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Be back on holiday shots soon.

 

This morning we had to go to the "Seed Barn" where of course we buy bulk wild bird seeds (80 kg today) for the Galahs and Sulphurs. It's normally called a produce store but we have relabelled it. Bobby is the beautiful Seedbarn cat, he actually lives there. He has a fabulous disposition and we love seeing him....he loves cuddles and scratching his pink tummy, he laid down on the counter this morning, shut his eyes and purred while I rubbed him. Of course, like most members of the animal kingdom these days we are smitten.

 

Then we went to the Hammerbarn (in Australia and New Zealand), the giant Bunnings hardware chain. I'm not slow am I but as we entered I noticed its logo is a giant red hammer, oh ho, that's why in Bluey it's called the "Hammerbarn"! Der!

 

Anyway, true to form we bought a new front door mat with Bluey on the front - for the grandkids of course although we don't have any!

Just a record shot for my prairie seeds collection.

Die Installation, die ausgebreitet auf den fast 650 Quadratmetern in der Klee Halle im K20 ausgebreitet liegt, besteht aus über 60 Millionen doppelt gebrannter und handbemalter Sonnenblumenkerne aus chinesischem Porzellan. 1600 Menschen, darunter 600 Kunsthandwerker, haben daran über zwei Jahre lang in Jingdezhen, einer traditionsreichen Produktionsstätte für Porzellan, gearbeitet.

Ai Weiwei untersucht bei seiner Arbeit „Sunflower Seeds“ die Rolle des traditionellen Handwerks im Zeitalter von Massenproduktion und Globalisierung. Der Sonnenblumenkern spielt darüber hinaus auf eine politische Symbolik an: Mao Zedong (ehemaliger Vorsitzender der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas), ließ sich auf Plakaten oftmals mit einer großen Sonne im Hintergrund darstellen. Die chinesische Bevölkerung sollte sich nach ihrem großen Vorsitzenden ausrichten, wie die Sonnenblume nach der Sonne.

 

Das Feld aus Sonnenblumenkernen ist umgeben von einer fortlaufenden Wandtapete, die über 13.000 Schuldscheine in chinesischer Sprache abbildet. Der Titel „I.O.U.“ steht in diesem Zusammenhang für die umgangssprachliche Abkürzung von „I owe you“ („Ich schulde dir“).

 

Nachdem Ai Weiwei 81 Tage in Haft verbrachte, wurde nach der Freilassung von seiner Firma die umgehende Begleichung einer Steuerschuld von umgerechnet 1,7 Millionen Euro verlangt. Dank privater Spenden aus der ganzen Welt konnte diese Summe bezahlt werden. Im Gegenzug hat Ai Weiwei die künstlerisch gestalteten Schuldscheine entworfen, die hier als Wandtapete gezeigt werden. Darauf sind neben den Namen der Spender auch Sonnenblumenkerne und Alpaka-Briefmarken zu erkennen, die symbolisch für die Spendensumme stehen. Sämtliche Spenden wurden von Ai Weiwei zurückgezahlt.

 

Die vielen Spenderinnen und Spender, die sich für Ai Weiweis Bemühungen um Transparenz und Gerechtigkeit in China einsetzten, korrespondieren hier insofern mit den 60 Millionen Sonnenblumenkernen in der Klee Halle.

 

Auf der Tapete „I.O.U.“ im K20 präsentiert Ai Weiwei zwölf quadratische Bildobjekte aus Legosteinen, die sich wie digitale Pixel zu chinesischen Tierköpfen verbinden. Sie zeigen die chinesischen Tierkreiszeichen vor berühmten Bauwerken.

Warum gerade aus Legosteinen, wurde er im Künstlergespräch der heutigen Eröffnung gefragt. Seine simple wie humorvolle Erklärung: "Weil ich nicht gerne male" ... ;-))

 

Tiny Black-capped Chickadee working to crack a black-oiler sunflower seed held between its claws.

 

Common year-round resident. Frequent feeder visitor. Abundant.

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Seed Pod @ Lakeside

Medicine Park, OK

The American goldfinches have lost their bright yellow feathers for the muted winter look. This one is investigating an echinacea seed head for the tastiest ones.

Found in the little private garden for the residents.

 

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Caía el sol… y de pronto un poco de aire sopló...

Dandelion seed in a field.

124 pictures in 2024 (94) seeds

All the flowers of all the tomorrows

are in the seeds of today.

(Indian proverb)

 

This may not be Old San Juan but... - negative space

Challenge on flickr - Object/High Key

7 Days with Flickr - Crazy Tuesday Theme: negative space

(photo by Freya)

Seeds ~ Macro Mondays

 

Thank you to everyone who pauses long enough to look at my photo, make a comment or Fave it.

Our Daily Challenge 11-17 May: Repetition

 

Polystyrene.

向島百花園にて

Part of a Dandelion seed head.

from a month ago on a neighborhood walk - HMBT!

No 4 in my Valentine's Day series.

 

Reached #331 on Explore on Tuesday, February 5, 2013

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Textures are my own

Clark’s Nutcracker

La Pine, OR

 

The Clark’s Nutcracker has a special pouch under its tongue that is used for carrying seeds long distances to cache them for later use. They have tremendous memories and studies have shown that they can remember where to find most of the thousands and thousands of seeds they hide. (Cornell’s Cool Facts)

 

If anyone can tell me what this seed pod is I would be grateful.

It might be a White Moth Vine Plant.

"Native to Brazil, white moth vine is a vigorous, woody creeper that can smother native plants. It also exudes a milky latex that can cause allergic reactions. White moth vine is listed as a weed in several countries. It is found in South East Queensland.

Fruit:

 

egg or pear-shaped

6-10 cm long, 3-7 cm wide

pale greyish-green when young

skin thick and ribbed

look like choko fruit

turn brown and woody when old.

 

Seeds:

 

blackish

many per fruit

have a tuft of long, silky white hairs 20-30 mm long"

 

macro monday theme: seeds.

 

Seeds of my Clivia. Shot with 12mm extension tube.

Seed stalk from some grass-like weed near round Spring, Missouri.

For Monday Aug. 7, 2023.

Sliced cucumber with seeds.

Some random shots...

Today started with the first frost of the season and then a lovely warm day. Did some work in the garden including picking these seeds.

2019 one photo each day.

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I always knew those nice little jars I saved from cream teas would come in handy, one is packed with seeds heads the other has a glycerine / water mix.

 

Tidying some of my stuff up today and these few seed heads were still clumped together so I decided thats what todays picture would be, sprayed multiple times with a very fine mist.

Using the new macro extension tubes I've bought for the Sony also with a Raynox attached, the lens was about 5/6 cm away from the subject.

This is a seed from a Milkweed pod that got caught on a dried out thistle head -- I just like the way it looked.

D&R State Park, Stockton NJ

I found these unusual seed pods walking around the trails at the South Texas Botanical Gardens in Corpus Christi, TX. I have no idea what the plant is, I couldn't find a label.

One from the more recent archives.

 

Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :)

Burr-like plant that has puffed up to shed its seeds in autumn. Fluffy to the touch.

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