Phragmites

It feels like everything is a do-over these days!  Yesterday the wind was really howling - gusts to 40 MPH!  On my walk I stopped at Scudder's pond and saw these Phragmites blowing in the wind and took about 15 different photographs.  It was hard to get them just right because they were blowing back and forth in the wind.  So I went by the pond again today and they looked different - the difference was that their shape was more beautiful.  When the wind was howling, they were all clumped and distorted.  These are holding their natural shape in a gentle breeze.  They are beautiful in the late afternoon light, especially against the blue sky. Please click on this to see it larger, and to see to the delicate texture of the "feathered" parts.