RHS Wisley

29th August 2021

North Point Maryland State Park ,Upper Chesapeake Bay at North Point

I dearly love finding dandelions in my garden, whether they are the yellow flowers or the soft puffs of seeds ready to take to the wind. Generally I leave the dandelion there (unless I am removing weeds, and then I say goodbye to my little friends). However, this one time I decided to break the dandelion puff off of the stem to take inside the house for a photo session. The moment I removed the puff, the bottom of the stem curled into these two tightly wound circles. What a treat!

Cuenca. Ecuador

After mating, this male marsh bluet (the blue damselfly) clasps the greenish female behind the head, in a maneuver called contact guarding, and makes sure nothing bad happens to her as she lays her eggs into plant stems over the water in Cardinal Marsh.

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Pink Dog Wood Flowers have extra long Stems.

~ aziza "likey?"

For Judy.. Just because:)

After reading all the good things you guys wrote about my work over the month of march I am truly touched.. thank you so much my beautiful friends.. I wouldn't have done anything without your constant support and inspiration:)

HGGT to you all

Explore# 327

Sunrise at Ponta de Caracaraí, Rio Arapiuns, an Amazon tributary, Santarém, with our boat, Don Giuseppe anchored for the night.

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flower (Daisy) stem .....rip detail where I pulled the single bloom

from the multiple bloom stem.

spirea macro from the back

Dandelion macro

Happy Sliders Sunday!

Baby euphorbia plants with attractive red stems, growing in beach sand, on Kangaroo Island.

“...so I will greet you

in a way

all loved things

are meant to be greeted

with a tear in my heart

and a poem in my eye.”

- Sanober Khan

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Without further delay, Let's start celebrating."

- Norman Wesley Brooks

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Stem

Summer2016 Garden Flowers Plant Pink Petals Leaves Tall Stem Outdoors Gladioli Buds Green Leaves

Art created from my photos | Creative Flowers | Spring | Yellow Flower & Stem #abstract

It is in late autumn when the leaves are on the ground that you notice the character of the leaf. The veins and stem have always been there but are not as noticeable in the summer when the leaf is green and still connected to the tree.

Dotted Stem Bolete / Flockenstieliger Hexenröhrling / Neoboletus erythropus

san francisco, california

Poison hemlock stems have distinctive purple streaks on the stems, and fernlike foliage.

Hello, long time..I wanted to share this with you and to be

on my flickr record,the original concept was to have two

side by side,with a central drop hanging down,,that was the

plan..but i think i got something better though what do you

think?you see this could never be repeated and hears

why.the drop is glycerin,sticky and heavy,it broke the stem

and hung down before collapse, and a water drop would have

simply rolled off at the moment of stem break.this happened

by accident and i love it.

Connection - Macro Mondays

The apple is approximately 3" across.

SOOC

an unplanned work of art

seen in my kitchen sink

last August.

for Macro Mondays. Compared with the large bowl, the long stems on my posh wine glasses seem very slender and fragile, and I always take great care when handling them.

The five other glasses are reflected in this one stem.

- Robert H. Schuller

I'm sorry to keep ULing file photos this week. I haven't picked up my camera for anything but the paper in days. Although I will say that looking through old photos with new eyes has me liking shots that I previously hated. I think you all should try it. ;)

And just as a side bit of trivia, this is one of the apples from the light bulb shot awhile back. It's always good to make the most of one's subject and one's money -- especially when ruining perfectly good produce by screwing light bulbs into it.

I always look for pumpkins with fun stems.

Miscellaneous Composition; ©2011 DianaLee Photo Designs

I was "admonished" (not seriously) by an acquaintance yesterday for not using my Hasselblad enough, so today I accepted the challenge to make some images with it. This frame made use of the 0.5 Proxar closeup filter.

Film: Ilford FP4+ (lovely stuff) processed in iffy Xtol.

For Macro Mondays - Glass

Wine glass stem

At the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.