Taken last week during a walk around my backyard. :)

"You can live years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night."

-Denise Levertov

Edited with Topaz Studio 2 (Digital painting)

A small pinecone fallen onto the edge of the curved corrugated iron roof of the sweetest rotunda in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

HBW

Pinecone

Pinecone

Wunder der Natur

Pinecone in Autumn

Made explore for Feb 1, 2009 #60

Thank you all!

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Pinecone

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Pinecone

Pinecone

Liked this abstract take filling the frame as Mrs. Krach and I were hiking around in Wyoming. This was near the top of the tree, so the long lens worked well for this capture.

al Castell d'Escornalbou

Pinecone cactus (Tephrocactus articulatus).

Originally from Argentina and now widely cultivated as an ornamental in North America.

Macromondays - layers

Something about pine cones. I don't know why, but when I see 'em, I gotta shoot 'em.

Taken with Meyer Optik Trioplan 50mm f2.9 from a 70 year old Beltica camera.

I made a video about the lense: youtu.be/-y3iARbhpKY

For Project 365 2022 Edition: Day 5/365

For 100x 2022 Edition: 3/100

Allergies woke me up early and wouldn't let me go back to sleep. Finally I got up and baked the two sourdough loaves I'd set in pans to rise overnight. Normally I would bake them the same day, but we keep the house cool around 20C in the winter so the dough doesn't rise as quickly. I used a loaf in this still life with a cone from a red pine, picked up on one of my walks. My office smells of oats, maple syrup, and sourdough. At least chronic congestion usually doesn't affect my sense of smell.

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