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| Backyard Hazelnut |
My novice effort to pollinate the backyard hazel tree netted one (count 'em!) decent nut. I just noticed it yesterday and decided today that I wanted to photograph it. I'd forgotten how beautiful the bracts surrounding the nut could be. The leaf in the background is also from the hazel. Quite a few were blowing off the tree as I sat beneath it in the winds of the gathering storm.
I also noticed a spider in its web as I was coming up the stairs, so I went back to photograph it after the hazelnut. When I got there and put my lens on it at a 1:1 reproduction ratio, it appeared to be an ex-spider (as they used to say on Monty Python's Flying Circus). I wondered if it waited and waited in its web without ever snaring any prey, and finally just succumbed when its metabolism could no longer sustain itself.
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| There were some beautiful lenticular clouds billowing off Mt. Shasta this morning. |
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