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Thanks to Michael Huft for the ID! A native vine!
www.illinoiswildflowers.info/savanna/plants/bur_cuke.htm
This native plant of eastern North America, also called Star-Cucumber or Burr Cucumber, is an annual vine up to 25 feet long that develops multiple lanky stems. This vine can climb over adjacent vegetation and fences using its branched tendrils, otherwise it sprawls across the ground. The stems are light green, round or furrowed, and quite hairy. The alternate leaves are up to 8 incheslong and across (excluding the petioles). They are orbicular-angular with 3-5 shallow lobes and their margins are slightly serrated. The upper surface of each leaf is relatively hairless, while the lower surface is finely pubescent, especially along the lower veins. The petiole of each leaf is up to 5 inches long; it is light green, rather stout, and quite hairy. The leaf blade is strongly indented at the base where it is connected to the petiole. Bur Cucumber is usually monoecious and produces both staminate (male) and pistillate (female) flowers on the same plant. Each staminate flower has a green calyx with 5 teeth, a greenish white corolla with 5 spreading lobes, and a central column of stamens that is knobby at its apex. The teeth of the calyx are short and broad with recurved tips. The lobes of the corolla have a network of green lines on a white background. The staminate flowers are individually about 1/3" across and they tend to bloom in small clusters toward the apex of the raceme. Each pistillate flower has a large ovary that is enclosed within an ovoid fruit about ½ inch long. The surface of this fruit is covered with sharp spines and long white hairs; it is initially green, but later turns brown. A single style is exerted from the terminal end of this fruit. The pistillate flowers are bunched together in a short raceme; a typical raceme has 3-10 pistillate flowers. The peduncles and pedicels of both staminate and pistillate racemes are green and pubescent. The blooming period occurs from late summer to early fall and lasts about 3 weeks. There is no noticeable floral scent. Each bur-like fruit contains a single large seed that is brown and flattened; this seed is tapered at one end more than the other and it has a rough surface.
Habitats include openings in floodplain forests, moist meadows in floodplain areas, thickets, banks of ditches and rivers, and edges of fields. Moist disturbed areas are preferred.
It differs from Echinocytis lobata (Wild Cucumber) by its hairy stems, whereas the latter species has smooth stems. Both of these species produce bur-like fruits, but the fruits of Wild Cucumber are larger (about 2" long) and occur individually, not in small clusters. The staminate flowers of Wild Cucumber are usually showier and occur on longer racemes. The cultivated members of the Gourd family include cucumbers, summer squash, winter squash, and many melons. While these cultivated plants occasionally escape into neighboring areas, they rarely persist. They have yellow flowers that are variable in size (from small to very large), while their fleshy fruits are often edible and larger in size than their wild counterparts.
The modernity of Meštrović’s work is in his carving style, both sharply angular and smoothly curved, kinda showing the way tenderness works in the roughest of people. Even at the height of his popularity, what mattered to Meštrović was demonstrating his gratefulness to the forces that shaped him – his mom, god, and home – in a way that is as accessible to a visitor to the Met as it is to a young peasant struggling through grimmest poverty. #IvanMeštrović #BowmanSculpture. #winterantiquesshow #sculpture #arthistory #Croatia #meštrović #masterpiece #parkavenuearmory #contemporaryart #augusterodin #artwatchers_united #artnerd #nycart #antiques #modernart #hrvatska #vizkultura
More from the dusty, DIY film scanner. I was trying out that whole 'take a shot, rotate camera 180 degrees, take the same shot" thing and apparently suck at aligning the horizon to the corners of the frame. And I think that's my finger on the right. Or it's something ... I don't know.
Another in my series of back porch insects. These are taken at night with mostly my 200mm Nikon micro lens & flash.
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Uploaded for Weekly Themes: Contest No 14 - geometry.
Another photo I thought might work as a black and white but the blue sky was too appealing :)
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Three in one!
First, the most obvious. Angular luminance. Although really it's only a half-hate, because sometimes it works in your favour, and sometimes it's just aesthetic and perfectly fine.
But the two big ones: perfectly clear skies.
I like clouds. I like looking up and seeing a few whisps of cloud, going "don't worry, there might be a bit of shade coming up". perfectly clear sky, to me, is not a healthy climate... it's the "prepare to die by heatstroke" weather >_>
Second genuine hatred, look at those lights. They're turned on... THEY'RE ALWAYS TURNED ON!
3am? on.
9am? on.
2pm in the blazing sun? Why, naturally, they should be turned on, imagine the horror if they were turned off during the day, someone might not actually be able to tell where they were!
Crowbars. Four of them. And the city planner that okayed the request. And then two more crowbars for the person who requested it.
(oh yes, I will always hate the person who okays something far more than the person who wants it done)