I usually keep a camera handy in case something really neat crops up; didn't feel like carrying the big camera, so I took along my Canon S2 which has a great macro capability...and found a world of interesting images which I wanted to share in this post, just little stop-and-shoot "plinks", as I like to call 'em.
And here it is January...where humanoids feel the vapid sense of a 'vacuum' from the Holiday" gauntlet"...wherein trees (except many beech and birch) have long since shed their leaves...
(enlarge and check out the little bugger on the fungal plains)
...where most two-leggeds think of Nature as rather 'lifeless', which could not be farther from the truth...
...we need only to change our perspective to realize that while many mechanisms have slowed down, they most certainly have not stopped.
And so I ventured to look more closely at the forest floor of the woods in which I walked...as well as the grassy field next to it...and found a neat world of fungi and more...from the little 'shrooms...to the epiphytic tree ferns...
(enlarge and check out the little bugger on the fungal plains)...where most two-leggeds think of Nature as rather 'lifeless', which could not be farther from the truth...
...we need only to change our perspective to realize that while many mechanisms have slowed down, they most certainly have not stopped.
And so I ventured to look more closely at the forest floor of the woods in which I walked...as well as the grassy field next to it...and found a neat world of fungi and more...from the little 'shrooms...to the epiphytic tree ferns...
...to those who were keeping the chlorophyll action going, like the clovers, here, bejeweled with rain drops from our spring-like January rains just the day before...
...all were still 'doing their thing' in all their glory. Let this serve as our tribute to their wintertime moxie...
(Don't forget, you can click on the above pics to enlarge them for a closer look...)
Oh, yeah, how can you tell this is a Dogwood tree?
2 comments:
Wow Bob ... great photography. And Nature IS just awesome, isn't it? In the rush of daily living, 99.9% of the population misses what's right before their eyes, or they don't take TIME to see what COULD be right before their eyes.
You know, 200 years ago (quite literally), early 19th century poet William Wordsworth wrote a sonnet called "The World Is Too Much With Us". From what I remember:
"The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not .... "
That's all I remember at the moment, but it's enough.
What do you suppose Wordsworth would think of our world/culture NOW in 2007 ??!!! Ugh.
Suzy :)
Amen to that, Suzy! Many thanks. What would ANYone from a bygone era think of what we are doing to the earth, the environment, our communities today? Chief Standing Bear, a late Ponca chief, was quoted as saying, "Man's heart away from Nature becomes hard." Too many of us have gotten away from our respect and admiration of Nature in all of Her greatness and microcosms. The answer? To each carry our own torch of Rememberance, whose collective Awareness WILL make a difference...hopefully before it's too late.
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