blackoaknaturalist: Too Close for Comfort?

A Quarantine Update

This has not been a busy year on my blog, having sometimes gone a month or more without posting anything new. Currently teaching three college classes online from home, and not finding much time to write and post images for the blog. One more week in the semester and Spring has sprung, so that should change. I have a backlog of several dozen photos taken in the last few weeks, so I will soon be posting them along with stories of the experiences I'm having along the way. My overall theme is generally concentrated on flowering plants and their symbiotic relationships with their pollinators. When the mood strikes, I insert philosophical and political comments. Please feel free to share your comments, but please be nice. I try to be.

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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Too Close for Comfort?

I revisited the ditch in front of Safeway this morning and found some colorful plants, among the last blooms of summer. Feeling a little sleepy this afternoon, so rather than try to write any natural history notes, I decided to play with cropping. Closer views of these plants than one ordinarily gets from walking or driving by. With views this close I identify with the insect visitors. Close-ups always remind me of a phrase from William Blake - "a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower."