Golan Levin and Kyle McDonald have been unwrapping flowers – taking images and stretching them out flat using panoramic software. The results are gorgeous, you can see them all on Flickr. And to celebrate such loveliness I’ve used the images as the icons below. Many delights to be found amidst the links below. Talking Plants [...]
Seeds of Delight – Arbor Day Edition
June 5, 2010 By 3 Comments
June 5 is Arbor Day. Thousands of trees will be planted worldwide. People will revel in a feel-good moment. And most of those trees won’t make it to maturity because one day simply isn’t enough to ‘appreciate’ trees. We can’t just plant them and forget about them – they need to be cared for, weeded [...]
Seeds of Delight: 28 May
May 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It feels like it’s been raining here forever. Well, a week feels like forever when you’re couped up inside. And what happens when I’m couped up inside? I spend far too much time trawling the fertile fields of the internet looking for a little nutrition and a whole lotta pretty. Our beautiful main image of [...]
Friday Seeds of Delight: 14 May
May 14, 2010 By 1 Comment
So it is my firm intention that every Friday I post some of the fascinating little gems of info, photos and links that have delighted me that week, discovered in the wonderful garden of knowledge that is the internet. For those lucky enough to own a digital SLR and love getting all macro, but can’t [...]
Spring Bloom: Phytoplankton
November 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Plankton is the key to ocean life. Phytoplankton convert energy from sunlight into food for tiny animals called zooplankton. These in turn become food for larger animals. They also provide nearly half of the earth’s atmospheric oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. When they die, they sink to the ocean floor where the [...]
Living architecture – amazing plant pictures
September 4, 2009 By 5 Comments
“Plants are amazing: they provide food, air, medicine, and material with which we can create buildings, furniture, and art. But through an ancient yet obscure craft, still-living plants can themselves be turned into bridges, tables, ladders, chairs, works of art, and even buildings. Known variously as botanical architecture, tree sculpture, tree-shaping, tree-grafting, pooktre, arborsculpture, and [...]
