Purple Impatiens--Wednesday, 4/18/18
This is the first time I'm showing this blouse on the blog, though it's the second time I wore it (previously: on a Sunday with skinny black jeans for easiest weekend outfit). It's the third blouse of this type I purchased--along with the plain black one and the teal/black floral one.
Black/purple/pink floral blouse (JCP), $12.76
Outfit cost per wear (OCPW): $13.61
I felt pretty happy that I recognize impatiens. After all, Google thought these were petunias (which I can kind of understand, actually, as both flowers have similar dark areas, though impatiens are flat and petunias are not), so it's not a given. But then I read that impatiens is a genus of 850-1,000 species, so I wasn't narrowing things down a lot with that label. However! These are surely the popular garden flower New Guinea impatiens, no? I mean, when I say "impatiens," I basically mean "New Guinea impatiens," as that is, indeed, the only kind I know.
The scientific name Impatiens (Latin for "impatient") and the common name "touch-me-not" refer to the explosive dehiscence of the seed capsules. The mature capsules burst, sending seeds up to several meters away.
Science has some of the greatest terminology ever. Explosive dehiscence!
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| Missouri Botanical Garden |
Gentoo Penguin in The Wild--Thursday, 4/19/18
It feels right that my last tights outfit of the season features this white skirt that I prefer wearing in the winter with contrasting tights. Here even the shoes are a different color (purple to match the blouse), breaking the 2-of-3 rule (tights should match skirt and/or shoes) in a fun but low-key way, I think, for my business casual workplace.
Have I praise-god-hands-emoji'ed the wonders of chain necklace extenders recently? I think I clasped two of them together at the end of this necklace so that I could wear it lower, on top of the blouse but below the collar, which I thought looked terrific and had the added advantage of kind of holding the blouse and collar in place. These extenders are like $5 apiece and make necklaces a lot more versatile.
OCPW: $13.74
Nobody knows how this penguin got the name "gentoo" but the scientific name for the genus, Pygoscelis, means "rump-tailed" and is a reference to the side-to-side sweep of the relatively long tail as it sticks out behind a waddling gentoo. The species name papua is based on the initial erroneous belief that the bird lived in Papua New Guinea.
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| St Louis Zoo |
In other news...I am working on a rabbit-photo version of the musical Hamilton called Hamilbun. I have officially lost my mind.
3 comments:
Hamilbun! Lol. Can't wait ;)
It's astonishing how many of the characters in Hamilton have names that rhyme with "bun." A sign from the gods, clearly.
I'm so ready for Hamilbun. So ready.
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