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(131/365) 5 tightly closed buds on a variegated Holly bush in my garden. Taken for my own group "2015 : one photo each day" as well as Macro Mondays theme "five". HMM everyone!
Walking in the woods yesterday, the Holly was in full bloom, beautiful, full of colour and joy, just like my lovely friend Holly just across the Atlantic Ocean....
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Another sunny evening and another 514 with a pair of SD60s. Down a ditch light this time. CN 5433 leads the daily intermodal north past the Holly depot on its way to Flint.
Been trying to get a shot of this one in my garden for about four days now , its finally found a liking to the Wisteria so hopefully should get a few more .
The Holly Blue gets its name from its food source - holly, which it feeds on in spring. It also feeds on several other shrubs including ivy in autumn.
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Canon EOS 6D - f/4 - 0.8sec - 100mm - ISO 200
- for challenge Flickr group: Macro Mondays,
theme: Holiday Bokeh
- piece of twig: nearly 7cm
- Holly and Christmas
Before holly was hung in houses to accompany Christmas trees, it was considered to be a sacred plant by the Druids. While other plants wilted in winter weather, holly remained green and strong, its berries a brightly colored red in the harshest of conditions.
The Druids regarded holly as a symbol of fertility and eternal life, thought to have magical powers. In Druid lore, cutting down a holly tree would bring bad luck. In contrast, hanging the plant in homes was believed to bring good luck and protection.
When Christianity came into Western Europe, some people wanted to keep the greenery, to give it Christian meanings but also to ban the use of it to decorate homes. The UK and Germany were the main countries to keep the use of the greenery as decorations.
- Here is the Christian meaning:
The prickly leaves represent the crown of thorns that Jesus wore when he was crucified. The berries are the drops of blood that were shed by Jesus because of the thorns.
In Scandinavia it is known as the Christ Thorn.
- In pagan times, Holly was thought to be a male plant and Ivy a female plant. An old tradition from the Midlands of England says that whatever one was brought into the house first over winter, tells you whether the man or woman of the house would rule that year! But it was unlucky to bring either into a house before Christmas Eve.
- "Season's Greetings"
- "merry Christmas"
- "feliz Navidad"
- "joyeux Noël"
- "frohe Weihnachten"
- "vrolijk Kerstfeest"
- "buon Natale"
- "feliz Natal"
- "Srozhdestvom Khristovym"
- "God Jul"
- "glædelig jul"
- "καλά Χριστούγεννα"
- "wesołych świąt bożego Narodzenia"
- "un Crăciun fericit"
- "boldog karácsonyt"
- "veselé Vánoce"
- "geseënde Kersfees"
The Holly Blue is easily identified in early spring, as it emerges well before other blue butterflies. It tends to fly high around bushes and trees, whereas other grassland blues usually stay near ground level. It is much the commonest blue found in parks and gardens where it congregates around Holly (in spring) and Ivy (in late summer).
The Holly Blue is widespread but undergoes large fluctuations in numbers from year to year. It has expanded northwards in recent years and has colonised parts of midland and northern England. (Butterfly Conservation).
Found in my garden on a small potted (now gone-over) white flower. The name of which escapes me at present. Large Ivy presence nearby!
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Easthan Village
Woke up to a bit of snow this morning. Headed out on the bike and as expected it was sketchy! It was worth it though, Eastham Village looked like a Christmas card!
My best wishes to all flickr members for sharing their beautiful photos especially to my flickr friends for their friendship, comments and favours. My special thoughts to those experiencing major troubles or sorrows. I'm in a lot of pain at the moment so am taking things very slowly.
Despite always seeing plenty of holly blues every year I've never photographed one. There's been loads in our garden this year and despite trying really hard to photograph one I've come up short. My best opportunity came when I was looking for chequered skippers and I finally managed to photograph a holly blue
My best wishes to all flickr members for sharing their beautiful photos especially to my flickr friends for their friendship, comments and favours. My special thoughts to those experiencing major troubles or sorrows. I'm in a lot of pain at the moment so am taking things very slowly.
Sea holly is a great addition to a perennial garden. There are several examples at Darts Hill Garden (where I often take pictures). This example is from a floral arrangement. The arrangement included blue and white hydrangeas as well as sea holly.
I'm not surprised that it is so popular, so fresh, green, with the jolly berries AND plentiful in the garden, this time of year, and also, so very decorative. But ooohhh so prickly too!
I am trying to use as little light and dof as possible, a challenge that I love.
I find it necessary and refreshing to regularly go back to the basics of photography.
As a discipline, I used to go out with my Nikon F4, a 50mm lens, b&w or colour film.
Now of course it is much more with the 'ease' of digital, however, I do NOT take hundreds of photos, the discipline is: I use my camera as a 'film' camera, each push of the button COSTS!
So, I compose carefully, wait, look, ... if I AM SURE, pleased... then, I click!
Or like here, I'll preconceive a scenario, go in the studio, set it up and photograph it only when I am happy that I have the result in front of my eyes that I had in my head.
I wish you a day full of peace and goodness, thank you, M, (*_*)
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I spotted this lovely Holly Blue resting on an ivy leaf in the garden at the weekend. It's always nice when you get a wildlife treat at home.
Boomblauwtje - Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus) on Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
Aka spiked loosestrife, or purple lythrum - grote kattenstaart.
now here is Rudy Hollay's Barn...this front view shows the Italianate style ...this barn is walking distance from the Sterns Barn...I do think the woman is going to church service across the street..got her Sunday best on.
This tiny butterfly made it difficult for me yesterday, flitting about and only stopping for a second or two - and never in the same place. Here it was really too high but it was the best I got.
This is quite heavily cropped.