TIME-LAPSE, NATURE'S WAY – Zihuatanejo Snaps

This exuberant plant, just down the stairs from our villa, caught my eye this morning. For those  succulent, dewy-puffball ovules; for pointed petals that seem to have just pierced their way out; for the frosty shroud wrapping each cluster of flowers.

But what struck me most of all was the format, this four-shot, time-lapse glimpse of the passage from bud to blossom—perfect but for that last reluctant bloom.