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The winding stem on my Grandfather's gold pocket watch. For the Macro Mondays Group. Topic: As long as it ticks." HMM! Looking at the group's postings it is clear I was not the first to think of this idea. Many of us seem to have watches both wrist and pocket on the brain. If you aren't a member of Macro Mondays, you might want to check out all of the ticking shots the gang came up with. www.flickr.com/groups/macromonday/
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Last night I opened a bottle of Prosecco and, yes, I can down a whole bottle in one evening, but I didn't. What was left, was a well earned reward for spending most of today gardening.
This Spring/Summer I had the enjoyment to walk around my neighborhood, the Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, and in my own front and back yard! Spring is such a beautiful time of year when nature brings us new life! Summer carries it on. Photo Images credited to Vickielynne Photography and Designs(VLP & Designs) Images may be designed on wearable art and home essentials at www.vlpdesigns.com
As I walked through the produce section, I stopped in amazement when I spotted the broccoli romanesque. I knew immediately that it was an example in nature of a fractal pattern.
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I've never stopped to notice how fuzzy Frangipani stems are before! Amazing texture and color. I love the deep purple bands and the overlapping ruby/pink petals that will soon spin open and unfurl.
Frangipani
Biscayne Park, FL
I filled a glass baking dish with water and placed the daisy just barley under the water. I left the stem long enough to touch the bottom to keep it from moving around. After frozen I placed it in my window for back light to photograph it. Adjustments in LR and Topaz Simplify.
The Stem. I loved how this stem seemed so alive as if it was just cut yesterday. Still green - still fresh.
"When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen,
in that gap, in between, isn’t there a consciousness of the present moment;
fresh, virgin, unaltered by even a hair’s breadth of a concept, a luminous, naked awareness?
Well, that's what naturally peaceful awareness is. "
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
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The form of this flower is remarkable! The spathe is a pure waxy white and enfolds a spiky white spadix held in place by a shiny, brilliant green stem. The flowers last for months, yellowing a bit but still remaining beautiful.
The genus Spathiphyllum is found on the forest floor in rain forests of tropical America. This explains its ability to cope with poor lighting and makes it a popular home and office plant. Here is South Florida it is used extensively in landscaping, adding a lovely flash of pure white wherever it grows.
You may also know it as Peace Lily.
Spathiphyllum, Peace Lily, Chinese Evergreen, Aglaonema, Aroid
Biscayne Park FL
One mushroom, amazingly common in southeastern states like North Carolina, that piques the interest of people who find it in their yards, gardens, and other human-maintained green spaces, is the ringless honey mushroom, Armillaria tabescens; a distinguishing feature that aids in identifying it is the consistency of the stem and the top of the mushroom cap: a tough, somewhat hollow stem often with stringy fibrous material stuffed inside, making it hard to break the mushroom apart easily, and it certainly does not snap open like chalk (as in the genus Russula, another common group of wild mushrooms growing in yards and lawns); stems should be white, fibrous, and almost woody, on mature mushrooms grey at the base, and when broken, appear jagged, fibrous, and almost look like a broken stick
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Charlotte, NC – 2018AUG22 – Ringless Honey Mushroom:
We've had record rainfall lately – the wettest July on record and the 2nd wettest month ever – and just "overnight" these two clusters of edible mushrooms popped in our backyard, Armillaria tabescens, growing with explosive speed, often reach full maturity in a day or two, growing in clusters of multiple individuals arising from the same spot in the ground.
By average rainfall in Charlotte, NC (USA), the wettest month is March: an average 4.4" of rain falls on 11-12 days, though in July rain typically falls on more days, with 3.5" in 12-13 days, the driest month, November: an average of 3.0" in 9-10 days, though in October rain typically falls less days, 3.3" in 7-8 days.
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Ontspannen stemming op de brug over de Naviglio Pavese in Milaan, met een passerende tram van lijn 10.
Met de komst van deze nieuwe tramlijn in november 2015 is de opheffing van ringlijn 29/30 - de Circonvallazione - in 2010 in feite teruggedraaid. Lijn 10 doet het westelijke deel van de ring met trams Tipo 1928 en lijn 9 het oostelijke deel met de korte versie van de lagevloertrams, de Sirietto.
De trams van dit type vieren over enkele jaren hun negentigste verjaardag in actieve dienst. Van de ruim 500 exemplaren zijn er nog meer dan 100 over. Ze rijden op zes van de achttien stadstramlijnen in Milaan. Sommige wagens kregen een dakreclame in oude stijl, in dit geval voor het kopen van tramkaartjes met je smartphone
Relaxed atmosphere on the bridge over Naviglio Pavese in Milan, with a passing tram on line 10.
The introduction of route 10 in November 2015 meant more or less the reinstatement of circular service 29/30 - the Circonvallazione - closed in 2010. Route 10 serves the western part of the ring with these trams Tipo 1928, while the 9 service does the eastern part with the short version of the articulated low floor trams called Sirietto.
The trams of this type will celebrate their 90th anniversary in active service within a few years. Of the more than 500 cars built, over 100 are left today. They are still operating six of the eighteen urban tram routes. A few cars got old style roof advertisements, in this case for buying tram tickets with your smartphone
Someone on Flickr once remarked that... if I was ever stuck for a subject... I should just post a picture of my legs.
So, yeah. I'm stuck. I haven't had much chance to get out shooting lately. Plus, this gives me a chance to prattle on about the topic of legs in general.
Men seem to dig them. So do certain women. And I guess I could see it from a purely aesthetic perspective... except that it seems kind of arbitrary.
Like.... what about arms? They're very similar. Both consist of long bones, covered with layers of muscle, skin, sinew and whatnot. Both have nifty things that bend in the middle and useful multi-digited devices on the end. Each fulfills its own practical purposes. And each is pretty indispensable for most of us.
So... why no "arm" groups on Flickr? (At least none that I've seen; perhaps I haven't searched enough.) Why no men self-identifying (again, at least not in my experience) as "arm men"... the way there are so many "leg men"?
Is it because legs are, in general, more likely to be covered than arms? Is that why feet (again, in general) tend to hold more allure than hands?
I watched a documentary a while ago about feet in early Japanese culture... back in the day when women's were bound to keep them as teeny-tiny as possible. Apparently, the smaller a woman's feet and shoes, the more status it gave her husband. More to the point, because the feet were almost always covered, they were fetishized. And... (who knew?)... the porn of the day featured graphic depictions of men fondling (and doing all kinds of unspeakable things to) their ladyfriends' stunted stumps.
Fast forward (and shift west) to the Victorian era, where even a small flash of ankle was considered incredibly risque. I'm still not sure why the same standard didn't apply to wrists, or necks, or fingers... or anything else that was typically covered by "polite" women in "polite" society.
Fast forward yet again to here and now. We've been through the 60s and 70s; through minis, micro-minis, polka-dot bikinis; through Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler et al; through Deep Throat and all its progeny (and progenitors); through women's lib and burned bras and so on... so what's the big hairy (or shaved, or waxed) deal with legs, anyway??
Don't get me wrong. I'm not whining or complaining. I find the whole phenomenon amusing, and flattering... since long skinny legs like mine seem to be appreciated.
This is on my mind today because our weather's warm, and I've only just recently taken the legs out of winter storage and got them back on the street, so to speak.
Anyway... just musing. No heavy thoughts today. We're heading into a long weekend (the last one of my 30s!) and I'm looking forward to getting a bit of sun on the stems... walking them around the 'hood, taking them out to the lake and putting them to work in the garden.
Because... all else aside... they're pretty darned useful. So, here's to legs. Long may they reign.