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  • Poking a macro lens into the weeds can reveal some hidden magic.
    Morning Garden Butterfly.jpg
  • Through the field of reeds and weeds this old barn and workshop are the remnants of a farmstead long forgotten. This rural scene was taken in Marthasville, Missouri, a city in Warren County. <br />
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The Katy Trail, a 225-mile long bike path, passes through Marthasville, and the original grave of Daniel Boone is located there. In 1845, Boone's remains were disinterred and moved to Kentucky for burial. Resentment in Missouri about the disinterment grew over the years, and a legend arose that Boone's remains never left Missouri. Because of the many wineries from here east to Defiance, Marthasville is considered to mark one end of the Missouri Weinstrasse.
    Abandoned Through The Reeds.jpg
  • A Monarch Rests On Purple Flowering Chives in Evening Light
    Monarch on Moody Chives.jpg
  • A golden view from behind a puffy dandelion at sunset.
    Thriugh A Sunset Dandy.jpg
  • A Monarch Butterfly Rests On Purple Flowering Chives in Evening Light
    Monarch on Moody Chives.jpg
  • A Blue Macro Of Some Wild Foliage/Vegetation
    A Blue Mood.jpg
  • This beautiful black bodied swallowtail is black with shiny blue or green wings. It has blue between two rows of orange spots on the underside of the hind wings and the colors on the upper side of the hind wings have one row of white spots. The caterpillars look like small snakes, having large eyespots; they hide in folded leaves during the day and come out to feed in the evenings. The chrysalis is either brown or green resembling the stem in which it is attached. These butterflies are a pleasure to watch and a welcome visitor to any garden.
    Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly.jpg
  • The spicebush swallowtail butterfly is a large, dark swallowtail. It is one of our most beautiful and interesting swallowtails. All developmental stages are great examples of adaptive coloration. The wingspread range is 4.1 to 5.6 cm. The upper surface of the fore wings is black with a narrow marginal row and a broader submarginal row of light yellow row spots. The upper surfaces of the hind wings also have the rows of spots, but they are light green in color. The median areas of the hind wings are dusted with blue in females and blue-green to green in males.
    Spicebush In Wildflowers.jpg
  • Roadside Wildflowers Through A Rose Filtered Lens
    Wildflowers Through A Rose Lens.jpg
  • A dandelion fine art composition that highlights the tiny explosion of fireworks and color that can be seen at a macro level. While these weeds are often an annoyance for some in their yard and overlooked, I hope this gives pause to appreciate the beauty they hold, if at least, just for a moment.
    Firework Dandelion.jpg
  • The beauty of even common roadside simple weeds contains vibrance, beauty and grace if you simple look close enough
    Natures Vibrance Befalls.jpg
  • I really love to take dead and dying plants found in nature and bringing some life back to them through art. Adding some life and beauty back to this decrepit and withering weed was the inspiration for this Wicked Weed.
    Wicked Weed on Black.jpg
  • Dead Weed on Lime.jpg
  • Wicked Weed.jpg
  • Was walking through a park and thought this would make for an interesting photo the way the sun was hitting it as the sunset.
    the_unknown_weed.jpg
  • Field Mustard - A widely cultivated crop which is also a widespread weed, with yellow flowers, colonizing large areas with soft yellow flowers on slender stems.
    Brassica Rapa.jpg
  • A Puffy White Dandelion With A Bit Of Magic and Mystery.<br />
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The dandelion plant is a beneficial weed, with a wide range of uses, and is even a good companion plant for gardening. Its taproot will bring up nutrients for shallower-rooting plants, and add minerals and nitrogen to soil. It is also known to attract pollinating insects and release ethylene gas which helps fruit to ripen
    Magic Dandy.jpg
  • Weed loving Marley loves nothing than playing cricket and jammin... He hopes you like jammin too. Marley is a Bad Taste Bear with a Hippie and smoky view on life. He would love to occupy a space on your wall!
    Marley Bear.jpg
  • A puffy white dandelion in the yard with pastel colors in the background
    Puffy Dandelion on Pastels.jpg
  • The common yellow dandelion flower head can change into the familiar, white, globular seed head overnight. Each seed has a tiny parachute, to spread far and wide in the wind. <br />
The thick, brittle, beige, branching taproot grows up to 10" long. All parts of this plant exude a white milky sap when broken.<br />
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Dandelions are generally easily recognizable in all seasons.  The growth of leaves from the basal rosette, the leaf shape with its characteristic multi-toothed edges (although some dandelions exhibit less toothiness and a smoother, broader leaf - these are generally found in shady areas) is easy to spot even in winter.  If unsure, break a stem or leaf and the characteristic milky sap will emerge. When in bloom, dandelions are bright yellow and hard to miss. <br />
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The genus name of the dandelion comes from the Greek word taraxos, which means disorder, and akos, which means remedy. The species name, officinale, means that it is used medicinally.  The common name may come from the Greek word leontodon, which means lion's tooth. Other sources claim the word dandelion comes from the old French word Dent-de-lion or from the Latin dens leonis, both also meaning lion's tooth or teeth.
