Light on the path.

Geranium (Pelargonium)

Another reminder for all you ladies to do the self examinations and have the scans. Today we are celebrating our 27th anniversary, 25 years ago on Tuesday (Christmas Eve) we got Di's first breast cancer diagnosis (she was just 22 at the time). If found early the outcome can be very good.

Samyang 16mm F2 ED AS UMC CS

- this anthurium sits beside my computer desk and suddenly is in flower after many dormant years

- a gift originally from my son

posting for

Mittwochsmakro - Wednesday Macro

Octubre Rosa / Pink October

gratitude for all your visits

Okay, I shot it because I loved the green colors and amazing textures.

Irix Dragonfly 150mm f/2.8 macro, developed in Affinity

Hasselblad 500C / 80mm Planar

double exposure

Fern frond

Spring: new fronds on the Birds Nest Fern

Looking close... on Friday: Leaves

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taken a loooong time ago...

have a great weekend!!!!!

Looking close... on Friday! - All Green

Thank you everyone for your visits, faves, and kind comments

The fiddleheads of a young western sword fern, Polystichum munitum, unfurl.

Found in the Fern Room of the Lincoln Park Botanical Garden, an intensely green space of amazing variety. Definitely press "L" for the best view.

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Pentax K-3 - HD Pentax-DA 55-300mm F4.5-6.3 ED PLM WR RE

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Exploring in lower Alabama.

A Marigold bud begins to unfurl, one petal at a time.

Male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas) still quite curled-up.

Nerecznica samcza (Dryopteris filix-mas) jeszcze dość zwinięta.

Shot with an Astro Berlin "Astro-Kino-Color IV 85 mm F 1.6" (projection) lens on a Canon EOS R5.

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A hairy woodland fern unfurls at Staple Fitzpaine, Taunton Deane in Somerset.

First try in close-up photography

By B.Cox

This is in the rose garden at the farm. The Rainbow Sorbet bush is loving life and growing too big for the plot!

Unfurling