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I've no idea what plant this was the seedhead of, however, it was doing a very good job of holding dew drops. It also did a very good job of sticking to my camera strap!!!!
Smile On Saturday: "Bokeh In Monotone"
The theme called for an image that includes bokeh to be processed in any monotone color except black and white (greyscale). So I took the opportunity to also meet the Our Daily Challenge "Green" challenge.
HSoS
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Taraxacum is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, which consists of species commonly known as dandelions. The scientific and hobby study of the genus is known as taraxacology. Like so many familiar wild plants, the dandelion has a rich traditional history, most of it propitious. Country folk loved those golden mops of spring as harbingers of the months of warmth. Dandelions spoke of childhood and hope and were woven into spring wedding bouquets to bring good luck. To dream of dandelions promised a happy relationship.
The tallest stalk a child could find indicated how it would gain height over the coming year and, when the bloom was held under a child’s chin, the greater the reflected glow, the kinder and sweeter the child would become. No rural babe escaped the tickling petals.
The seedhead, that fascinating and intricate globe combining geometrical integrity with gossamer delicacy, held as much symbolism as the flower and, for our omen-ridden ancestors, blowing on the ripe structure offered choices when it came to interpreting how many of the little paratroopers departed.
This is a corkscrew hazelnut tree in a nearby community garden. I love photographing it because of the wonky branches. Unfortunately, the city cut much of it down, so it's only about 4 ft. high now.
Taken with Pentacon AV 80mm f2.8.
This lens creates the most amazing bokeh :)
Milkweed Seed-heads getting ready to fly in the Wind.............
Our backyard,
Southeastern Connecticut
march is a tough month in wisconsin, as we get no signs of spring. but there are still brown flower husks in sunset light. and for now, that is enough.
(Explore #418: May 26, 2009)
Backlit dandelion seedhead glistens in the setting sun. Bluebird Estates, Alberta, Canada.
Despite the parachute structure of the individual Dandelion seeds being largely made up of empty space, it is believed their design creates a ring-shaped air bubble ("separated vortex ring") which slows their descent to the ground and allows them to spread further afield (and into my garden as an unfortunate consequence). It is thought their design is up to four times more efficient that a conventional parachute.
Not the most endearing of terms - yet many plants are still sublimely beautiful when they head towards and reach seedtime.
Can;t believe that nearly 4 years have passed since I took this!
hff!
from david whyte: “gratitude is the understanding that many millions of things come together and live together and mesh together and breathe together in order for us to take even one more breath of air, that the underlying gift of life and incarnation as a living, participating human being is a privilege; that we are miraculously, part of something, rather than nothing. even if that something is temporarily pain or despair, we inhabit a living world, with real faces, real voices, laughter, the color blue, the green of the fields, the freshness of a cold wind, or the tawny hue of a winter landscape.”
i'm grateful to be in this living world with all of you, flickr friends! thanks for inspiring me. thanks for your kindness. thanks for being you (just as you are). happy new year!
Alopecuroides "Hameln" _ Fountain grass _ Foxtailgrass _ Lampenpoetsers grass
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