Post #1200

In the rose family, “Chaenomeles lagenaria” or “Flowering quince.”

Not *in* the greenhouse, but actually across a service road *from* the greenhouse. Today it was “on fire” in the bright, afternoon sun. Didn’t take many photos in the greenhouse as I was in a hurry to get home and get started on Clare’s birthday cake … and the homemade buttercream frosting. (Yeah, the cake is kind of just the “vehicle” that delivers the homemade frosting.)

Species page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Chaenomeles_lagenaria&rank=binomial

Photo taken using the “macro” setting on my point-and-shoot, Nikon AW110, on the campus of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Pretty good close-up detail for a P&S, I think.

1 year ago (“Seeing stars”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-04-09
2 years ago (“Happy Birthday, Clare!!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-04-09
3 years ago (“Happy Birthday, Clare!!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-04-09

[MaryBeth Dailey]

You made Clare's cake! You are multi-talented, Thom! You shoot photos, you row, you are a math expert, and a baker. What can you NOT do? haha

[Rick Schies]

And it's only beginning. I cannot wait to get some color back in our yard