Nos caminhos que a pesca segue em nosso país, na falta de respeito que nossos políticos – aqueles que aprovam leis – tem com o nosso meio ambiente, nossa fauna e flora. Pensam que tudo e renovável e trocam a incerteza da continuidade de nosso habitat em troca de votos. Não sei mais o que pensar ou fazer, não sei mais se terei a liberdade passada de percorrer rios piscosos com mata ciliar nativa e rica. Não sei se poderei ouvir as causos que ouvia e aprender da vida no mato porque agora o ribeirinho que falar da novela, do mundo de ficção enquanto o mundo real vai desaparecendo. Sempre me lembro de um ditado a qual credito ao amigo Adamo – Quanto mais gente no mundo menos natureza.

You don’t need to travel far south of Newstead to encounter some very different vegetation types. There is a steep rainfall gradient between here and the Great Dividing Range and this together with soils and underlying geology has shaped the ecosystems we enjoy. One prominent change occurs around Yandoit where a combination of slightly moister climate and volcanic soils is associated with different plant communities. A striking feature of this landscape is the appearance of Candlebark Eucalyptus rubida, a majestic tree that can grow to a height of more than 50 metres.

Candlebarks on Yandoit Hill, 24th November 2009

I do not know what kind of shrub this is, but we found it while walking through a local arboretum. Beautiful color for Northern Illinois in late November. Actually, beautiful color for anywhere, anytime IMO.

More beautiful yet.

EDIT: Thank you Lucy for letting me know that this plant is an American Beautyberry.

11.24.09 #24

Indentification in progress.

Refer to Hart Park Tree Log for GPS locations and more detail.

General information forthcoming.

The following pictures were taken on 11/21/2009 by Melissa Iger and Kenny Beal.

Los muchos lugares de trabajo, mesas, tableros y escritorios, que he tenido en las últimas décadas, han sido testigos de mis afanes por conocer dónde y cómo se presenta el Número de Oro, en la Naturaleza y en lo más significativo de la obra humana, valiéndome de lo más conveniente para el análisis de las proporciones armónicas, su medición y dibujo.

Empleé el mismo método de estudio (observación, reflexión y cálculo de las proporciones) repetido en cada caso, con muchas comprobaciones y correcciones, explorando todas las alternativas posibles, sin cansancio ni renuncia, con el convencimiento de que finalmente encontraría, en instantes de inenarrable felicidad, la presencia del Número de Oro.

Los instrumentos que utilicé variaron según el tema: casi siempre los propios de mi profesión (desde calculadoras, escalímetros, compases, transportadores y escuadras, hasta lápices, plumas y pinceles), y los de la informática adecuada para la calculada graficación, valiéndome de la observación directa, sacando o consiguiendo fotografías, dibujando y pintando.

Tuve un largo peregrinaje, real y virtual, en diversos países y ciudades, buscando en museos, bibliotecas, galerías de fotografías; o, en algunos casos, en recorridos por calles y parques, observando, fotografiando, dibujando y midiendo. Al mismo tiempo, casi sin darme cuenta, fui reuniendo libros y documentos, ahora ya mis viejos amigos.

La mayor aventura intelectual de mi vida, por estudiar lo que percibía de las proporciones armónicas,  ocupó mi mente y maravilló mi espíritu, haciendo contrapunto a mi actividad profesional en el urbanismo, en una actividad llena de satisfacciones. En el extenso campo objeto de mi interés, fui encontrando los diversos temas que fui cubriendo paulatinamente.

Ahora, con enorme satisfacción, puedo ofrecer un libro a quienes tienen interés por saber y comprender lo que significa ese Número en todo lo que nos rodea, agradeciendo a todos cuantos me han brindado, con amable generosidad: ayuda, consejo y estímulo; pero, sobre todo, a la vida que se me dio, con la capacidad de ver y comprobar algo de la Armonía Universal.

Con ese espíritu, invito a ver mi libro:

O extremo sul da Bahia é uma região de contrastes cênicos, tanto aquáticos quanto terrestres, oferecendo espetáculos inéditos a todo instante.

Em meio ao Atlântico Sul, em uma região de águas mornas azuis e cristalinas, bancos e recifes de corais desenham uma geografia submarina difícil de descrever.

