338/365: "Patience and tenacity are worth more tha…
Frosty Screw End
Diamond Encrusted Mushroom and a Frosty Stump
339/365: "Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your…
340/365: "Hold fast to dreams, For when dreams go,…
Deer Prints
Dried Flowers with Snowy Hats
341/365: "There is no definition of beauty, but wh…
342/365: "There are two kinds of light - the glow…
Frosty Trees
Colorful Frost Abstract
343/365: "I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm look…
Molten Silver Bubble Invasion
Silver Bubbles on Glass Vase
344/365: "Talk about it only enough to do it. Drea…
345/365: "We find the Works of Nature still more p…
346/365: "All my life through, the new sights of N…
347/365: "Nature's own masterpieces will never go…
348/365: "Art will never be able to exist without…
349/365: "No human being, however great, or powerf…
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350/365: "Every gift from a friend is a wish for y…
351/365: "The ladder of success is best climbed by…
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352/365: "There is only you and your camera. The l…
353/365: "Creativity is not the finding of a thing…
354/365: "Anything becomes interesting if you look…
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358/365: "Maybe Christmas", he thought, "doesn't c…
359/365: "To succeed in life, you need three thing…
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361/365: "Direct observation of the luminous essen…
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363/365: "Life is a series of experiences that mak…
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364/365: "What is art but a way of seeing?" ~ Saul…
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365 Project: December Collage
H is for Huge Hawk Moth (Hyles Lineata)
I is for Incredible Iris (+ 15 pictures in notes!)
J is for Jaunty Jonquils (+ 5 more inset pictures!…
K is for Killer Kingsnake (+ 10 more inset images!…
L is for Lovely Light (+16 more in notes!)
M is for Magnificent Mushrooms (+ 18 insets)
N is for Nature's Noteworthy News about Narrow Nee…
O is for Ornate Opal (+1 inset)
P is for Perfectly Purple Pasque Pulsatilla
S is for Stunning Sweet Williams (+1 inset)
T is for Translucent Tulip (+1 inset)
V is for Vermin Villain
W is for Wonderful White (+4 insets)
Y is for Yummy Yellow
Z is for Zazzy Zinnia
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333/365: “Seize opportunity by the beard, for it i…
334/365: “With confidence, you have won before you…
332/365: "There's no happier person than a truly t…
331/365: "We live only to discover beauty. All els…
330/365: "I would rather be adorned by beauty of c…
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The Pearl and the Clam
329/365: "It's the cursed cold, and it's got right…
328/365: "Moral courage is higher and a rarer virt…
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327/365: "You go through life wondering what is it…
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Weeping Cosmos
326/365: "Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly pr…
325/365: "Nature hath framed strange fellows in he…
Frosted Chocolate Mushrooms
A Frosted Rusty Nail in Frosted Old Wood
Frosted Earthstar from Above
324/365: "Everyone can identify with a fragrant ga…
Another Gorgeous Sunset with Boiling Clouds
Mushroom with Bendy Stem!
323/365: "The true lover of rain.... has a deep in…
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319/365: "Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the b…
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Moosie and His Stick
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337/365: "It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter." ~ Gollum, The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
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I planned to get out of the house early enough this morning to catch the frost, but I dawdled too long and it was all gone by the time the dogs and I bounced out the front door. Just in case, I headed down to the shadiest part of the "light side" of our lower forest, hoping I might get lucky. Nope. Just a tiny bit here and there, but I'd missed the real show. Oh well, it's going to be very cold the rest of the week, so I'll try again tomorrow! :)
As the dogs had a fine time nosing around and looking for icky things to chew on, I began studying stumps, logs and branches. Our Oaks get positively COVERED with various lichens and fungi, and there seem to be endless varieties as I pay more and more attention. Every stick, every log, every piece of bark, has the potential of showing me something interesting and new! I feels like I'm in a gigantic toy store in the woods, with hidden surprises everywhere, just waiting to be discovered!
