Bee gardening
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This honey bee on my Ceanothus in my back garden was so weighed down by pollen – and yet there always seems to be room for a bit more!
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This Mimosa Tree blossom is not only an attraction to Butterflies and Hummingbirds, but it is so delicate and so colorful and it’s like a Mini – fireworks display – nothing short of an explosion of color! this tree came as a volunteer and was not even noticed for a few years…......my friend Bonnie Barry wrote a story once about a volunteer Mimosa Tree and has graciously consented to my using it along with this image….Bonnie, Thank you!!! You can check her works by just typing in Miracles in the search field. / / ____ Joyce, I thought you might like this little story I wrote years ago about a mimosa I loved. All the best, Bonnie Mimosa While I was watering the wilted caladiums near my angel statue, I looked up and noticed the mimosa in all its glory. Here I was working diligently to make the caladiums grow, yet there it stood, radiant without human effort. How many other plants had I set in this same spot through the years? The angel’s trumpet . . . impatiens . . . . those unusual little two-tone flowers whose names I can’t remember. All of them curled up and died. The soil was awful here; roots were knotted through the area; the trees sapped all the moisture. I’d wasted many a dollar on this spot, yet there was the mimosa looking down on me in gentle amusement. I had not planted the mimosa. I had never tilled the soil for it. I had not even watered it through the three-year drought. Yet three years ago it had been little more than a naked stick poking from the ground. The only reason it stayed put was that it was too close to the hurricane fence for Tommy to lop it as he mowed. The mimosa was a gift, a pure gift from God. I couldn’t claim any part in its flourishing. Either God’s wind had blown its seed to this corner or God’s birds had unwittingly deposited it. Only the miracle of nature could have made it grow like this without human care or cultivation. Yet now it produced all the color and vibrancy, all the grace and beauty that I had tried to achieve through the years with no success at all. / How like my life, I thought. Sometimes all my strained efforts are fruitless, yet in the midst of the sterility, God drops a single word, a single thought, and everything is suddenly alive and beautiful. Apart from Him, I can do nothing, yet I work like a Trojan to do it anyway. Maybe the gifts are rewards for my efforts, and maybe they are just freely given out of pure love. Who knows? Whatever the reason, the Source is undeniable. ___ “Every good gift and every perfect endowment comes from the Father of Lights,” (James 1:17) the mimosa whispers to me in gentle and amused remembrance. / __ / All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. © 2006 Joyce Dickens: Using my images for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action!
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Photography, zoom filtered. / By Gina Signore. / Dahlia House Studios. / The Sunflower Patch.
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The background is the rest of the orange cosmos garden! Other Categories / Animals / Apes / Architecture / Baby Animals / Bears / Birds / Big Cats / Elephants / Fish / Insects / Macro / Nature / Reptiles
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by Ken BoxsellThanks for dropping by. / Garden Beast VII
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Bumblebees are social insects that are characterized by black and yellow body hairs, often in bands. However, some species have orange or red on their bodies, or may be entirely black. Another obvious (but not unique) characteristic is the soft nature of the hair (long, branched setae), called pile, that covers their entire body, making them appear and feel fuzzy. They are best distinguished from similarly large, fuzzy bees by the form of the female hind leg, which is modified to form a corbicula; a shiny concave surface that is bare, but surrounded by a fringe of hairs used to transport pollen (in similar bees, the hind leg is completely hairy, and pollen grains are wedged into the hairs for transport). Like their relatives the honey bees, bumblebees feed on nectar and gather pollen to feed their young. I will donate 100% of proceeds from the sales of this image to The Wildlife Trusts
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What would I do without this garden? Other Categories / Animals / Apes / Architecture / Baby Animals / Bears / Birds / Big Cats / Elephants / Fish / Insects / Macro / Nature / Reptiles
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Other Categories / Animals / Apes / Architecture / Baby Animals / Bears / Birds / Big Cats / Elephants / Fish / Insects / Macro / Nature / Reptiles
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Limburg, the Netherlands / Olympus E-410 Have a look at my other photos. For example: / / Or browse through one of my categories: / animal / building / cemetery / church / damselfly / dragonfly / drop / fall / flower / france / insect / leaf / light / macro / nature / other / reflection / water / winter
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Another macro shot from the Sigma 150 f2.8 marco. Dropped the levels seriously after playing with selective colour. Cropped it in a little tighter for effect together with unsharp mask! Other Categories / Animals / Apes / Architecture / Baby Animals / Bears / Birds / Big Cats / Elephants / Fish / Insects / Macro / Nature / Reptiles
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Best Viewed Large All Rights Reserved / @ Julia Wright This rose capture is straight from the camera!
