Hen and Chicks

 

After I built the waterfall for our backyard pond, I planted a few succulents amongst the rocks.  All of them have really thrived out there the last year or so.  In the last few weeks, one of the Hen and Chicks shot up a stalk about 12 inches tall with terrific little flowers

Apparently, this happens when the plant reaches maturity after three or four years.  You can read about it here at Wikipedia.

I’ve been meaning to go out and photograph the flowers for several days.  Fortunately, it has stayed blooming until I finally made the trip.  Crawling on the rocks in a very uncomfortable position, I was able to get a nice macro photo of one of the flowers.  Thanks again to my friends on the network for motivating me to get out with the macro lens again!

ISO 800, f/4.5, 1/50 sec, macro – Nikon D300

Below is a photo of the full plant

Hoping to have my new business web site up and running in the next few days.  I’ll post a link here when it is ready.

Patrick