Fauna e flora bailam cintilantes em outra dimensão, o reino das águas. As baleias Jubarte são um espetáculo à parte. Elas passam a temporada de julho a novembro nas águas rasas e mornas do sul da Bahia, fugindo do inverno rigoroso da Antártida.

Procriam e acasalam-se, protegidas de seus predadores. Além das baleias Jubarte podemos encontrar, embora com menos frequência, baleias Francas e Minkes.

No litoral, as falésias imponentes, do alto de seus 18 a 25 metros, se debruçam sobre o mar, formando paisagens deslumbrantes.

Rios e riachos trazem a água doce que, misturadas ao mar, dão lugar a extensos manguezais, responsáveis pela biodiversidade marinha. Em terra e no mar, as unidades de conservação em nível federal, estadual e/ou municipal garantem a sobrevivência do corredor da Mata Atlântica.

Aldeias indígenas, vilas de pescadores transformaram-se em cidades descobertas por turistas e veranistas, que contam hoje com cerca de dez mil leitos espalhados nos cinco municípios que integram a Costa das Baleias – Prado, Alcobaça, Caravelas, Nova Viçosa e Mucuri.

Vale a pena conhecer!

Foto: Wikpedia

Fonte: Setur

Trying to figure out just what we’ve got ourselves here….
No more than an inch and a half high, this little stem is (4 cm?), soft, light green but not yellowish, with leaves that stuck out in all directions when I first picked it, but now twenty minutes later are lying flat all around the stem, so that the shape of it is not flat but cylindrical, almost.
It’s more like Lycopodium selago than anything else I can find:

(source)

It’s also known as Huperzia selago, common name:  Northern firmoss or fir clubmoss.  (Are they not the same plant?  If not, H. selago is the right one).  During the Carboniferous period there were forests and forests of them, along with horsetails and ferns, and some of their cousins were a hundred feet tall.  In timeline here, see at 300 Mya.

L. selago at Discover Life

…at Dave’s Garden

While I’m on an orchid kick, here is 6/7ths of my orchid collection. I blame it on Julie Zickefoose, this newfound interest in orchids. To be fair, it probably isn’t completely her fault. I’ve always had a love for green things, and have a tendency to collect plants and fill my house with them. There is such great satisfaction to be had in nurturing something, watching it thrive and thank you for your doting with beautiful flowers or lush greenery. I don’t really get cut flowers, as they seem beside the point – within a couple of weeks they’ve all died, and there’s nothing you can do about it. A potted plant will reward you time and again, with a little love and patience.

It’s only natural, then, that this love of green should eventually become focused into a particular area. My love of nature became focused in birds and moths, over time. While all sightings are exciting and have meaning, it’s the ones in these focal groups that really get you going. So it is with plants. And why it’s not completely Julie’s fault. But I think my budding (pardon the pun) interest in orchids and my recent desire to collect them over other equally interesting and worthy groups of plants is probably, at least partly, the result of reading Julie’s blog and her regular posts about her orchid collection. After all, when you read posts like this one, or this, or this, or this, or this … who could possibly resist the urge to go out and collect one or two or several for themselves?

Most likely, though, just on their own, Julie’s posts wouldn’t have tipped me over the edge. About four years ago, Dan bought me an orchid, a tropical ladyslipper hybrid of the genus Paphiopedilum. It was blooming at the time, and I enjoyed admiring the flower and was disappointed when it finally died and dropped off, a few weeks after bringing the plant home. But it was when the plant rebloomed the following winter that I really fell in love with it. Oh, the excitement and satisfaction of that new flower. Especially in combination with the stereotype that orchids are hard to care for and rebloom, I took great pride in that my plant had put out another inflorescence. I took this photo of it, and for a couple of years that was the image on my website’s front page.

Encouraged, perhaps, by my success in reblooming the Paph (as orchid enthusiasts call them; it’s certainly easier to say), I decided to go out and buy another one. This time I got a hybrid of the genus Phalaenopsis, a lovely white-and-fuscia individual, from the same grocery store where Dan had bought the Paph. That store had a pretty good assortment in their flower section, and they had all sorts of orchid types. I’m not sure why I settled on the Phal at the time over the other varieties. The Phalaenopsis orchids are among the easiest to grow at home, it turns out, and these days just about every store with a flower section has at least a few Phals for sale, but I rarely see the other orchid groups anymore. Perhaps Perth just isn’t big enough to support fancy orchids. I enjoyed the blooms on that plant while they lasted, and was delighted when it put out a second flower scape the following year. In all the moving about last year and then this, both of those spikes eventually died, but now that it’s settled again it’s putting out a new one.

