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When I buy a pumpkin I always try to find one with an interesting stem. I liked this one it seems to have a life of its own.
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.
Cyathea medullaris, popularly known as the black tree fern or mamaku, is a large tree fern up to 20 m tall. The trunk is covered with hexagonal stipe bases. C. medullaris is distributed across the south-west Pacific from Fiji to Pitcairn and New Zealand.
PLEASE dont forget to add your photos to this group I cant beleive they have still not met the 30,000 photos target, and its nearly end Oct, so only a week left.
For each pink photo you add to www.flickr.com/groups/pink2008, Yahoo! for Good will donate €1, up to a maximum of €30,000. They will split the total equally between 5 charities in UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy.
As far as im concerned $30,000 isnt nearly enough but every little helps.
Lets add our PINK photos to the group please.
Leica 50mm Summicron-R f/2 with Leica Elpro V1a, mounted on Olympus E-PM1.
These stems are for Mexican Birds of Paradise flowers in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona.
Three Legged Cross, Dorset
Cabbage Stem Weevil [Ceutorhynchus pallidactylus]
COLEOPTERA > Curculionoidea (Weevils) >
Curculionidae (True Weevils) > Ceutorhynchinae
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Another shot of this tiny Ceutorhynch (Seed) Weevil that I posted a couple of weeks back. As I noted previously, you really get no idea how small they are from a photo, but believe me when I say it was no more than 3mm long.
The ocotillo plant is actually a desert shrub that has little leaves (when there is sufficient water) and spines/spiny stems with thorns but is not a cactus - San Felipe, Baja (Mexico).
A view from the stem of Norman Fosters's penis design, leading to the reception of the channel four building.
The Stem. I loved how this stem seemed so alive as if it was just cut yesterday. Still green - still fresh.
Looking down the stem of a small sipping glass. Taken with a Canon 60mm USM Macro lens. Type L for a better view.
Our Daily Challenge - Fill the Frame - 2/17/12
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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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.