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I can't say I love the cold or trudging through the snow, but it is the best time of year to commune with my friends, the deer.
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I collected about two dozen beautiful and varied leaves last night from the trees at Costco. My husband loaded our groceries while I wandered the parking lot searching for treasures. When we got home, I carefully laid the wet leaves on towels and put heavy pans over them to keep them from curling up and getting crunchy. I had dreams all night about what I could create with them.
Joelle collected these rocks on the Salmon River in Idaho. We're getting back to work at The Purl Bee, you can read more here:
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Photo taken at: English Heritage, Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedfordshire www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/wrest-park
This is part of an M&S tableware set called Autumn Leaves.
I started collecting it when I got married over 50 years ago and have added to it over the years, often as because it was going out of fashion, but it's timeless to me.
It's stoneware and very long lasting.
Each step was greeted with the crunching sound of cold beneath my feet. The collected leaves were frozen together with no distinction between them. They were all frozen, different, yet all the same. This is Hoarfrost.
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Collected Tigger yesterday and when we got home we discovered he had fleas so Nina bathed him. He has been exploring a bit today. He spits and arches his back at the other animals. It’s hilarious.
Such a delicate and enticing Vanda. I love the colors and patterns... from almost leopard to a pale pale purple and everything in between.
The name "Vanda" is derived from the Sanskrit name for the species Vanda tessellata. These are mostly epiphytes (plants, such as a tropical orchid or staghorn fern, that grow on another plant and depends on it for mechanical support but not nutrients.) Also called aerophyte, air plant.) but sometimes they are lithophytic (plants that grows on rock and derive their nourishment chiefly from the atmosphere. Or terrestrial (plants that grow on the ground) Vandas are distributed in India, Himalaya, SE Asia, Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, southern China and northern Australia.
The genus is monopodial, that is they grow upward from a single point, adding leaves to the apex and the stem grows longer accordingly. Some have flat, typically broad, ovoid leaves (strap-leaves), while others have cylindrical (terete), fleshy leaves and are adapted to dry periods. The stems of these orchids vary considerably in size; there are miniature plants and plants that grow to several meters.
There are few to many flattened flowers growing on a lateral inflorescence. Most show a yellow-brown color with brown markings, but they also appear in white, green, orange, red and burgundy shades. The lip has a small spur. Vandas usually bloom every few months and the flowers last for two to three weeks.
This genus is one of the five most horticulturally important orchid genera, because it has some of the most magnificent flowers to be found in the entire orchid family. This has contributed much to the work of hybridists producing flowers for the cut flower market. Vanda coerulea is one of the few botanical orchids with blue flowers (actually a very bluish purple), a property much appreciated for producing interspecific and intergeneric hybrids. Vanda dearei is one of the chief sources of yellow color in Vanda hybrids.
Many Vanda orchids (especially Vanda coerulea) are endangered, because of habitat destruction. The export of wild-collected specimens of the Blue Orchid (Vanda coerulea) and other wild Vandas is prohibited worldwide, as all orchids are listed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
Ponpimol X coerulea
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
On my way to Tadoussac (www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/36646393504) and leaving Quebec city, somewhere in the corner of my eye, I saw something that collected my interest, and turning left I saw some amazing waterfalls further away, but because it was late I decided to drive on and reserve this maybe for the way back.
And then I left Parc Du Bic (www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/38768796185) in horrible weather, that lasted the whole day, until.............. I arrived in Quebec city again and it started to clear up. I was extremely lucky to see these amazing falls, and I spent a few hours trying to catch its grandness with a sun shining brightly!
My whole Canada 2017 trip: From Brighton Ontario I went straight to Tadoussac that's in the heart of the marine park, and the day after I went to the camp site Les Bergeronnes, where I spent 5 days whale watching on the shore (and one boat trip), every 5 minutes or so seeing whales popping up.
On the fifth day, around sunset I took the boat from Les Escoumins to Trois Pistoles. The south and the north shore of the bay are very different. The north shore has lots of rocks, while the south part is a little more sandy, and it is a fantastic drive all along! I finally headed to PN Gaspésie, where I spent 3 very cold nights in my tent (with all my clothes in my sleeping bag), but the park is wonderful!
Back in the direction of Brighton I spent a few hours in old Quebec, and drove the 1000 islands road, along the saint Lawrence river.
I certainly can recommend everybody who loves nature doing this trip. It should take around 2 weeks!
You can find the places I have visited here www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154740238406759&set...
Once cigarette cards were collected and swapped or bartered as a type of currency by schoolboys. Today any encouragement to smoke is frowned on as the health effects of tobacco are quite clear. These were perhaps the 'Rolls Royce' of such cards .... small silk flower images which were distributed free with packets of Kensitas cigarettes in the 1930's. This one is of parrot tulip. Each card came as a little booklet, describing the flower. About the size of a credit card, I've cropped the image to fit within the 3" rule. The advertising text is in the first comment field.
For the Macro Monday challenge "SWAG" (May15th 2023)
My 2023 set: Here
previous years of the Macro Mondays challenge:
My 2022 set: Here
My 2021 set: Here
My 2020 set: Here
My 2019 set: Here
My 2018 set: Here
My 2017 set: Here
My 2016 set: Here
My 2015 set: Here
My 2014 set: Here
My 2013 set: Here
A name on a barn built in a peaceful setting last century has outlived its original owner. One value of growing old is the ability to stay calm and collected in difficult circumstances because of past experiences.
Wakering Photography Group Summer Flowers Flickr Challenge.
This wonderful colourful field caught my eye this morning so I collected my camera and captured a couple of images, this is looking North West from Barrow Hall Road across to Shopland.
The farmers crop is known as Flax (Linum Usitatissimum), also known as common flax or linseed, it is a member of the genus Linum in the family Linaceae, It is a food and fibre crop cultivated in cooler regions of the world, today however is extremely hot and already in the high twenties.
The textiles made from flax are known in the Western countries as linen, and traditionally used for bed sheets, underclothes, and table linen.
The oil is known as Linseed Oil, in addition to referring to the plant itself, the word "flax" may refer to the unspun fibers of the flax plant.
The plant species is known only as a cultivated plant, and appears to have been domesticated just once from the wild species Linum biennia, called pale flax.
The telegraph poles have a five degree list to the North, this is due to the excessive winds we often encounter across the flat landscape.
Collected Sunrises in my Gallery:
About every other day, I shoot the view from my window and collect the pics in a gallery here: Views from my window
and the few that made "explore"
“Vazhiny, as a churchyard in the Zaonezhsky churchyard has been known since 1587. The churchyard was located near the village of Migunovskaya, and the wooden Voskresenskaya church of the first half of the 17th century has survived from it. Here Novgorod collectors collected from the ships sailing along the Svir a duty to the sovereign's treasury. "
"Важины, как погост в составе Заонежских погостов известны с 1587 года. Погост находился у деревни Мигуновской, от него сохранилась до наших дней деревянная Воскресенская церковь первой половины XVII века. Здесь новгородские откупщики собирали с судов, плавающих по Свири, пошлину в государеву казну."
---- some short stories, collected while walking down the street ...
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---- alcune storie minime, raccolte camminando per la strada ...
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click to activate the icon of slideshow: the small triangle inscribed in the small rectangle, at the top right, in the photostream;
clicca sulla piccola icona per attivare lo slideshow: sulla facciata principale del photostream, in alto a destra c'è un piccolo rettangolo (rappresenta il monitor) con dentro un piccolo triangolo nero;
Qi Bo's photos on Flickr Hive Mind
www.fotografidigitali.it/gallery/2726/opere-italiane-segn...
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A self portrait collage I made out of some rocks we collected out west and a canvas that I painted the sky and clouds on.
---- some short stories, collected while walking down the street ...
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---- alcune storie minime, raccolte camminando per la strada ...
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click to activate the icon of slideshow: the small triangle inscribed in the small rectangle, at the top right, in the photostream;
clicca sulla piccola icona per attivare lo slideshow: sulla facciata principale del photostream, in alto a destra c'è un piccolo rettangolo (rappresenta il monitor) con dentro un piccolo triangolo nero;
Qi Bo's photos on Flickr Hive Mind
www.fotografidigitali.it/gallery/2726/opere-italiane-segn...
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---- some short stories, collected while walking down the street ...
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---- alcune storie minime, raccolte camminando per la strada ...
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click to activate the icon of slideshow: the small triangle inscribed in the small rectangle, at the top right, in the photostream;
clicca sulla piccola icona per attivare lo slideshow: sulla facciata principale del photostream, in alto a destra c'è un piccolo rettangolo (rappresenta il monitor) con dentro un piccolo triangolo nero;
Qi Bo's photos on Flickr Hive Mind
www.fotografidigitali.it/gallery/2726/opere-italiane-segn...
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