Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau
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This week we were walking along a nearby hiking trail and it might have been the fall light (the air is clearer, the greens are fading, and the vegetation takes on shades of brown and gold), but it seemed like even the simplest bits of nature took on a beauty that just cried out "photo-op".
Stump flowers
A study in Contrasts
Birch Bark
As I was adding those photos to my files, I realized I had taken a lot of pictures lately that might fit into the "walk on by" category. Natural "vignettes" that don't jump out at you, don't leave you breathless, but on closer inspection, have a kind of fascinating beauty.
Tree fungus
Lake Superior "seashells"
Caterpillar Chic
The goat's beard, I admit, didn't grow on our dock. The light was better there, and so was the background, so I sort of stuck it in between the dock boards. Artistic license or "fudging". Call it what you will, but I like it!
Mona
