Lipstick Blooms

Nice closeup, so fuzzy.

great photo...terrific plant... I want one!!

Do you have a var. for this Aeschynanthus?

Aeschynanthus radicans. I'm really just waiting for winter to come in and organize my plants and names and such. Just can't sit here too long during summer. I don't get the luxury of the down time a dark night brings....lol. THough it does look dark about 2 in the morning these days. :-)

In the lower latitudes we don't feel the effects of the tilt of the earth quite as obviously as you do up there! And a good thing too, because I don't think I'd like to try going to bed in daylight. Used to see longer daylight hours in Moosonee, mostly June and July...it didn't get dark until ten o'clock and then it wasn't really dark just a very long twilight. You must see the northern lights especially bright in the winter?

Already each night. They fill the sky and can light up everything. With my new camera I'll keep my eye out for them to share. Not a easy pic to have come out. I'll have to practice a few times I'm sure. I don't get out much once dark sets in. That's when my plants and indoor light really make winter invisible for me.Maybe I'll see lights tonight. Really getting darker fast.

We watched a programme on television recently about the Northern Lights, it was fascinating. I hadn't realised they moved so quickly, or that they glowed so eerily. One of the wonders of the natural world, would love to see them sometime.

It's the speed with which they change that makes them so exciting and amazing not to mention difficult to capture in a still pic...I tried to make a video of them but it looked like I left the lens cap on...(I hadn't!) It's called the Aurora Australis in the southern hemisphere right? I wonder if there's anyone from Tasmania on goY, who could tell us?

Lol, Lori, I wonder. Watching them is so unnatural almost that you feel a bit like something should be happening to you as the sky tilts and wiggles. Faster motion it often turns into purples or reds. Usually greens in a river flowing across the sky. I'm definitely trying my luck to photograph them.

Do we have any gardeners in Tasmania on GoY ( I have also been hoping to see some from New Zealand )? I do hope so.
The programme we watched was presented by Joanna Lumley whose delivery is usually somewhat affected I find; she attempted to describe the feeling that something was happening to her as she watched the sky, I took that with a pinch of salt because of who was presenting it but your comments have put it back into perspective ..... perhaps you would have been a better presenter.