Algae on the glass of the Waterlily House at Kew Gardens, seen from outside.

I was supposed to be on that boat, but then it looked like a nice day and place for a walk and I thought Id be able to take more photos while on foot. The river was covered with some sort of algae (quite pretty, but covered the water completely as you can see), so I guess I will be back later during the year to see how it looks without them.

This grebe was swimming in a sea of algae on Commonwealth Lake.

One of the local lakes at Teardrops covered in the Algae

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At least my previous shots at Denver Botanic Gardens showed clean, dark water. I threw in this reverse shot at Longmont's Golden Ponds where the water was not so clean this summer when upkeep was up to nature when the news was everywhere of blue-green algae, not orange-man algae. Denver cleaned up their geese problem and provided food for the poor. The Golden Ponds in Logmont are well fertilized by the goose poo and grow vast amounts of water goo. At least the geese fertize land and water until it can be paved and sterilized toward the goal of total global warming.

Here is that Soylent Green (fine Japanese sea weed?) duck food around shore. The wealth of new life around this place shows that a new generation of water fowl (fouling) has sprouted at Golden Ponds Park at Largemont, Colorado. The river level is now coming down as the serious summer heating and resident high pressure settles in and moves very slowly because we ruined the jet stream. Oh well, we can all hide in air conditioning so long as we can throw the electric power away and burn more fossils.

I suppose that these ponds' water plants thrived around the shores throughout summer. The weather quit bouncing back and forth in the valley with our slide into record winter. Mid-westers and Eastern Trump Grumpers poopoo global warming but here we are.

I found this in my stash from a recent walk around Golden Ponds and thought it would fit in right here, It really signalled the heavy spring greenup after the big wet which dried up this fall.

I was at Golden Ponds Park at Largemont, Colorado and I was with the normal zoom lens on my camera, good for some tighter riparian shots and growth.

In the splash zone on rock rejected from the output of the lime kiln at Lime Kiln State Park on San Juan Island in Puget Sound

Toronto Ontario Canada

Macro of Nature

Nikon Z fc, Nikkor Z MC 50mm

f25, 1/125, ISO100

Algae-covered water blends with field.

And rock details by the creek .

Obi Obi Creek

Maleny

Sunshine Coast Hinterland

Sony a6300, 63 photos, Goerz type condenser insert set, UV/Oblique/pol, Nikon Microphot, 20x BD Plan

100x S-plan Apo

CV15 III with 6-stops filters, and GND 0.75.

Sans craindre le vent et le vertige - Ojard

GTF sample, 4x*1.25, FLUO-C4, HF C

"Willow City Loop" Fredericksburg, Texas.

How about this for Smile on Saturday's combination of flora and fauna... A snapping turtle laying eggs and covered in algae.

C. J.R. Devaney

Water algae on a rock at the beach, Alexandria Egypt

Looking up the tree trunk with sunlight filtering through the canopy.

walking on the beach

Pollen and algae on pond surface

Two Medicine, MT (east Glacier National Park), around Aster Park Overlook.

Fans of "Stranger Things" might understand.....

I used Urban's Black and White grunge preset on these algae flowing in a stream.

Lembeh, Indonesia

Red algae in a herbarium collection

Algae-choked pond on the North Macedonia-Albania border

HDR - illuminated by the late afternoon sun