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From the 2010 archive. In a mixture of liveries, Freightliner pair 86627 and 86622 speed south through Harrow and Wealdstone in the early evening on an unidentified Felixstowe bound liner.
Brown Hare came close this morning. If you look closely you can see the reflection of the hide in it's eye
A close-up of the Storks Nest, along the river Krommerijn in Odijk, the Netherlands, here you see the mother with their young.
This is what we saw during our Bicycle tours in the Netherlands, where we have cycled through the beautiful landscape.
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A close up image of a section of a small glass top table used in the garden. It has a very decorative top, showing butterflies and flowers.
This common toad (bufo bufo) was motionless atop a toadstool and stuck around long enough for a close-up. Photographed near Llandrillo, Denbighshire, Wales.
The peony is named after Paean, who was a student of the Greek god of medicine, Asclepius. Zeus turned Paean into the peony to save him from the anger of Asclepius, who had become jealous of his student’s healing abilities.
Description
Peonies bloom in a number of colours including pink, peach, white and maroon. There are also herbaceous varieties, which die back in winter, and tree peonies that remain active throughout winter.
Habitat
Peonies are native to north Japan, parts of Asia, parts of North America and southern Europe. It prefers woodland habitats, but can be found growing on mountainous terrain as well.
Availability
Tree peonies are available throughout the year and herbaceous peonies are available from late May to early July. Peony seeds have to go through a double chill, as the roots emerge after the first chill and the leaves after the second chill. Seedlings take around five years to mature for flowering.
Species
The genus Paeonia is the only member of the Paeoniceae family. There are around 38 species of peony. The most popular herbaceous peony varieties are P.officinalis and P.lactiflora, while P.japonica is commonly grown in UK gardens.
Care Tips
Peonies prefer full sun and slightly alkaline, well-drained soil. If a peony becomes top-heavy with flowers, staking will prevent the stems from breaking. Once peonies die back in the autumn, they should be cut back to ground level.
Did You Know?
Peonies have been cultivated for over 2,000 years, more for their medicinal qualities than for ornament. The Japanese protect the earliest peony blooms from the snow by protecting them with individual small thatched shelters. The Greeks believed that peonies were an important medicine and could cure more than 20 ailments. The Chinese name for peony is “sho yu” which means “most beautiful”
For more than 1,000 years, the dried root of the white peony has been used in ancient Chinese medicine. It's traditionally used to treat a wide range of ailments, including fever, inflammation, and pain. Some of these medicinal benefits have been proven by science.
Also known as Swamp banksia. Photographed in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Banksia flower spikes may contain hundreds or even thousands of individual flowers. This is a close-up of some of the buds on one flower spike.
Focus stack using Zyrene
Here is another shot of a Jackson's chameleon I photographed during a visit to Kula. Of course, it's a male. These reptiles are fairly common throughout the upcountry areas of the island. For those who are curious, the dark bokeh is natural. See large. The photo was taken in February 2020, with my trusty Olympus E - M1 digital camera. Enjoy and stay well.
Macro Close Up of Dandelion Seed Head. Nature Walk with my camera at Lehaunstown and Tully, Dublin, Ireland
This is a close-up photo of lichen and wood grain details in the roots of a sun-bleached driftwood tree long situated atop the rocky breakwater at Clam Harbour Beach.
This is what happens when you are trying to take a picture of something with your 35mm at F1.8 and suddenly a cat appears in front of you hehe. As you can see shooting with F1.8 I was only able to get his nose sharp.
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The web can run from the top of a tree 6m high and up to 2m wide. Unlike other spider webs, the Golden Orb Web Spider's web is not dismantled often and can last several years.
Designed to catch large flying insects, the web is slightly angled. It is not a perfect wheel and is usually off-centre. To make its web, the spider releases a thin thread into the wind. When it catches on something, the spider walks along it trailing a stronger non-sticky thread. It repeats the process in the centre of the line to form a strong Y-frame. Around this, it spins the rest of the web out of sticky capture silk.
The silk is so strong that it can trap small birds, which the spider doesn't eat. These trapped creatures often destroy the web by thrashing around. To avoid such damage, the spider often leaves a line of insect husks on its web (like the safety strip across glass doors!); or builds smaller barrier webs around the main web.
The male is many times smaller than the female, some are 1,000 smaller! There are suggestions that it is not a case of the males being dwarves, but the females being giants! The male is so tiny that he can live on the female's web, stealing her food, often without her even noticing him. She may not even notice that he has crept up and inseminated her! Nevertheless, just to be sure, he usually does the deed when she is feeding. In some, mating can take up to 15 hours! The female lives only slightly longer than the male.
Spider from Spider Pavilion Natural History Museum. Los Angeles. California.
I’ve been avoiding people long before the Coronavirus..
I am now in isolation, due to my health conditions I am a health risk. But because I spend lots of time by myself my life feels relatively normal. Only now I have an added bonus that my daughter is home from school, I have so much to be grateful for.
I’m so thankful that I am a photograph hoarder, I now have thousands of photos to play with, re-edit etc plus our garden is full of wildlife, so lots of things to photograph still and now we have more time to spend gardening. Life is good.