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In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi (侘寂) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete". -Wikipedia
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Bladder galls info-https://www.spring-green.com/blog-leaf-bladder-galls/
Morus basanus, Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire
Bladder wrack obviously works just as well in the Gannet world as flowers do in ours.
On Bladder Campion
This is a dorsal shot, but I can't help but see a scowling anthropomorphic face on the back of the head. To me it looks like some malevolent, mythological, fairy dragonfly queen.
To make matters worse, I see Richard Nixon's face where the "nose" is. Karma for "Tricky Dick"?.
Please tell me I am not crazy :)
Elk Island National Park. Strathcona County Alberta.
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This delecate plant is almost indistinguishable from the normal bladder silene and belongs to the zinc flora.
The plant has evolved trough cell adjustment, in such a way that it is insenstive to zinc and other heavy metals.
The stores zinc acts as a toxic weapon so that herbivores avoid this.
Because it hardly has any natural enemies, this plant can grow to be 50 years. This plant only grows in the southern part of the Netherlands on the waste mountains of the former Belgium zinc mines.
Another wet knees, tripod and caffeine morning photo.
We planted three small perennial plants of Physalis alkekengi, (aka bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, Japanese-lantern, strawberry, groundcherry, or winter cherry). I love the cheery orangish lantern-shaped paper-like pod or husk around each bright round seed.
Now we have new plants in addition to those we planted in 2017. A fun photo from this morning.
The history of bottle stoppers goes back to the early days of wine production, when wine was stored and transported in wooden barrels. To prevent the wine from oxidizing, a piece of bladder was used to seal the barrel. This method of sealing evolved over time, leading to the development of more massive bottle stoppers
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A pair of Bladder Campion aka: Catchfly (Silene vulgaris) flowers. This is another Southern European native that has been introduced in Canada. A 3-image, handheld stack.
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If you have time to zoom in (really zoom in), see if you can spot the rope. It gave me some serious bladder problems as soon as I saw it.
Photo taken at the The Bergianska trädgården (the Bergian Garden), a botanical garden located on the outskirts of Stockholm.
Hibiscus trionum is an annual plant native to the Old World tropics and subtropics. It has spread throughout southern Europe both as a weed and cultivated as a garden plant. It has been introduced to the United States as an ornamental where it has become naturalized as a weed of cropland and vacant land, particularly on disturbed ground.
Silene latifolia subsp. alba (formerly Melandrium album), the white campion is a dioecious flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to most of Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is a herbaceous annual, occasionally biennial or a short-lived perennial plant, growing to between 40–80 centimetres tall. It is also known in the US as bladder campion but should not be confused with Silene vulgaris, which is more generally called bladder campion.
Дрёма бе́лая, также смолёвка белая (лат. Siléne latifólia) — травянистое двудомное растение рода Смолёвка семейства Гвоздичные, произрастающее в большинстве стран Европы, западной Азии и Северной Африки. Одно- или двулетнее (иногда многолетнее) растение высотой 40—80 см.
Silene vulgaris, the bladder campion or maidenstears, is a plant species of the genus Silene of the family Caryophyllaceae.
Fleischfressende Pflanzen: Sonnentau * Carnivorous Plants: Sundews
Links: Drosera capensis - Fangblasen * Left: Drosera capensis - trap bladders
Rechts: Drosera adelae – Blütenstand * Right: Drosera adelae – inflorescence
Common blue on a midsummer evening at Aston Clinton Ragpits.
I was trying to show how tiny these little butterflies are. The smallest is the Small Blue, but I love the pattern on the wings and the striped antennae of this one
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Inner Farne Island, Northumberland
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On my early morning walks along a few kilometres of an abandoned road that used to be home to residential dwellings, long since decayed and vanished, I was able to watch the growth and maturation of a number of native and non-native wildflowers. Bladder Campion, a non-native import from Europe, grows wild almost everywhere in the Ottawa region. It is especially lovely in the early morning light, embedded in other wild grasses, and despite its odd anatomical organization, it is very popular with pollinating insects - especially bumblebees. It is also popular in Mediterranean cooking.
