liminal

even though flowers in full bloom and buds pre-bloom are technically in transition, there is still something finished about their forms. i love them both, but i really love plants moving so obviously in between one state and another, that they almost appear to be in motion. this monarda will be something entirely different tomorrow.

bee balm (monarda)

siblings

mama robin laid her eggs above my friends’ porch, and their inadvertent presence caused her enough skittishness that she was not able to incubate the eggs of her two babies. that i get to photograph her eggs is both a gift and a tragedy, containing the beauty of both.

robin nest with two eggs

small bells

campanula means small bell in latin. i like to think of these spikes, which are poking out of our roadside thatch everywhere at the moment, as ringing their collection of small bells as they nod in the breeze, to whatever music they might be hearing.

ladybells (adenophora liliifolia)

abstracted

i watched a webinar the other day that got me thinking about pushing my nature images more in the direction of abstraction. these dried lilies that ended up looking like saffron were my first experiment. they still look a lot like nature to me. more to come.

dried lily flowers

chlorophyll

the reaction that cholorphyll undergoes in order to turn sunlight into vegetable matter and oxygen involves transfers of electrons. And by that microscopic means, essentially all of the oxygen in earth’s atmosphere is created. ah the green of summer. thank you. breathe in. breathe out. thank you.

umbrella plant leaves