Posts Tagged ‘Flowers’
Heath aster
There are only a few flowers left these days, mostly asters in protected spots – blue asters, heath asters, other white asters. Here’s a series of images of one tiny heath aster, around 10mm across.
Shooting wide open gives a dreamy, minimalist look and hides the imperfections in the flower. Click a thumbnail to view a [...]
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Aster and dew
The beginning of fall color – in a small way:
One of the glories of the fall – a pretty flower that fades quickly. A closeup like this hides the parts of teh flower that age fast.
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Lace
A Queen Anne’s lace flower, just opening:
They are plain, but my eye is drawn to the lines and curves.
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Queen Anne’s Lace
Just a common wildflower, but this cluster had an unusual globular shape, not the usual flat top:
Taken at the salt pond in Eastham at Cape Cod National Seashore – I just got back from a week at the Cape.
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Spiderwort and drop
Spiderwort (Tradescantia) is a midsummer flower with vivid colors (some purple, some pink), and three petals. When you look closely, the flower center has three elements: a straight pistil, a group of yellow-orange anthers, and surrounding them, feathery filaments. In this image, I caught the filaments in a drop after a rain:
Taken with my high [...]
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Daisies
Just some common June flowers in a meadow:
Not as colorful as some spring flowers, but groups of them are a beautiful sight.
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Wood Poppy
A wood poppy from this spring:
I took this a few minutes after the fern image in my last post. It was a great morning – overcast light, not much wind. I’ve never captured the prickliness of wood poppies before. This is a pretty typical threesome, they don’t all bloom at once. Either there are buds [...]
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Foamflower
A portrait of a common wildflower in the northeast:
The spring leafing out is becoming complete. Maples are in full leaf, grass is up, the oaks are greening up. There are lots of butterfly species flying now – today I saw three species of elfin, American Lady, Spring Azure, Juvenal’s Duskywing, Pearl Crescent, American Copper, suphurs, [...]
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White hepatica
More hepatica from Ithaca, NY. This image shows the scene at shoestring level:
Just a face in the crowd of hepatica.
It warmed up this weekend in Massachusetts – more spring butterflies are in flight, including the diminutive elfins, spring azures, and other butterflies.
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Hepatica
This weekend I visited Ithaca, NY. I hit the trails at Six Mile Creek and Buttermilk Falls State Park looking for wildflowers and waterfalls. I had better luck with wildflowers than waterfalls:
The trails at Butterfmilk Falls State Park were filled with hepatica in different colors: white, pink, and blue. That was exciting or me – [...]
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