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It's been a few months of complete lack of motivation for photography, and almost no opportunities to take photos. So today I ventured out on a regular walk from my place - first time with a camera for a while. There wasn't anything 'new' that I thought i'd photograph - I kind of resigned myself to enjoy taking lots of images of the regular cormorants who own the rocky outcrops of the Taroona foreshore. So I did and it felt good.
But then on the way back, just after i'd swapped out the 400mm lens for a 24-70mm lens a large pod of dolphins and seals swam up to the foreshore, right in front of me!! So with a quick fumble of changing back to a big tele lens (and all the wrong camera settings you have in this kind of scenario) I managed to get some images! There's quite a few good images that i'll process in the next week or so.
This is the first year our Itoh Peony flowered and was very surprised at the size of these seed pods!!
Itoh peonies, with their spectacular flowers and beautiful colors are a gift to gardeners everywhere.
Itoh peonies originated by crossing herbaceous peonies and tree peonies, and they combine the best features of each. While they have the mounded growth habit of herbaceous peonies and die back to the ground in winter, they also produce immense flowers like tree peonies.
It's July. Most of the plants that are going to flower have already done so. But there are pretty leaves, fruit, and perhaps other such plant parts. Redbuds are small trees, and members of the pea family -- note the pods and the seeds inside them.
Isn't God a great artist? Thanks for looking.
This 400-year-old saman or monkey pod tree is on the grounds of Romney Manor, St. Kitts, Eastern Caribbean.
We planted three small perennial plants of Physalis alkekengi, (aka bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, Japanese-lantern, strawberry ground cherry, or winter cherry). I love the cheery orangish lantern-shaped paper-like pod or husk around each bright round seed.
Photographed these little lanterns this morning outside in the dew. Each about 4–5 cm/1.57-1.97 inch long and broad. NOT lens distortion—the plant dried and squished into the ground.
"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success."
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Thanks for looking.
Zamek Królewski, Będzin, 21 czerwca 2018 r.
Warownia została wybudowana przez króla Kazimierza Wielkiego w XIV w. W tym miejscu już w IX w. istniał gród, stopniowo rozbudowywany, W XIII w. wybudowano istniejący do dziś stołp, wokół którego w kolejnym wieku dobudowano górny i dolny zamek. Po płynącej u podnóża Góry Zamkowej Czarnej Przemszy przebiegała wówczas granica między Polską a będącym pod czeskim panowaniem Śląskiem. Zamek spłonął w 1616 r. i ponownie w czasie Potopu Szwedzkiego w poł. XVII w. W XVIII w. zamek zaczął popadać w ruinę, częściowo odbudowany został w latach 30. XIX w., mieściła się tu wówczas kaplica ewangelicka, później także szpital, jednak już w 1849 r. ponownie popadł w ruinę. Po odzyskaniu przez Polskę niepodległości podjęto ponownie odbudowę zamku, a dzisiejszy wygląd jest wynikiem rekonstrukcji przeprowadzonych w latach 50. XX w.
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Royal Castle, Będzin, June 21, 2018
The stronghold was built by King Casimir the Great in the 14th century. Already in the 9th century a defensive castle existed here, gradually extended. In the 13th century the still-existing bergfried was built, which later was extended with the upper and the lower castle. The river Czarna Przemsza which flows right at the foot of the castle was the boundary river between Poland and Silesia under the Czech reign. The castle burnt in 1616 and again during the Deluge in the mid-17th century. In the 18th century the fortress began falling into ruin, it was partially rebuilt in the 1830s, when an evangelical chapel was located here, later also a hospital, but just in 1849 the castle again felt into ruins. After regaining the independence by Poland the reconstruction efforts were undertaken; the present appearance is the result of reconstructions made in the 1950s.
Según podemos leer en Wikipedia
El Antiguo convento de la Trinidad (Antic convent de la Trinitat): data del siglo XV, aunque en la actualidad sólo se conserva la portada de estilo gótico flamígero de la iglesia, que alberga el Archivo Municipal.
Contrary to the Blue Skimmer I photographed recently, this female Fiery Skimmer (Orthetrum villosovittatum) posed on a dry Kentia seed pod without hiding her pretty face :) /
Contrairement a la Libellule Blue Skimmer que j'ai photographiee recemment, cette femelle Fiery Skimmer a pose sur une tige seche de graines de Palmier Kentia sans me cacher sa jolie face :)
These interesting ice pods formed on the sides of Horsetail Falls during a deep freeze. Columbia River Gorge, Oregon
Walking around on the east side of the river we found this garden restaurant just under Charles' bridge. This is an area with a lot of tourists, however I managed to get a fairly clean shot with only the crew of the small boats travelling on Čertovka (Devil's Channel).
Anan, Haute-Garonne, France
More wild flowers in my Wildflower Album...
More from France can be found in my album En France
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