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This dogwood (Cornus florida) tree, unlike most, puts out leaves and flowers at roughly the same time -- most dogwoods in Upstate South Carolina put out their flowering parts first. The four bracts are especially lovely on this tree. The flower buds, in the center, weren't open when I took the photo. They'll open soon, no doubt.
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A pair of fresh 3rd brood small copper butterflies mating on an unopened devilsbit scabious in the Bill Smyllie field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve this afternoon.
A Five-Dot Sergeant butterfly perches attentively on an unopened hibiscus flower, captured in Hong Kong
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Native Masked Bee (Hylaeus Rhodohylaeus) female
The first of the Masked Bees I have seen this season, and she was in a most awkward spot to get a shot. Hopefully I will see more now. On an unopened African Daisy in the garden.
This flower is fairly new to me, but I'm glad I ran across them a few years ago. Balloon flowers get their name from the unopened buds, which swell up prior to opening and resemble little hot-air balloons.
They come in a variety of colors including blue, purple, pink, and white. Easy to grow and pleasing on the eye, they make for lovely garden plants.
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Diplolepis rosae is a gall wasp which causes a gall known as the rose bedeguar gall, Robin's pincushion, mossy rose gall, or simply moss gall. The gall develops as a chemically induced distortion of an unopened leaf axillary or terminal bud, mostly on field rose (Rosa arvensis) or dog rose (Rosa canina) shrubs. The female lays up to 60 eggs within each leaf bud using her ovipositor. The grubs develop within the gall, and the wasps emerge in spring; the wasp is parthenogenetic with fewer than one percent being males. Previous synonyms for the species are Diplolepis bedeguaris, Rhodites rosae, and Cynips rosae.
A small skipper butterfly on an unopened knapweed head in the masts field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve in Gloucestershire.
Actually, they are called Metallic Pony Beads. I found an unopened little bag of them in a prop drawer that I keep when I was searching for something to photograph. My wife enjoys crafts, and I think she must have passed them along to me at some point. They were shot on the spoon in a dark room illuminated only by a string of multi-colored mini Christmas lights.
Macro Mondays: "Spoonful" theme
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… yet another type 22 pillbox protecting RAF Hornchurch. The cylinder near the entrance is not a discarded shell casing but an unopened beer can :-)
A pair of small skipper butterflies mating on an unopened knapweed head in the masts field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve in Gloucestershire.
Ah, the subtleties! Notice the pale purple tips on the metallic gold stamens and haystack of unopened ones in the center. I love the charcoal colored water, the blacker reflections and petals highlighted by angled rays of morning light.
Sedum, aka stonecrop, puts a lot of small flowers on the same flowering head. In this case, most of them were, when taken, unopened buds, which have their own charm.
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A male chalkhill blue butterfly on an unopened field scabious at Nottingham Hill in Gloucestershire.
A second brood brown argus butterfly in the Bill Smyllie field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve in Gloucestershire.
Chalkhill Blue butterflies flourish on unfertilised, flower rich chalk downs of southern England such as Stockbridge Down where I photographed this male on an unopened Knapweed head. My thanks to Tim Melling for correcting the name of this plant.
Thank you all for your kind responses.
A close-up of a dogwood (Cornus florida) flowering head, showing a couple of opened flowers, and several unopened flower buds, plus parts of the four bracts that surround the flowers.
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This is to thank everyone who's been kind enough to enquire after Trev's wellbeing (and mine) ! He's still in hospital but he should be coming home in the next few days.
During the time Trev's been in hospital, I've been very busy, as you can imagine. Luckily for me, the weather has been kind so I've spent a lot of time in the garden, trying to keep it under control. Yesterday I found our aquilegia is blooming away merrily. I took many pictures in the garden but haven't had time to process them. Well, I made some time today and here is a single flower and unopened bud.
Thank you so much for your support during this horrible time. I will be seeing him again tomorrow and will let you know how he's doing.
Time to go and cut back some more ivy !!!
Cardoon is an architectural splendor with bold texture, thanks to its large, prickly, almost dagger-shaped gray-green arching leaves and a statuesque, vase-shaped frame. It is topped with round, purple, thistlelike flowers in midsummer. Cardoon can reach up to 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide.
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A close cousin of the artichoke, this native to the well-drained, sunny slopes of the southwest Mediterranean. It produces magnificent flowerheads that can be cut and dried for arrangements. Edible leaf stalks and midribs are tasty when blanched. Unopened flowerheads can be eaten like artichokes.
Taken at Cowbridge Physics Garden
A fresh second brood brown argus butterfly found this afternoon in the Bill Smyllie field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve.
From a while ago, definitely not in December.
Crape (aka crepe) myrtle flower buds, unopened, among some opened flowers. These plants can grow to be small trees. The bark is usually pretty, too, with patches of different colors.
Cheerful, aren't they? Thank you for looking! Isn't God a great artist?
It's an unopened, or partly opened, daisy. There are lots of daisies in San Diego County, but most of them are purple and/or white. Not this one.
