<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Portraits of Wildflowers]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Steve Schwartzman]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com/author/wordconnections/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The color and the curve that caught my&nbsp;eye]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://portraitsofwildflowers.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/wood-sorrel-flower-in-oak-leaves-by-contorted-ashe-juniper-remains-8892.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27313" src="https://portraitsofwildflowers.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/wood-sorrel-flower-in-oak-leaves-by-contorted-ashe-juniper-remains-8892.jpg?w=700&#038;h=468" alt="Wood Sorrel Flower in Oak Leaves by Contorted Ashe Juniper Remains 8892" width="700" height="468" srcset="https://portraitsofwildflowers.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/wood-sorrel-flower-in-oak-leaves-by-contorted-ashe-juniper-remains-8892.jpg?w=700&amp;h=468 700w, https://portraitsofwildflowers.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/wood-sorrel-flower-in-oak-leaves-by-contorted-ashe-juniper-remains-8892.jpg?w=150&amp;h=100 150w, https://portraitsofwildflowers.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/wood-sorrel-flower-in-oak-leaves-by-contorted-ashe-juniper-remains-8892.jpg?w=300&amp;h=200 300w, https://portraitsofwildflowers.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/wood-sorrel-flower-in-oak-leaves-by-contorted-ashe-juniper-remains-8892.jpg?w=768&amp;h=513 768w, https://portraitsofwildflowers.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/wood-sorrel-flower-in-oak-leaves-by-contorted-ashe-juniper-remains-8892.jpg 874w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></a></p>
<p>In Great Hills Park on November 4th I was walking back up the trail toward where I&#8217;d parked my car when a bit of bright color caught my eye. It was a wood sorrel flower (<em>Oxalis drummondii</em>) in a bed of new oak leaves (<em>Quercus</em> spp.) adjacent to the remains of an Ashe juniper (<em>Juniperus ashei</em>) that was contorted in a way that&#8217;s not uncommon for these trees. The roundedly V-shaped leaflets are those of wood sorrel plants, and there are also some leaves of a greenbrier vine (<em>Smilax bona-nox</em>) mixed in with the young oak leaves at the left.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not much for wholesale manipulation of photographs, but while processing this picture I accidentally hit a key that produced a negative of the image. I liked it enough as an abstraction in its own right that I decided to let you have a look at it via the thumbnail below.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">So now it&#8217;s fee fie faux color,<br />
Click and see what you&#8217;ll discover.</p>
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<p>© 2015 Steven Schwartzman</p>
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