Mar 042014
On a raw gray day, with the temperature hovering in the mid-40s, I compelled myself to seek out more signs of spring’s eventual arrival. I spent perhaps fifteen minutes endeavoring to photograph a tiny bluet (Houstonia pusilla), a native wildflower so minute (a few millimeters across, on a stem a couple of centimeters high) that it is a challenge to capture even with a macro lens. The result, though, is worth the effort: a photograph with a vibrant splash of violet color, in the midst of a dark and drab late-winter afternoon.
