I noticed the blossoms on Monday afternoon.
I watched the light on Tuesday.
Too busy to photograph.
Wednesday is Blue Violet day on the New Color Face Book Page.
So Wednesday morning I went out with the Hasselblad on a ground pod.
The wind blew the tiny, fragile blossoms around at 15 to 20 miles per hour.
Impossible to focus.
I contemplated setting up a wind break.
Instead… I picked up the one stem, that the wind had fractured, and now lay in the dirt;
and took it inside; set it atop a mahogany pillar; where a beetle also sat.
Of course the beetle walked about; in and out of the frame; in and out of focus; before flying away.
(click photograph for a larger view)
Hasselblad 500 CM/CF-39, 80 mm Zeiss Planar on Auto Bellows