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A very old machine, but it looks clean and waiting to be fed at any moment. Yarn spools on the top and the yarn already spun below.
Spindle trees are a sign of age in an established hedge, as well as being useful in all sorts of ways.
After pollination, flowers develop into bright pink fruits with bright orange seeds, which look a bit like popcorn!.
Spindle is hermaphrodite, meaning each flower contains both male and female reproductive parts. Flowers have four petals and grow in clusters in May and June, and are pollinated by insects.
Spindle is a deciduous native tree, and mature trees grow to 9m and can live for more than 100 years. The bark and twigs are deep green, becoming darker with age, and have light brown, corky markings. Twigs are thin and straight.
I just love to see the fruits ... who can say that orange and pink clash after seeing these beauties? 😁
Industrious, delicate, colourful. The spindle is at its loveliest in autumn when its leaves turn russet and its pink and orange fruits ripen. Wildlife loves its leaves and fruit, and aphids flock to it, bringing with them an array of their predators.
CIT: www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british...
Pentax K-30, Access 35-70/2.5-3.5
For the Pentax Forums Single in February Challenge
Theme = BELFIE!
Not only bare-assed, I went for the full-on nude, with tastefully placed chair spindles. You're welcome. (Several of the belfies are for Husband's eyes only! Didn't realize belfies could so quickly fall into... suggestion!)
Euonymus europaeus...Spindle tree.
doing well this year...the colours of the berries and leaves are fabulous.
textures thanks to Tòta
font :!Sketchy times.
Golden Spindles / clavulinopsis fusiformis. Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire. 10/10/17.
'GOLDEN SPINDLES OR NOT GOLDEN SPINDLES, THAT IS THE QUESTION.' (2)
I was informed at the time these were Golden Spindles, despite lacking the characteristic pointed tips. They were a mature cluster and in prime condition. You can see that the largest fruiting body was very wide, flattened and had deep longitudinal grooves. Another was developing it's reddish-brown tip.
They don’t look very 'spindle-like' and I've never been completely convinced by their identification. They’ve sat in a file for over two years now and since photographing them I've searched field guides and web sites, but found no match. I can't find any alternative species either.
Any thoughts and suggestions welcomed.
Stairway spindles in the original part of the Francis Malbone House in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Pentax K-3 - SMC Pentax DA*55mm F1.4 SDM
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If you like rock features then here's an impressive one along the Fife Coastal Path below yet another golf course. Despite this being quite a prominent feature of the walk between St. Andrews and Boarhills, there doesn't seem to be many photos of this amazing stack online.
Of course, just taking a photo of the rock would be boring so I made sure to find a pool of water in which to get some reflections. I then climbed up the smaller, greyer rock for the fun of it. I decided to have my lunch up there. I wonder how this photo would look if I'd come here at sunset? I guess it depends on the wind and the tides.
A british native - the Spindle Tree. At this time of year with the leaves having fallen the pink and orange fruit stand out even more. If only a colourful bird could have perched amongst that lot.
Taken in Norfolk.