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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2010 6:34:43 GMT
You can use them as Christmas ornaments.
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Post by tod2 on Nov 24, 2010 5:16:57 GMT
That is an excellent idea Kerouac! A bit of gold paint out of a spraycan and Bobs-your-uncle It has been raining constantly for three days so all my new seed heads I have spotted are dripping wet. This is a kind of reed growing in a succulents garden at my front door.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 24, 2010 6:39:15 GMT
Exquisite photos, Tod. That second one is like a little symphony.
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Post by myrt on Nov 24, 2010 8:47:03 GMT
Raindrops are so lovely I think - lovely, Tod2!
Can I be nosy? What happened to Tod1?? ;D
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Post by tod2 on Nov 24, 2010 12:22:18 GMT
Of course you can Myrt! Tod is the name I use on the Fodor's Board - the same as Kerouac. When I saw he just added a 2 behind his name I did the same when I starting posting here on AnyPort.
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Post by myrt on Nov 24, 2010 14:33:06 GMT
Aha...I see! I thought Kerouac 2 was a reference to Jack Kerouac......thank you!
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Post by tod2 on Nov 24, 2010 15:41:17 GMT
Yes, he has mentioned that he is a Jack Kerouac fan
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 5, 2010 19:09:33 GMT
A combination of the breeze and the late afternoon light made this grass seedhead produce an interesting sparkle effect ~ From a little daisy-like flower:
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Post by tod2 on Dec 6, 2010 5:06:57 GMT
The pink fluffy head of seeds is so pretty Bixa - well spotted! The daisies must look enchanting dotted around in the grass!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2010 11:08:16 GMT
Might those "daisy like flowers" be asters Bixa?
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 6, 2010 15:27:39 GMT
I'm thinking more something coreopsis-y, Casimira, of which there are several varieties growing wild around here. When I took the pod pics on the previous page, I was wearing a long skirt that picked up zillions of the needley little seeds. If you peer at the photo above, you can see remnants of the small single yellow flowers and the sort of bundled seed bunches with dried orange-colored petals on top. Also, the very thin branches and their pattern, plus what's left of the leaves suggests coreopsis.
Is that goldenrod on the beach up in Long Island? Nice picture.
Thanks, Tod. I was out looking for pods and seed heads. I missed taking pictures of all the frantically blooming wild marigolds a month ago.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 15, 2010 4:17:21 GMT
Clivia Jatropha podagrica
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Post by tod2 on Dec 15, 2010 6:35:36 GMT
I was wondering what colour your clivia flower was? Here the majority are orange. Yellow is seen around in a few gardens.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 15, 2010 7:17:11 GMT
Go here, #146 to see mine in bloom.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 16, 2010 1:39:39 GMT
I'm only now see that I captured some kind of bean pod behind the corn. Spathodea campanulata, aka African tulip tree Well, yeah it's a fruit. That's a seed head/pod, isn't it?
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 17, 2010 1:47:10 GMT
Royal poinciana pods ( Delonix regia) Pomegranates ~ Earlier incarnations ~
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Post by tod2 on Dec 17, 2010 4:30:40 GMT
Fantastic Bixa! You even captured the fine spider threads woven on the new little guava! It is a guava fruit isn't it?
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Post by tod2 on Jan 24, 2011 10:04:04 GMT
The wonderous Boabab Tree which seems to equal the Giant Redwoods in California for longivity, produces a beautiful flower (which I hope to find so I can show you) and this is the seed head it forms. Naturally, when non-botanists find one and wish to study it further on a hot day, it is imperitive that it is accompanied by a bottle of chilled white wine!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 24, 2011 17:58:40 GMT
Oh, I thought the non-botanist, yet keen photographer, was using the bottle to give an idea of pod size. The pod is so interesting. I had no idea the baobab had a lovely flower, too. I desperately want to see a mature baobab in the wild before I die. And I have to comment on that photo, which is absolutely wonderful -- framing, composition, color, focus, everything. I love the way the teeny ridges on the bottle bottom seem to mirror the ridges on the table. The pod is so perfectly placed in relation to the bottle, and that subtle green patch behind it mirrors and balances the color and shape of the bottle's base. You ought to sell the photo to Backsberg for an advertising campaign. Sorry to go on and on, but it's really exceptional.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2011 18:58:22 GMT
Oh, you people disgust me! I had not been back to the seed pod thread for a long time, so I have just discovered the pornographic pomegranates, or the South African wino tree.
It is January, for chrissake! It is not pod time. It is shiver-for-the-next-two-months time!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2011 16:22:40 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 25, 2011 16:59:26 GMT
Nice pic! Pyracantha, right?
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Post by fumobici on Jan 25, 2011 17:16:27 GMT
Crabapple?
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Post by tod2 on Jan 25, 2011 18:10:58 GMT
You are too kind Bixa! Your comments are very much appreciated but I have to give full marks to the Canon 7D.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2011 18:37:01 GMT
(I don't know what those red things are, but all of the trees in Square James Joyce had them.)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2011 18:42:22 GMT
But I know what this is, with a little help from my friends at the Jardin des Plantes.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2011 18:47:12 GMT
(pigeon for scale of the red berry items)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2011 14:22:39 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Jan 29, 2011 13:27:15 GMT
WoW, what a superb photo of those papery bell-shaped seedheads! I think you had a lucky shot when you snapped that pigeon with a red berry in its beak Kerouac! Splitsecond timing!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 29, 2011 15:46:27 GMT
Totally wonderful photo, Kerouac -- definitely one of your finest ever.
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