One of many

‘What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?’
From the poem ‘Leisure’ by Welsh poet W. H. Davies, Songs of Joy and Others, A. C. Fifield, 1911.

292/366 Seedheads, 3

18 Sunday Oct 2020

Posted by sconzani in autumn, plants, wildflowers

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Bulrushes, grasses, Red campion seedheads, seedhead, seedheads, Teasel

I just can’t resist the structural elements of seedheads, whether they be associated with wildflowers or grasses. And so here are some more recent photos …

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264/366 Seedheads, 1

20 Sunday Sep 2020

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British wildflowers, seed head, seed quotations, seedhead, seeds, wildflower seeds

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‘The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.’
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Chapter 6: Nature, Essays, Second Series, 1844.

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201/365 Rain

20 Saturday Jul 2019

Posted by sconzani in 365DaysWildin2019, nature, weather

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rain, raindrops on seedhead, seedhead

Yesterday it rained, it poured, it bucketed down and, after several weeks with scarcely a drop of rain, it was life-giving, cleansing, greening, quenching, reviving, freshening …

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