Potato Wednesdays
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The Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), also known as the Colorado beetle, the ten-striped spearman, the ten-lined potato beetle, or the potato bug, is a major pest of potato crops. It is about 10 mm (3⁄8 in) long, with a bright yellow/orange body and five bold brown stripes along the length of each of its elytra. Native to the Rocky Mountains, it spread rapidly in potato crops across America and then Europe from 1859 onwards.
This one was sitting in my garden with no potato field in miles around, so I left it alone...
Montenaken, Belgium
Лейкопласты картофеля. Микрофото с объективом Mitutoyo M Plan Apo 20x0.42 с Raynox DCR-150 в качестве тубусной линзы. Комбинированное освещение - критическое проходящее и падающее рассеянное. Стэкинг.
Many potato fields are now blooming in the Netherlands. Plompetoren, 2023.
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I believe that this is a False Potato Beetle. I was out doing macro photography yesterday and when I came home this beauty was on my front door. It was like it was waiting for me. I moved it to my garden and got some photos before it disappeared. Photographed in Maryland..
VOLENDAM - the event commemorates the risky potato shipments from Volendam’s fishermen, which they carried out of Friesland in the war years (1943-1945) with their ships during the hunger winter amongst other Amsterdam hospitals supplied. The race departs from Volendam and takes traditionally place on the IJsselmeer with a large fleet of traditional sailing ships: skûtsjes, aken, tjalken and clippers.
VOLENDAM - Het evenement houdt de herinnering levend aan de riskante aardappel transporten vanuit Friesland, die Volendammer vissers in de oorlogsjaren (1943-1945) uitvoerden met hun schepen en hierbij werden onder andere tijdens de hongerwinter Amsterdamse ziekenhuizen bevoorraad. De race vertrekt traditiegetrouw vanuit Volendam en speelt zich af op het IJsselmeer met een grote vloot van traditionele zeilschepen zoals: skûtsjes, aken, tjalken en klippers.
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“Macro Mondays” theme: "Vegetables"
....Wish everyone an HMM
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Carl Zeiss Planar 50mmf/2
with Leitz Achromat ELPRO 2 (4.92 Dpt.)
Appearing when the plant matures and starts to form tubers underground. I’m going to remove them so the plants energy goes to growing tubers. If left they will produce small green tomato like berries.
*Kartoffel-Heimat*
It almost seems like art the way the potato farmer cultivates his field.
I regularly get my potatoes from the fields in this area...and they taste really good.
Es mutet fast nach Kunst an, wie der Kartoffelbauer sein Feld bestellt.
Von den Feldern dieser Umgebung beziehe ich regelmäßig meine Kartoffeln...und die schmecken richtig gut.
This second study of the Potato Eaters by Van Gogh can be admired at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Guelders.
The museum, located at the centre of the Hoge Veluwe National Park, boasts the world's second largest Van Gogh collection.
This park is highly recommended if you want to enjoy nature and experience some awesome vistas while riding your free bike on well kept dedicated bicycle roads :-)
Wikipedia: The Potato Eaters
Wikipedia: Hoge Veluwe National Park
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A potato eye. This is the starting point for a new potato plant. For Macro Mondays theme "Eye". This is image covers about 1.5 inches lengthwise.
We grow a LOT of potatoes here, they are actually lovelywhen in bloom as these are. Walsh County, ND.
Some vegetables look pretty. Potatoes lack that visual charm. Instead, these mini Charlotte salad potatoes charm the taste buds. For Macro Mondays "Vegetable". FOV 2.8-inch.
This potato got buried in my potato bag in the pantry. I love how our produce can reproduce itself and holds the potential for new life. If you leave a chocolate bar or Twinkies buried in the pantry they won't do this.
The potato and it's roots got me thinking about how planting oneself firmly will keep you in one place growing upward and somewhat outward. Is that the only way to live life never wandering far and exploring but safely planted? I feel like it is the best way to raise a family. But I have no experience with moving around much.
Sorry my thoughts and ramblings feel incomplete and disconnected today.
"Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion."
- Linda Wells
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