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Kindly refer to my "Tibouchina" album below, for photos of the gorgeous blooms of this plant. Thank you. Up until this photo was taken, all I had were photos of the blooms. The seed pods remind very much of Eucalyptus gum nuts.
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I'm still going through photo folders from 2015 and finding shots i like but had forgotten. That year I had been using a second hand Kiron 80-200 mm lens. Like the Helios I'm currently using a lot, the Kiron didn't communicate with the camera. Manual everything. It was surprisingly sharp and had almost no chromatic aberration. I'd probably still be using it if it had gone wider than 80 mm. It was eventually replaced by Fuji's XF 55-200 mm lens.
October was cold that year. There was still ice held in place by the seed pod on that lamp. The lamp was either on an old tractor or one of the implements that would attach to the tractor.
I've been watching The Weather Channel, seeing what's happening with Winter Storm Xylia. Looks like it's hitting hard in WY, NE, CO and even in AZ. Prayers to all in its path.
Update 27Mar21:
Yesterday while at the botanic gardens I found the machine that has this lamp! It's some sort of harvester and I'll be posting a shot of it later today or tomorrow.
Common names: Traveller's Joy; Old Man's Beard; Wild Clematis.
Botanical name: Clematis brachiata.
Family: Ranunculaceae.
Taken at Kirstenbosch Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa.
Another aspect of autumn.
Normally the term “going to seed” has a negative connotation, meaning to decline, go downhill, age out, etc., but with peonies, I mean it in the nicest possible way.
I think peony seed pods are absolutely charming, giving the spring bloomers a whole other season of interest.
At summer’s end, when they split open to reveal their shiny blue and red seeds, wow!
Very impressive!
Not all of them do tough!
I especially like the open seed pods of the woodland peony (Paeonia obovata), with shiny blue to blue-black fertile seeds and brilliant red infertile ones.
Have a wonderful day and thanks for your visit, so very much appreciated, Magda, (*_*)
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This is a backlit Lupin seed pod. The seeds are waiting for the case to dry out and open to release them for next years new crop.
Macro Mondays theme.
"Closed"
Just noticed this has made "Explore"
somehow this seed pod has held onto it's seeds throughout the winter.
They caught my eye shimmerling in the sunshine.
As windy as it's been, I'm sure they couldn't have held on too much longer!
2016 Weekly Alphabet Challenge, Week 10, J for Jagged
Nigella Damascena - Love-In-A-Mist seedpod macro, also for my series on Transience/Durability in Nature
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Orange gleams athwart a crimson soul
Lambent flames; purple passion lurks
In your dusk eyes.
Red mouth; flower soft,
Your soul leaps up and flashes
Star-like, white, flame-hot.
Curving arms, encircling a world of love.
You! Stirring the depths of passionate desire!
Alice Dunbar-Nelson. You! Inez!
(written 1921, first published 2001)