Air Plant 3

This is how the air plant looked yesterday. I was shooting it under florescent lights on macro. I think the parent plant will die after it finishes blooming. I put pollin on the stigma and hope I will get seed. This took years and years to bloom though, and has not produced any offsets.

The estimated death toll for the earthquake has gone up to 54,000 and they expect it to rise even further.
I added a hit counter to my web page. It is not the same as the one here. Guess I will give it a bit of time, to see how it works.