Goats! Goats! Goats!
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Goat's Beard (aka Yellow Salsify) is a perennial, non-native wildflower found in Colorado (and in Michigan). Supposedly, it's taproot can be ground up as a coffee substitute. I think I'd have to wait 'til coffee was available again : )
It's large yellow flower opens in the morning, turns to face the sun, and closes by midday.
Le salsifis des prés sous un fin rayon de soleil
En fin de marche, dans l'ombre d'une prairie, apparait une fleur unique: Le salsifis des prés. Un fin rayon de soleil illumine la scène, le contraste de lumière est important et a nécessité un post-traitement sous Capture One.
At the end of the walk, in the shade of a meadow, a single flower appears: The meadow goat's beard. A thin ray of sunlight illuminates the scene, the light contrast is important and required post-processing under Capture One.
The Goat's Beard is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family. This plant was seen on a nature reserve in the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire on 15th June 2023.
Although quite pretty, this is an invasive plant in BC. It grows up to 3 feet tall in perfect conditions and forms a large seed ball at the end of it's 1.5 month blooming season.
This grows in deep dry shade. It is growing under my oak tree that is over 100 years old.
Taken with a Lensbaby - I used a lensbaby but I'm not positive which one. I think I used the Lensbaby Twist 60.
My brother is getting married tomorrow and I am doing his pics for him so I may be offline for a couple of days or more depending on how involved the editing gets to be. I'll catch up soon. I have taken 3 wedding photography online courses this week. Wish me luck. I need it.
Salsify is a very interesting flower. The roots are edible and they close their blooms around noon. These wild flowers were growing in my grandparent's front garden (yard).
(My grandparents passed away in 1999 - still have their home until it gets sold this year.)
A friend of my daughter-in-law keeps goats and when she found out I made soap she froze some goat milk as a gift! I put color in the top two and left the bottom batch natural.
what shall we do with the summer clock?
A large fluffy seedhead of the Goat’s Beard (Tragopogon pratensis), often called ‘clock’ like many dandelion seedheads. It doesn’t tick or tock. Bath Skyline walk, Claverton, BANES, England, UK.
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I think this one is sweet long after the blossoms are gone. Love the structure with the light. Lensbaby Sweet 50 gives the abstract appearance for flowing plants. Bokeh created by huge oak tree on right and shrubs in background on left side.
First stood here a goat's windmill which was presumably established in the early 17th century and was mentioned in 1768 for the first time in a document. In 1840 this mill burnt itself down.
The new building of a Dutchman's mill occurred in 1848 through Brünn Ehlers. From 1920 the mill was pursued by the company Behrens & Schröder. Since 1953 the mill stands under conservation of monuments and historic buildings. In 1964 it was given to the city of Bremen. In 1972 the Focke-museum furnished here a mill department.
The Oberneulander mill is station 43 historic mill street from Lower Saxony and landmarks of the district Oberneuland.
At about 7 A.M., I arrived at the meeting point for the group walk organised by the local council as part of the village's festival. There is a goats farm and this was the only one on the tree having breakfast. Yes, it was so hot already then. Unbelievable heat.
Unedited image.
Nikkor F=300mm 1:4 ED (non-VR)
Alentejo, Portugal 🇵🇹
July 2022
(Halictidae)
Sweat Bee, common name for any of a large family of bees, many of which are attracted to the salts in human perspiration.
This seedhead, or puffball, looks like a "dandelion on steroids." I have waited to take a photo when it was well-lit by the natural sunlight. We have had several gray, snowy days. But this afternoon the sun came through the clouds and lit this "goat's beard" seedhead up beautifully.
They're amazingly elegant creatures, these 'Hunger Wasps', as they're called in Dutch. Presumably because they have such thin 'middles'. In 'assectator' the ovipositor is relatively short compared to those of its cousins; but no doubt it, too, can find larvae of other insects hiding in hollow plant stems or in wood segments and force them parasitically into 'half-living' food in which to deposit her eggs.
In the meantime, she's foraging on Goat's Beard, Aruncus dioicus.