I stumbled across this one of several horse crippler cacti beginning to bloom, starting the process of producing fruit. I am always amazed at the beauty that such prickly plants can produce.
I watched a piece on time lapse specialist Louie Schwartzberg this morning and I realized how much of a plants life I am missing. I stop and steal a small increment of time, a short 1/250 of a second. Mr Schwartzberg has much more patience than me and spends months to produce a 1-2 minute production that shows so much more that most of us never take the time to see.
Take the ten minutes of time to see time and a sense of life that we all walk past and miss the wonder that Mr Scwartzberg has paused to see and record for us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXDMoiEkyuQ
enjoy the parts of life that you never really see! en theos monos ††† jim
Shades of Gray - Denison TX 
Thanks for the link to that wonderful video, and for another lovely post. I often ponder as you do about the amount we don’t see, when we only stop for a brief moment and take a single photograph. But focusing on something for even a short time (and thinking of nothing else!) is so much better than letting it all slip by……..
Have just linked to your blog in a post of mine as I enjoy your words and pictures so much.