A Photo Every Day from the Sunshine Coast - Australia

Tuesday 9 December 2008

Orange


December is when the last of the Poinciana blooms begin to fade. Through the early part of summer the Delonix regia (Poinciana's) provide a brilliant red orange foil to the mauve of the Jacarandas.

The Poinciana is native to Madagascar, but flourishes in our climate providing deep shade and a wild canopy of colour.

It's an illusion which makes the photo look like a faded relic, but in the last throes of the afternoon, the colour seems to infuse with the fading blue of the sky.

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Jane Hards Photography said...

Incredible orange and so vibrant against that fabulous blue sky. Bring on summer, nevermind winter.

Julie said...

Oh to see a grove of jacaranda and poinciana side-by-side! I am exhausted just spelling the two of them!

melanie said...

Oh, vraiment très beau !

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