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Cultivated in SGK = substrate glass culture.
Unfortunately, some flowers are already through with the bloom.
Looks more like L. subcaulescens than L. afflata to me. Also the substrate (logging waste) fits better L. subcaulescens.
Nuuksio National Park, Finland
The dunes' dark bands are often made up of magnetite particulate washed downstream from the Sangre De Cristo mountains after strong storms. While the lighter material arrives from the San Luis Valley to the southwest on prevailing winds. All that substrate gets carried by updrafts to the dune ridges and creates the intricate zebra-like stripe pattern.
Primula auricula (Primulaceae) 151 21
Primula auricula is a herbaceous plant that grows on rocky ground and belongs to the Primulaceae family.
It is a perennial plant with an almost bushy appearance and its height varies from 5 to 25 centimeters.
The typical habitat for these plants is vertical cliffs, rock shelters, but also alpine-subalpine sparse grasslands; the preferred substrate is calcareous (but also calcareous-siliceous).
This plant grows from 300 to 2600 m a.s.l.; in the mountains, it, therefore, frequents the mountain, subalpine and alpine vegetation levels.
Ice patterns through the macro lens, edge of the Frenchman River, about a year ago. I have shot so many ice close ups at this location in recent years that it takes a while to let the images settle. Through the viewfinder, I thought this was good; later, in Photoshop, I thought maybe it was too chaotic, its lines going off in all directions. But a year later, it's still in my "Flickr Uploads" folder, and I kind of like its layers, lines, swirls, and textures.
Simple macro setup: tripod, 105 mm f/2.8 macro lens + 1.7x teleconverter, parallel plane focus technique at f/32 to ensure edge to edge sharpness, cable release with mirror lockup to prevent mirror vibration. Low ISO guarantees no digital noise. The rest is seeing.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2016 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
A parterre is a formal garden constructed on a level substrate, consisting of plant beds, typically in symmetrical patterns, which are separated and connected by paths. The borders of the plant beds may be formed with stone or tightly pruned hedging, and their interiors may be planted with flowers or other plants or filled with mulch or gravel. The paths are constituted with gravel or turf grass.
A goatfish will often follow an octopus around the reef. As the octopus slides along the substrate, it flushes out invertebrates and small fish that the goatfish will eat.
16" x 14.5 - hand thrown pottery, dinnerware, ceramic, a variety of glass and shells, on a hand built substrate
Since we saw a Cattle Tyrant, a few more...From Wiki:
The WHMT captures most of its prey at the water's surface. Its next most commonly used foraging substrate is in the air, followed by live leaves. They tend to perch low on small marsh plants (less than 2 meters high) and attack their prey at a distance of 3 to 4 meters from their initial position. They typically target prey that is at or below their height while perched, and they less frequently attack at a high flight angle.[8] Once they catch their prey, they promptly return to their perch, as they are rarely found on the ground.
Both female and male marsh tyrants participate in feeding their juveniles. The main differences are that the female marsh tyrant hunts at greater distances and makes more frequent visits to the young compared to the male. Moreover, the female is more active in maintaining a sanitary environment for the nestlings.
Desert trumpet, Eriogonum inflatum, is a desert perennial that grows up to a meter in height in hostile landscapes in the desert southwest. It is a striking plant, for its stems have swollen sections that were first thought to be galls created by insects. But now we know that the swellings are reservoirs of carbon dioxide, but the utility of these reservoirs is not yet fully understood. Tiny flowers are born by slender stems, so the plants lend an airy yellow glow to sites with dark substrates, as here.
The uplifted sections in the background mark the eastern boundary of the San Rafael Reef and Capitol Reef National Park, Utah.
My previous post shows how these wildflowers can enliven a landscape.