    Irish Dandelion.jpg
  • A Thistle Blossom Pops like fireworks From The Stem
    spikey weed.jpg
  • I love taking a walk with nothing but a macro lens. It makes everything in the world seem 'Just Right'.
    Nature Weed Soft Pastels.jpg
  • A Vanessa Atalanta (Red Admiral) Butterfly perched atop a vibrant pink flowering thistle. This large butterfly is identified by its striking dark brown, red, and black wing pattern. More specifically, the dark wings possess orange bands that cross the fore wings and on the outer edge of the hind wings; white spots on the dorsal fore wings near the front margin; reddish bars on dorsal surface of all four wings.
    Vanessa Atalanta on Flowering Thistl...jpg
  • The Coccinellidae are a family of beetles, known variously as ladybirds (UK, Ireland, Australia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, South Africa, New Zealand, India, Malta, some parts of Canada and the US), or ladybugs (North America). When they need to use a common name, entomologists widely prefer the names ladybird beetles or lady beetles as these insects are not true bugs. Lesser-used names include God's cow, ladyclock, lady cow, and lady fly
    Little Lady on Top.jpg
  • Common chicory is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant of the dandelion family Asteraceae, usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. Many varieties are cultivated for salad leaves, chicons, or roots, which are baked, ground, and used as a coffee substitute and food additive.
    Blue Wildflower On Walk Bokeh.jpg
  • A Thistle with magic colors along my nature walk today
    Magic Thistle.jpg
  • A Soft Yellow Dandelion In The Lawn
    Dandy Yellow.jpg
  • A Macro Nature Abstraction From A Pink and Purple Puff Flower Over Cotton Candy Pastels Highlighting Pointy Rigged Textures.
    Pink Power Puff.jpg
  • Wildflower growing in a field at Busch Wildlife.
    wildflower2.jpg
  • A peek inside a dying wildflower and the vibrant energy that has yet to dissipate.
    A Look Inside.jpg
  • Death begins to take hold as nature withers away with the last glow of life boldly displaying what beauty remains.
    Dying Nature Glow.jpg
  • A flower abstraction with deep purple, pink and cotton candy background tones.
    Violet Labialize Flora.jpg
  • I was out for a walk the other day and and came across this dead thistle, there was a ton of direct light on it almost making the little pointy edges glow. I thought it would make a cool macro subject.
    Dead Thistle Glow.jpg
  • Spotted this on a hike while out with the wife. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but some initial investigation for identification lead me to believe it is a 'Cirsium Arvense' a member of the thistle family.
    Isolated Locoweed.jpg
  • A Wispy White and Fuzzy Dandelion Macro
    Dandelion Whisp.jpg
  • A puffy white dandelion on a black background with a bit of fun and color in the finer details
    A Dandy Vision.jpg
  • A macro shot of a tiny wildflower with the freshness of incoming spring
    Wildflower Bloom.jpg
  • A closeup shot of a puffy white dandelion
    Dandy Macro.jpg
  • A dry fall day lacking in color and life, nature still stands alone in hopes of surviving until spring
    339A9945.jpg
  • Wildflower growing in a field at Busch Wildlife.
    wildflower.jpg
  • The photo of this Dandelion was taken at Busch Wildlife a few months back.
    paster_dandelion_flare.jpg
  • A wildflower with white petals that jumps off of the weeds and brush that surrounds it, with a bit of a fine art flare.
    Poppin Little Wildflower.jpg
  • Not sure what king of weed or plant this is, but thought it was interesting
    339A9990.jpg
  • The Halloween Pennant has been described as looking very similar to a butterfly. Its wings are orange-yellow in color, though its markings are dark brown, not black as is commonly believed; the entirely orange-yellow wings with dark brown bands are what has given it its Halloween common name and its typical position of being perched at the tip of a weed stalk, waving in the breeze like a pennant contributes to the remainder of its common name. The young has yellow markings, including a stripe on its back, and adult males develop pale red markings, particularly on the face, though females will occasionally get these red markings too. Halloween Pennants are normally between 38 and 42 mm (approx. 1.5 inches) in size. They feed on other insects, and they are able to fly in rain and strong wind. On hot days, it will often shade its thorax using its wings.
    Female Calico Pennant 6.jpg
  • Two beetles (stink bugs maybe?) do some acrobatics on a weed
    339A0203.jpg
  • A Female Calico Pennant Dragonfly Perched Atop A Weed In A Field On A Hot Summer Day. <br />
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Halloween Pennant subterminal wing marking extends across wing from leading edge to trailing edge (in Calico Pennant, subterminal wing marking restricted to leading edge of wing)
    Calico Pennant.jpg
  • An interesting looking weed or wildflower of some sort I notices while on a walk
    Jacks Fluffy Beenstalk.jpg
  • A fly stops buzzing around my head to pause for a shot on a weed
    IMG_0536.jpg
  • A Female Calico Pennant Dragonfly Perched On A Weed
    Female Calico Pennany 4.jpg
  • A Dragonfly perched in the field on a weed as morning light shines brightly
    Dragonfly In The Field.jpg
  • An Eastern Tent Caterpillar atop a round pointy flowering weed
    Shaggin On.jpg