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| Image by Margaret Crow in winter landscape,awaiting the sunrise. |
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Morning sky |
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Tree shape formed by tidal action on sand and coal particles : Longniddry beach. |
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Ground beneath a Douglas Fir : fallen cones,bark and needles : Dawyck Arboretum. |
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Bark patterns : Douglas Fir |
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Bark patterns : Scots Pine |
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Canada Goose feathers |
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Wave patterns : North Sea |
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Reflections : Duck pond,Botanic Gardens,Edinburgh |
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Summer wild flowers : clover and buttercups |
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| Image by Margaret Bumble-bee collecting pollen on a delphinium flower. Bumble-bee numbers are dwindling and Wild bees need our help. |
Nice! Happy Earth Day!
ReplyDeleteNo artist can hold a candle to Mother Nature's palette, patterns, and designs. Lovely celebrations of the earth you have shared here.
ReplyDeleteMy friend and neighbour is a bee keeper and it's wonderful to find his bees working away in our yard during the summer. He built a sort of a bee-trailer for them. He had to import the queens from New Zealand and it's quite astounding that the hives survived the harsh Canadian winter. The bee photo by Margaret is like a poster bee (ie. perfection!)
Very nice photos!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful reminder of what we might lose.
ReplyDeleteI love the bees and have a friend who rescued a swarm last week. Our area is very aware of the value of bees and of our total dependence. Lovely images, mon amie.
ReplyDeleteBises,
Genie
Happy Earth Day, here's to Mother Nature!!
ReplyDeleteEach of photos tells me we do not live alone. I feel even though we do not notice it, all beings are connected with each other.
Your blog is wonderful tribute to Earth.
Ruby, thanks a lot for giving me this morment, thinking about Earth.
keiko
Like louciao says, anything created by nature makes up a great art of its own and every change of season, every change of time produce different shapes, patterns, colors.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of bees, the critical situation is the same here. I wonder how things turned out.
Happy Earth Day, Ruby.
As ever, your eye is impeccable, Ruby! I particularly like the gorund beneath the fir tree with the zingy green highlights. Completely agree with your comment on my blog about digital photography - I certainly would never take so many pictures if it were still a question of rationing the frames and taking the film to Boots!
ReplyDeleteI like this series of photos about the beauties, pulses, or songs of the Earth. All life is connected and they are well balanced as I believe everything under the sun depends on the balance which men might have forgotten to keep as a part of Nature. Thanks for the reminder about our Mother Earth, Ruby. I always wonder what he has in his mind when I see a solitary bird on a high branch like the first photo.. Metaphorically he looks having a lofty aim and keeping himself all the vulgarity around him. Have happy spring days ahead.
ReplyDeleteYoko
These are just lovely. I didn't know it was earth day. Wonderful the way you catch that crumpled ripple pattern on the wave
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Coal appear on the land. There is enough coal,isn't there?
ReplyDeleteThe bumble-bee is collecting pollen very eager with his back had pollen, too. We want to keep our eyes open Nature on the earth. Thank you for giving me think about Earth Day.