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)
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The plant ID may be incorrect. This plant is also flowering in southeast Michigan currently, and a botanist fiend said it’s in the Genus Adenophora. I am not sure.
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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
gumdrops
hey! get your eyes out of the candy jar!
ripening wild blackcap raspberries