I think it was the second orchid, the Phalaenopsis, reblooming that really did me in. Why was I more affected by the orchids than I have been by success with other plants? I don’t know. Maybe it’s that they’re easy to get, and they come in so many colours and varieties. And many are very showy. A lot of other flower groups can fall into one of these categories or another, but I think the combination of all three really appeals to my collector’s nature, and is the same reason that I “collect” birds and moths: easy to see, great diversity, and many are quite showy. With birds and moths, you’re simply collecting names on a list. Plants, however, require space and constant care. I need a room with bigger windows. I would love to have a greenhouse or sunroom addition to the house.

I’ve recently been reading a book called Orchid Fever by Eric Hansen. It’s a book my mom happened to have, which she lent to me shortly after I’d got my first orchids. It sat on my shelf, unread, for a couple of years. The new flower spike on the original Phal, timed with the disappearance of moths and most everything else outside, has tripped my orchid enthusiasm again (I suspect it will become my winter obsession, fueling me through the cold winter months when nature is scarcer; how nice that the plants bloom just when you need it most), and I decided to pick it up. I’m about halfway through. It’s a non-fiction book that explores the world of orchid enthusiasts: growing, collecting and showing tropical orchids. It’s a huge industry, worth about $9 billion globally each year (as of when the book was published in 2000). These days, most orchids are captive-grown in nurseries, rather than collected from the wild. In fact, these days, most of the orchids on the market probably aren’t pure species anymore, instead being artificial hybrids created by orchid enthusiasts to develop new and interesting colours, patterns or shapes of flowers. Hansen offers some interesting insights into many aspects of the cultivated orchid world through his own trips and interviews to learn more about the plants from the people who love them. More on that tomorrow.

Right now most of plants in my study are sitting on a shelf under a grow light. I’d had them on the windowsill, but have been afraid to leave them there while the new cat gets adjusted to the house. The other two never bothered them on the sill, but last week the new guy knocked off my Haworthia, above, from the windowsill. This might be the oldest plant that I own, although I think I myself have only had it about three years. The plants are very hardy, and put out lots of pups as they grow. My original plant was a large pup from a plant my mom had had for years. When I got it, I planted it in that 4″ square container on the left. At the time, it didn’t amount to much more than what’s currently in that 4″ square pot on the left. In three or so years it had grown so much it was overflowing the sides of the pot and I could barely get in with my thin-spouted watering can to water it. I’d been meaning to repot it for a while, but was eventually forced to get around to it when the cat knocked the top-heavy pot off the windowsill. Yes, all those plants came out of that one little 4″ pot on the left. It’s now split between the 4″ square and a 6″ round.

The year after I got it, the plant bloomed for me. How thrilled I was! I couldn’t recall my mom’s plant ever blooming. Where I lived at the time, it sat in an east-facing window, a huge picture window that bathed the apartment in bright light. Most of my plants loved that apartment, with few exceptions they all grew fabulously. I’ve moved three times since then, but haven’t found a spot that had nearly a nice light as that apartment. My window here faces west, not east, but gets lots of light. I’m hoping that it might encourage the newly-repotted haworthia to bloom again. They’re a plant of open areas in South Africa, and while they grow alright in darker areas, probably the bright light mimics its natural conditions better.

There are actually quite a lot of varieties of haworthias, too. Enough, in fact, that there’s an actual Haworthia Society of haworthia collectors and growers. I’ve been so pleased with the growth of my haworthia, and was so excited to have it bloom. So why did I get hooked on orchids but not haworthias? Couldn’t tell ya. Maybe I just didn’t have a blogger expounding the virtues of haworthias complete with intriguing photos of their collection at the right time.

Before I wrap up this very long-winded post, I’d also like to point out the couple of non-orchids on my shelf. The little pink impatiens are cuttings I took off my outdoor plant and rooted. The original plants were given to my by our neighbour at the lake, who was very, very generous with her extra seedlings. The colour of this one really appealed to me and I decided to see if I could overwinter it as a cutting. I brought it in with a couple of blooms on it, and it’s continued to grow and bloom and bloom even through the whole ordeal of putting out roots from the cut stem. What a fabulously determined little plant.

