[Leica] Wednesday Weeds

[Don Dory]

Greetings to all.  Another random week of "weeds".  This pop up rose in my
front yard continues to be a fine model for lens character:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/rose+with+Olympus+55+1_2.jpg.html

The Lady Bird Wildflower Center has one set of fields that they use to try
to recreate the short grass prairie that existed in central Texas before
cattle were introduced.  This field is a burn field that they burn off in
the fall to recreate the periodic wildfires that coursed through the
prairies:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/burn+field+Lady+Bird+Wildflower+Center.jpg.html

This field is mowed every once in a while to simulate a herd of grazing
beasts passing through.  Interestingly Ted Turner is using buffalo in the
upper plains to recreate the prairie.  Different species graze on different
species of grasses:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/Bluebonnet+at+Lady+Bird+Wildflower+Center.jpg.html

All the best.

-- 
Don
don.dory at gmail.com