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Thinking about this week's Crazy Tuesday theme of "Trees and Leaves"and while our trees are just getting underway, the leaves seem to be turning brown and dropping at the same time. The jury's still out on a nice colorful Fall but we'll see in the upcoming days/weeks. I love the look of the hickory tree with it's compound leaf but I've already posted one of the leaflets so I needed something a bit different. I looked around the yard and this one grouping caught my eye. A hickory leaf with 3 leaflets, all brown but loaded with character (IMO), I knew it would be all about the lighting and this has a main light to the left and above camera, additional fill to the right and a bit from the back-top for a hair light. The grouping measures about 5 in. tall X 4 in. wide X 2 in. deep. I was hoping for a B&W conversion but the brown color won out in the end.
Nikon 55mm f/2.8 NIKKOR Micro, 8 Image Focus Stack shot at f/11.
Anemonoides trifolia (Ranunculaceae) 093 25
Anemonoides trifolia (syn. Anemone trifolia) is a perennial herbaceous plant in buttercup family (Ranunculaceae).
The plant has stems growing 10–30 cm tall and bear single, white (rarely pale pink or pale bluish) flowers two centimetres in diameter, with five to nine (most often six) elliptical tepals. Its leaves are divided into three lanceolate leaflets and form a single whorl of three leaves per stem; the leaflets have a toothed but not lobed margin. The flowering period extends from April through June.
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...Let it be! They don't have to be shiny. They don't have to be red. But these new leaflets are both. Regular walkers here know there is plenty of poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) growing alongside this path overlooking the sea. You couldn't be blamed for starting to itch just looking at it.
Newly unwrapped palm frond is uncurling its myriad of leaflets. It's part of a small, low palm that recently got a brand new set of fronds which rose from the center of the stem like a knot of finger-thick snakes. They are now unfurling, looking very frond-like, but do not yet have their needle sharp spines.
Macro Mondays - theme: All Natural
One more of the series of shots from the Museum. This one was a bit tricky though. I had light coming directly on the leaf from the other end, as in direct sunlight. I had to move away to face the tree truck but then now i ended up with lesser light. Cheap Canon lenses are not all that sharp unless you go smaller than f/7.1.
Finally i switched to manual, went to F/11 and fired the flash from the Canon Speedlite 430EX to evenly light up these leaves. Interestingly i'm getting to see how light has DoF here. The background from the leaves seems to have been darkened out in the bokeh.
Looks good on large
Canon EOS 400D with the Canon EF 75-300MM F/4-5.6 USM III. Manual, F/11 at 1/200th of a Second. Flash fired with the Canon Speedlite 430EX on manual 1/1.
A la fin des années 1920, Paul Cavrois (1890-1965), propriétaire d’usines textiles pour la filature, le tissage et la teinture de coton et de laine à Roubaix, souhaite construire une grande maison familiale moderne pour ses sept enfants et le personnel de service sur des terrains situés à Croix, dans le quartier alors campagnard de Beaumont.
En faisant appel à l'architecte franco-belge Robert Mallet-Stevens, il affiche ainsi sa volonté de se démarquer des constructions traditionnelles de la région.
Les premiers dessins sont dressés en 1929. L’année suivante, Mallet-Stevens emmène Paul Cavrois et son fils en Hollande découvrir l’hôtel de ville d’Hilversum conçu par Willem Dudok. Paul Cavrois lui donne alors son accord pour travailler dans l’esprit moderniste et géométrique de ce bâtiment et accepte que les façades soient couvertes de briques de parement jaunes spécialement fabriquées pour la villa.
L’architecte ayant obtenu les pleins pouvoirs sur le projet, il peut, pour la première fois dans sa carrière, s’occuper de la réalisation dans ses moindres détails. La villa est conçue comme une œuvre d’art totale et représente l’aboutissement de ses préoccupations tant esthétiques que techniques.
À son achèvement, la villa étonne par sa hardiesse et sa modernité et son style rompt totalement avec celui des demeures de la même époque qui lui sont voisines. Le programme de cet édifice commandé en 1929 est clair : « air, lumière, travail, sports, hygiène, confort et économie ».
Dressée de façon théâtrale à l’aplomb du miroir d’eau, la villa domine le jardin par ses différents dénivelés et amplifie l’effet de perspective. À l’instar des châteaux classiques, le château moderne se pare d’un miroir d’eau pour refléter sa façade et par la même occasion, la magnifier parmi les arbres et végétations du parc.
