Starlight Trumpets

Starlight Trumpets

I'm currently in New Orleans. The city never ceases to amaze me. It's so much more than Bourbon St. These are trumpet flowers from a tree right outside my friends' beautiful apartment. The blossoms surprised them when we got here after the weekend. I titled them Starlight Trumpets because the flowers bloom during the night, in the day they wilt, waiting for the arrival of the stars.

I liked the missing board in the siding of the place next door. They are just now renovating it from the damage of Katrina. I noticed the interior lights winking through the missing board, copying the stars in the corner of the sky.

I suppose without this information, the photograph wouldn't have as much weight. But I see it as a testament to rejuvenation- rebuilding and blooming. The stars wait patiently, all the same.



Blooming Trumpets

I am enjoying the long summer. After coming from Asheville, the days are much warmer. But I am celebrating the cooler nights, just as I suppose these flowers do, too.

*Originally posted 10/1/08*