A little more green making it's way into the forest.
Don't forget the little views too!
So much detail, yet so fragile.
Everytime I look at this, I want eggs. The tops of the mushrooms with paprika and pepper apparently.
I've never witnessed so many poof spore mushrooms all in one place before!
Turkey Tail
Turkey Tail! A great collection of turkey tail mushrooms, along with one solo guy that didn't get the memo.
Moss spores reaching high and waiting to burst!
Ahh Spring.
So pure and simple -
Radiant Light Is Beaming! Sometimes, no, most all the time it's hard shooting into the sun. Washed out sky and dark foreground, so this time I used that to my advantage and made this one sunflower the star of the show.
It Goes On And On And On = Wow!
Just A Wonderful Field Of Sunshine!
It's Just A Feel Good Kind Of View
This One's Waiting For That Pefect Moment To Shine
Hello! No chance of walking into you!
Just Aww.
The Sun After The Sunset
A variety of Dahlia flower
Giant Swallowtail Butterfly busy at work, looking for that nectar.
The mini forest needs attention too.
Mushroom Hollow - Growing inside a hollowed out burned tree.
I think I've taken a picture of this cactus before. I should see how much it's grown in three years.
View From The Camel
City skyline amongst the hills.
Some thorny bush with Camelback Mountain in the background.
A lone tree in a field. Do you know how hard it is to find a tree by itself with snow on it with all this wind? But thankfully, there it is.
You know spring is coming.
You think you know what a bud looks like, but have you every really looked closely -
Simplicity amongst the reeds.
You might be bigger, but I have a plant!
Leucanthemum vulgare (Ox-eye Daisy) - Something so simple about a daisy.
The petals of the flower reaching out as if to hug the Sun's rays.
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium, the aromatic aster, is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family. Just a dainty flower, the size of my little fingers nail.
The Wild Iris - It couldn't have been more enjoyable capturing this flower. Sitting at the edge of a large pond, summer winds fresh off the water all while watching the setting sun.
Butterfly Milkweed - The plant that makes butterflies go around.
Oh, Crickets the name. Jiminy Cricket! - Just doing it's thing and making it hard for me to focus on him by hopping from leaf to leaf.
The Seeds of Salsify - The gentle seeds of a salsify plant. Ready to horrify that one neighbor that yells Keep Off The Lawn!
Like the web of a spider, you can get lost within the tangled reaches of a salsify.
Light as a feather, gently holding on to the drop of life until a gentle breeze gives it a new direction.
A cool abstract feathery view of salsify seeds.
A warm abstract feathery view of salsify seeds.
Who says a dandelion is a pest! This plant was the most photogenic plant from the entire day! So many intricacies to play around with.
A little moody water droplet catcher.
You give them an inch! They take up the whole shot! Had fun with this little guy, he didn't sit still very well but at least he didn't move fast.
Myrmecophily or just taking a drink?
More detail here, but does it take away from the overall effect?
It's like a whole different universe in here!
Light at the end of the tunnel -
My little version of Haystacks - Seeds of tomorrow.
The mighty Oak - Up close and personal.
My Lupine shot - I know it's not the glorious fields of Lupine you normally see, however, these are the real deal. These are native to our area and are much smaller than the invasive Bigleaf Lupine which is native to the west coast.
Hoary alyssum - Ever so tiny, yet blooming with flowers.
What an amazing little flower. Who knew a plant with the word spider in it could have something so gentle and light.
Fuchsia in your face! - Talk about a punch of color.
A little early bloom from a Phlox plant that's been in the family for a few generations.
It's like looking into the future - Phlox blooms still being protected by its leaf cover. Soon little ones, soon you'll see the sun.
The Peony seed pods for next year - The flowers may have come and gone but it still left something interesting behind.
So calming - The center of a Clematis
A rooster tail - Or at least that's what it reminds me of. - Dragon's Breath (celosia)
Waiting for their moment - Phlox flower buds nestled safely, waiting for it's leaf cover to unfold.
The mysterious Clematis - The location of this gave a perfect mix of shadow from the trellis, and the morning sun.
Clematis Flower
The finer detail of a frond from a Bracken Fern
Ostrich fern - MN native.
Some sort of liverwort, maybe snakeskin liverwort.
I took this series of images while being yelled at from an older lady. She's yelling that I better know what I'm doing and I should take shelter now! To be fair, there was a tornado like swirling clouds just above us. But I like the image!
