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Flowers of a red flowering gum in Hobart, Tasmania. The operculum (cap) on the bud on the left hand side is just separating to reveal the red stamens underneath. Incidentally, the genus name "Eucalyptus" is derived from the greek words for "well covered", referring to the operculum that covers the unopened gumnut.
A male chalkhill blue butterfly in the masts field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve in Gloucestershire.
A finch of coniferous woodlands, this bird forages on nutritious seeds in pine, hemlock, Douglas-fir, and spruce cones. Their specialized bills allow them to break into unopened cones, They even feed their young seeds. They can nest any time of year where food is plentiful.
Red Crossbills are scarce as hen's teeth in Central Oklahoma and this is a new bird for our Oklahoma list. Hope we can relocate for more photos, but I'm not optimistic . Our beautiful world, pass it on.
I'm not certain, but this seems to have been a peony bud, in the gardens of the Biltmore Estate, North Carolina.
Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?
Raindrops on our Spiraea (also the common name) bush. The dark spheres are unopened flower buds. These buds are quite small, something like 2 mm across. The flowers will be small, too. I'm not really sure that this was all rain. It might have been dew, too. Anyway.
Isn't God a great artist? Thanks for looking.
Did you know that Yucca flowers can be eaten?
You can pick the young flower petals off the plant and eat them raw or
mixed in a salad. The unopened flower buds can also be enjoyed lightly
sautéed in butter or olive oil.
I have yet to try this, so I can't tell you whether it is tasty or YUCC-k-A. ;)
Have a lovely Monday sweet friends.. ((Hugs))
Four flowering heads, each surrounded by four bracts, which have, by now, turned white, rather than green. About 20 unopened flower buds per flowering head.
Dogwoods (Cornus florida) grow wild in the southeastern US, but these small trees are usually planted on purpose. Bracts may be white or pink. Both are beautiful.
Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?
This 1st-cycle bird already can out-fly a clam. It dropped the unopened appetizer from 30 feet and raced it to the beach, keeping it within inches of its bill.
It is a symbiotic relationship. The peony produces nectar from unopened buds that ants love to eat, much like Bamboo says. There are a few species of plants that produce nectar outside of their flowers to tempt ants to live nearby.
The peony or paeony is a flowering plant in the genus Paeonia, the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae. Peonies are native to Asia, Europe and Western North America. Scientists differ on the number of species that can be distinguished, ranging from 25 to 40, although the current consensus is 33 known species. The relationships between the species need to be further clarified.
Higher classificationPaeoniaceae
Scientific namePaeonia
KingdomPlant
OrderSaxifragales
ClassMagnoliopsida
Biological classificationsGenus · Family
Lower classificationsPaeonia Suffruticosa · Paeonia Lactiflora · Paeonia Officinalis · Paeonia Delavayi · Paeonia Californica · Paeonia Brownii · Paeonia Mascula · Paeonia Daurica Subsp. Mlokosewitschii · Paeonia Ludlowii · Paeonia Tenuifolia
7AM DH & I went out into an open field to shoot burrowing owls and I came back with flower shots....:0)
The refracted image in the droplets is of the white picket fence behind this lovely unopened lily bud!
Happy Fence Friday!
The Quandry Chronicles Book One: The Lost Scarab of the Aethernauts! is an illustrated pulp adventure inspired by the tabletop gaming system Space: 1889 and shot in Second Life. Narrated in sessions like a tabletop campaign, QC will post weekly on Fridays, unless I get a bit ahead of myself :)
"Tatsu-san, you have quite outdone yourself.” The Japanese cultural attaché, a small, slender man resplendent in morning coat and top hat, gazed at the traditional Japanese teahouse, re-created in a park in London, in admiration. “I see why you have His Imperial Majesty’s favor! We will show the British how ignorant they are of the way of tea!
“And of course –“ he handed her a leather envelope, so full it could barely close. “Your compensation from the Foreign Ministry – and our gratitude.” He bowed and wandered off to explore the subtle paths of the traditional garden.
Tatsu, never one to trust, counted the substantial pay packet. Forging a letter of introduction from the Ministry of Culture had paid off! Never mind the cash: carefully concealed listening nooks would provide a fortune in information from eavesdropping on all the world’s diplomats and Britain’s elite as they toured the pavilions of the World’s Fair.
She sat on a stone bench concealed in the garden and tried to roll up the wad of cash tight enough to fit into her handbag, but it caught on – oh yes, the morning’s post, unopened. She removed the letter and slit it open with a fearsomely sharp dagger concealed in her kimono sleeve.
