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Spindle fruits always catch your attention due to their bright color.
From a frosty morning autumn walk from last year
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Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (almost all shots with this lens taken with aperture at 2.0)
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Plenty of berries on the Spindle (Euonymus europaeus) this year. Primrose Hill Community Woodland. Bath, BANES, England, UK.
A plastic broken spindle from the Sleeping Beauty miniature toys. Just practicing something new for me, not a fan!
Macro Mondays (Motion Blur)
(Image is less than 3" including the negative space)
No I'm not a connoisseur of staircases or balustrades but even I thought that the number of spindles in this Croydon outdoor staircase was a little excessive.
Burning bush
Huso con alas
Flügel-Spindelstrauch
Burning bush is a species of flowering plant native to central and northern China, Japan, and Korea. The common name "burning bush" comes from the bright red fall color. It is a popular ornamental plant in gardens and parks due to its bright pink or orange fruit and attractive fall color. This plant is regarded as an invasive species of woodlands in eastern North America.
Canon EOS REBEL T3i
New Jersey, USA
My Circle Collection for the Macro Monday Challenge on 4/19/2021
If I were guessing, this could have come from river rock along the Mississippi River. I believe it came in a bag of river rock recently purchased. This could be a crude spindle whorl used for weaving. My guess is that it was made by the indigenous inhabitants in the area or Early American settlers.
Do you see notches in both the inner circle and outer circle? This could be to control the flow of the thread or yarn.
Soon these will open to show bright orange berries.
Spindle timber is creamy white, hard and dense. In the past it was used to make ‘spindles’ for spinning and holding wool (hence its name), as well as skewers, toothpicks, pegs and knitting needles.
The fruits were baked and powdered, and used to treat head lice, or mange in cattle. Both the leaves and fruit are toxic to humans – the berries have a laxative effect.
Today spindle timber is used to make high-quality charcoal, for artists. Cultivated forms of the tree are also grown in gardens for autumn colour.
Have a lovely weekend everyone
Found these in the cafe garden. Poisonous to humans though no to birds! A sunny Friday here. Have a good day!
A true macro (about 35mm square in real life) taken with Helios 44M at f/2 on a reversing ring, with a snowflake bokeh template stuck over the lens to transform the Christmas "holiday lights" for the Macro Mondays theme.
We bought this tiny Christmas tree decoration while on holiday in the Black Forest. They are sometimes called Christmas pyramids (or windmills) and a nativity scene rotates around a central spindle by candle power. This one is just for show and would probably catch fire if too close to any flame.
Chromatic aberration is quite strong next to the bokeh, particularly on the turbine part at the top of the frame, but it's difficult to stop that when using a back-to-front manual Soviet lens from the 1970s.
Small, colourful and very poisonous. The common name of the plant originates from the use of its hard wood for making wool-spinning spindles. HMM!
- another tree planted in memory of Clare, thinking of the bright pink and orange berries it will bear in the autumn
for Macro Mondays: symmetry
many thanks for all visits
Happy New Week!