of the "night" are only waiting for their chance, and then it's off with our eyeballs. 

Hop Plant and Ripening Flowers

The hop vine, I have found, is fairly difficult to get established and sprout. When it does (as seen here in attempt number 4) it grows quickly during the heat of summer. Currently, the main shoot of the vine is roughly 18 feet tall, with a second main branch another 6 feet - amazing considering the hop dies back to nothing every winter. The cone shaped flowers grow on the top third of the vine, and will be used to flavor barley soup (aka beer).

Attempt at Something Hip (part x of np)

Where np is the set of all problems (complex or otherwise), here defined as the solution to a two dimensional vector, for which the solution can be verified in polynomial time (i.e. it is possible to determine the solution in the time given to us).

Mountain Meadow Meanderings

I have not yet decided if the redness of the dress makes this more a massacre than a meander.