I find photography very challenging, learning both how to use the camera and how to use the world, as it were, in the sense of using light, depth, figure and form, and colour. And no one of those is separable. This spring, wildflowers became a way for me to work out some things, especially as their relatively static presence makes controlling for some of the other factors more realistic and less urgent.
One of the Italian names for what I call Bladder Campion (Silene vulgaris, formerly and more evocatively Silene inflata). Intrigued to hear it can be used as a herb or in a risotto (perhaps a bit like Nettle, which I love), and not fancying it from anywhere I've ever seen it grow, this came from seed... Fox cubs kept digging it up so not enough survived for a risotto and I never fancied it as a herb... but I'm so fond of the flowers that I haven't the heart to pull it out and it is now an unlikely companion for a Tomato...
Ban Ban Springs, Queensland, Australia
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Bladder campion is a common wildflower found growing around the UK in meadows, grasslands and fields, and along hedgerows and roadside verges. It gets its common name from the bladder-like calyx (a bulge made-up of the fused sepals) just behind the flowers; it is in bloom from May to September.
A close-up shot of a type of bladder campion (Silene vulgaris), with inflated calyces. The shallow depth of field effectively blurs the background, making the unique bell-shaped flowers and their delicate pink stamens stand out beautifully.
There are quite a few common names for this pretty Saxifrage. One is 'Mossy Saxifrage' and another 'Eve's Cushon'. In both cases you might well imagine a soft seat in the woods. It's Winter now and you wouldn't want to sit on this frosty green. But it's quite pretty catching a ray of sunshine.
Often you'll find an incorrect derivation of that name. 'Saxifraga' does not denote that our plant by the power of its natural growth 'breaks' rocks and stones to create a bed or seat for itself. Rather down through history medicinal folklore has it that drinking a boiled concoction of its roots will break up bladder - or kidney stones.
Dying bladder cherry, chines lantern (Physalis alkekengi) /
Absterbende Lampionblume, Judaskirsche.
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Bladder Campion (Silene vulgaris or inflata) - on the kitchen windowsill, the better to admire the delicate veining of
its inflated calyx, here catching the last rays of the sinking sun...
The railway strike has us stuck in Berlin a couple of more days. No problem, of course, only a small inconvenience. And it gave me a chance to explore some more in the so-called Nordbahnhof Park. It's a pleasant narrow park leading north from the Invalidenstraße that was once the site of the beginning of the Berlin-Szczecin (Stettin) Railway constructed 1842-43. At the end of the 19th century bridges were built at the north end of what today is the park at the Liesenstraße to allow for safe-crossing beneath of road traffic. The line went out of use at the end of the 1950s and then became part of the Berlin 'Wall'. When the wall came down the area became a naturally wild park, a kind of nature reserve in the city.
It's a delightfully wild place with many plants and animals. The photo shows the derelict bridge borne up by macros of two wildflowers, a Brown Knapseed and a Bladder Campion.
Is it a fish bladder, is it an almond or is strictly mathematically a lens? At the centre here is a shape like a lens and the view out from this lens shape offers blooming Lilies making a repeated pattern.
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“The vesica piscis is a type of lens, a mathematical shape formed by the intersection of two disks with the same radius, intersecting in such a way that the center of each disk lies on the perimeter of the other.[1] In Latin, "vesica piscis" literally means "bladder of a fish", reflecting the shape's resemblance to the conjoined dual air bladders (swim bladder) found in most fish.[2] In Italian, the shape's name is mandorla ("almond").[3] A similar shape in three dimensions is the lemon.
The vesica piscis in Euclid's Elements
This figure appears in the first proposition of Euclid's Elements, where it forms the first step in constructing an equilateral triangle using a compass and straightedge. The triangle has as its vertices the two disk centers and one of the two sharp corners of the vesica piscis.[4]
Mathematical description
Mathematically, the vesica piscis is a special case of a lens, the shape formed by the intersection of two disks.”