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“Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.” ~ ALFRED AUSTIN This is my Secret Garden. My work of the last 2 years has culminated at this point. This piece is so very complex, but I will try to explain it to you. This is me. I am from the earth, of the earth, striving to save the earth. She is me, I am her. I live in the country on Kangaroo Island (Australia), surrounded by nature. I have wild kangaroos in my front yard every night, koalas in my trees, and my son Henley and I walk every day, and celebrate the amazing place we live. This nature has engulfed my being. On average, I have been taking about 100 images with my Canon PowerShot camera every single day for the past two years. Macro bugs, macro wildflowers, skies, dead trees, birds, flowers, shells, leaves, images from my orchard, burnt trees from the bushfires, dried up drought-affected dam bases, kangaroos, and of course, my son Henley. So many images have gone into this one piece. There are two worlds here. The abundant and thriving; and the dying, the gone forever. Our house was surrounded by devastating bushfires in Dec 2007 – a time I will never forget. Nothing but smoke could be seen out the windows. This land is vulnerable and changing for the worse every year as a result of Global Warming. It is an issue so very close to my heart because it is on my doorstep. What will this world be like for my child and all the children of now? Famine, drought, heat waves, extreme weather patterns and natural catastrophes, massive bushfires, more war, no jobs, no money, more disease, more animals extinct forever, less trees and rainforests, less farmers, less food. We are seeing it now. Something has to be done. My forehead shows a migraine I recently had during a heatwave. It felt like a penetrating light was entering my eye and illuminating half of my brain before exiting at the base of my skull where the vision centre of the brain is. It was very powerful to me. Vision. Have the vision before the world dies. Mother Earth is dying, as is half of me. What are you doing to help the earth survive? It’s up to our generation, or there will be nothing left. Your thoughts on this topic are most welcome…. CREDITS: All images taken by me except: Brain, Blood Spatter, & Moon Brushes: PS Brushes.net From Deviant Art: / Fire Brushes: Purestock / Grass Brushes: Annamari-annie / Twig Brushes: Clandestine-stock / Star Brushes: Kuschelirmel-stock / Vine Brushes: gvalkyrie & macys Tree Roots: Rogue-stock , Kaeloth, & Ninde / Green Tree: Its-only-stock / Rainbow Image: Stock-by-Kai Let me know what you think!*
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Photographing these tiny creatures isn’t my style. However, while in my back garden with the camera, I saw this little fellow buzzing over the lavender bush. I extended the zoom to its longest focal length, closed in and shot him a few times. Except for a bit of cropping, this photo is being presented ‘as-is’. Nikon D60 / Nikkor 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6 VR / Aperture f/6.3 / Exposure 1/1000 / Focal Length 85mm / ISO 200
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Nikon D40 with 18-55mm GII lens / 18mm ~ 1/320’s ~ f / 3.5 ~ ISO=200 / Hand Held / Raw / Processed in Nikon Capture NX 2 software / ________ / 08/18/2009 / ________ / 08/19/2009 / ________ / ________ / ________
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Best Viewed Large All Rights Reserved / @ Julia Wright In the days / When we were swinging from the trees / I was a monkey / Stealing honey from a swarm of bees / I could taste / I could taste you even then / And I would chase you down the wind You could go there if you please / Wild honey / And if you go there, go with me / Wild honey Did I know you / Did I know you even then / Before the clocks kept time / Before the world was made From the cruel sun / You were shelter / You were my shelter and my shade If you go there with me / Wild honey / You can do just what you please / Wild honey / Yeah, just blowing in the breeze / Wild honey / Wild, wild, wild I’m still standing, I’m still standing / Where you left me / Are you still growing wild / With everything tame around you I send you flowers / Cut flowers for your hall / I know your garden’s full / But is there sweetness at all
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I got up this morning to more honey bees than I have seen in several years…..they love my Moonflower plant….I took about 55 shots between 6:20 – 6:40 …...then as quickly as they appeared, they were gone….enjoy and please view in large format for optimum viewing pleasure…as with all my images this work is copyright protected and registered – please resect copyrights. / Sold on 10/17/09 in the form of a 8×10 matted print…at the ArtSmart 2009 fine art show in Redding, CA This image is now a Numbered and Signed Limited Edition Series and is available through Redbubble only in greeting card format. Prints can be purchased directly from me through my email address listed on my profile page. This image is copyright protected and registered; please respect copyrights. MCN: C7EAE-TX524-SUN6H / /
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/ FEATURED IN THE GROUP: Butterflies, Skippers, Moths, & Other Winged Insects Camera:Canon 400D / Lens: Canon Macro 100mm Johannesburg South Africa
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Struggling for more than a week with a smudgy borrowed laptop and version of picasa i managed to sneak in… I came up with this to ward off the twitches…a handheld macro on a compact olympus sp560uz… Taken in Peebles in the lovely scottish borders…and first time using setting previously unnoticed…supermacro .. Thanks for looking Cheers / :))
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I always think of my Pop when I see poppies. He was an awesome grandparent and loved to make us laugh. One of his tricks was to pretend to eat big fat snails straight out of the garden – horrifying and hilarious to a 5 year old!! He would have loved this garden that I visited in Bridgetown, so this is for Pop :))) (And he would have found a snail or two!) Maranup Ford, near Bridgetown, WA For enquires about canvas prints, or photographic prints larger than Redbubble options, please contact me via bubblemail
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