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At the end of the 1920s, Paul Cavrois (1890-1965), owner of textile factories for spinning, weaving and dyeing cotton and wool in Roubaix, wanted to build a large modern family home for his seven children and the service personnel on a land located in Croix, in the then rural district of Beaumont.
By calling on the Franco-Belgian architect Robert Mallet-Stevens, he displayed his desire to stand out from the traditional constructions of the region.
The first drawings were drawn up in 1929. The following year, Mallet-Stevens took Paul Cavrois and his son to Holland to discover the Hilversum town hall designed by Willem Dudok. Paul Cavrois then gave his agreement to work in the modernist and geometric spirit of this building and accepted that the facades be covered with yellow bricks specially manufactured for the villa.
The architect having obtained full powers over the project, he could, for the first time in his career, take care of the implementation down to the smallest detail. The villa is designed as a total work of art and represents the culmination of both aesthetic and technical concerns.
When it was completed, the villa was astonishing in its boldness and modernity, and its style completely broke with that of the neighboring residences of the same period. The program for this building commissioned in 1929 is clear: “air, light, work, sports, hygiene, comfort and economy”.
Raised in a theatrical manner directly above the water mirror, the villa dominates the garden with its different elevations and amplifies the effect of perspective. Like classic castles, the modern castle is adorned with a water mirror to reflect its facade and at the same time, magnify it among the trees and vegetation of the park.
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This Active Sindy is a prototype and the ones actually sold were slightly different, both doll and ballet outfit.
Sindy is more than a fashion doll; she's part of an enchanting, make-believe world.
And so right they are.
Albizia julibrissin / Persian Silk Tree
Albizia julibrissin, the Persian silk tree, pink silk tree, or mimosa tree, is a species of tree in the Fabaceae family, native to southwestern and eastern Asia.[1]
Taxonomy
It was introduced to Europe in the mid-18th century by Italian nobleman Filippo degli Albizzi, and the name of its entire genus Albizzia is given after him.[2] The specific epithet julibrissin is a corruption of the Persian word gul-i abrisham (گل ابریشم), which means "silk flower" (from gul گل "flower" + abrisham ابریشم "silk").[2][additional citation(s) needed]
Albizia julibrissin was described by Antonio Durazzini.[who?] John Gilbert Baker used the same scientific name to refer to Albizia kalkora written by David Prain, the Mimosa kalkora of William Roxburgh.[clarification needed][citation needed]
Names
Albizia julibrissin is known by a wide variety of common names, such as Persian silk tree and pink siris. It is also called Lankaran acacia or bastard tamarind, though it is not too closely related to either genus. The species is called Chinese silk tree, silk tree or mimosa in the United States, which is misleading—the former can refer to any species of Albizia which is most common in any one locale; and, although once included in Mimosa, neither is it very close to the Mimoseae. To add to the confusion, several species of Acacia, notably Acacia baileyana and Acacia dealbata, are also known as "mimosa" (especially in floristry), and many Fabaceae trees with highly divided leaves are called thus in horticulture.
Its leaves slowly close during the night and during periods of rain, the leaflets bowing downward; thus its modern Persian name shabkhosb (شبخسب) means "night sleeper". This tendency also explains the Chinese common name hehuan, which means "shut happy" and symbolizes a happy couple in bed.[3] In Japan its common names are nemunoki, nemurinoki and nenenoki which all mean "sleeping tree". Nemu tree is a partial translation of nemunoki.
Description
Albizia julibrissin is a small deciduous tree with a broad crown of level or arching branches, growing to 5–16 m (16–52 ft) tall.[3] Its bark is dark greenish grey, becoming vertically striped with age. Its leaves are large and frond-like: They are bipinnate, divided into 6–12 pairs of pinnae, each with 20–30 pairs of leaflets. Individual leaflets are oblong, 1–1.5 cm (0.4–0.6 in) long and 2–4 cm (0.8–1.6 in) broad. The true leaves are 20–45 cm (8–18 in) long and 12–25 cm (5–10 in) broad.
The flowers bloom throughout the summer in dense inflorescences, which resemble starbursts of pink silky threads. The true flowers have small calyx and corolla (except the central ones), with a tight cluster of prominent stamens, 2–3 cm long and white or pink with a white base. They have been observed to attract bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.[2] Its fruit is a flat brown pod 10–20 cm (4–8 in) long and 2–2.5 cm (0.8–1.0 in) broad, containing several seeds inside.