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A pair of second brood common blue butterflies mating on an unopened field scabious in the Bill Smyllie field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve.
'Tired Tuesdays' set by [Bad Unicorn]
This set comes in 2 tones: light and dark. And it consists of: a bed, photo frames, a bench, a chair, tables, lamps, a leaning mirror, a newspaper and a rug.
'Bhad Mood set" by [Bad Unicorn]
It consists of a broken USB, a broken phone, a broken laptop and a broken control pad.
Silly Shibes II - old gacha- by Jian
Paper on the lucky by [Cinoe]
It is a bento set. It comes with Pencil stands in different colours, Chilled milk, coloured pencil box, pencils, a sandwich, lined milk bottles, a lucky sketch, opened milk bottles, and unopened milk bottles.
Potted Birch{Mesh} by Little Branch
Adrian Office by MudHoney
It consists of a desk, a computer, a mouse, a desk plaque, files, a keyboard and an office chair
Beck skybox by llorisen
The soul, my unopened flower
With its innocence, it strives towards God
Paving a bright path
It is the source of truth
It opens its petals with nectar
And the enchanting happiness of tenderness
It brings together the parts
Of the sought-for immortality.
My wondrous daisies of white purity
Of the transparent, fresh, and naked essence
My Light within, when at a crossroads.
The source of strength, the song of beauty....
I really like the look of the unopened red buds against the open white/pink blossoms. And, of course, the bokeh!
What we have here my friends is a photograph of a genuine UFO base - yes I fully realise that is difficult to accept , but what I say to you is listen to the proof and then I think you will have little choice but to agree if you don’t mind.
I was walking across the mountain and stepped off the road hoping to enjoy a can of orange. I was about to open it when my attention was drawn by a faint humming sound accompanied by a rhythmic beeping. I pulled out my powerful little monocular and was able to ascertain that it appeared to be coming from this cloud, then, after a few seconds, imagine my surprise when a straight out of the movies UFO emerged from this very cloud and as it did so the beeping ceased. It was a classical flying saucer though very sleek and hi-tech looking with an iridescent reflecting chrome finish that appeared to take on different hues.
It seemed to know it was being observed and glided swiftly and almost silently to within about 10 metres of me. I thought it was going to land but when it was about 20 feet off the ground, to my surprise, a rope ladder fell down from the under carriage and down which, an architypical alien grey descended. Well, I say architypical, he was exactly like one of the greys in the movies except he wore a uniform that was uncannily similar to those worn aboard the Starship Enterprise in the early Star Trek episodes, and on the left breast the letters WEF were embroidered. Also, he wasn’t entirely hairless, he had hair on his head which was also completely grey, of almost the same tone as his skin and fashioned into a comely quiff. If I were a sporting man I should wager it was a wig.
He scuttled up to me, he was about 4 feet tall and he said….
“Greetings! Are you local?” His lips didn’t move at all as he spoke for he did not have any - the words appeared directly in my head somehow.
“Yes I am” I replied cautiously.
“Do you know if there is an ironmongers nearby - we need to make ship repairs….”
I told him I did not know of one and even if one did exist I didn’t think a backwoods ironmonger would be of much help to an interstellar hi-tech craft capable of light speed no doubt. He seemed to consider this but looked at me as doubtfully as any alien grey could and then suddenly asked for a drink of water. I reached for my water bottle and he then said he only liked rose flavoured water and when I told him I only had natural water he again considered this before appearing to become agitated and furtively looking to left and right, then behind before suddenly shooting forward, snatching the can of unopened orange from my hand and shooting back to the rope ladder with a startling speed that belied his size, and, no sooner had the ladder swiftly returned him to the craft than it tore off back towards the cloud above. I just had time to lift my monocular and see it disappear back into the cloud once again accompanied by the beeping sound which I presume was some kind of hazard warning signal - vision would be poor in a cloud.
So there you have it, you see the UFO craft clearly came out of and returned to this cloud which I photographed - ergo, it is a UFO base, which I am sure you can now see, probably a major one too - the Brecon Beacons mother-hub I wouldn’t doubt. It was not there the next day.
I was a bit miffed tbh, you know, pilfering my only can of orange and all that, so I decided to report it - I didn’t think the rainbow police would be much interested so I telephoned a local UFO monitoring group but alas, as with almost everything else these days they too appeared not fit for purpose, and not much interested. He asked me just two questions about this whole UFO incident - 1 - what was the brand of orange drink, and 2 - was it loaded both barrels with caffeine, graphine oxide and glucose? I hung up.
A male chalkhill blue butterfly on an unopened knapweed flower in the masts field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve in Gloucestershire.
These juvenile Laughing Gulls (Leucophaeus atricilla) are not so much flying as levitating over an unopened fish catch. North Packery Channel Jetty, North Padre Island, Texas.
A close up of a small skipper butterfly resting on an unopened knapweed flower in the Bill Smyllie field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve, taken on an early morning visit at the beginning of the month.