And the other, the tall one in the same water dish as the impatiens, is a cutting I took off one of my tomato plants before the frost, the only tomato cutting to root. A couple of weeks ago it started to bloom, and now it’s growing a couple of cherry tomatoes. You can just sort of see the larger blobs on the left side of the plant. The challenge will be getting the tomatoes to ripen. I’m hoping putting it under a grow light where I can lengthen the “daylight” hours might help encourage it.

My posts never seem to end up being what I start out intending them to be. Tomorrow, more on wild tropical orchids.

Documentaliste en CDD de 5 mois (du 01/02/2010 au 30/06/2010)

Le service public des allocations familiales est composé de la Caisse Nationale des Allocations Familiales (Cnaf) et de 123 Caisses d’Allocations Familiales (Caf). Il constitue la branche famille du régime général de la sécurité sociale. C’est un réseau de proximité piloté par la Cnaf, présent dans tous les départements français. La Caisse nationale des Allocations familiales (Cnaf) est un établissement public qui finance l’ensemble des régimes de prestations familiales. La Cnaf définit également la stratégie de la branche famille et les axes de sa politique d’action sociale.

Au total, ce sont un peu plus de 66 milliards d’euros de prestations et d’action sociale qui sont servis par les Caf à plus de 10 millions d’allocataires en Métropole et dans les Dom.

Le Service Documentation fait partie de la Direction des ressources humaines et des moyens de l’établissement public de la Cnaf et est composé de 8 agents.

Ses missions sont les suivantes :

- gestion d’un fonds documentaire d’ouvrages et de périodiques ;

- alimentation d’une base de données de références (circulaires internes, textes officiels, articles de périodiques, ouvrages et sites Internet) sous Flora (Ever team);

- gestion du thesaurus de la branche famille ;

- recherches documentaires à la demande des utilisateurs CNAF et CAF;

- réalisation d’un panorama de presse quotidien et de dossiers d’actualité ;

- réalisation d’une lettre d’actualité hebdomadaire signalant les nouvelles parutions sur le Web et indiquant leur lien hypertexte ;

- réalisation de bulletins de sommaires de revues et de listes des ouvrages nouvellement acquis au Service Documentation.

Missions du documentaliste :

Saisie de notices bibliographiques et GED sous Flora des procès verbaux des conseils d’administration des CAF et de la CNAF ; création des documents pdf à partir de documents électroniques de plusieurs formats ou de documents papier.

La personne retenue pourra également être amenée à participer à la production documentaire habituelle : saisie d’ouvrages, articles, rapports, constitution du panorama de presse.

Profil :

Formation de documentaliste (bac +2 minimum) avec connaissances ou expérience en catalogage, indexation ; pratique d’un SGBD avec GED, idéalement Flora ; aisance dans la manipulation de fichiers tous formats, notamment pdf.

Débutant ou expérimenté.

Rémunération Coefficient 250 = 2.000? bruts mensuels

Poste basé à Paris

Candidatures à envoyer sous la référence : ListADBS à recrutement@cnaf.fr

avant le 11 décembre 2009.

Entretiens jusqu’au 15 janvier 2010

Source : ADBS-Info

Carnation

Andere beherrschen erfordert Kraft.

Sich selbst beherrschen fordert Stärke.

Laotse

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Frutos de madroño (Arbutus unedo) en distintas etapas de maduración. En el Parque de Delicias, junto a los antiguos Pabellones Psiquiátricos…

Recycled petals

This fine art print is available for purchase at bbrunophotography

On my mind and in my dreams

I think hydrangea petals are as beautiful in death as in life.

11.23.09 #23

This tree, variously referred to as gamboge, egg-tree, false mangosteen and Himalayan garcinia, is native to parts of India and the Malay peninsula. It can be found growing wild on the forested hills of S. India.

(The common name ‘egg-tree’ should not be confused with eggfruit, or, canistel).

The drop-shaped, bright yellow fruit can be eaten raw and are commonly used in jams. The fruit is divided into soft sections, somewhat similar to mangosteen. There are one or two oblong smooth brown seeds embedded in the pulp. Pulp can be used in cooking in the same way as tamarind paste.

