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Some of the Maple trees in the neighborhood this year are full of seeds. They are so numerous in some trees that there are more seeds than leaves.
The distinctive fruit are called samaras or "maple keys". These seeds, or 'whirlybirds,' occur in distinctive pairs each containing one seed enclosed in a "nutlet" attached to a flattened wing of fibrous, papery tissue. They are shaped to spin as they fall and to carry the seeds a considerable distance on the wind. Children often call them "helicopters" due to the way that they spin as they fall. One tree can release hundreds of thousands of seeds at a time. Depending on the species, the seeds can be small and green to orange and big with thicker seed pods. The green seeds are released in pairs, sometimes with the stems still connected. (See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple )
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
-Henry Ward Beecher
Taken at: Pinoy Macro EB - Ninoy Aquino Wildlife Park
July 4, 09
series #8
Explored - Jul 13, 2009
It is only a tiny rosebud,
A flower of God’s design;
But I cannot unfold the petals
With these clumsy
hands of mine.
The secret of unfolding flowers
Is not known to such as I.
God opens this flower
so sweetly,
In my hand it will fade and die.
If I cannot unfold a rosebud,
This flower of God’s design,
Then how can I think
I have wisdom
To unfold this life of mine?
So I’ll trust in Him
For His leading
Each moment of every day.
I will look to Him
For His guidance
Each step of the pilgrim way.
The pathway
That lies before me,
Only my Heavenly Father knows.
I’ll trust Him to unfold
the moments,
Just as He unfolds the rose.
Helen Steiner Rice
(1900 - 1981)
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EXPLORED #79, May 8, 2009
The Chinese Lantern (Physalis alkekengi) is easily identifiable by the larger, bright orange to red papery covering over its fruit, which resemble Chinese lanterns. The plant is also called Japanese Lantern, Winter Cherry or Bladder Cherry. Native to southern Europe, southern Asia and Japan. This herbaceous perennial plan is growing to a height of 40 to 60 cm and develops white flowers with inflated basal calyx that matures into a papery orange/red fruit covering.
The Chinese Lantern is a popular ornamental plant in many countries, although it can become invasive in certain areas.
I was shooting pics of a doe and fawn running across the north pasture when i turned around and this little guy was sitting there on a white table munching some sort of breakfast and waiting for his photo shoot. The deer pics didn't come out very well, but these i like. You can even see the little hairs on him. Yes, i'm shooting macros with a 300mm lens. oh well, who follows the rules anyway??
aphid on peach colored rose. This is a rework of a prior post, cropping heavily to achieve a portrait mode and cleaning up some of the extraneous pollen spots
My daughter wants to be a musician when she grows up!!
"What I Want To Be When I Grow Up" Macro Monday Pool.. 6 July 2009.
there will come a day my friend
when time will seem to stand still
opening new gates of opportunities
for all those goals you spent
countless hours pondering over
and to achieve all you have
not yet discovered
there will come a day my friend
when thinking of your life
will bring happiness and hope
for whatever unknown lies ahead
and you will hold within your heart
the feeling you have longed for
and belief that you have
lived the days of your life
to their fullest
there will come a day my friend
when distress and pain
will become nothing more than
fancy pictures held captive
within the frame of your mind
within your reach and control
there will come a day my friend
when people will see
beyond the past
that now clouds their vision
into the innocent eyes
of a caring person
and listen with a nonjudgmental ear
to the truth that has
been so blankly distorted
in time sore wounds will heal
and contentment will fill
the empty gaps in your spirit with sweet serenity
mending all that has been tattered
because I know my friend
there will come a day....
~a survivor's poem
red beetle covered in pollen on a stamen from a yellow tulip with red markings near the watson street garden.
calico penant dragonfly on long stalk of a reed or flower. taken at a new hampshire audubon park near manchester.
when i get in too close with a macro lens, only a portion of the insect will be in focus. i try to take multiple shots moving the camera in and out. sometimes, if the insect cooperates, i can get the entire insect in focus, by backing up a few inches, then cropping the shot when i get it out of the camera. however, i prefer to get in closer for more detail on the face and legs. however, i then must sacrifice focus on the wings, like in this shot. the field in the background is almost unrecognizable because of the short depth of field.