MAGNOLIA TREE

I’d never taken pictures of magnolia trees before, though there are a number of them with low-hanging branches on my route to the pool. I bought my little Sony camera partly because I wanted one that could handle low-light situations. Even so, I was chagrinned that in the late afternoon yesterday, when I was finally able to set out, all the lower blossoms I could see up close were in shade. When I looked at my photographs later, I was especially fascinated by the tortuous tangle of branches in the backgrounds.