There are two varieties:
Albizia julibrissin var. julibrissin – the typical variety, described above
Albizia julibrissin var. mollis – differs in the shoots being densely hairy
Habitat, cultivation and uses
Original habitats of the tree include regions from Iran (Persia) and the Republic of Azerbaijan to China and Korea.[4]
A. julibrissin is widely planted as an ornamental plant in parks and gardens, grown for its fine leaf texture, flowers and attractive horizontal canopy. Other positive attributes are a fast growth rate, low water requirements and the ability to thrive planted in full sun in hot summer climates.[5] It is frequently planted in semi-arid areas like California's Central Valley, central Texas and Oklahoma. Although capable of surviving drought, growth will be stunted and the tree tends to look sickly. As such it should be given infrequent, deep waterings during the summer, which will benefit growth and flowering.[5]
The broad crown of a mature tree makes it useful for providing dappled shade. The flower colour varies from white in A. julibrissin f. alba, to rich red-tipped flowers. Variants with cream or pale yellow flowers are also reported. Other cultivars are becoming available: 'Summer Chocolate' has red foliage ageing to dark bronze, with pale pink flowers; 'Ishii Weeping' (or 'Pendula') has a drooping growth habit.
A. julibrissin f. rosea
There is also a form, A. julibrissin f. rosea (pink silk tree) which has, in the past, been classed either as a variety or as a cultivar. This is a smaller tree, only growing to 5–7 metres (16–23 ft) tall, with the flowers always pink. Native to the northeast of the species' range in Korea and Northern China, it is more cold-tolerant than the typical form, surviving temperatures down to at least −25 °C (−13 °F). The selected cultivar A. julibrissin 'Ernest Wilson' (also known as 'E.H.Wilson' or 'Rosea') is a cold-tolerant tree with deep pink flower colour. In Japan, A. julibrissin f. rosea is often used for non-traditional bonsai. The name nemunoki* (ねむの木, Kanji: 合歓木) and its variants is a kigo representing the summer in haiku, especially a sleepy summer evening.[6]
A. julibrissin f. rosea has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit;[7] likewise the cultivar 'Summer Chocolate'.[8]
Other uses
Silk tree wood may be used to make furniture.[9] It is also reportedly psychoactive as well, with the flowers being used to make teas. In Chinese medicine it is considered an antidepressant.[10]
Invasive species
In the wild, the tree tends to grow in dry plains, sandy valleys, and uplands. It has become an invasive species in the United States, where it has spread from southern New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, west to Missouri and Illinois, and south to Florida and Texas. It is cultivated in California and Oregon.[citation needed] Its seeds are wind-dispersed and numerous, and they are fertile even over long periods of drought. Each pod, which resembles a flattened bean pod made of paper, holds about 8 seeds on average. The pod bursts in strong winds, and the seeds can carry over long distances.
Breeding work is currently underway in the United States to produce ornamental plants which will not set seed and can be planted without risk.[citation needed] However, in the eastern United States it is generally a short-lived tree, being highly susceptible to mimosa vascular wilt,[11] a fungal disease caused by a species of Fusarium, though the disease does not seem to have seriously impacted its populations. Because of its invasive tendencies and disease susceptibility, it is rarely recommended as an ornamental plant in the United States, though it is still widely planted in parts of Europe.
Old Man's Beard (Clematis Vitalba). Also known as, Traveller’s Joy and Scrambles.
Like other members of the Clematis genus, old man's beard or traveller's joy climbs (or scrambles ) over other plants using its leaf stalks (petioles) and flower stalks. The leaves are not unlike the familiar garden forms of Clematis. The leaf stalks entwine around any convenient support / structure in their vicinity and then lignify (become woody).
The leaves are described as opposite and 1-pinnate, that is, they have one pair of leaflets opposite to each other plus one terminal leaflet.
As the plant grows and matures, it forms woody stems which can be as thick as a wrist; the plant can grow to a height of 40 feet or more.
The flowers appear in August and September. When the plant has finished flowering, the developing seeds (known as achenes - an achene is a one seeded fruit) retain part of the flower – the style. This has long, silky hairs, which form the grey tufted balls that are so conspicuous in some woodlands and hedgerows in autumn and winter. These are, indeed, the 'old man's beard'. These silky structures are important in the dispersal of the seeds.
Seen at Attenborough Nature Reserve, Nottingham.
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