It didn't take long to find my day's treasure trove! Examining a couple of logs without seeing anything special, I reached over to grab a fallen branch and toss it aside...when my mind registered "CIRCLE" and I froze in mid-toss. I have trained myself to look for circles, ovals, and rounded shapes over leaves, and this has really helped me to find mushrooms. In this case, the circular shape was exceedingly small, and it took me a few seconds to race along the branch with my eyes to find what got my attention. MUSHROOM! There it was! Tiny and shriveled, this little mushroom was a brand new discovery for me! In the past, I've never found mushrooms on the thinner Oak branches, only the thick ones. But here it was! And then...I spotted another! And MORE! In twos and threes, many little mushrooms were poking out through the various species of lichen and moss attached to the branch! It was like a little village of fungus, all of them so precious and tiny, ranging in size between 1 mm and 1.5 cm! I had a hard time knowing where to begin, there were so many wonderful little shapes, positions and fun groupings! My biggest challenge was finding a way to balance the unwieldy branch without mashing mushrooms and still being able to get the angles I was after. Many pictures later, I was satisfied that I got my Picture of the Day, so I lay the branch back down, and just for fun, took a very good look at the tree's trunk and a living branch...YES! Lots and lots of tiny mushrooms!! I thought to myself, "I bet they've been here all along, and I've just never noticed them until now!" Isn't it just amazing how much there is to see out in nature?!! :)
When I got home, I found myself becoming overwhelmed at the sheer number of magical little scenes I'd been lucky enough to capture successfully, and it was really hard to narrow down my favorites. In the end I decided to go with this picture because the mushrooms are so cool looking the way they are peering down from their woody perches, the gloom deepening into darkness behind them. I found myself thinking of one of Gollum's riddles to Bilbo, one of the many they trade back and forth in the heart of the Misty Mountains. I have always loved those riddles, so I used the one I was thinking about as the quote for today. (If you don't know the answer, it can be found here: Lord of the Rings Wiki: The Hobbit: Riddles in the Dark
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. J.R.R. Tolkien
Explored on December 4, 2013. Highest placement, page 3.
I planned to get out of the house early enough this morning to catch the frost, but I dawdled too long and it was all gone by the time the dogs and I bounced out the front door. Just in case, I headed down to the shadiest part of the "light side" of our lower forest, hoping I might get lucky. Nope. Just a tiny bit here and there, but I'd missed the real show. Oh well, it's going to be very cold the rest of the week, so I'll try again tomorrow! :)
As the dogs had a fine time nosing around and looking for icky things to chew on, I began studying stumps, logs and branches. Our Oaks get positively COVERED with various lichens and fungi, and there seem to be endless varieties as I pay more and more attention. Every stick, every log, every piece of bark, has the potential of showing me something interesting and new! I feels like I'm in a gigantic toy store in the woods, with hidden surprises everywhere, just waiting to be discovered!
It didn't take long to find my day's treasure trove! Examining a couple of logs without seeing anything special, I reached over to grab a fallen branch and toss it aside...when my mind registered "CIRCLE" and I froze in mid-toss. I have trained myself to look for circles, ovals, and rounded shapes over leaves, and this has really helped me to find mushrooms. In this case, the circular shape was exceedingly small, and it took me a few seconds to race along the branch with my eyes to find what got my attention. MUSHROOM! There it was! Tiny and shriveled, this little mushroom was a brand new discovery for me! In the past, I've never found mushrooms on the thinner Oak branches, only the thick ones. But here it was! And then...I spotted another! And MORE! In twos and threes, many little mushrooms were poking out through the various species of lichen and moss attached to the branch! It was like a little village of fungus, all of them so precious and tiny, ranging in size between 1 mm and 1.5 cm! I had a hard time knowing where to begin, there were so many wonderful little shapes, positions and fun groupings! My biggest challenge was finding a way to balance the unwieldy branch without mashing mushrooms and still being able to get the angles I was after. Many pictures later, I was satisfied that I got my Picture of the Day, so I lay the branch back down, and just for fun, took a very good look at the tree's trunk and a living branch...YES! Lots and lots of tiny mushrooms!! I thought to myself, "I bet they've been here all along, and I've just never noticed them until now!" Isn't it just amazing how much there is to see out in nature?!! :)
When I got home, I found myself becoming overwhelmed at the sheer number of magical little scenes I'd been lucky enough to capture successfully, and it was really hard to narrow down my favorites. In the end I decided to go with this picture because the mushrooms are so cool looking the way they are peering down from their woody perches, the gloom deepening into darkness behind them. I found myself thinking of one of Gollum's riddles to Bilbo, one of the many they trade back and forth in the heart of the Misty Mountains. I have always loved those riddles, so I used the one I was thinking about as the quote for today. (If you don't know the answer, it can be found here: Lord of the Rings Wiki: The Hobbit: Riddles in the Dark
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. J.R.R. Tolkien
Explored on December 4, 2013. Highest placement, page 3.
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This is just marvelous! Like reading mini novels =) I truly feel sorry for not being able to read them on daily bases, because this just is so damn busy time of the year! I need to get back to these on holidays =D
EDIT: SOme constructive feedback. Could you please use a little smaller pictures on tags =) Then they would fit into screen better also on tiny laptops and tablets =D But no need to change if I'm the only who thinks so.
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