As the species name ‘tinctoria’ would suggest the fruit juice and extract are used as dyes

An 8 – 10 foot tree can produce several hundred of fruits in a single harvest (see photos above).

Mature trees can grow quite tall. They have many of the same growth characteristics as mangosteen, only bigger. I don’t know anything about the quality of wood.

Trees have basically the same growth requirements as mangosteen, enjoying ample water during hot and dry periods.

Inspired by the discovery of the dried Helleborine in the cedar grove, I did some poking about yesterday for info on wild orchids in Ontario. According to the Orchid Society of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario, there are 62 species of orchid that have been recorded in the province. They give the current population status of each species, indicating whether it is secure or at risk, or introduced. Three species fall into this latter category, and an additional one is found only accidentally, with no known established populations. That leaves 58 that are found regularly in the province. Some 38 of those have secure populations, and the other 20 are either sensitive or at risk.

Yellow Lady’s-slipper, Cypripedium parviflorum, falls into the first category. It’s one of the most widespread of Ontario’s orchids, growing in a variety of habitats. There are four subspecies, which look similar but are largely divisible by habitat. This one was one of several found growing on the man-made spit of land that projects into Lake Ontario from the Toronto shoreline. The landform, or at least the bit where these plants were, is only about 30 years old. The spit has never, to my knowledge, undergone planting programs, and the orchids would have arrived under their own mysterious power.

Another common species is this one, Pink Lady’s-slipper, Cypripedium acaule . They grow in acidic soil, commonly in the boreal forest but also in forests further south. It favours boggy areas but is happy to grow anywhere the soil conditions are met. Dan and I found quite a number in our Rock Ridge MAPS area at Frontenac Provincial Park at the end of May this year. They bloom through early July.

Showy Lady's-slipper, borrowed from my mom at Willow House Chronicles

When we first spotted the Pink Lady’s-slipper, I just assumed it was a Showy Lady’s-slipper, Cypripedium reginae, another relatively common species in Ontario. I didn’t give it much thought that it might be otherwise, and I didn’t bother to look it up later. I’ve never seen a Showy and it had been a while since I’d seen a photo; I expected it to be brighter, but wrote it off as the flower just being past its best.

Just north of here is Purdon Conservation Area, which includes Purdon Fen. This area contains some 16,000 individuals of Showy Lady’s-slipper, the largest known population of the species. My mom went up to see them this past spring and posted about it on her blog.

Looking at them side-by-side it’s hard to believe I mistook one for the other now. For one thing, the big cleft down the centre of the pouch on the Pink should be a big giveaway. The three lady’s-slippers shown above are the most common in Ontario, but there are an additional three that can be found in the province. The Bruce Peninsula, separating Georgian Bay from Lake Huron, is one of Ontario’s hotspots for orchids. Every year the Friends Of Bruce District Parks holds the Bruce Peninsula Orchid Festival in celebration of these beautiful flowers, where attendees can learn more and have the opportunity to see a wide variety of species. The Bruce is home to an amazing 44 species of wild orchid.

I’ve personally only seen a small handful of species. Perhaps I’ve seen more than I think I have, but not realized they’re orchids. Only a portion of orchids actually have the big, flashy flowers we tend to associate with the group. In fact, many more are more subdued, or smaller in size. This Rose Pogonia, Pogonia ophioglossoides, was found growing beside the water at Rock Ridge in the summer. I didn’t recognize it as an orchid at first, since its flowers and leaves were smaller than I typically think of. Now that I know what it is, I can see the similarities.

The Helleborine I mentioned yesterday are a non-native species, one of three in Ontario, and if their abundance on our property is any indication, they’re doing pretty well. They probably started out as garden plants, introduced more than a century ago. Having recently taken an interest in indoor orchids, I wondered if it would be possible to dig some of these up and cultivate them indoors. Since they’re non-native anyway, any possible negative consequences to the population would not be a problem (except, perhaps, in terms of my own aesthetic appreciation of them outdoors).

That question led to wondering if it was possible to purchase native orchids for your garden. I know that, aside from damaging wild populations when collecting from the wild, most orchids don’t survive the transplant to a garden environment. Some, like the Pink Lady’s-slipper, have spreading root systems that may be more than two metres/yards in diameter, making it impossible to get the entire plant. Often the plant doesn’t survive the severe reduction in root mass. If you’re the patient sort, it may be possible to collect a seed pod and try growing your own from seed, but orchids are very long-lived plants, sometimes lasting on the order of decades, and as such it may take an orchid like the Pink Lady’s-slipper 10-16 years to grow from seed to blooming size.

