Some Nature Images
As You may or may not know, Fred's
first love was biology and natural history.
With a major in Zoology and a minor
in Botany,
animals and plants came along way
before joints and muscles
in his PT incarnation. Plus, they
make much nicer photographs.
This is Indian pipe, a parasitic plant.
It is not green, it does not convert light to tissue.
Instead, it feeds of the roots of oaks and other plants
that do the work of making food.
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a milkweed beetle...on a milkweek plant.
Even BUGS can be beautiful!
But red colors in nature generally mean "keep away":
this beetle is advertizing that it
feeds on the poisonous sap of this plant, and
"go somewhere else for your dinner; don't eat me!"
Volunteer Daylily
These grow in perfusion along the creek, signs of a once-vigorous
community that used to populate our quiet valley road.
Striped Maple, with creative enhancements.
I enjoy "seeing" common objects from nature
in ways that make me see them again, 'for the first time'.
Creative digital 'darkroom' work allows me
to shift my perceptions away from the expected,
to discover new beauty in everyday things.
all images copyrighted 1999, 2000 FBFirst,
Jr.