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...Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.
...
-- Mary Oliver
I spent a good hour with this fellow, lots of photos with branches in the way but managed a few I am pretty happy with, more to come.
Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. Magnolia is an ancient genus. Appearing before bees did, the flowers are theorized to have evolved to encourage pollination by beetles. To avoid damage from pollinating beetles, the carpels of Magnolia flowers are extremely tough. The flowers are bisexual with numerous adnate carpels and stamens are arranged in a spiral fashion on the elongated receptacle. The natural range of Magnolia species is a disjunct distribution, with a main center in east and southeast Asia and a secondary center in eastern North America, Central America, the West Indies, and some species in South America. 35028
Tulips (Tulipa) form a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). Tulipa is a genus of the lily family, Liliaceae The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly colored, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm colors). They often have a different colored blotch at the base of the tepals (petals and sepals, collectively), internally. Tulips originally were found in a band stretching from Southern Europe to Central Asia, but since the seventeenth century have become widely naturalised and cultivated. Flowering in the spring, they become dormant in the summer once the flowers and leaves die back, emerging above ground as a shoot from the underground bulb in early spring. The tulip's flowers are usually large and are actinomorphic (radially symmetric) and hermaphrodite (contain both male (androecium) and female (gynoecium) characteristics), generally erect, or more rarely pendulous, and are arranged more usually as a single terminal flower, or when pluriflor as two to three (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica), but up to four, flowers on the end of a floriferous stem (scape), which is single arising from amongst the basal leaf rosette. 11645
Vibrant pink periwinkle in bloom.
© Tim Lutherborrow - 2020
Nikon D3300
AF-P DX Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
A Costa's Hummingbird drinking the pink at Patagonia State Park in Southern Arizona. Fast little buggers.
Pretty good sunset that night at Schwacher. Three exposure HDR. I could have just used one of the exposures, but wanted more detail to work with in the shadows. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA, July 2020
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Captured at Leach Botanical Garden. Processed for Sliders Sunday using Deep Dream Generator and Snapseed. HSS everyone!
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Camellia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. Camellias are evergreen shrubs or small trees up to 20 m tall. They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. There are about 300 species and around 3,000 hybrids. Their flowers are usually large and conspicuous, one to 12 cm in diameter, with five to nine petals in naturally occurring species of camellias. The colors of the flowers vary from white through pink colors to red. Of economic importance in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent, leaves of C. sinensis are processed to create the popular beverage tea. The ornamental C. japonica, C. sasanqua and their hybrids are the source of hundreds of garden cultivars. C. oleifera produces tea seed oil, used in cooking and cosmetics. The various species of camellia plants are generally well-adapted to acid soils rich in humus, and most species do not grow well on chalky soil or other calcium-rich soils. Most species of camellias also require a large amount of water, either from natural rainfall or from irrigation, and the plants will not tolerate droughts. However, some of the more unusual camellias – typically species from karst soils in Vietnam – can grow without too much water. 36024
Callistephus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae, containing the single species Callistephus chinensis. Its common names include China aster and annual aster. It is native to China and Korea and it is cultivated worldwide as an ornamental plant in cottage gardens and as a cut flower. This species has been grown and bred extensively in cultivation. Cultivars are available with flowers of many colors, varying heights, and single and double heads. In the wild, they are purple in color. There are several cultivars with flowers of different colors. Cultivars with flowers of other colors were obtained in particular by hybridization. Cultivated varieties can have ray florets in most any color, including red, pink, blue, purple, and white. They are up to 3.5 centimeters long. There are many yellow disc florets in the center. S10N 185
Mr L bought me some lovely flowers in gorgeous autumn colours and nestled hidden in the middle was this pink Gerbera. Very pretty in its own right but clashing badly with the rest. So Miss odd one out got taken out and put in her own vase. Thanks for viewing and have a lovely Sunday 💕
Growing in the pond beside Inverleith House. It was raining when I took this!
This was my last visit to the Botanics for a while and I'd be travelling back home in a few hours. Hope you've all enjoyed coming on holiday with me. The only thing I missed out on was seeing any wild otters. Maybe I'll just have to try to go back another time and try.
I have finally bought a new Catwa head. I have been in love with my Lona head, and have yet to find one to compare to it. Well yesterday I demoed the Keme head and bought it this morning and made some minor tweaks. So here is the new me, in what I have to say a pic I really enjoyed making and I really like the way it came out. So be sure to pop on over to my blog where you can get all the details.. justapeeksite.wordpress.com/2018/02/17/peek-87/
I love these pretty pink flowers, but I'm not to sure what they are called...
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I spotted this pretty and colourful display of flowers on a day out in Ironbridge Shropshire, I'm not to sure what they are called though!
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The plasterer has finished such a messy job. Mind I can’t the knock plasterer other than nailing him down to do the job in the first place. His boast was he’d been plastering for 65 years and it looked it. He was nobbling around on bad knees talking to Carla a lot of the time drinking tea, but I have to take my hat off to him still doing it at his age. The biggest part of our job was replacing ceiling boards which I ripped out after water Ingres problems with the sunroom roof a couple of winters back. I was concerned as the job involved some heavy lifting, but he managed and put in two days hard grafted, still having plenty of time to natter with Carla. Now the job is done, the cleaning starts. The sunroom facing northwest is freezing cold this time of year, so we use it as make shift fridge for extra Christmas food and drink. It give my visiting family some exercise to walk to the back of the house to get plate of Christmas leftovers or another can of beer. Todays photo was taken in early November, no clever composition, no dramatic lighting, just a pretty view, well I think it is.
Some people think Wood Storks are ugly. They resent how they move into the rookery and usurp the tree islands, crowding out the Great Blues and Anhinga who had settled in prior to this pushy intrusion. And that noisy sex that goes on all the time, that clashing of bills drawing attention to what, I should think we would all agree, be done in private, or at least in the darkness of night. Well, I for one am deeply offended. Yet, when I look at this bird, I can’t help but seeing its inner beauty. Yes, I’m a closet Wood Stork lover. There should be help for folk like me, but to hell I say, I’m coming out of the closet and will embrace my affliction without shame! (And, let me just add, this is no laughing matter.) (Mycteria americana) (Sony a9M3, 200-600 lens @ 394mm, 1/3200 second, f/6.3, ISO 640)