Catkin
28 creative works found
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Male Catkins of the Pussy Willow in full flower / /
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Couldn’t resist taking a picture of these Catkins this morning – just so wonderful to see Spring arriving at long last! How Pussy Willow got the name: - According to an old Polish legend, many springtimes ago a mother cat was crying at the bank of the river in which her kittens were drowning. The willows at the river’s edge longed to help her, so they swept their long graceful branches into the waters to rescue the tiny kittens who had fallen into the river while chasing butterflies. The kittens gripped on tightly to their branches and were safely brought to shore. Each springtime since, goes the legend, the willow branches sprout tiny fur-like buds at their tips where the tiny kittens once clung.
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from my Celtic Luna Month Calendar, available soon “The evening comes, the fields are still. / The tinkle of the thirsty rill, / Unheard all day, ascends again; / Deserted is the half-mown plain, / Silent the swaths! the ringing wain, / The mower’s cry, the dog’s alarms, / All housed within the sleeping farms! / The business of the day is done, / The last-left haymaker is gone. / And from the thyme upon the height, / And from the elder-blossom white / And pale dog-roses in the hedge, / And from the mint-plant in the sedge, / In puffs of balm the night-air blows / The perfume which the day forgoes. / And on the pure horizon far, / See, pulsing with the first-born star, / The liquid sky above the hill! / The evening comes, the fields are still.” Mathew Arnold
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Catkins of a Silk Tassel Tree, photographed in Alfred Nicholas Gardens, Sherbrooke, Dandenong Ranges, Victoria /
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taken in local wood
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taken in local wood
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taken on cycle path in forest of dean
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thank you for looking
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A photograph of catkins on a tree, manipulated in PS to make this finished image.
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I love seeing the catkins appear on the trees, then it really is spring
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Clinging to the catkins like glue the last drops of early morning dew
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No. this is a catkin from a neighbour’s tree. It was so windy yesterday that I couldn’t get a decent shot on the tree. I said i’d come back when the wind had dropped, but my neighbour snapped of a branch tip and handed it to me. Since I had it, I brought it inside and ahd a play with it. Hope you like the result.
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Three stages of catkin and leaf emerging.
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Salix sp. / Willow / Paju
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Willow (I think) Catkins found in a field in Swindon, Wilts.
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Spotted on a low tree…..or maybe a tall bush!! Most were downy and unopened, but this one had flowered. Beautiful!!
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On the same plant as the other catkin, was this group, posing, and calling out…..pick me….pick me. So I did!! I am afraid I have NO idea what its latin name is.
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Catkins dancing in the spring sunshine
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