Berries From Outer Space

(for those of you who are interested in seeing my San Francisco trip images, I have uploaded 10 pictures in this batch [148 in the past few weeks]. Thanks everyone for your comments and your visits to my photostream! I hope you enjoy the show!) (Oh, and yes, I know there are really too many pictures to be uploading at one time but I have too many images I want to put into my Flickr stream so it just can't be helped!)

One of the places Laura and I walked to was the Arboretum, which is a wonderful, enormous collection of plants from all over the world. This is a close-up image of a huge, unidentified plant with enormous 2-feet wide dark-green leaves. This image shows the strange stalk which is covered with red berries. Wouldn't you agree that this is one of the oddest, most beautiful plants you've ever seen?

By the way, for those of you who may not know, there is a very fun, free Flickr competition site which you might like to take part in. It's called FlickrDuel and features dozens of ongoing competitions, or duels every day. You can enter your pictures into many different categories and vote on contests too. It's another way to enjoy your photography!

Winner of FlickrDuel contest: +10 Wins: Flora

This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.