A rock outcropping along Cliatt Creek at Mistletoe State Park.

04/23/10

Photo by Charles Slate

3 Kings Hanley Castle Folk Friday

Mistletoe!

Made using Flora and Fauna stamps and dies

At our "pants party"/christmas party 12.14.06 It was a blast!

The Mistletoe Market in Tenbury Wells which held every year. The crop goes to auction having been blessed by an order of Druids.

Part of my Christmas Cards 2011 series. Blogged at mpfotoblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/under-mistletoe.html

Texas Mistletoe Sprig

I was fascinated to find this Mistletoe (Amyema sp.) seed on this dead limb of a River Red Gum. Clearly the Mistletoebird who excreted it had no thought for the seed's chance of survival! You can see a tendril that has emerged from the seed, seeking to take root in the limb, which (being live) it would normally penetrate with ease. However, the hard surface of this dead branch has been impossible to penetrate and the tendril is being deflected along the branch. Sadly this is one Mistletoe that won't survive.

Rhipsalis (mistletoe cactus) blooming in the Education Greenhouses. Photo by Michael Stewart.

Warm wishes to all my Blythe friends this holiday season!

Farm March, Pre Snow

16th March 2013

Mistletoe Tyrannulet - Zimmerius parvus - Малый москитолов

Rancho Naturalista, Turrialba, Caribbean slope in the Cordillera Talamanca, Costa Rica,11/03/2014

Texas Male Mistletoe 2014

Tony and Kris (Jeff watching closely in the background)

A Canada goose at sunset on Clarks Hill Lake at Mistletoe State Park.

04/18/10

Photo by Charles Slate

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Plicosepalus curviflorus (Benth. ex Oliv.) Tiegh. (Loranthaceae)

Acacia bushland, alt. 340m

Tana River, Meru, Kenya

Mistletoe placed on sheet music for Moonlight Sonata

Mistletoes as Christmas decoration at Borough Market

“Under the Mistletoe” by Norman Rockwell (1919)

With this painting, Norman Rockwell initiates his tradition of having a Christmas cover on the cover of The Literary Digest in December.

Under the Mistletoe was only one of 47 Norman Rockwell Literary Digest covers.

It portrays an old couple in the middle of an embrace, looking lovingly into one another's eyes. They are about to enjoy a kiss.

The man wears his tuxedo and bow tie. He is wearing his best cuff links. He is carressing the face of his wife with his right hand.

The lady is wearing a fine black dress with white lace collar. Her left hand is resting on his lapel.

Judging by their dress, they are attending a Christmas party. The mistletoe overhead is allowing them to kiss in public.

The painted frame around the main part of the picture features holly leaves and berries, another plant used in traditional Christmas decorations.

It is huge!

a leathery-leaved parasitic plant that grows on apple, oak, and other broadleaf trees and bears white glutinous berries in winter.

Parasitic mistletoe growing on corkscrew mesquite, quite dense plants on the winter-barren mesquite, with bright white mistletoe berries seeming to mix with the corkscrew pods of the mesquite