A Male Bluethroat, photographed during a recent visit to the Netherlands.

The sight & sound of these beautiful little song birds, perched high up on a reed stem, is quite special. That is if you manage to time your visit for when they are at their most active.

Once territories have been established & breeding begins, the birds quieten & become more secretive.

April 2019.

North Point Maryland State Park ,Upper Chesapeake Bay at North Point

Pink Dog Wood Flowers have extra long Stems.

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ON THE REACTIONS I WILL TRY TO RESPOND BACK

~ aziza "likey?"

For Judy.. Just because:)

After reading all the good things you guys wrote about my work over the month of march I am truly touched.. thank you so much my beautiful friends.. I wouldn't have done anything without your constant support and inspiration:)

HGGT to you all

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Sunrise at Ponta de Caracaraí, Rio Arapiuns, an Amazon tributary, Santarém, with our boat, Don Giuseppe anchored for the night.

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Primula polliniana (= Primula spectabilis) is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae.

It is a perennial plant with short and thick rhizome, and short woody stems, surrounded at the base by the brownish residues of the previous years' leaves; the height of 10÷15 cm.

It is an endemic species; present in the wild only in the pre-Alps of north-eastern Italy. Its distribution area is limited to the areas that have remained free of glaciation.

Its habitat is rocky and gravelly places, with damp cliffs, and pastures preferably on the calcareous substrate. From 600÷2,500 m.

Red Gladioli, I bought the corm last year when I went to a market.

This year it had 3 stems of gorgeous red flowers : )

Gocce nel muschio

Dappled Willow (Salix integra).

spirea macro from the back

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flower (Daisy) stem .....rip detail where I pulled the single bloom

from the multiple bloom stem.

Dandelion macro

:)

Looking at this flower from the stem to the ruffles of the petals gives me a sense of a bug's eye view.

Baby euphorbia plants with attractive red stems, growing in beach sand, on Kangaroo Island.

California State University Fullerton

I have been thinking lately that I need to take some wider angle photos and it is difficult when I enjoy the world close up and macro. My next goal should be wide lens work of people and places.

It is in late autumn when the leaves are on the ground that you notice the character of the leaf. The veins and stem have always been there but are not as noticeable in the summer when the leaf is green and still connected to the tree.

By Catherine Boeckmann

February 9, 2024

The daylily is an amazingly low-maintenance perennial. It’s virtually disease-free, pest-free, and drought-resistant; it’s also not picky about soil quality. Plus, the flower has a long bloom period! Here’s how to plant and care for daylilies in your garden, as well as how to easily propagate them for more plants!

About Daylilies

The daylily’s botanical name, Hemerocallis, comes from the Greek hemera (“day”) and kallos (“beauty”). The name is appropriate since each flower lasts only one day! However, each scape has 12 to 15 buds on it, and a mature plant can have 4 to 6 scapes, which is why the flower seems to bloom continuously.

Originally from Asia, these plants have adapted so well that many of us think of them as natives. Imagine the excitement of a 16th-century explorer cruising the Orient and finding these gorgeous plants! European gardeners welcomed daylilies into their gardens, and when early colonists sailed for the New World, daylilies made the crossing with them.

Despite their name, daylilies are not “true lilies” and grow from fleshy roots. True lilies grow from onion-like bulbs and are of the genus Lilium, as are Asiatic and Oriental lilies. In the case of daylilies, leaves grow from a crown, and the flowers form on leafless stems—called “scapes”—which rise above the foliage.

There are thousands of beautiful daylilies to choose from. Combine early, midseason, late blooming varieties, and repeat bloomers to have daylilies in flower from late spring through the first frost of fall. If you see a height listed alongside a daylily variety, this refers to the length of the scape. Some can reach 6 feet tall!

For more information please visit

www.almanac.com/plant/daylilies

These Daylilies were photographed at Pashley Manor Gardens. At Pashley you will discover 11 acres of beautiful borders and vistas – the culmination of a lifetime of passion for gardening, an appetite for beauty and an admiration of the tradition of the English Country garden. These graceful gardens, on the border of Sussex and Kent, are family owned and maintained – visitors often express delight at the attention to detail displayed throughout and the intimate, peaceful atmosphere.

