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The snow is falling on Tranquility Isle. Come and enjoy the beauty of winter with us!
Taken at Tranquility Isle
Copyright Candace Makela
Bremerton Washington USA
BEST OF SHOW and Best of Category (General)
2009 Olympic College Student Photography Show
"SUNRISE ON THE FARM"
Driving home, after dropping my husband off at work, I spotted this photo op. The sun was just about to rise and the fog was softly caressing the earth. It was such a beautiful moment in time I just had to stop and take pictures. I took quite a few. Notice the three spider webs in the tree...two of the spiders are hanging out in the middle of them. ~Candace Makela
Winner of Photo of the Week - PlatinumPhoto Group
Thank you all for the awards, for voting and awarding me the Photo of the Week on PlatinumPhoto! I'm so pleased you are enjoying my work.
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Taken in Sonoma. I used a TTV post technique creating a layered photo of an old wall I took in town and my photo of an old Dodge truck. View Large
A photo of Jay and I. This man has captured me completely. Smiles.....so nice to have finally met someone I can relate to on all levels of interest. And no baggage.....smiles
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This is the dreaded Kudsu Vine. (In my neighbor's yard) It is how it grows, how it takes over and of course what it looks like. I swear, when it rains and then the sun comes out...you can "hear" it growing! It grows very fast. If any part of it touches the ground it takes root and new shoots grow!! It will wrap around anything, choking it off and killing it.
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This morning I went to our local nursery to get some supplies, when I saw this Spectacular "Liliaceae Lily" with such beauty, color and details. I decided to get these for my wife on this Friday, she will be surprised when she gets home tonight.
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Thanks for all your wonderful support on my work in Photography,
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EXPLORE #484 26.01.09
Going to be posting a few from my archives for a week or three work is busy and having some Health issues linked to my Insulin , Molly is famous ;-)
have two other images from here of my girl to process .
Also have a trek planned this saturday that should be WOW !!!! if get the weather .
Sorry if my commenting has dropped off a bit - i have 80 e.mails to try to answer and im struggling with time .
- Pictures of the week (2 - 9 October 2012) - Chariots of Nature group -------
Uno splendido incontro nel mio giardino (Agosto 2010).
La P. cynthia, detta anche bombice dell'ailanto, è una farfalla notturna di notevoli dimensioni, potendo raggiungere i 15 cm di apertura alare. Ha origine esotica in quanto verso la metà del secolo scorso gli allevatori di bachi da seta, per far fronte alle crescenti richieste del mercato, si misero alla ricerca di un’altra farfalla che potesse produrre seta con il suo bruco. Importarono allora dall’Estremo Oriente la Philosamia cynthia, che si acclimatò abbastanza bene ed è ancora presente nell’Italia settentrionale. Ben presto ci si accorse della mediocre qualità della seta prodotta da questa specie e venne abbandonato il suo allevamento. Rimanne però in Italia, assieme alla farfalla, la pianta ospite (Ailantus altissima) che si è naturalizzata anche nel Parco del Ticino (a scapito purtroppo delle essenze indigene).
Gli adulti di questa specie sfarfallano verso la fine di Giugno o la metà di Luglio e le femmine, subito dopo l’accoppiamento, depongono le uova in gruppi di 15-20 sulla pagina inferiore delle foglie di ailanto. Dopo 15 giorni schiudono i bruchi, nerastri e lunghi solo un paio di millimetri, che poi diventano gialli, spinosi, poi verdastri e si trasformano fino a raggiungere le notevoli dimensioni di 6 cm. Essi si rinchiudono poi in un bozzolo di seta che resisterà sulla pianta fino all’anno successivo (si possono vedere i vistosi bozzoli che pendono dalle piante spoglie in Inverno).