20120821_1775_G12-06 Botany Downs

A three shot "in camera" HDR with the camera on a coffee table, facing the ceiling.

Red Knot Botany Bay

阿里山龍膽

A selection of Helgas - formerly in DSB service in Denmark they were exported to Australia and can often be found around Sydney. Cooks River container yard near the airport.

Marbled Godwit Botany Bay

Piping Plover 8-29-13

Leica M8 Summicron DR

Botany Bay beach, Edisto Island, South Carolina, USA

Marbled Godwit 8-29-13

Red Knot Botany Bay

Hazy... but interesting. Day Eleven

At Lady Robinson's Beach

The BLM keeps America's Great Outdoors lush and beautiful by supplying and managing native plants for the restoration and rehabilitation of our public lands.

Visit us online to learn more about the BLM's botany programs: www.blm.gov/or/programs/botany/index.php

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The above photo is a calypso orchid.

Title: New Zealand Moss Book

Credit: Collection of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, 2015.6.1

www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/r...

Black-bellied Plover 8-29-13

Heather Roy, Lyn Murphy and Hilary Calvert

almost heart shaped leaves

Botany Bay National Park, La Perouse, southern Sydney coastline, New South Wales

We found a clump of these seeds on the road. The feathery "fin" evidently helps the seeds to disperse by wind. | Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia. | July 2, 2015.

Container Vessel leaving Port Botany

Edisto Island, SC.

Sunday, June 24, 2018.

These plants are coming out everywhere now! Does anyone know what it is?

This is the road that leads to Botany Bay. Botany Bay consits of two plantations, the Sea Cloud and the Bleak Hall Plantations. Botany Bay was used for the filming of Mel Gibson's "The Patriot".

large leaves tilting downward with fading on the edges

Olympus OM-4, Fuji Velvia. Location approximate.

Looks like WWII but its the 70s

Botany Bay has really changed in the last 6 months... fewer trees in the surf and no conch shells. It is still beautiful, just different.

Saw palmetto is a short palm that is used in alternative medicine. Its fruit extracts are used as a treatment for prostrate enlargement, baldness and genital issues.