Macro Mondays Theme: TWO. I didn't join this wonderful group until June so I went with one I hadn't done before. I chose the theme from April 4th which is our anniversary. Very apropos the theme was Two! 😊 The wheat was from a bouquet my daughter received when she graduated a couple of weeks ago from WSU Pullman.

Taken at Kernel Simpson's Farm in Innisfil, Ontario

Something to brighten a rainy day this morning.☔️☔️

Have a wonderful Friday everyone!💝

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Layers: kernels, silk and husk

I caught this Sandhill crane with a corn kernel partially consumed. Vicinity of Jasper Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area in Indiana

Such a determined lill guy. He didn't stop until every kernel of corn was off the cob.

Macro-Mondays-Misfit

I created this by using frozen corn kernels and one peppercorn.

Zea mays, with exposed kernels and silk. We depend on this plant for lots and lots of our food, whether or not we realize it.

Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?

Winter is always a good time to shoot birds - this blue jay caught going after a dried corn cob.

I watched it take of about 8-10 kernels off the cob right in a row in less than a minute.

A grain elevator located in St. Paul, Oregon. Happy Monochrome Monday, everyone!

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Low Line, Bermondsey.

Pine Grosbeak was the first species I saw when I arrived in Lapland. I was up early and took a short walk from the hotel in Ivalo and I heard some unfamiliar whistling calls from some Scots Pines nearby. As I approached I saw there were about six Pine Grosbeaks feeding on pine buds. The light was poor early morning so this was taken later in the day at a place where sunflower seeds had been put out. Their scientific name Pinicola enucleator translates as "Pine dweller, remove the kernel" and they were certainly adept at removing the kernels from sunflower seeds. Linnaeus first named them Loxia enucleator as he thought they were Crossbills but they are more closely related to Bullfinch. But they are much larger than Bullfinch, about twice the weight and about 5cm longer. Like Bullfinch, the males and females are a different colour. This carmine pink individual is an adult male. They inhabit coniferous forests in the far north of Fennoscandia, Russia and North America too. When food is scarce they sometimes wander south and they are even a very occasional visitor to Britain.

A drying sunflower head from my sisters garden.

I notice it can be spelled either Kernal or Kernel, in NZ we spell it with an e.

This Blue jay looked a bit surprised when I photographed him, but he continued to gulp down those kernels of corn none the less.

This traditional Five-kernel Mooncake recipe is a savory mooncake that translates to “mooncake with five types of nuts.” The five types are: walnuts (核桃仁, hetao ren), Chinese almonds, or bitter almonds (杏仁, xin ren), regular almonds (橄榄仁, gannan ren), pumpkin seeds (瓜子仁, guazi ren), and sesame seeds (芝麻仁, zhima ren). The flavorful moon cake is rich in nutrition and symbolizes the prosperous and rich life shared by the three generations, party of five of the family!! 🎉

How to Make Five Nut Moon Cake

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Recipe and Procedure

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Horned Lark foraging for food in foggy snow covered Amish farm fields in Chester Count, PA.

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Looking up from beneath the central spiral staircase within the Marshall Building, part of the London School of Economics on Lincoln's Inn Fields. Completed in 2021 and designed by Grafton Architects.

This image was captured for the Macro Mondays theme: "negative space".

There were at least 10 of these beauties foraging around on the ground in the early am.

Some mucking around with a completely uninspiring photo.

But I rather like the black and white with something in the middle. HSS

Seeds for Macro Mondays (100mm f/2.8 macro lens w Raynox DCR-250)

For anyone interested in knowing more about this fascinating crop, the following link is available for your information.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_corn

Best view with original size on black.

Explore #83 on May 26, 2007. Thanks everybody !

Up close of one of my sister's sunflowers

Skin between the hull and kernel of a sunflower seed

365/2021 - Expanding Horizons ~ 022/365

Treasure Hunt #38 ~ Kernel

Thank you to everyone who pauses long enough to look at my photo. All comments and Faves are very much appreciated

Pomegranate kernels [Punica granatum - Lythraceae family]

Macro Mondays theme:Yellow

kernel by kernel!

Kernel of a pistachio nut sitting on Thai mulberry paper

Popcorn Kernels

February Alphabet Fun Month, 2024 edition

Kernels of popcorn.

(Not to be confused with other popular colonels, Sanders, Potter, Klink, Mustard, and Tom Parker.)

In the English language, kernel and colonel are pronounced the same.

Shot in natural light.

Did you know?

Raw Indian corn is as hard as nails, so attempting to eat it could damage your teeth.

Indian corn is not sweet and needs to be boiled for an hour to soften the kernels

Bank holiday here in Ireland today. I'd already picked a "corn on the cob" from our polytunnel this afternoon ready to cook with dinner & have been commenting on a my Flickr friends' various amazing Macro Monday photos.

So I thought hey why not give it a go? It's been a while since I dragged my proper Canon camera out. Photographed on my trusty old purple hoodie HMM!