All the ingredients of the English Country Garden are present – sweeping herbaceous borders, ha-ha, well maintained lawns, box hedges, espaliered rose walk, historic walled garden, inspiring kitchen garden, venerable trees and the Grade I listed house as a backdrop. The gardens are a haven for wildlife – bees, butterflies and small birds as well as moor hens, ducks and a black swan. Then, of course, the plants! Borders overflowing with perennials and annuals – the look changing through the seasons, but always abundantly filled, and each garden ‘room’ planted in a different colour theme.

Pashley is also renowned for fantastic displays of tulips, roses and dahlias. Our annual Tulip Festival features more than 48,000 tulips this year! During Special Rose Week over a hundred varieties of rose swathe the walls, climb obelisks and bloom in flower beds. Then in late summer our Dahlia Days event transforms the gardens once more with bountiful, brightly coloured dahlias in every border and pot.

Add to all this a Café and Terrace with excellent garden views, serving delicious homemade lunches, scones and cakes; Sculpture and Art Exhibitions; a Gift Shop with Plant Sales; and a friendly, knowledgeable team waiting to welcome you, and the recipe for a wonderful day out is complete.

For more information please visit www.pashleymanorgardens.com/

Mushrooms in the yard

And shades of orange

Dotted Stem Bolete / Flockenstieliger Hexenröhrling / Neoboletus erythropus

For Macro Mondays' "Halloween" Theme.

The stem is about 2" (50 mm) long

HMM

Stems

Stem

Young Dotted Stem Bolete

Flockenstieliger Hexenröhrling

Poison hemlock stems have distinctive purple streaks on the stems, and fernlike foliage.

I was quite taken with this particular zinnia bloom down in the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse garden yesterday.

A really different variety.

The start of Christmas Day was a frosty one.

This week will be a bit hectic for us so hopefully I will get to see all of your images as quick as I can. In the meantime, I will thank you now in advance for having a peak at my image here.

Waiting for the dusky night, the function is lost by the twilight

+LITERALLY+

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Connection - Macro Mondays

The apple is approximately 3" across.

SOOC

for Macro Mondays. Compared with the large bowl, the long stems on my posh wine glasses seem very slender and fragile, and I always take great care when handling them.

The five other glasses are reflected in this one stem.

an unplanned work of art

seen in my kitchen sink

last August.

Miscellaneous Composition; ©2011 DianaLee Photo Designs

Aan de staart van de leeuw kun je zijn humeur aflezen, als de staart hard heen en weer zwiept, moet je maken dat je weg komt hij is namelijk dan boos. Maar als de staart zachtjes, met een kalm, rustig gangetje heen en weer gaat is hij tevreden.

Leeuwen hebben goede ogen. Dat komt omdat de ogen van een leeuw wat meer uit elkaar staan, hierdoor kunnen ze goed inschatten hoe ver iets is. Ook zijn de ogen geschikt om s ‘nachts en overdag goed te kunnen zien, er is een verschil s ‘nachts zien ze alleen zwart wit, maar overdag hebben ze kleuren(beeld). De ogen zijn groot tegenover de grote van zijn kop. De pupillen van een leeuw staan normaal wijd open, maar als de leeuw bang is worden de pupillen spleetjes net zoals je kat.

Door de stem te verhogen of te laten dalen of door harder of zachter te snorren kunnen leeuwen uiting geven aan vrees, opwinding en gevaar. De oorschelpen spelen ook een belangrijke rol bij de communicatie. Als het dier rustig is, liggen de oren gewoon plat en worden iets achterwaarts gehouden. Als de oren worden opgezet (recht omhoog) en, met de binnenkant naar voren, strak worden gehouden, is het dier op zijn hoede.

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Some old stems in a wood in Günztal, Bavaria

Panorama made of 3 pics