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"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.
"December, thou whose hallowing hands
On shuddering seas and hardening lands
Set as a sacramental sign
The seal of Christmas felt on earth
As witness toward a new year's birth
Whose promise makes thy death divine,
The crowning joy that comes of thee
Makes glad all grief on land or sea."
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
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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.
Pinecone cactus (Tephrocactus articulatus).
Originally from Argentina and now widely cultivated as an ornamental in North America.
I've always been intrigued by the pattern on pinecones. I've added a link to an explanation of pinecones and Fibonacci
numbers for those of you who are interested.
Of course, I couldn't resist adding a dash of color to an otherwise brown cone.
faculty.math.illinois.edu/~delcour2/LessonPlanSunflowerWo...