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200mm Macro lens

Hydrangia quercifolia (Hydrangeaceae) in the TWU Botanical Gardens, Denton, Texas

Oak leaf hydrangea

Oakleaf hydrangea

カシワバアジサイ

..im Rauhreif

..in hoarfrost

*smc pentax-a 50mm f2.8 macro*

in my garden

Native to Southeast USA, Asia & South America.

Oakleaf hydrangea plant, with flower buds opening up, Boulevard Baptist Church grounds, Anderson, South Carolina, May, 2023. Hydrangeas are so beautiful -- see my album.

Thank you for looking! Isn't God a great artist?

I shot this some time ago (see EXIF!), but it is one that stayed in my mind. While I was pursuing birds with my 400L lens this Oak leaf brushed against my head. My goodness!! The leaf was held up by the thinnest strand of spider web.

Many of my Flickr friends will be celebrating May 1st in its various forms. Enjoy your day, my friends.

Thanks for looking, etc.:)

Oakleaf Hydrangea, Hydrangea quercifolia, shot outside of the historic Philipsburg Manor Historic Site in Sleepy Hollow, New York.

Translucent - Macro Mondays

This portion of an old oak leaf has disintegrated. The green surface has fallen away. The leaf was held up to light to capture the translucency.

A photograph of the full Oak leaf with a ruler is in the first comment. This portion of the leaf is smaller than the measurements allowed for Macro Mondays.

All rights reserved. Please do not use or reproduce this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my permission.

The woodland was muddy and waterlogged after weeks of heavy rain and under the mighty oak trees I saw this fallen leaf floating in a puddle

Cherrapunjee, Meghalaya (India)

Autumn still life. Love all the beautiful colors of autumn.

Oakleaf Fleabane along Biolab Road in MINWR

木柵動物園

Let the colors begin!!

Herbstlaub - Eichenblatt und Ahorn

Autumn Foliage - Oak Leaf and maple

Thanks a lot for all comments and favs!

This is a close-up photo of an autumn oak leaf fragment on a moss covered rock.

Most galls are caused by cynipid wasps and gall midge flies. The adult gall wasp is a small, stout, shiny insect with very few wing veins and a purple or black body. Adult gall midges are tiny, delicate flies, often with long, slender antennae. Galls are distorted, sometimes colorful swellings in plant tissue caused by the secretions of certain plant-feeding insects and mites. These unusual growths may be found on leaves, flowers, twigs, or branches. Most galls are not known to harm trees.

I may be wrong , but these might be Azure Damselflies and they were spotted on Epsom Common near to The Great Pond or The Stew Pond .

Latin NameCoenagrion puella

Habitat

Small ponds and streams, and at the edges of larger water bodies.

Threats

Pollution.

Introduction of fish.

Removal of wetland vegetation.

Excessive dredging.

Drainage and removal of ponds and ditches.

Status & Distribution

Very common throughout England and Wales and the lowlands of south/central Scotland.

Similar Species

Can be easily confused with other damselflies of the Genus Coenagrion and with the Common Blue Damselfly Enallagma cyathigerum.

To separate this species look for the following features:

Coenagrion spur

Thin antehumeral stripes

Males:’U’ shaped marking

Females: pronotum shape and abdomen markings

Management

Maintain areas of emergent vegetation as well as submerged and floating vegetation within the water.

Species GroupDamselflies

Identification Notes

Length: 33mm

Two thin antehumeral stripe on the back of the thorax.

Coenagrion spur present (black line extending part way along the side of the thorax)

Male: blue and black; flat-bottomed “U” shaped mark on segment 2 (just below the wing base).

Female: green and black; rare form has blue markings on the abdomen also.

Flight PeriodAzure Damselfly

Larval Information

Spotting on the back of the head.

Caudal lamellae slighted pointed (distinguishes it from Variable Damselfly).

Orange Oakleaf ；Kallima inachus / 枯葉蝶

Location : Itami City Museum of Insects

コノハチョウ / 伊丹昆虫館

Game of Tag

Oakleaf Hydrangea

Creative Hibernation

If watercolor photographs

Dissolve in grays

I welcome winter

To hibernate in poetry

Engraving these words

Deeply

Completely

Without confusion or unrest

That my existence is amiss

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©Christine A. Evans 12.2.17

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A friend commissioned this mirror from a local craftsman, I like the way the light looks almost like the moon just as the leaves look almost like a real tree.

Oakleaf in winter