I dearly love finding dandelions in my garden, whether they are the yellow flowers or the soft puffs of seeds ready to take to the wind. Generally I leave the dandelion there (unless I am removing weeds, and then I say goodbye to my little friends). However, this one time I decided to break the dandelion puff off of the stem to take inside the house for a photo session. The moment I removed the puff, the bottom of the stem curled into these two tightly wound circles. What a treat!

This rose will grow up to be creamy white! Sometimes there are both colours at the end of one stem - then it is really beautiful! Sadly the paler ones were spoilt by the rain -I must wait for this one to grow up!

Though of the day:- What a good thing that I didn't take this attitude to my children...

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

from the multiple bloom stem.

Stem of Vaccinium vitis-idaea growing in the pine stand within the Mordovski nature reserve

Texture "waterfront5" by Kim Klassen.

kimklassen.com/

spirea macro from the back

Stems

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.

Summer2016 Garden Flowers Plant Pink Petals Leaves Tall Stem Outdoors Gladioli Buds Green Leaves

360/365 -Around the house - Day 360

Flickr Lounge weekly theme - shelter (tulips sheltering in a vase)

116 in 2016 #62 fill the frame

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And shades of orange

Shrooms with long Stems are reaching for the Sunlight.

Dotted Stem Bolete / Flockenstieliger Hexenröhrling / Neoboletus erythropus

Fading Belinda's Dream Rose With Bokeh

Mushrooms or Fungi in the woods at Duffins trail In Discovery bay , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , Martin’s photographs , July 25. 2021

Pontoon boat

The Kawartha’s

Mushroom looks like a Halloween pumpkin face

the base of a tree

stand of trees

Orono

Ajax

Discovery bay

Clarington

pine trees

Rocks

Wild Asters

mushroom

fungi

the woods

Beautiful and colourful mushroom fungi in the woods at Duffins trail

fire in a Tomshoo camp stove fuelled by small sticks

gravely shore of Lake Ontario

Darlington Provincial Park

August 2021

Clarington

Lake Ontario

Sunset

A beautiful sunset

Crescent moon

Hugging trees

Jobs wood

hike on a boardwalk in Jobs wood in Presqu’ile Provincial Park

boardwalk

Jobs wood in Presqu’ile Provincial Park

small rock

Fossil

Fossilized creature

Pebbles on shore of lake Ontario

pebbles on beach

Martin’s photograph

Stones

Pebbles

Ontario parks

Provincial parks

shore of lake Ontario

Great pebbles on the shore of Lake Ontario

Presqu’ile Provincial Park

Martin’s photographs

Brighton

Ontario

Canada

Great pebbles

abandoned gas tank

driftwood

Gas tank

Canoe’s

Cedar trees

Favourites

IPhone 6s

July 2021

Nice tree line at beach of lake St.Peter

Lake St Peter Provincial Park

Martin’s photographs

Hastings Highlands

beach of lake St.Peter

Lake St Peter

Lake St.Peter in Hastings Highlands

Cloudy sky

Clouds

Park office of Lake St Peter Provincial Park

Long Lake in Kawartha Highlands provincial park

North Kawartha

Long LakeLodge at Long Lake in Kawartha Highlands provincial park

Long Lake Lodge

Beautiful mushrooms very close to the ground you can see the stem below

Lake

Beach

Reflected sunset light on Yeruham Lake.

Sempervivum (Hens and Chicks)

Nikon D810, 105mm micro

Marbled White / melanargia galathea. Lindrick Common, South Yorkshire. 02/07/14.

'PRISTINE VULNERABILITY.'

I remember finding this pristine Marble White clinging to a grass stem, shortly after she had emerged. Her wings had not fully hardened so whenever she moved up the stem, they were still a little floppy. At such an early stage of adulthood, she would have been extremely vulnerable if spotted by a predatory bird.

BEST VIEWED LARGE.

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

+LITERALLY+

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Leudal, Netherlands

Urban Capture WEBSITE

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.

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Indoor Tulip stem with sunlit accents....Morning Sunlight seeping through the window blinds.

I always look for pumpkins with fun stems.

I was out early one morning with only the big lens, looking for wildlife. No luck there, but I was very glad I noticed this frost on these red stems. I don't know what the plant is. I've been bringing my macro lens every day since, but frost this nice doesn't happen very often. Siskiyou County, California

I was "admonished" (not seriously) by an acquaintance yesterday for not using my Hasselblad enough, so today I accepted the challenge to make some images with it. This frame made use of the 0.5 Proxar closeup filter.

Film: Ilford FP4+ (lovely stuff) processed in iffy Xtol.

For Macro Mondays - Glass

Wine glass stem

Miscellaneous Composition; ©2011 DianaLee Photo Designs

Common name: Hairy Fringe Lily

Clumping multi-stemmed plant with clumping hairy leaves to 20cm.

On Sandy gravel.

ID: Terry McFarland WAHerbarium

"This is Thysanotus asper, distinctive in the densely hairy leaves and six anthers (T. triandrus has similar leaves but with three anthers)."