quaking and shaking

The morn­ing was warm so I went up onto the deck to soak up a lit­tle of the Jan­u­ary sun­shine. While I was up there I noticed the wind shak­ing the leaves of one of the pot­ted plants grow­ing up there.

This is Euphor­bia cotini­fo­lia, a shrub in the same genus as the exalted poin­set­tia and the lowly and weedy spurges. Species like the quak­ing aspen tree (Pop­u­lus tremu­loides) get all the glory for hav­ing foliage that quiv­ers in the wind, but I thought the maroon leaves on this plant were doing a pretty good job of it.

This turns out to have been my first YouTube video upload. John’s lit­tle dig­i­tal Insta­matic has a movie mode that lets you cap­ture mov­ing snap­shots. The qual­ity isn’t what the per­fec­tion­ist in me would like for it to be, but like other snap­shots I think you get the idea what’s being pho­tographed…

January 16 2009 09:00 am | Categories: gardening • my garden | Tags: • • •

4 Responses to “quaking and shaking”

  1. tina on 16 Jan 2009 at 11:05 am #

    I think it was cool! Glad you show­cased it. Good job.

  2. Philip on 16 Jan 2009 at 3:47 pm #

    That was fun. i have not tried my “Movie” set­ting on my cam­era yet (except by acci­dent)
    I was think­ing I need to give it a try.
    I enjoyed your video.
    I love quak­ing aspen. Min­eral king and the east­ern Sier­ras has won­der­ful quak­ing aspens.
    Best,
    Philip

  3. lostlandscape on 17 Jan 2009 at 10:18 pm #

    Thanks, Tina!

    Philip–Some of the hid­den val­leys off high­way 395 are such sur­pris­ing des­ti­na­tions: the aspen quak­ing, or blaz­ing gold in the autumn, the walls of gran­ite ris­ing up behind them, the clear morn­ing light…stunning locations!

    And I look for­ward to your first movies!

  4. Greg on 18 Jan 2009 at 10:58 am #

    What a pretty plant.

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