{"id":141740,"date":"2025-03-17T02:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T07:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=141740"},"modified":"2025-07-07T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:19:10","slug":"shades-of-green-on-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/03\/17\/shades-of-green-on-st-patricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Shades Of Green On St. Patrick’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tend to think of shades of green on St. Patrick’s Day, and this year, I knew I had a lovely image I\u2019d been keeping under wraps that I want to share today.<\/p>\n

\"ShadesShades of green – Leafy Fantasy Horse, USF Botanical Gardens, Hillsborough County, Florida \u00a9 2005<\/span><\/p>\n

I took this photo in February 2005, more than 20 years ago now. I used a Nikon bridge camera for this image while my best friend, Patty, and I explored the USF Botanical Gardens in Tampa, Florida<\/span><\/a>. We explored a lot of Florida together when I lived there.<\/p>\n

While we were wandering a plant with huge green leaves caught my eyes and I decided to take close up, kind of abstract photos of the leaves. The dark background behind the leaves added a touch of drama.<\/p>\n

As I moved around the leaves taking photos, I saw this through my viewfinder, stopped, took a breath, then captured this frame.<\/p>\n

I don’t recall the name of this plant, it might have been a deliciosa, but that isn’t important to me now. What mattered to me then, and still does today, is that I saw a fantasy horse, or maybe even a leafy green dragon, in this image, complete with an eye, nose, and an ear!<\/p>\n

I can’t unsee it. That’s called pareidolia<\/span><\/a>, when the mind picks out a pattern or image in something random, like spotting a face in clouds or on a tree trunk.<\/p>\n

The leafy horse or dragon is in shades of green, which fits perfectly with the color scheme of St. Patrick’s Day!<\/p>\n

Maybe you see a horse, a dragon, or something else besides a green leaf. That\u2019s up to you.<\/p>\n

I thought this image was simply wonderful for St. Patrick’s Day!<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my flower, shrub, and tree photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tend to think of shades of green on St. Patrick’s Day, and this year, I knew I had a lovely image I\u2019d been keeping under wraps that I want to share today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,2324,5346,2206],"tags":[16294,16295,16298,16296,37,13931,5742,4557,16297,5679,9610,16299,16300,16293,373],"class_list":["post-141740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida","category-hillsborough-county","category-shrubs","category-usf-botanical-garden","tag-abstract","tag-botanical-garden","tag-dragon","tag-fantasy","tag-florida-2","tag-garden","tag-green","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-horse","tag-leaf","tag-leafy","tag-shades-of-green","tag-st-patricks-day","tag-usf-botanical-gardens","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t