I've got a good ways to go before I can't get out the door or driveway for lilies! That's inspiration ;)
Well, my 'zoned' friend seems rather hard to capture:
Whether it's the central eye effect:
...or the texture changes of radiating lines created by papillae:
it just doesn't seem to come out quite the same in photos, but the total effect is something I find rather different from other lilies I've seen.
I'm still trying to get a handle on the 'v' effect in the earlier picture too. I'd say that maybe some other flowers here display it too, if I could define quite what it is... am I looking at a subtle continuum between parallel ridges running from the nectary furrow v, toward those lines continuing the v line? Don't all lily nectaries terminate in a v, it's just a matter of where the lines flow from there? I'm afraid I'm missing some detail, and might have missed it for years!
Rick, perhaps as I upload more pictures, you could point out to me other examples (or lack of)?