Verbena Hastata (Blue Vervain)
Lunch time view- Trying to find some quiet time at work. Headed outside by a retaining pond and found this view. Flower - Verbena Hastata (Blue Vervain)
A little fuchsia slap in the face - The colors were certainly in full force here, and so intense against that green!
As much as I like these sunsets, the color and subject matter keep hinting to autumn. That I'm not ready for yet.
Good night sun -
These Blue Vervain are like natures time clock. Once the flowers get to the end, summer is... I can't say the words, my clock is still in June.
Just a little fall here-
Hows that for a splash of color.
What kind of crazy mushroom is this!
It's like a little village of mushrooms! Papa smurf where are you?
The understory of the understory.
The gills of a mushroom-
This is where golf tees are made- Cup Lichen
rows and rows or red crunchy apples.
Strength in these roots. Now that's how you put down your roots.
Who says an old dead tree doesn't have anything more to give.
Catching the left overs of fall.
Natures symmetry at it's finest.
End of season milkweed pods.
The amazing feeling of the sunshine on a cool fall autumn morning.
The simplicity of a berry - Isn't so simplistic.
Cedar tree branches waking up with the warmth of the sun.
Trees still budding and flowering up on the northland.
More flowering somethings. I walked by this plant many times on the way to the lake for water refills. I figured I'd capture it before it got stepped on. Amazingly, it survived all our foot traffic.
Hollyhock flower. No need to wait till it's open to enjoy the colors and textures of a flower.
More textures and curves.
MIlk Thistle flower - not to be confused with Milkweed. Even though both have medicinal properties both can cause allergic reactions but milk weed has more toxins to humans and animals.
as they say, busy as a bee.
MIlk Thistle - or a plant from Doc Seusse.
Tendrils of purple - some 150 photos later this plant finally stopped moving enough to capture this one image or the seven that make up this one image. Verbena macdougalii ‘Lavender Spires’
A little mushroom off the side road getting hit with the morning light.
Thinking of Christmas with this fall color scheme.
A river of gold.
I picked up this leaf because of the vibrant color.... but then I looked down and saw I had been doing that for some time already...
I guess I had been picking up "nice" leaves all along.
Is it dead? Is it alive? What ever state it is, it was worthy of a shot. Reminds me of sea coral.
This resembles the forest I'm in. Dead sticks standing from the fire while the new growth trees make their way into the forest.
A nice little fluff ball.
The sun popped out just in the right time for this. I can't get over the contrast from red to green and the textures in that red leaf plant thingy.
A Succulent Rose -As soon as I walked by this plant I knew I wanted to get a nice capture of it. The rich reds with the vibrant green center was perfect. Composed of 10-12 photos to get the needed depth, a few hours of editing later, I feel I captured what my initial vision of this image could be.
Where the palm trees sway -Fresh off the plane from the snow country, it certainly was enjoyable to look up and see vibrant blue sky and palm trees.
Also being a texture person, which is probably why I really enjoy taking macro shots of things, I couldn't resist taking this closer shot of the palm tree fibers.
I don’t always have to know what it is to know I like it -These newly budding leaves from a plant I know nothing about and that little tiny aphid looking bug made for a nice shot against the blue Californian sky.
more new leaves from the tree looking thing. So alien looking, or a set of pinchers.
Stemming from some sort of succulent plant, a tiny burst of delicate fancy.
Ever so small but ever so vibrant.
with the sunset casting it's long shadows.
A carpet of green fuzz. Long stocks sticking out of the ground, thankfully they were soft and not thorny.
The simplicity of a palm frond-
This texture will never get old. Palm Frond -
One of my favorite photos from this series but it wouldn’t have been anything without the power of the sunshine behind this palm frond.
...of course, it's in CA, does it really need to try that hard to get sun?
This flower knows how to stand out. Towering a few feet above the rest making sure it gets its time to shine in the sun.
So many different ways to shoot the folds, splits in the leaf, sun shining from the front or behind.
just a blue sky and green every where with a side of lemon kind of day. Perfect.
It must look strange when someone notices me taking one of these images since I’m standing face to the tree with only inches between. But I can’t help being drawn to the different textures.
The deep crevasse of tree skin
or lacking texture like this tree, but is more variegated than the others.
Spring is in the air.
Something new is arlways around the corner.
It might not have a sound, but it's a great bell in the flower world.
Fern portrait in the light of sunset.
Fresh Off The Vine -
Mother Nature Playing Love Me, Love Me Not
Almost there.
New leaves make new homes.
