I just got a canon digital rebel XT, and have thus started my wild and wacky foray into photography. Thanks will go out to Tiberious, Bios, and Josef for their amazing captures of real life that they share with us. So I took a few pictures tonight, and this is by far my favorite picture out of everything I toko. Fuunny that.

So I grow plants, lots of plants. All legal though. Sorry. :D This picture is of my outdoors carnivorous bog collection. That handsome bristly maw there in the middle is my oldest plant, a sarracenia purpurea, and I've had him for almost a year now. I've resized the image and hopefully not too much information has been lost. The leaf is actually a big open mouth, and those hairs are faintly greasy. Bugs get attracted to the smell of the necter that is in the bottom of the pitcher (I believe it smells rather nice, personally. Kind of like wet earth.) The necter has little chemicals in it that makest he bug a little drunk, and so he goes further in to figure out what that smell is. Once their center of balance is over the rim, the greasy follicles kick in! The bug loses it's footing and slides down into the leaf. The bug tries to climb back out, but all those little hairs are slippery, and by now the bug is probably a little wet, so it keeps slipping back down. Eventually, it drowns, and the necter that attracted it begins to digest it. With enzymes. And the smell of plant juice and bug juice attracts more bugs.

Be glad I photoed the RIM of hte pitcher, and not what's inside. :)