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I stopped and took this macro shot of a pretty pink, late summer rose. I'm not sure of this variety of rose though.
...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
A Costa's Hummingbird drinking the pink at Patagonia State Park in Southern Arizona. Fast little buggers.
Macro Mondays - Eraser
Image measures 2 3/4" on the long side
Happy Macro Monday : )
Compositionally Challenged Week 39 - Shapes
Having taken the camera out the previous day and the sunrise just didn't happen,today I just took my phone, it doesn't have a great camera but I felt the need to capture what was turning out to be a very pretty sunrise. Bournemouth beach, Dorset
Still not many butterflies around. This year I'm even excited if I see a common cabbage white butterfly in the garden. This one was feeding on my woodland sage (Salvia nemorosa). A few moments later it narrowly escaped the Dragon's claws and teeth.
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 💕
Pretty Flamingo is one of a group of flamingoes in a local park. They are used to people and sometimes allow you to get quite close. I didn't even need a telezoon lens but could take this photo with my macro lens.
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/
These tiny little bowls (I have 12 in all) were a gift from an aunt. I’ve tried to find out about them but the most I could find was that they’re probably Chinese export porcelain made in the 1950’s. Each one is hand painted with a different figure with some tiny Chinese (I think) writing next to each one. I’d love to know what the words say so if any of you can understand the one you can see I’d be really interested!!
Thanks for viewing
HL8003, an Airbus A330-323, on approach to runway 24R at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario. It was arriving as KAL9083 (Korean Air Lines Co., Ltd.) from Anchorage, Alaska and Seoul, Korea.
Serial number 1590 had been converted into a package freighter and was operating a cargo flight this day.
“That last week the syringa came out at San Salvatore, and all the acacias flowered. No one had noticed how many acacias there were till one day the garden was full of a new scent, and there were the delicate trees, the lovely successors to the wistaria, hung all over among their trembling leaves with blossom. When, on the first of May, everybody went away, even after they had got to the bottom of the hill and passed through the iron gates out into the village they still could smell the acacias. They could smell them even when they reached London. But that’s another story.” ― Elizabeth von Arnim, “The Enchanted April” 1922
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 28th of September is “flowers in pastel”, and since September indicates the beginning of spring in the Southern Hemisphere, I had a multitude of spring blossoms to choose from. Ornamental apple blossom is one of my favourite examples of spring blossom, so as I took this on the 2nd of September, it seemed the perfect choice for this week’s theme. I hope you like it too, and that it makes you smile!
Malus is a genus of about thirty to fifty five species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae, including the domesticated orchard apple, crab apples and wild apples. The genus is native to the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere. Crabapples or ornamental apple blossom trees are known for their beautiful display of pink and white blossoms in spring, and colourful ornamental fruit later in the year.
A female Lesser Goldfinch foraging for seeds in the Cosmos! She looks pretty in Pink. Photo taken in our backyard in Camas, Washington.
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)
Tropaeolum commonly known as nasturtium or nasturtian is a genus of roughly 80 species of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants. It is the only genus in the family Tropaeolaceae. The genus Tropaeolum, native to South and Central America.Plants in this genus have showy, often intensely bright flowers, and rounded, peltate (shield-shaped) leaves with the petiole in the centre. The flowers are bisexual and zygomorphic, with five petals, a superior three-carpelled ovary, and a funnel-shaped nectar spur at the back, formed by modification of one of the five sepals. Tropaeolum is a genus of dicotyledonous annual or perennial plants, often with somewhat succulent stems and sometimes tuberous roots. 24967
Nerium oleander is a shrub or small tree in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, toxic in all its parts. It is the only species currently classified in the genus Nerium. It is most commonly known as nerium or oleander. Pretty flowers but contact with plant can irritate skin and toxic if ingested especially by children. Nerium oleander is a shrub or small tree in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, toxic in all its parts. It is the only species currently classified in the genus Nerium. It is most commonly known as nerium or oleander, from its superficial resemblance to the unrelated olive Olea. It is so widely cultivated that no precise region of origin has been identified, though southwest Asia has been suggested. Oleander is one of the most poisonous commonly grown garden plants. Oleander grows to 2–6 m tall, with erect stems that splay outward as they mature; first-year stems have a glaucous bloom, while mature stems have a grayish bark. The flowers grow in clusters at the end of each branch; they are white, pink to red. 7140
Here is another pretty reblooming iris from my garden.
I have been super busy with work this Spring and have tried to spend my free time outside when I can. I have fallen really behind in posting anything and more especially in keeping up with my friends here on flickr. I hope to catch up with you all soon. May is the month I spend the most time outside looking for wildlife to photograph and document and I haven't been too motivated in photography this year. I usually don't try to post more than a few photos at a time but I am going to post a bunch today.
Thanks to everyone who likes and or comments on my photos! I really appreciate your support. I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy!