shifting gears, last flowers

[tedro]

the only flowers left are on the first branch.
second branch went first, then the spike, now only the first branch remains.

(i did clip a bit of the depleted 2nd branch as an experiment.)

question: if you can make out the change in color from the tip of the spike going back up, is this lighter tip color … was it always like that, covered by flowers, or … i can hardly believe it’s death since the flowers were just there, but maybe that’s it exactly.




ps. i’m guessing that lighter color is a “living” color. that the fact that it will soon die off, is not why it’s this color, so it must have been this color or near it.