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I love it when the ferns start emerging with their spirals. I read the term fiddlehead refers to the shape of the frond which resembles the headstock of a violin. I never knew that, I'm glad I looked it up.
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My favourite stage of fern growth, when the fronds are still furled, and they resemble the ornamental scroll at the end of the neck of a violin!
I came upon this fern, and many others, today at Garden in the Woods, a botanical preserve in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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I noticed this tiny fern fiddlehead in one of our flowerbeds today.
I decided to dig out my old 70-300mm zoom lens that has a broken zoom ring, but the Macro feature still works perfectly fine. The image was take at the 1:2.5 macro setting, with the image underexposed by 2/3 of an f-stop.
To put the size of this plant into perspective, the fern showing is actually less than 2 inches long. (Zoom in to see the detail!)
Fiddleheads or fiddlehead greens are the furled fronds of a young fern, harvested for use as a vegetable. Left on the plant, each fiddlehead would unroll into a new frond.
It's wonderful what we notice in our own space when we take the time to really look.
Native ferns awaken to the sun and warming earth by unfurling their leaves, called fronds, that emerge from the base of the plant as tightly wound fiddleheads.
Fiddleheads are in season! As spring unfolds, so do ferns and there are several edible species, mainly the Ostrich fern. If you don't know, you'd be better off asking someone who does. Nevertheless, the harvesting of these is a very narrow window, about 2 weeks. Even if you don't harvest them, they are cool to observe, as they unpack into a fern leaf very quickly. 2023 Apr 15 Canary Creek Lewes, DE Canon 5D MIV EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM with Helicon Focus Ring f4.5 1/50 sec ISO 100 - 25 exposure focus stack, processed with Helicon Focus.
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American astronomer Halton Arp compiled a list called the “Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies” first published in 1966. Today, astronomers recognize Arp's atlas as an excellent compilation of interacting and merging galaxies.
The Fiddlehead Galaxy, catalogued ARP 78, is a prime example of one galaxy having significant impact on another, the smaller NGC 770 the prime culprit in this case. 770 has stripped most of the interstellar dust and gas from one side of the Fiddlehead and sparked a flurry of star formation in the blue-colored spiral arm. The interaction has resulted in a high concentration of young, hot, massive and short-lived stars. The two galaxies, 106 million light years away, are in the Zodiac constellation Aries (the ram of golden fleece fame).
I stacked 65 four minute exposures shot over two nights to make this picture, using the QHY color Minicam8 attached to the Explore Scientific 127 triplet telescope.
Fiddlehead ferns, just beginning to unfurl their fronds on the forest floor.
Early spring in the Smokies.
Well to say my "trillium spotting" adventure was full of surprises is an understatement.
First, I saw a MOOSE!! I knew they were up here but in all the years we have owned the house I had never seen one. In fact, I had never seen a real moose. Unfortunately no photos as I was driving on an 80 km/h two lane road and had to try to find a safe spot to pull over. By the time I did of course the moose was long gone into the trees on the other side of the road.
Regardless, I also got to find fiddleheads growing in among the trilliums.
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Yarmouth, Maine
April 2010
I'm continuing to look back through old photos I had taken with this camera, and have been reminded what an amazing macro mode it had. It actually has a "macro mode" and a "super macro mode". I would be on my hands and knees just inches away from my subjects getting these sorts of photos. Just incredible for a 5 MP digicam from 2003 (it's 21 years old as I write this!).
Photo taken with an Olympus Camedia C-5050 Zoom.