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"You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path".
Martha Beck
There's a Corkscrew Willow tree in our neighborhood and I often find myself appreciating its bare branches stretching to the sky. The above quotation caught my eye and it only seemed fitting to accompany this image.
Cattails in the inlet of the pond at sunset. The pond is starting to thaw, soon the ducks will be coming back.
"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."
- Author Unknown
Some trees are more interesting without their leaves.
Black-capped Chickadee
It seems to me I photograph Chickadees far more in winter than I do in summer, so here's one to mix it up a bit.
This Spring W9 and I saw a boatload of Common Yellowthroats at South Coast Botanic Garden. Maybe it was due to all the rainfall we had? These attractive birds were zipping around all over the place. This one had claimed a Corkscrew Willow tree. The branches droop and sway with the breeze like dancers.
Here is a link to an interesting ebird map. COYO migration. Many of these colorful warblers will spend the Summer up North.
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Common Yellowthroat | eBird
ebird.org
Common Yellowthroat is one of the most widespread warblers in the country, and unlike most warblers, is a denizen of marshes, grasslands, and wet meadows.
Camera: Canon F-1
Lens: Canon FD 50 mm f/1.4 SSC
Film: Kodak TMax 3200, rated @ ASA 1600
Exposure: 1/500 sec and f/8, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by MeinFilmLab
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
MAY YOU ALL HAVE A HAPPY - HEALTHY - AND SUCCESSFUL 2015
Salix matsudana (Chinese Willow) is a species of willow native to northeastern China. The species is named in honour of Sadahisa Matsuda, a Japanese botanist. The species is widely cultivated in China, and a horticultural variant with twisted twigs, the corkscrew willow, is widely planted.
I love this tree - for me it depicts the tree of life - none of us grow completely perfect or straight up and we all have to learn to bend a little as this tree does in the wind.
I have so enjoyed your comments on my photo's your support, your humour and contact with you all on flickr. And have so loved viewing the results of your talented, creative clicking - and am looking forward to seeing more in 2015. Kit
Sunset (at full 12x zoom) through the tiny opening in the window. The Eucalyptus is much closer and I couldn't get it inside the DoF.
over a pond, sky reflection
i got a few of these, i liked the reflection itself more but that was difficult to get a good pic of (something for next time ...)
This Corkscrew Willow at Frederik Meijer Gardens looked so pretty with the sun shining and the clear blue sky.
The girls (this is Magpie) LOVE roosting up high in the corkscrew willow tree.
please come down now, girls!
a beautiful, friendly neighbor kitty decides he will climb my corkscrew willow to get above the squirrel on the feeder so he can capture it. tee hee. silly boy.
this cat has incredible coloring--one of those buff colored cats who looks almost pink. he's very handsome.
From the test roll I shot with my $75 Yashica 635 TLR.
Yashica 635
Yashikor 80mm/3.5
Ilford HP5+
HC-110 Dilution H.
Panoramas with this Tokina 11-16mm never quite line up right. This is the shadow of the big dragon's claw willow (Salix matsudana) on fresh snow at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Chill airs and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song;
I hear it in the opening year,-
I listen, and it
cheers me long.
H. W. Longfellow
January1st and it’s a beautiful sunny winters day! My corkscrew willow is such a magical, witchy tree and I’m absolutely convinced it has magical powers. “The embracing sunbeams chastely play” amongst it’s branches on this New Years Day.@ghostales1957
"Salix 'Golden Curls', 2018, [Corkscrew Willow], SAY-licks, 30x15ft. #Tree, USDA Hardiness Zone 4, -, Bloom Month --, In Garden Bed f2.11 for 20.8 YEARS (Buil).
This cultivar is apparently a hybrid between S. alba 'Tristis' and S. matsudana 'Tortuosa'. Found in Agrentina and introduced around 1971 (Dirr, 1998). Syn. S. matsudana ‘Golden Curls’ and S. erythroflexuosa. Aka Corkscrew Willow, Contorted Willow, Dragon's Claw Willow. Looks to be declining for the past couple of years.
#Salix #CorkscrewWillow
I don't know what these are, but I started sneezing when I walked up to take a picture of them -
They sure were pretty in the light!
Update 3/21/12: Thanks to pinconnected, these have been identified as corkscrew willow blossoms -
Salix matsudana (Chinese Willow) is a species of willow native to northeastern China. The species is named in honour of Sadahisa Matsudo, a Japanese botanist. The species is widely cultivated in China, and a horticultural variant with twisted twigs, the corkscrew willow, is widely planted. The flowers are borne in catkins produced early in the spring.
A particularly popular cultivar of this species is Salix matsudana 'Tortuosa', the "Corkscrew willow" (also known as the Hankow willow, curly willow, dragon's claw, or globe willow), in which the branches and twigs grow in a spiral, twisting manner. As a result of the ornamental shape of the branches and twigs, this cultivar is commonly used as a bonsai plant and for floral arrangements.