Collection surfing – Day 2, the journey continues! [See prior day, Day 1 – Phil Faulisi’s mindmelting garden.] For day 2 we would continue with our carnivorous plant campaign at California Carnivores where Chi’en C. Lee was presenting on his travels throughout South East Asia. Goodness. To be surrounded by carnivorous plants AND listen to Chi’en present in person on the flora and fauna of South East Asia was most excellent! His talk was fascinating and it was very inspirational. Makes me want to get out there and travel/photograph a bit more! Additionally there were so many fellow carniphiles that showed up at CalCarn; it was absolutely brilliant meeting and connecting with all of you wonderful people that were there!
After CalCarn – Kinjie, Calen and I trekked over to Mike Wang’s place. Yeah! Over at Mike’s place — this was pretty much our reaction throughout the entire time we were there. (Click that link.) We got to Mike’s place as the day was ending but that definitely did not stop these plant nerds from trippin’ out over plants ’till 11pm. No light in the garden? No problem. We bust out the flashlights and continued to get our botanical geekery on. Nightshift status. (Good times, bros… good times.)
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California Carnivores – View in full screen
Mike Wang’s Crops – View in full screen
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Obligitory bridge shot. Crossed en route to CalCarn.
We up in this.
Calen and Damon
Left to Right: Kinjie, Peter, Calen, some weird guy, and Damon
(Thanks for taking the photo, David!)
Aww yeah! Selfie with Peter D’amato!
(A blurry) selfie with Chi’en, Kinjie and Calen. I was probably on a bit of a botanical high or something at the time of this photo.
Left to Right: Calen, Mike, Kate, Kinjie and I
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Crops of Wang.
I think Calen’s phone was dead in this photo and that he was just pretending to take a photo for this shot. (Heh heh! Just messin’ with you Calen. But you gotta make sure your phone is charged next time, bro. 🙂 )
Check out the throat spotch on this baby!
Man, these Flava cupreas — so choclate-y!
The Wangster admires a beautiful pink excellens.
Carnivorous plant geeks in effect.
Sarracenia “Elaine Wang”
Nightshift.
Light ’em up! (Playing around with the wireless flash…)
Scene without the camera flash…
… and scene WITH flash.
Crops by night.
Plant life. Ain’t nothin’ but a G(ardener) thang.
Tools of the artist.
The beast. Sarracenia “Saurus”
Whatta bunch ah crazies all up in this joint. We be getting that Sarracenia high.
Sarracenia ‘Adrian Slack’ x ‘Judith Hindle’
Sarracenia ‘Adrian Slack’ x ‘Judith Hindle’
Sarracenia ‘Adrian Slack’ x ‘Judith Hindle’
Sarracenia flava var. ornata – Bulloch Co., GA
Sarracenia (leucophylla “Purple Lips” x flava var. rubricorpora) x ‘Adrian Slack’
Sarracenia (leucophylla “Purple Lips” x flava var. rubricorpora) x ‘Adrian Slack’
Sarracenia “Green Monster” x alata AF
Sarracenia “Green Monster” x alata AF
A recently opened pitcher of Sarracenia ‘Vintner’s Treasure’. The color will intensify and deepen to a very rich deep maroon/purple as the pitcher ages.
