The Marbled White is a distinctive and attractive black and white butterfly, unlikely to be mistaken for any other species. In July it flies in areas of unimproved grassland and can occur in large numbers on southern downland. It shows a marked preference for purple flowers such as Wild Marjoram, Field Scabious, thistles, and knapweeds. Adults may be found roosting halfway down tall grass stems.

Macro monday: Spiky

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

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!

Lined up in a row, six wine glasses given to me a few months ago as a Birthday present.

Hand held and the gentle colour softness that this lens produces when fully open. Not much depth of field either!

All sorts of gentle post-processing, a bit here and a bit there!

Auto Miranda EC 50mm f1.8

Last night I cooked up a rare Gori Blue pumpkin I grew and harvested last fall. This morning I happened to notice how lovely the stem looked on the stove back.

I'm trying to challenge myself more with monochromatic images. I find it much easier when I can control the light.

~ 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.

Texture "waterfront5" by Kim Klassen.

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spirea macro from the back

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

I liked the shape of the stems that the raindrops were on.

360/365 -Around the house - Day 360

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.

Stems of the Stipa shrub growing on the edge of the pinery within the Kuneevsky forest area in Togliatti

Yellow Willows, Red-stemmed Dogwoods, and other autumn flora made for a lovely pastel palette today at Delta Ponds.

Dotted Stem Bolete / Flockenstieliger Hexenröhrling / Neoboletus erythropus

And shades of orange

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

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

Beginning a morning hike around the Eibsee with a view. Carrying the camera with you is always a good idea.

Mushrooms in the yard

san francisco, california

Young Dotted Stem Bolete

Flockenstieliger Hexenröhrling

Sempervivum (Hens and Chicks)

Nikon D810, 105mm micro

I always look for pumpkins with fun stems.

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...added a stem to my candy foil wrap "floral design"

(Reeses Candy foil wrap)

an unplanned work of art

seen in my kitchen sink

last August.

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.

For Macro Mondays - Glass

Wine glass stem

orange explosion

Clean stem glasses are stored upside down in a bar. A play of warm light, shadows and reflections. The impression of cleanliness.

Looking very bare, the semaphore masts at North Orleans on the Hoosier Sub.