Two seed pods of a Grey Spider Flower (Grevillea buxifolia) in Manly Dam.

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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)

Iris domestica harvested from my garden. Webster Groves, Missouri.

For flower see: www.flickr.com/photos/ioensis/51304806327

This is a Lupin seed pod with its seeds tightly closed inside with the promise of next years beautiful flowers.

Taken for macro Mondays theme.

"Closed"

Broom (Cytisus scoparius) winter seed pods.

Enchanted Walk Cradle Mountain National Park Tasmania

I like the clean, slightly sweet taste of the seeds.

Polaroid SX-70 / round-frame color 600 film

Photographed in the garden at the Roti Roti Art Center of Buchanan, Michigan.

Lunaria annua 'Corfu Blue'

Looking straight at a teasel head.

28.july 08 - 125/9/44

View On Black

Is it real?

SDIM8024

5x4 neg

View On Black

Shot in Shanghai Century Park, Shanghai, China, Jul.3rd.2011.

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Forming a seedhead after the petals have fallen.

This time a single seedpod after the previous one with 3 www.flickr.com/photos/tdwrsa/23766169064

Stacked from 9 shots.

Placed on a green underground of which the luminosity was taken away with Lightzone, leaving the darker green as shade.

In my garden now. Although this is native wildflower in Missouri, my plants were grown from seeds collected along the roadside in rural Iowa. Webster Groves, Missouri.

Handmade lumen print.

seedpods

It has been another spectacular year for the blue wild lupins (Lupinus pilosus) a plant described in my reference book as hairy and erect. The hairiness certainly carries through to the seed pods... so, so tactile.

Taken in Battle Ground, Clark Co., WA, USA

beauty in the mundane

Our Daily Challenge 29 November - 5 December : Little

The seed heads look great in dry flower arrangements

Riding home I noticed a crunching sound - I was riding through thousands of seed pods from the beech trees.

I have used Shotwell to edit this picture before uploading. How do the levels look to you? A tad dark for me, but the auto setting recommended this.

A few more lumen prints