Maroon plant:
Perhaps because this second site
did not have as many "veinless" plants as the first site,
I spent more time looking at the more typically pigmented,
deeply red plants. Isn't
this a beauty? Very nice.
If you are getting tired of looking at Sarracenia purpurea,
there is a tiny little sundew (Drosera rotundifolia)
along the bottom edge of the photograph, about two-thirds of the way
to the right, just by the bright green leaf. Satisfied?
Canada is nice. I have been there several times, and the people
are more relaxed and friendly to strangers than people are in the USA.
If a stranger in the US starts talking to me, I immediately start
wondering when they are going to ask me for money. In Canada, I wonder
the same thing when strangers start chatting--I'm just usually wrong.
(And afterwards, I feel terribly guilty about not being more
friendly--Australia and New Zealand are even more extreme this way.)
I'm not saying the
place is nirvana; it's just that the people seem less tense than they
are in the USA.
