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I have always felt that clouds would represent softness. This montage includes this mornings sunrise (2 photos) plus the spun filiament arrangement of a flower I found recently.
“Do not be hardened by the pain
and cruelty of this world.
Be strong enough to be gentle,
to be soft and supple like running water,
gracefully bending around sudden turns,
lithely waving in strong winds,
freely flowing over sharp rocks,
all the while quietly sculpting
this hard world into ever deeper beauty," L.R. Knost
Old light bulb I came across at the streetcar museum.
RX100M3 25mm | f3.2 | 1/125 sec | ISO 125
Processed with VSCO Kodak Ectar 25
A Macro Mondays submission in the topic "contained". This glowing filament of a small incandescent light bulb is contained within its glass enclosure.
The morning light really illuminated this tom’s plumage. He has quite a distinctive “beard” which is the bunch of feathers hanging down his chest. Turkey beards grow from the chest of gobblers. Not hair, like mammal beards, the gobbler's beard is made of modified feathers or tufts of filaments. Turkey beards' purpose is not clear, but they may help differentiate birds or may be a sign of virility to attract females. Beards and spurs on turkeys differentiate males from females.
Break the bulb, release the inert gas and switch on!
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Something I have wanted to do for ages. But I can pick umpteen holes in this. Trying to even get the right sort of bulb was not the easiest - most are LED or not dimmable. Then the bulb would have worked better rotated 180 degrees. Getting rid of dust was another nightmare. So don't look closely ..Lol! So I think I will have another try at this sometime in future.
There it was... parachute like with long purple filaments dotted with tiny drops of water. And the flower is one foot across!
And here I was, with my camera around my neck, groping around in the steamy hot Rare Plant House searching for a metal tag to identify this amazing flower extravaganza! And, it was Dog Day so I had my pup Honey watching me, tipping her head to the right and the left curious.
The flowers are black to purplish white, nodding on long pedicels, 2 bracts broadly ovate and winglike, 2 smaller bracts perpendicular to the others, black, greenish or reddish. Bracteoles threadlike, 6 - 8 inches long. Leaves basal, lanceolate, glossy dark green blade tapering down the petiole.
The genus Tacca, which includes the Bat flowers and Arrowroot, consists of ten species of flowering plants in the order Dioscoreales, native to tropical regions of Africa, Australia, and south-eastern Asia. In older texts, the genus was treated in its own family Taccaceae, but the 2003 APG II system incorporates it into the family Dioscoreaceae. Taccaceae is native to Malaysia.
Tacca integrifolia, Bat Fower, Dracula Flower, Flor de Murcielago
Windows to the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, FL
Prominences on the solar limb - composite of two images, one exposed for the chromosphere the other for the prominences
Imaged on 20th September 2015
A filament (which at one point had an eerie similarity to a snake) broke away from the sun and out into space (Nov. 1, 2014). The video covers just over three hours of activity. This kind of eruptive event is called a Hyder flare. These are filaments (elongated clouds of gases above the sun's surface) that erupt and cause a brightening at the sun's surface, although no active regions are in that area. It did thrust out a cloud of particles but not towards Earth. The images were taken in the 304 Angstrom wavelength of extreme UV light.
Credit: NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory
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Peace lilies (Spathiphyllum) are evergreen herbaceous perennial plants with large leaves 12–65 cm long and 3–25 cm broad. Although it is called a "lily", the peace lily is not a true lily from the family Liliaceae. True lilies are highly toxic (poisonous) to cats and dogs, but the peace lily, spathiphyllum is only mildly toxic to humans and other animals when ingested. Sources: Wikipedia for narrative, Google for identification.