Leaves on a Stalk
The light struck this array of leaves just right.
Tag Archives: back yard
Beginning of Tree Outline
Complete with flag suggesting placement of supplemental limb.
Tree Bark Burl Texture
Flower Arrangement
Standing Out In A Crowd
Sun Spots and Aura
Starburst
This equals or betters any fireworks I saw yesterday.
Really Big Bumble Bee Pollen Showering on a Passionfruit Flower
This is a bumble bee. I’ve seen bumble bees before. It is actually a bit smaller than the bee I saw the other day (Giant Bee Getting Pollen Shower from Passionfruit). Here is honey bee visiting the same passionfruit flower.
Giant Bee Getting Pollen Shower from Passionfruit
This bee was as big as the flower! It could barely fit under the passionfruit flower pollen shower head. And it was just coated with yellow powder. (Compare the size of this bee to the one pictured here: This is How a Bee Approaches a Passionfruit Flower.) Here is a side view of these pollen […]
Fig Leaf Overlap
This sunlit leaf causes me to imagine I can see its veins extending down to the chlorophyll itself, sucking up the energy and transmitting it to the rest of the tree. The intervening leaf blocking the sunlight to a portion of the bright green leaf steals a bit of its sun. However, the tree gets […]
