Flying seeds caught on a tree branch;

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Put these seeds in your pocket, so when you fall, your body will fertilize the ground and sunflowers will grow in your place.

Macro Mondays - Seeds

Happy Sliders Sunday

Here is another one of my squirrel friends at Monrepos. It was the first time I tried sunflower seeds for the squirrels because I thought they would be great for the birds too and I was quite amazed that the squirrels devoured the sunflower seeds, especially when I had just arrived and they were really very hungry. Later they took the usual hazelnuts and walnuts too.

Macro Mondays

7DWF- Lunes tema libre

I acquired a Contax Sonnar 85mm lens recently and the first adapter to hand to attach it to my X-T1 happened to be a version with helicoid for variable close focusing. This has converted the lens into a telephoto macro with surprisingly good results.

A King Parrot visits the seed dish for a quick nibble.

autumn. almost.

I've been down with some nasty intestinal flu, so I'm way behind again.

it can be pretty icky getting old.

lumen print. left out all the foggy night.

They have a sweet, mild liquorice-like flavour that can lend an earthy, sweet taste to dishes. They pair especially well with seafood and pork dishes. A little goes a long way.

(This is a salt spoon and the bowl is 1.27 cm (0.5 inch) wide)

HMM!

Macro Mondays: Seeds

I've always been amazed at how something so small can grow to become some of the largest living things on the planet...really pretty amazing.

Despite some discouraging news in 2016, I'm still hopeful that many small positive seeds have been planted here and there which will flourish in 2017. I know that there are a huge number of awesome people out there who are working hard to make good things happen...they just don't tend to make the news.

At Doddington Hall gardens, Lincolnshire

Flickr Monthly Photo Challenge #1, May 2025: Up Close and Macro

Old burlap seed bag for Macro Monday's theme "Seed"

I inherited our dinning room table and all the table leaves were wrapped in these seed bags. I have just kept them in them when not in use.

Happy Macro Monday!

Semillas de castaño de Indias recogidas en el parque de "El Retiro", Madrid

Horse chestnut seeds collected in the "El Retiro" park, Madrid

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In the semi-wilderness of central Portugal it is impossible to maintain a weed-free garden...so I go with the flow and enjoy the beauty of the seed heads, not to be distracted by the tut-tuts of garden purists

Liquidambar Styraciflua

These small seedpods of Ceratostigma plumbaginoides ‘Blue Sapphire’ were shined by winter sunlight against some evergreen leaves. Tomorrow will be the midwinter.

Grass seeds with sunlight bouncing off it, I couldn't resist to take the photo. (Best viewed in Large)

"Never forget that even the grandest of trees once had to grow up from the smallest of seeds"

-Eliza Wheeler

Macro Mondays: #Bokeh

For this photo, on a cold, windy day, I put some string lights on the ground where many maple seeds had fallen. A hot chocolate at home after that.

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I continue to be amazed at the inner beauty of milkweed seed pods

Here's the final stage of the Farmers series.

All the white containers on on back of the seeder are full of corn seed.

It has been interesting watching the process this year. While sheltering in place, I've taken all these shots through my dining room window!

By the time the next phase rolls around in Fall, we'll hopefully to free to roam!

Yellow flesh and seeds

A macro shot on top of a dandelion flower about to let go of all the seeds in the wind

Album Macro - Challenge

"Looking close... on Friday!" #Seeds

Distelsamen

Two views some weeks apart.

Testing lenses last year.

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Seeds

There have been some very heavy showers over the UK in the last few days and those conditions are ideal for photographing dramatic clouds. For this image, I stopped off at Common Lane in Bramcote, Nottingham, during my lunch break. I just hoped that there might be a break in the dark clouds to illuminate the oil seed field flowers in contrast with the ominous sky.

Seed Pods

Rhs Hyde Hall, Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK

Since there are seeds in so many differend shapes out there right now I have decided on a little mini series. Here is part one, a little Scabiosa growing its seed head for which it is named star flower.

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Members choice; 'Seeds' April 17th 2017.

Lemon and chili, what I found in my kitchen.

All parts, especially the seeds, may cause mild stomach upset if ingested!

Broom (Cytisus scoparius)

Next year's headache in the making....this seed head had already managed to send off most of it's tiny parasols of seed before the lazy gardener, (guess who), could get to it...this year's beauty will be next year's headache...