We rarely leave time, in our busy days, to sit and notice the small things. I find that being in the garden, watering, weeding, planning... puts me in a state of mind that allows me to enjoy the details.
How often do we sit and observe the delicate tracery of Queen Anne's Lace?
Or study the parts of the flowers that are blooming to notice that some are not the same as the others?
One of these platycodon has the pistal fully open in a lovely star shape, while in the other it has not yet opened. The plant must use this delay to maximize cross-pollination, because the balloon flower remains fresh for several days before it fades.
Do we even notice the wildlife that we disturb as we go about our business? This dragonfly posed for the camera for several minutes, then followed me across the yard to watch me deadhead the shasta daisies. I was the afternoon entertainment, in its eyes...
And I can't help but be amused that the inchworms love my coreopsis, this was the second of them I have found. I 've been letting them be, as I can't find a reference to these little red caterpillers that would indicate I should eradicate them. I've found that a lot of the 'inchworms' attack trees and can be quite a threat. This little guy is just sweetly amusing. He can eat my coreopsis. He makes a great picture.
great photos. The Queen Anne's Lace could be a snowflake
Posted by: bill | August 10, 2003 at 06:33 PM
That is what I was thinking when I took that photo.
A very well-named plant.
I have to admit I did some manipulation on that photo - I tweaked the curve in photoshop to get the dark and mysterious background effect. Reads really clean though. Like if I had a 'real' camera and knew what I was doing with it, I could have achieved the same effect - depth of field I think it is...
Posted by: jenn | August 10, 2003 at 06:53 PM