"Clump of Cypripedium montanum - Lady Slipper Orchid" by pictoscribe on Flickr

Even just collecting the seeds has the potential to impact the wild population, as those seeds then don’t get a chance to germinate in the wild (regardless of whether or not they actually would have). Really, the best way to acquire orchids of your own is to purchase them from captive-bred populations raised at a reputable nursery. The Yellow Lady’s-slipper is not too hard to find, particularly at native plant nurseries, such as the Native Plant Source in Kitchener, Ontario.

However, some digging around online turned up a few links, including Fraser’s Thimble Farms on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia. This nursery specializes in rare and unusual flowers, many of them native. They have a whole page dedicated to cold-hardy ground orchids that will survive in Canada’s northern climate.

"Calypso or Fairy Slipper (Calypso bulbosa (L.) Oakes var. americana)" by pverdonk on Flickr

Another Canadian source is Planteck Biotechnologies in Quebec. They have a similar selection of species as Fraser’s Thimble Farms, not all of them native, but also list the genera Calypso and Calopogon. The above flower is Calypso bulbosa, a species native to Canada and our area; this particular individual was photographed on Manitoulin Island here in Ontario.

Lady's-slipper orchids in the gardens of Raising Rarities in Ohio; www.raisingrarities.com

The Washington Native Orchid Society provides a list of additional retailers, a dozen or so, mostly American. The photo above is from the website of Raising Rarities in Toledo, Ohio. They specialize mostly in lady’s-slippers, which are the most popular group at many of the nurseries, including both Fraser’s and Planteck above. Imagine this sight greeting you in the garden each dew-filled summer morning!

As an aside, I love that frosted fern in the foreground. My mom has a bunch of these growing in her new gardens, I must remember to ask for some in the spring.

Salimos en el Boletín Informativo del Instituto Geográfico Nacional:

“El Grupo Enebro, Asociación que está dedicada al estudio de la biodiversidad de la Sierra Oeste de Madrid, ha aportado datos temáticos, correspondientes a los trabajos que lleva a cabo, a la IDEE, cuyo portal coordina y gestiona el Consejo Superior Geográfico, mediante el Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN).

Lycaena virgaureae

El grupo realiza fotografías de la Naturaleza y su primera aportación, en concreto, ha sido la de publicar en la Web, mediante servicios estándar, parte de su base de datos y de sus imágenes de lepidópteros diurnos (mariposas), en la seguridad de que con ellos llenarán de colorido y enriquecerán la IDEE.

Dª  Rosa Angulo San Millán, técnico superior del IGN que participa en el proyecto CartoCiudad y que aparece en la fotografía, es autora de la imagen uno; y D. Oscar Ventura Corral, experto en biodiversidad, autor de la segunda imagen, pertenecientes al mencionado Grupo Enebro, son las personas que han suministrado los datos para que se incorporen a la IDEE.

Afirman «que la fotografía de invertebrados y flora, además de ser una afición, nos enriquece y nos mantiene en forma, ya que tenemos que recorrer la sierra, sea verano o invierno, para obtener una muestra de especies, lo que se convierte en una aventura excitante de cuyos resultados estamos muy satisfechos». Parte de dichas imágenes se puede disfrutar en el portal temático de Naturaleza:

www.miradanatural.es/galeriausuario.php?id=884

www.miradanatural.es/galeriausuario.php?id=800,

en su propio blog: http://grupoenebro.wordpress.com/, y ahora en un Servicio Web de Mapas estándar:

www.idee.es/wms/Grupo-Enebro/Grupo-Enebro”

Zygaena ephialtes

Sunny Days

Von Ideen kann man nicht leben: man muß etwas mit ihnen anfangen.

Alfred North Whiteshead

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Break the rules

I know we’re not supposed to shoot into the light, but it just felt right with this image. Glad I followed my instinct.

11.22.09 #22

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. ~Pamela Hansford Johnson

A sunflower faces west as day approaches sundown

This is available as a print, gallery wrap, or boxed set of 12 notecards & envelopes at bbrunophotography.