Of course, an invitation to the exhibition of photographs from the ancient city recently uncovered in Egypt, opening tomorrow at the Crystal Palace. As the Director of Acquisitions for the Imperial Museum in Kyoto, the invitation was expected – but there was a covering note, in English, in a bold but elegant handwriting:
“My dear Lady Tatsu:
“While I am still smarting from the British Museum’s loss to you of the funerary statues of Hatshepsut, I commend your skills in identifying them and your wiles in snatching them from my man in Cairo.
“The Americans have a crude but useful saying: ‘If you can’t beat them, join them.’ During the reception, if you could steal away to the Aeronautical Pavilion in the North Gallery, I would like to propose a mutually beneficial endeavour.
“Yours,
E. A. Wallis Budge
Egyptian Acquisitions
The British Museum”
Budge! Her longtime rival! He pulled strings from his office deep in the British Museum, and soldiers, spies, and adventurers moved to his will, in the name of stripping Egypt of its finest treasures. She preferred to work closer to the action, and had whisked more than a few treasures out from under him, but he won most: the British were more feared and respected in Egypt than the distant Emperor of Japan. If he wanted to work *with* her…
She began to plan.
Macro Monday's and the theme of "Sidelit".
For this theme I left it a bit late to select a subject but eventually settled on Ferrero Rocher,
I removed one from the packaging and set it up on a black card with an unopened one in the background. Then I used my Maglite torch to light it while reviewing a few exposures, figuring out which parts are blowing out highlights and then lighting again to reduce this.
I think that the beauty of the Fly Agaric toadstool is one of the most fascinating things in nature. The perfection of a bright red globe covered in pure white spots of the unopened cap or finding a mushroom the size of a dinner plate all red and spoty. Early this morning I cycled to an outlier of Blean Woods, a small sand and gravel hillock covered in ancient oaks and one of the best places I know for Fly Agarics. With the low Autumnal sun cascading on these just opened orange variation of Amanita's in a pool of amber light....
The first sunny day in about a week brings a butterfly to the garden. Just resting on this unopened mexican petunia (Ruellia).
Only a short visit and it was off.
Nuttall's thistle (Cirsium nuttallii - Asteraceae), opening and unopened flower heads, tethered by spider webs,
Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge, De Leon Springs, Central Florida
Genista (Broom) ~~ By Jackie ~~
Bananas?
No, the unopened flower heads of Genista (Broom), a hardy
deciduous flowering shrub.
This is a double exposure of the same scene - one taken late winter/early spring with the magnolia buds still unopened, and the other captured after the buds opened, about 2-3 weeks apart. In a couple of weeks the cup shaped tree trunk will probably not be visible anymore.
I collect a great many things, but something you may not be aware of is my collection of vintage powder boxes from before the Second World War, as I seldom have shared photographs of them before.
This delicious example of highly stylised Art Deco packaging at its finest arrived the other week, complete in its original mottled gold presentation box and burnt orange thin card lining which all match the powder box itself. This powder box of 'Olive Rachael' shade of Bellefleur Face Powder is unopened. It was made by Bellefleur Laboratories, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia somewhere between 1928 and 1940. The box is 46milimetres in height and 79 millimeters in depth.
A small skipper butterfly resting on an unopened knapweed head in the masts field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve.
I only had a few minutes to spend with my new macro and look for the green sweat bees I've just discovered in my yard. Found one, cropped a lot (well, I did start with the 60+ megapixel image from my A7R4), touched down on one of the several gaura plants in flower. That's a really teeny bee, on a really teeny unopened bloom, in an early morning breeze. To put this in perspective, the gaura is very long-stemmed, maybe a couple of feet, so I thought I was lucky to get a couple of pops in focus.
About gaura: Gaura is a genus of flowering plants in the family Onagraceae, native to North America. The genus includes many species known commonly as beeblossoms. Or whirley birds, or whirling butterflies.
The red on the left is a small part of an unopened pomegranate and the pink on the right is tissue paper. I'm not quite sure what made me think of putting these 2 together. Red and pink so close together? Taken in November, posted in January.
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"If I could tell you about Red
I would sing to you of fire Sweet like cherries
Burning like cinnamon Smelling like a rose in the sun" - Dixie Dawn Miller Goode (a writer of children's books, a story teller, and a teacher who works with special needs children)
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After a winter and spring with abundant precipitation, western mountains, meadows, plains and valleys put on a floral extravaganza. This is scorpionweed, Phacelia crenulata.
Photo taken due north of the La Sal Mountains, Utah.
Later in this same day, I saw a similar display around Factory Butte, just outside of Capitol Reef National Park.
Scorpionweed takes its common name from the coil of unopened flowers, which suggests the tail of a scorpion: