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The cone at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA was designed by Canadian architect Arthur Erickson. The cone was inspired by the wood "beehive burners" of the sawmills that once dotted Tacoma's waterway and is composed of 2,800 diamond-shaped stainless steel panels. Inside the cone, viewers can watch live glass blowers producing hot glass pieces. The room reaches 90 feet high and has two furnaces reaching temperatures of 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Taken at the State Arboretum on Tuesdays adventures. I've been here several times in the past but this was the first time we ever stopped at the herb garden where these flowers were located. I was hoping to see some bluebirds or perhaps a Heron or a Hawk, but except for a couple of Bluebirds flying away, the birds were missing. Still, it's always nice to visit this place. Hundreds of acres given over to trees and plants of different kinds so always something interesting to see.
(Small crop).. Macro capture of a very small cone..with an 'Oli-Ort' twist.. View On Black
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A little micro view of winter - these spruce cones I hope someday will be huge and tall as the tree where I found them.
Layered scales of a pine cone.
'Layer' for Macro Mondays.
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shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a rokinon (samyang) 12mm f2.0 lens on a custom macro-focusing helicoid
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He was from out of town. He arrived in the back of a pickup truck. He looked funny. He spoke funny. He looked like he had been in a brawl.
He wanted to know if we had seen any squares. We said we hadn’t seen any. We exchanged glances. Greenwald chuckled and Greenski played with his toothpick, a dangerous twinkle in his eyes. We knew all about this stranger. Boy, did we have his number. He was up to no good. We could smell it. We would have to tell the Sheriff. The Sheriff would sort him out. Us and the Sheriff.
It was not until the next day that we learned: the stranger was the new Sheriff. A dystopian red sun hung over the town, the roosters stayed silent all day, we drank our cold beers as we watched the green grass turn yellow, then rust brown. Greenwald looked pale and Greenski announced that he was going to change his name. A fly collided with my forehead and fell into my beer glass, paddling wildly.
(Loosely, very loosely inspired by the movie 'In The Heat Of The Night', made in 1967, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger and directed by Norman Jewison. The image title is borrowed from the classic film noir movie 'Man In The Dark', 1953)
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These have been dropping off one of the conifers down the road from from us. They’re not you’re ‘typical’ pine cone with the slightly darker fatter scales ( had to look up the technical term for them!) but this thinner and warm brown colour which I really love.
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Ok, I'll admit, I struggled with an appropriate title today. But, this is a purple cone flower and I do like them so...
Now that we are in the winter doldrums, let's start the New Year with something a little cheery! This was taken on Independence Day, July 4th.
Detail of a sculpture by Wendy Ross at the Grounds for Sculpture. (Didn't catch the title of this one.)
Conifers produce both female and made cones; female cones produce seeds, male cones produce pollen. You can see both kinds in this image -- the male cones are slightly out of focus due to the shallow depth of field.
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I was taking pictures of fir cones the other day when this dragonfly appeared in my viewscreen.
Portugal Cove, NL
Sitting on the east bank of the Firehole River in west of Sawmill Geyser, Chimney Cone produces just steam from its prominent tall cone. The only vent to emit water is a small opening at the base of the cone that rises at time a few inches and sends a small stream flowing down a orange cyanobacteria-lined channel into the river. Another hot springs vent containing a small pool of water can be seen in the foreground. It also flows a small stream of water towards the river. This view was taken from the footbridge across the Firehole River north and a little east of Castle Geyser in Yellowstone’s Upper Geyser Basin located in northwest Wyoming.