Hate their bites, love their eyes..

Cold, with brilliant sunshine and a bright blue sky.

young individual, showing the blue 'eyes' on the flanks. Dordogne, France

I had purchased it on sale when it was out of bloom, and this is the first time I’ve seen it flower. A wonderful surprise 😊

Vanilla planifolia vine. I find it very ironic that "vanilla" has become synonymous "plain" and dare I say boring? Vanilla is exotic in so many ways. For starters, it is an orchid. But it is not just any orchid. The seed pods are the source for vanilla extract which is an amazing flavoring commonly used in ice cream, cookies and cakes. It has even been used as a perfume. The orchid family is huge but very few of them are vines. I love the regular pattern this Vanilla vine zigzags up this tree. So even when it is not in bloom, Vanilla planifolia is anything but vanilla.

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I had been photographing them at the store and leaving them there. Now I’ve started bringing them home😊

Ocellated Skink (Chalcides ocellatus) crossing the tiles that paved part of the garden of our rental villa in Malta. April 2019.

The ocean always creates magic and mystery … and on this day at low tide, movement and patterns from the wet sand to the waves.

One found today, the others are from previous years.

They are heirloom chicken eggs. I bought them because I think the colors are beautiful. Don't know what they taste like yet.

Papilio machaon or P. zelicaon

This larva was photographed in the late 1990's at University of California, Berkeley's Sagehen Creek Field Station north of Truckee, California

(Photo from my archives recently digitized)

Growing in my neighbor’s garden.

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Macro Mondays: "From the Sea" theme.

southern hawker (Aeshna cyanea) nymph

The Flickr Lounge ... Weekly Theme ... patterns in nature

Nature has many different characteristics and sides. All you need to do is pay attention to the details and it will take you into a different world.

Two boulders of banded gneiss in the bed of Molino Creek with the shadows of surrounding trees and a few early autumn leaves. Molino creek and canyon are in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucaon, AZ.

The weather started out challenging on our 5th day, so why not head to the beach?!

A close-up view of Streptocarpus, a modern hybrid cultivar of the violet family.

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Ice circles in a frozen puddle

For ODC Patterns in Nature

View from my street on the Ottawa River

Vu de ma rue sur la Rivière des Outaouais

Late afternoon sun accentuates the multiple scales of sand textures- ripples, waves, ridges, dips, and grains. Footprints across the bottom of the dune towards the middle provides some scale to the scene. (see mikegreenimages.com/2012/10/03/musings-on-obfuscating-sca... for interesting musings on scale in landscape shots)

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The dunes are the result of sand blown from an ancient lake bed in the rift valley to the west (left of the photo), and occasional strong winds blown from mountain passes in the Sangre de Cristos from the east. The combination of these opposing winds has built up the dunes to heights of over 700 feet (200 m) above the valley floor.

Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

A Fibonacci sequence reflects patterns of growth spirals found in nature. phys.org/news/2013-02-nature-pattern-fibonacci.html

Satureja montana

Winter-Bohnenkraut

Lamiaceae

"We artists have been affected by patterns in nature since day one. Every line we lay to paper and every move we make is part of the magical sequence - and the line goes where it needs to go depending on one's influences."

Kristi Bridgeman

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