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I came across this pretty clump of fungi (honey fungus?) during my walk yesterday, untouched by human intervention, unlike many I saw trodden on by walkers and runners or ridden over by cyclists. At least walkers have the time to avoid them, runners and cyclists are too fast to even see them, which is very sad.
116 in 2016 # 19 Patterns in Nature
It's a feather - one of probably 70 that I have found over the last year or so - from most likely a rosella. And I just love that it looks different in colour and iridescence depending on where the light is coming from. Best viewed in natural sunlight, just like the owner who lost this one.
A cage is a cage is a cage, no matter how luxurious or relaxed or maybe streamlined it is presenting itself.
Most of those cages, maybe even all of them, were built by it's inmates themselves and were constantly nourished, cherished and if necessary more enhanced. And unexceptional all of them have good and absolutely understandable reasons to do so.
Sometimes for sure it's the wealth what is offered to them here, the supposedly easier life. But for most of them it's simply a matter of security. In that case, the cages don't even have to be golden. You can't get out, but what is frightening You can't get in either, hopefully.
But in the end, there is one thing, what never can exist in a cage, real liberty.
And like Benjamin Franklin used to say: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." It has seldom been as relevant as it is today.
Ein Käfig ist ein Käfig ist ein Käfig, ganz gleich wie luxuriös oder entspannt oder auch stromlinienförmig er sich selbst präsentiert.
Die meisten dieser Käfige, wenn nicht sogar alle, wurden von ihren Insassen selbst erbaut und werden regelmäßig gehegt, gepflegt und wenn es sein muss auch weiter verstärkt. Und ausnahmslos alle haben sie dafür gute und absolut nachvollziehbare Gründe.
Manchmal ist es sicherlich der Wohlstand, der ihnen hier geboten wird, das vermeintlich leichtere Leben. Doch meist geht es einfach nur um Sicherheit. Und da muss der Käfig nicht einmal golden sein. Man kommt nicht heraus, doch das, was Angst macht kommt auch nicht herein, hoffentlich. Doch da ist eine Sache, welche in einem Käfig nie existieren kann, wirkliche Freiheit.
Und wie Benjamin Franklin schon sagte: "Die, welche bereit sind grundlegende Freiheiten aufzugeben, um sich ein wenig vorübergehende Sicherheit zu kaufen, verdienen weder Freiheit noch Sicherheit.". Es war selten so aktuell wie heute.
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de
Pünktich zum Sonnenuntergang eine Sonnenblume fotografiert. Noch nicht fertig, aber ideal zum heutigen Thema. Die beiden Hummeln schlafen schon
Wünsche allen einen zauberhaften HMM 😃
Dianthus here at home. HMM!
Good to be back on Flickr! FINALLY able to access my account yesterday after being in limbo for several days.
A small part of an abandoned Wasp Nest (in total < 1 ¾” x 1 ¾”) being worked on by busy little Helpers
Taken on July 10th, 2019 and uploaded for #MacroMondays #PatternsInNature
😄 HAPPY MACRO MONDAY TO EVERYONE 😄
ƒ/2.8
4.5 mm
1/5 Sec
ISO 400
Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)
Yellow Swallowtail butterfly and a wild daisy here at home.
The raised legs made me think of one of my favorite episodes of Seinfeld.My mind works in strange ways sometimes. 😁
Elaine and the "Little Kicks" :
Canon EOS 6D - f/10 - 1/80sec - 100mm - ISO 200
- for challenge Flickr group Macro Mondays,
theme Patterns in Nature
- the base of a leaf of Hosta 'Green Acres'
After heavy spring rains with ice pieces, it is successfully recovering.
Have a great week and thank you for visiting!
HMM!
Patterns in Nature is the topic for Macro Mondays, July 15th
and for Monday Music Mania, one of the songs I love the most: Fields of Gold, by Sting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVq0IAzh1A
~~~ You'll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley
You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky as we walk in fields of gold
So she took her love for to gaze awhile upon the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down among the fields of gold..... ~~~
and:
Photographic Lines... is the topic for Sunday ~ July 14th, 2019, Group Our Daily Challenge
The Macro Monday theme for today is "Patterns in Nature", I chose to photograph this beautiful seashell (or at least part of it to abide by Macro Monday size restrictions).
Happy Macro Monday everyone!
HMM-- the theme for today, 7/15, is "patterns in nature" and this is one possibility for posting :) i think this one is my favorite of the five :) so this is a sentimental choice :)
normally her longest whisker is almost 3 inches but she had turned her head to see what i was doing, so curved they all fell well within the 3 inch parameters!!
Stack aus 25 Aufnahmen mit der Rayons DC250 Nahlinse - verarbeitet mit Helicon Focus
2019-07-15 14-18-51 (C,Smoothing4)_SQ
Wire wheel like pattern of a flying seed.
Ein umherfliegender Samen zeigt das Muster ähnlich eines Speichenrades.
Voigtlaender Macro Apo-Lanthar 2.5 110mm
Posting this kind of late today. Had company all week and Dr appointment this morning. The Mimosa is one of my favorite trees in our garden. It's cooked flowers can be eaten as vegetables, while the dried leaves can be used to make tea. HMM!
Macro Mondays Theme: Patterns in Nature
These last blooming Firewheels are only an inch wide, I liked the two toned colors on the petals. HMM!!
Thank you for your visit!!
Macro Mondays theme Shadow
Exploring shadows and awesome structures in Nature.
Approx 5cm leaf section and shadow.
Happy Macro Monday! 😊
Withered leaves that still remain in the tree after a rainy day.
#Redux Macro Mondays
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This ridge is just less than 2 inches wide and is a portion of a giant seed pod which I brought home from Jamaica a very long time ago. The actual seed pod is about 1 1/2 foot long and came from a big tree with beautiful red flowers. It broke in half during the flight and the closed portion still has seeds in them, I can hear them ratting about.
Stellate pattern. Vertical POV of small decorative plant in flower garden...unsure of species name. Under 3 inches