Not a Significant Thought In My Head
Roaming around in my garden this morning, I was lured into my back yard by the warm sun oozing lazily around between the house and the big mango tree. I don’t go around back much – that’s haus meri territory. I’m not really allowed back there.
Here’s the mango tree that is responsible for waking me thousands of times during the night when a half-kilo mango falls from five metres onto our iron roof (THUMP!):
I turned around to walk back to the house and spied something that nearly made me jump out of my skin. I had no idea that there was a blue variety of hibiscus. The sun was lighting it from behind, so it looked like a bit of bright sky transplanted into my garden:
Okay, okay, I’m lying. There may be blue hibiscus somewhere. I just don’t remember seeing any.
I was a little bored this morning and didn’t seem to have a significant thought in my head, so I did what relaxes me most. As the Mythbusters guy, Adam Savage, says, “I reject your reality and substitute my own.”
I decided to try to make a convincing Photoshop fake of this:
As you may gather, that is the original hibiscus.
Were you convinced at all? Just a little?
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what color blue would say that is?
excellent photos by the way My mom and i were completely convinced
Eden, I think that would be called cerulean blue. I’m glad that I fooled you. Thanks for reading.
Jan
Me interesaría saber el precio del hibiscus azul?
Gracias
Lo sentimos, no hay hibisco azul.
There are actually blue hibiscus–I bought my other half two different varieties for Christmas, and when they bloomed they were BEAUTIFUL. Great pics though!!
I did a Google image search, Crys, and found quite a few “blue” hibiscus, but nearly all of them stretched the definition of blue quite a bit. Thanks for your comment.