By Bart Colucci
Open Space Restoration combines nature with fiction, so to get the most out of each writing here is a brief trackline for this story:
Lemna Valdiviani really does exist and on this day she did inspire.
She was there, still in the water. Her eyes piercing forward, small breasts formed to perfection. There was no doubt that it was Lemna. Others have seen Lemna before but never like this, free floating, tugging at hearts with her beauty.
If you look around the still waters you might find Lemna, tagging along as you walk the waters edge. She is hard to shake, never speaks but her presence abounds. On this day Lemna Valdiviana out did her self, floated out to the water amongst the gators, brown snakes and moccasins and showed off her beauty for all to see.
Old men saw her sculpted face and etched her body into their memory. Their imagination flowed through bones and muscles, they grabbed the hands of their wives as they walked by, inspired. Women who saw Lemna made comments about her hair and lean figure, scoffed at Lemna’s day of defiance, as Lemna looked east towards the cypress head. Young girls looked at Lemna and saw her as a princess a goddess even.
The wind picked up and blew angrily forcing Lemna to disappear from the water. Gone forever.
If you focus on the above photo you can see a profile image of a woman formed by the Small Duckweed (Lemna Valdiviani) This photo was taken by my son at Green Cay Nature Center in Boynton Beach Florida.
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That’s a neat image Bart — it looks real (no photoshopping!) Our imaginations run in every direction, it is true, when out for a walk in the woods.
Thanks Robert, Not photoshopped not even brightened or sharpened. A true digital. My Son will take 2 to 3 hundred shots a day when he is out and about, we run them thru the slide show on the computer, Lemna jumped out at us about the 4th time thru.
Digital sensors record greens so much better than old fashioned films. I think you may have seen a true spirit in the duckweed. Great eye!