Photographed on one of my usual lunch time walks. The teasel (Dipsacus) has dry spiny inflorescence head that make lovely additions to floral arrangements!
Via Flickr:
Teasel – Black and White
One of the many wonders of the natural world! A dandelion seed head that requires nothing more than a puff of wind to set the winged seeds on a new journey of colonisation!
Photographed in Staines, UK with a Nikon D7000 camera. Post-processed in Lightroom and Color Efex Pro.
Field dandelions (Taraxacum sp.) photographed in the middle of summer near Hinxton, England.
All greens from the background were removed in Lightroom.
Tasty wild blackberries on a roadside bush. I suppose the joys of getting food like harks back to our hunter-gatherer past.
On my lunchtime walk today I spotted this snail about 1.5metres off the ground. Will this snail make it to the top of this shrub? And which branch will it take?
The autumn is beginning, and bees everywhere are making the most of the season by hoarding up for the coming winter.
Seven Lakes drive is a road in the Hudson valley in New York state.. As the name implies the route passes by seven lakes in this forested region of the Harriman state park. This picture records sunset at Lake Tiorati.
Photographed with an iPhone 4S and processed in Adobe Lightroom.
These Zinnia flowers were grown from seeds purchased on my last visit to the US. I love the detail on these flowers and have tried to capture them in this photograph.
Photographed on 4th September, 2013 with a Nikon D7000, Sigma 105mm f/2.8 lens at ISO100, f/20, 1/250 with remote flash in slave mode.
From the New York Botanical Gardens.
This is a lotus flower from the New York Botanical Gardens
Juridicious 