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It’s all about the details

06 Wednesday May 2015

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Sitting proud

The theme this week for the weekly photo challenge is INTRICATE, we are encouraged to share our photographs on what the word “intricate” mean to us.

Watching and waiting

To me intricate is something that is very detailed or complex, so the feathers and details on these wonderful birds of prey perfectly illustrate the theme. I could then have gone on and posted lots and lots of the thousand of macro flower photos I have, each so intricate and detailed in their beauty. I decided to just post this one below as I loved the simplicity of the colour, the lines from the petals drawing my eye in towards the centre. I would love to know what you think, do these photos work for you?

It’s all in the details!

Macro Monday: Make a wish

23 Monday Mar 2015

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Many beliefs involve blowing on the seed head to tell us something we want to know, and some of these are listed below:-

  1. If you blow hard on a dandelion seed head and all the seeds blow off, a wish will come true.
  2. Blow on a seed head until all the seeds are gone. The number of puffs it took will tell you what time it is. Alternatively, blow three times on the seed head and the number of seeds left will tell the time.
  3. If a woman blows hard on a seed head and all the seeds blow off, her lover loves only her. If seeds remain, he is not loyal.
  4. Blow on a seed head and the number of seeds left will tell you how many years you have left.
  5. Blow hard on a seed head and the number of seeds left will tell you how many children you will have.
  6. If you see seeds falling off the seed head when there is no wind, rain is on the way.
  7. Blow on a seed head and your wish will be carried to your lover.

Dandelion flowers also have beliefs surrounding them, include the following:

  1. If a child picks a dandelion flower off the plant, he will wet the bed that night.
  2. If you rub yourself all over with dandelion flowers, you will be welcome everywhere you go and your wishes will be granted.
  3. To find out if you will be rich, put a dandelion flower under your chin, and the degree of the glow on your chin will be the degree of your financial success.

This is the common dandelion, each flower head consists of hundreds of tiny ray flowers.

The flower head itself can change into the familiar, white, globular seed head overnight. Each seed has a tiny parachute, to spread far and wide in the wind. This is the part stage of the plants cycle that I personally think is most photogenic, hence the number of shots I have taken over the years!


Delicate Beauty

21 Saturday Mar 2015

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From Cocoon forth a Butterfly by Emily Dickinson

From Cocoon forth a Butterfly

As Lady from her Door

Emerged—a Summer Afternoon—

Repairing Everywhere—

Without Design—that I could trace

Except to stray abroad

On Miscellaneous Enterprise

The Clovers—understood—

Her pretty Parasol be seen

Contracting in a Field

Where Men made Hay—

Then struggling hard

With an opposing Cloud—

Where Parties—Phantom as Herself—

To Nowhere—seemed to go

In purposeless Circumference—

As ’twere a Tropic Show—

And notwithstanding Bee—that worked—

And Flower—that zealous blew—

This Audience of Idleness

Disdained them, from the Sky—

Till Sundown crept—a steady Tide—

And Men that made the Hay—

And Afternoon—and Butterfly—

Extinguished—in the Sea—

Macro Monday: the bead edition

16 Monday Mar 2015

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As easy as ABC!

Colour my world

My daughter has a lot of craft bits and pieces in her bedroom, she was making a bracelet for her cousins with these small beads and I could not resist a shot or two for Macro Monday this week. 🙂

In Blogging 101 today the prompt is to personalise a blog post in response to a prompt, more specifically in response to the daily post prompt. I have looked at the prompt and as I have already been joining in weekly prompts, the latest being wall, which I posted at the weekend. I hope this will be good enough for today as work commitments mean I will not get new photos taken today, except my project life ones that is.