The pro-sunsetters hurried right through and waited outside for me. They pronounced the flower a "nonevent" and complained about the illusion that it was the crowd around the plant and not the plant that was the source of the stink.
How did the flower smell? I thought it had a zoo smell. Maybe I've never smelled a corpse, but it didn't smell dead to me, just funky and animal-y. It wasn't at all fishy. More mouse-y. It wasn't nauseating or even terribly strong, in my opinion. I can't really understand the distinct aversion felt by the three persons who humored me by coming along.
Ah! I humored them about the lake and the sunset!
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Botany be damned, what we have here is a burgeoning phallic cult.
Oh, I don't mind seeing it (again), smelling it, smelling the people, etc., but it seems that all the above should take no more than one minute. After that -- the evening air beckoned.
Great pics, Ann!
Dunno if you take requests or not, but if you do, I'll bet there is a stunning twilight summer shot of those twin Redbuds, reflected in your glass dining room table and resplendent with their heart-shaped emerald leaves, just waiting to be snapped.
Is that a camera in the rafters above it? Will there be an awesome time-lapse to come?
Price: There are maybe four cameras in the room, and if you go to the linked page, you can get to streaming video (with audio, allowing you to eavesdrop on the visitors). So definitely they have the material to do time lapse.
Goesh: The scientific name for the plant is Amorphophallus Titanium. "Amorphophallus" means "shapeless phallus."
I could better substantiate my claim if I could better see what some of those people are doing in the background of the picture. It doesn't look like field notes are being taken, but then I am often wrong.
Shapeless schmapeless, I've never seen a better Viagra prop.
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