Saturday, June 7, 2014

REFLECTION WEEKEND--Glass bromeliads

I love watching Jeopardy when in the US and the other evening I got the Final Jeopardy question correct, since I happened to know what a bromeliad is:  a plant native to tropical and subtropical America, typically having short stems with rosettes of stiff, usually spiny, leaves.  A pineapple is one!

These beautiful glass pineapples were in the window of a glass blowing workshop downtown.

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4 comments:

Thérèse said...

At first I thought they were vases.You just taught me pineapples were bromeliads... For me they were just the easy to care houseplant with beautiful flowers!

June 7, 2014 at 8:48 AM
TheChieftess said...

You learn something new everyday!!! I never knew a pineapple was a bromeliad!!!

June 7, 2014 at 8:40 PM
Alexa said...

I got it right too. :-)
And these are lovely bromeliads!

June 7, 2014 at 9:23 PM
William Kendall said...

Beautiful craftmanship. I would have gotten that wrong.

June 8, 2014 at 1:20 AM

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