7/15-7/16 Sagamore Beach, Marstons Mills, Comet Neowise
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Sun-bleached walkway invites you to Sagamore Beach. ©John Schiller Photography
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Marstons Mills, Massachusetts
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Marstons Mills, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
103/365 Flowers enrich our world, don’t they? From a distance they bring color and texture to an otherwise, more neutral, less interesting landscape. But look close. No closer. In fact next time, stop, look inside, and like for so many other things, absorb the inner beauty. There’s been a hand at work here crafting a macro-world, engineering-like, that we just look totally past. Consider this flower: outer petals of yellow, with an inner ring at their base of lighter red morphing to a ruby red. The center core - probably the seed - is a tightly structured collection of concentric spirals of diamond-shaped mini-seeds wrapped around each other, fading from a burnt- orange to a yellowish orange, with a hint of green in its center. And to complete this unique design - there is a circle of tiny flower-like stamen planted around the inner core. Nature’s engineering. What does the bee see?
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Marstons Mills, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
66/365 The early months of Covid were isolating for us all. During that time that we did a lot more walking around, paying much more attention to the detail of what nature put right in front of us - especially texture, color, shape and patterns. Flowers have it all. From a distance we’re drawn to shape and color of the petals - and the balance across the whole flower. But it is the inside, or core of the flower, where the detail of the stamen and pistil display incredible texture and patterns, and house the real prize, the pollen. Take for example, this purple flower. Now I am no expert on flowers - but this looks like a zinnia. The inner petals show a hint of pollen painted on the undersides. As you get closer to the center, these petals are wrapped tighter and tighter to where the petals look almost completely white. This is nature’s paintbrush.
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