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What happens is not what you plan for.
Someone told me recently - "Life is what happens to you when you are planning it ..."
Explore #201 2-28-08
LARGE View On Black...
...all these have been hand held outdoors, and in this one I used a black card background also hand held to remove the distraction and bokeh of perceived weird background colors.
"Why do flowers have more stamens than pistils?
Interestingly for the same reason as in almost all other multicellular ororgaisms - sperm (two in each grain of pollen) are cheap to make and the probability of any one grain reaching a pistil is low. So plants make a great deal of pollen (which allergists appreciate!) to fertilize the relatively few eggs. Pretty much why human males make many millions of sperm everyday while human females generally have only one per month to fertilize."
July 2, 2021
We are in the middle of the wettest 4th of July weekend I can remember.... and it's cold too. I wandered around the back yard when there was a break in the drizzle. I like the way things look speckled with raindrops.
Daylilly - Autumn Red
(Hemerocallis)
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
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Wet black bee on the edge of a hollyhock petal. Home, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 16 July 2024
Identified on inaturalist as subgenus Neotrypetes, a genus of Armored Resin Bees ( Heriades),
This photo is from last year, as my 'double delight' rose this year is putting out tiny blossoms that shrivel almost immediately, perhaps due to the drought.
Again, I'll be away from Flicker most of the day.
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