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Pretty twisted

pira

6/1/09 07:04 am

TODAY...no dolly piccies.

We have for your viewing pleausure: images of parrot tulips, in all their twisted glory :3

These guys really presented a problem, because they have a natural, waxy surface that reflects light in an odd fashion or appears grey before they completely unfurled...so I had to wait a day and go back when they'd opened u a bit more.

While I genuinely find pleasure in the streamlined angles of a regular tulip, after a while they all look the same. On the other hand, the parrot variety presents an endless parade of contours and shadows in which not only do the colour break but the petals do as well, feathering and curling in individually unique directions ~ they are rather like the anti-tulip tulip >D

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• crystal_lilly

  6/4/09 08:58 am (UTC)

  

  That last one is my favorite, but they're all lovely shots. I don't think I've seen parrot tulips before now. *smile* They've got a lot of character and fun little swirls to them. ^___^
  
  And the third photo? With the sunlight shining on it making shadows, it looks like something is waiting inside the tulip to take a bite out of anything that falls in. *laugh* Like a tulip monster. XD

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  • pira

    6/5/09 07:23 am (UTC)

    

    These types of tulips eitiher turn people off or enchant them with their quirks ...or so I think. I find their lack of uniformity fun :)
    
    have you ever seen or heard of Little Shop of Horrors? It's a Broadway play where a plant in a floral shop starts talking and demands to be fed....meat. IN the end Audrey (that's it's name) has grown enormous and is eating people and howling *FEED ME* to it's owner...
    
    ...looks very much like the first picture XD

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