Ice crystals that formed on the grass overnight:)

Sooty Grouse, Dendragapus fuliginosus, foraging in the subalpine of the Paradise area of Mount Rainier National Park, Washington State, USA

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Limber Pine, Pinus flexilis, pattern of exposed wood where bark has fallen off, near Stella Lake along the Alpine Lakes Loop Trail in the Snake Range of Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA

There is a thing called a "nursery" relationship in the desert, where the palo verde trees shelter young saguaro seedlings who eventually outgrow the trees.

Here they are practically embraced.

I love the structure of Ferns, the looks of Ferns, the various stages of Ferns,.... But I do not love the way they take over my yard!

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Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Wind rippling the surface of Trap Lake along the Pacific Crest Trail, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington State, USA

A tree fern frond.

My peony has a white arrow-like flame near the base of each petal with very finely striped veining in the rest.

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

blade-basking male adder (Vipera berus) with a bonus bee thrown in for scale.

Intricate ice crystals growing on a window pane in winter in Michigan, USA

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Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Pattern's In Nature.

A path of mud curls at Marree in the north of South Australia

Aerial View

Ice ridges near front of Peters Glacier

South Georgia, Antarctica

Trent Country Park, Barnet, May 2016

An ethereal aerial view of the desert landscape, where sculpted sand dunes and dry riverbeds create an abstract masterpiece. The interplay of golden sands, white salt flats, and deep shadows showcases the raw beauty of nature’s ever-changing canvas

Cirrus clouds over Navajo Sandstone cracked and eroded into polygons, at White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, USA

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Cornus canadensis, produces petal-like white bracts around a cluster of flowers in the centre. Here the flowers are past and the plant is producing its berries (actually drupes) which will be orange in colour when ripe and while edible, lack flavour, so are rarely eaten.

Maybe not but another intriguing pattern from the hawthorn tree that we cut down, last weekend!

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One of a few undescribed Triepeolus that Molly Rightmyer left undescribed after her revision of the group North of Mexico. She simply labeled it Sp. 101. This one was captured by Tim McMahon in Cochise County, Arizona. I think the side shot taken with some of the large orange pollen is artful to an extreme and one would like to have it float down the hallways of corporate America to remind them of some of their indirect customers. Pictures taken by Kelly Graninger.

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Basic USGSBIML set up:

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USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.

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Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Two grey birds are sharing food to eat together, without competing.

Repeating stars in the head of a flower in my garden. I've no idea what it is though!