[Leica] Wednesday Weeds

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Scattered Violet for me, Don.

Douglas



On 27/05/2020 12:29, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> Greetings to all.  This will be a long post as I spent a lot of the week
> wandering around with a 200mm macro.  Not so much with the first image.
> This view of ivy covering a fence is just my fascination with vines ability
> to grow long distances from their roots and thrive.  Some days I think
> common English Ivy might grow taller than a Redwood if given a chance:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/ivy+on+lattice.jpg.html
>
> This is a bit of bamboo growing in a retention pond protecting a condo
> project that used to be a Catholic Church:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/bamboo+once+shorn.jpg.html
>
> Again, not the 200, but a bit of grapevine gracing a wood privacy fence:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/grapevine+and+fence.jpg.html
>
> This is a random field outside of Austin with a late blooming flower in a
> grassland:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/one+in+the+grassland.jpg.html
>
> Same field but maybe 50 meters further in, I was fascinated by these violet
> bit of color in the field of drying grass:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/scattered+violet.jpg.html
>
> Sometimes it seems even the weeds have companions crowding their space:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/thistle+with+companion.jpg.html
>
> All the best.
>
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