snowball garden

snowball garden

i planted some snowballs last spring. after oversummering, they appear to be taking to this soil and these conditions. i just hope it doesn’t rain, or get too warm for them, poor fragile dears.

cone flowers in february

  • Carol says:

    Connect the dots and have a cool drawing

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the true path

the true path

the hardest job i’ve ever had is still parenting. sometimes it is a matter of seeing, for instance, that the curl in this leaf was not a detour, but a temporary deflection before resuming a straight path. when the curl begins, it is impossible to know that it will straighten out again.

paperwhite leaf

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curls

curls

this photo is not about dried winter grasses. it is about the arcs of snow inside the arcs of dried winter grasses, given shape by inadvertent curls. happy sunday.

tall grass in winter

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bronzed

bronzed

i mostly posted this image because of that blurry spiderweb of a shadow along the lower right side of the leaf. on the other hand, the leaf does look as if it has been plated in bronze doesn’t it? it reminds me of a story when i was a kid. a lot of people used to cast their children’s baby shoes in bronze to commemorate how precious their childhood was. if you said you had something “bronzed” it meant you loved it so much that you were willing to encase it in precious metal to enhance its value. when i was a kid we used to say that someone was so stupid, “if he won a gold medal, he’d have it bronzed.” there you go. your joke for the weekend.

white oak skeleton leaf

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pulling back

pulling back

the mission statement for STILL blog, if there were such a thing, would say that it posts one image a day of nature found around me, photographed against a white background. that mission has generally expressed itself as micro bits of nature, or tabletop arrangements, photographed on white paper. but i looked at this photo today, among many i took in a flurry (ahem) of snowfall-inspired images, and i realized it met all of the criteria of a STILL blog image. nature, check. found around me, check. against a white background, check. i just pulled back a little bit on this one, and changed the scale. i love it.

 

  • Carol says:

    I love it to / I wasnt to norfic ski right into it

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  • Carol says:

    I love it to, want to nordic ski right into it

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  • Charmian McLellan says:

    Are you sure you didn’t take that out MY window?

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  • Mary Ann says:

    Me too!

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  • Dede says:

    oh my goodness maryjo! you are remarkable! I love it when I open up stillblog and gasp. this one did it again. thank you for all the beauty you give my life daily..

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