Advection Frost

Dipladenia flower about to unfurl

Spotted on my weekly transect walk at King's Meadow Reserve in Nottingham (UK) - the only sighting on an uninspiring cool, breezy day (0203).

From a palm tree that produces small coconut like fruit. The trunk and fronds are covered with these thorns. They are up to six inches long and extremely sharp. The theme "tip" for today's Looking Close on Friday group inspired this photo.

Male Orange Tip butterfly in my garden

Disgusting !!!!! - Fly tipping in Red Beck Valley

A lovely little valley and then some ********* come and dump this over a wall ......

Reported to our Local Council

Another slide restoration from the 1990s, this one showing the waste from slate mining in Wales.

Today of course, such waste is a valuable asset with many uses.

weiblicher Aurorafalter

Orange tip Butterfly seen at RSPB Leighton Moss. (2123)

A male to follow on from the female posted previously, this one from my garden

Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)

Loch Spelve, Isle of Mull

Looking close...on Friday!:-)

The subject is tip . . .

Aurorafalter / Orange tip / mariposa aurora / L’Aurore

Anthocharis cardamines

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Because they find prey using the sensitive tips of their bills, and not just eyesight, Willets can feed both during the day and at night.

Viceroy butterfly surveying its domain.

Common.

Captured for Looking close on Friday: Tip. HLCoF everyone!

orange tip butterfly / Aurorafalter

Male on Lady's Smock

Anthocharis cardamines

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

This male Orange Tip was taking a few minutes rest on his favourite sprig of Hawthorn, from defending his patch. Orange Tip season seems to be almost over. A shame as I love to see them in spring, and this was a bumper year for them.

We went to a little cute city on the island Karmøy called Skudenes, there is a nice harbor here and on tip of the southend there is this lighthouse

A photograph of a golden tipped fence surrounding a portion of the Windsor Castle.

A Female Orange Tip butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) on the bright pink spring flowers

Taken at Lichfield

Old digital shot taken on a Canon EOS 40D

Martin Down, Hampshire

France; Brenne, Lignac 5/4/20

Happy Macro Monday

Gold glass holder creates the bokeh.

in the time of corona.

the dogs dig. everything has a tendency to be askew.

**I put the same photo in b&w tones below.

which do you like best, this one or the one below in comments?

As I was driving back to Anchroage from Seward I saw this mountain top. What grabbed my attention were the crisp sharp lines and angles of the snow on the mountain top.

Captured for Macro Mondays theme: tea.

Green Bees don't care about the petal tips, they don't have pollen or nectar on offer

bushveld purple tip/colotis ion

Sorry, can't show the purple tip, its on the inside, although with butterflies its called the upper side.

Update: iNaturalist's ID seems to be: diverse white/appias epaphia contracta www.inaturalist.org/observations/10243925

On an errand today I had the feeling it might be worth taking the camera. Just as I was about to head back I saw this little beauty resting up on some brambles.

Despite the blown out areas I do like taking shots of these backlit as the orange just glows.

Press L

Coronavirus Lockdown Garden Macro of an everyday plant...first attempt with 36mm tube and Sigma 85m F1.4 Art. (I expect there will be a lot of people doing this at the moment)