Category Archives: Macro
Rock Flowers
Friends, these rock lichens are very colorful and were found along French Creek in Custer State Park that is part of the Black Hills of South Dakota. They are blooming anytime of year, lying in the grass just waiting to be discovered. Lichens are an organism that is composed of fungus and alga in a symbiotic relationship, a marriage where both benefit from the presence of the other. til Tomorrow MJ
A Spot of Yellow
Friends, snow again today, I think that spring is sleeping it off somewhere :), I went to my archives and found this image of summer yellow, a macro that shows the proboscis looping into the flower, sipping soda thru a straw on a summer day, is that a song title? it should be a song title, i think this is a sulfur butterfly with the white eyespot on the hind wing, til Tomorrow MJ
Exotic Fiddlehead
Friends, this huge fern is gently unfolding within the tropical environment of Como Conservatory, Ferns are a world of green, and this pinkish head will soon turn green. If you look closely you can see structure that looks like feather structure, below is a macro of this substructure. I am always amazed by the intricate macro structures, probably why I was an electron microscopist (cell biology and structures) in an earlier life, til Tomorrow MJ
MJ Springett 