Round-leaved Sundew-Drosera rotundifolia is a small carnivorous plant found in wetlands. They were not flowering quite yet on Sunday but hopefully will be this weekend as many had buds though they were still tight. All those “dew” drops are sticky and once a small insect sets on one it is doomed.
There were hundreds and I was mucking around trying many compositions. I chose this as I like the leaves beneath the plants.
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The decaying leaf provides a nice background, reminding us of nature’s amazing cycles of birth and death.
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Ture. I liked it for its contrast to the more colorful sundew and its texture as well.
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I can see where this species might be hard to photograph.
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Especially when there are dozens tightly packed together. Finding these somewhat separated was fortunate.
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Although mean and unforgiving to their prey, I find sundew plants colourful and interesting, even fascinating! We have sundews here in NZ too.
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They are beautiful as are the pitcher plants which are also as you describe…meanies. 🙂
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Oh YES!
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Wait~they flower?! How cool is that. I really like how you chose to photograph them with leaves setting them off. I have several attempts I made from early in the summer and no matter how hard I tried to bring them into focus they were just so small that my camera barely registered them. And they are hardly mean.
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Yes, they do. I hope I am not too late on Saturday. I made a lot of other images that had too many out of focus plants but was happy to find these which could be separated from the others.
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Can’t wait to see the flowers. How exciting.
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Oh boy. I am glad now is when I responded to your comment. I had completely forgotten that was my goal for today. 😎
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😀
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They are still not open. 😦
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Oh darn. Perhaps they are waiting for rain ?
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I just did some research, which I should have done earlier, and it seems they have already flowered and what I captured with the plants must be the fruit. But I’ll still pursue them as the fruits will eventually dry and split revealing seeds. If only I had a swampy area in the yard.
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Hahah, yeah, if only! 😀
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It would be a double-edged sword, I guess…frogs and mosquito breeding.
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And dragonflies. This summer I had lots of dragonflies, and virtually no mosquitoes for the first time in 25 years.
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Yes, very few mosquitoes here also. The dry weather certainly was helpful in that respect. We did have EEE in the area but otherwise not bad…so far.This is approaching the time of my bite so I am keeping my guard up just the same. 🙂
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For sure. It has taken me years to feel safe to venture back out into the field. I’m glad to be getting back out but I’m still very cautious.
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Nice Image Steve! Never saw one of these!
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Thanks. They are quite small and easily overlooked, Reed.
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It’s very cool that you can see these “in person” Steve, and not just in a garden or in photos. I didn’t know they bloom so late in the season.
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They are a little later than their cousins the Pitcher Plants. I hope to share a picture or two of the flowers if they haven’t passed by Saturday.
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That would be great!
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Still on hold. Visited yesterday and they are still closed up tight. Maybe another week.
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Leave it to you
To bring the dew
As only you can do!
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Thanks. I always try to practice these words…
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That is, of course, precisely what I had in mind when I wrote that, and I knew that you’d understand. This is one of my favorite movies of all time. Aaahh, the incredible, unabashed, and uninhibited genius of Mel Brooks. His works will live forever.
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I am a big fan of most of his movies. I never saw Spaceballs and from what little snips I have seen don’t think I’ll watch it. High Anxiety is one of my favorites along with Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. I think I need to watch them again. A temporary remedy for 2020.
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Your forceful statement about the “uninhibited genius of Mel Brooks” brooks no denial.
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It was my attempt to photograph sundew flowers that ended wtih a Hardin County sheriff checking to be sure I hadn’t suffered a heart attack. Ours are a different species, but they have that same tendency to cluster, which makes getting decent photos of the plants difficult, too.
Right now, all I care about is getting my computer and my files back. I’ve been without them since Monday, while the gurus attempt to do their magic. Both my hard drive AND the external hard drive I use for backup ended up corrupted. The boys at the computer shop were a little perplexed, but as of last night I think they were on top of the situation. So weird. I’m about ready to add regular manual backups to my SSD drive, and maybe even a cloud backup. I might even save up for a real laptop. I don’t function well on this ipad. Aaaack!
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Lying down in a public place is something I try to avoid. I do it with the frogs at Moosehorn Pond but it is rare that anyone drives by on that dirt road so early in the morning. If someone does I always wave which dispels possible death assumptions.
I always hated the phrase “I feel your pain” but in this case I will use it. After those months of inactivity at the end of 2018 I discovered that I had left the computer and backup drives in sleep mode and a couple of the external drives got toasted. As my Lightroom Files were all on one and backed up on the other I thought I had lost everything. A guru could not recover them physically. But the author of a book I use knew what to do and guided me through the recovery of everything. It is now safeguarded from future loss. I hope you do get everything back and in good order. There is nothing as digitally valuable as redundancy. I now have four backups, overkill I know, and one is separated and rotated to keep the unforeseen from recurring. I haven’t purchased a laptop and rarely use my Fire for much besides reading ( and even at that I prefer an actual book in my hands). I probably should follow your example for travel…once travel returns as a possibility.
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All is well. Caution over stretching leading to an OS crash led them to install a 2TB SSD rather than the 1TB I had. Things certainly speeded up. Not only that, I’d forgotten or never knew that, because they built my system for me, everything was warrantied, and the $160 credit the applied made the bill more than reasonable.
The only thing that I have to deal with is a re-reorganization of some files. I’d created some new folders and moved a few things around, and those changes weren’t saved. But, all the original files are there, so no problem.
Your tale reminded me of the time I accidentally deleted 500 photos from an SD card. It was Otto who told me to get a program called Recuva, and use it to recover the images. I decided to pay the $9.99 for the pro version of the program, and when I was done, I had to laugh. I’d never formatted the card, so instead of my 500 photos, I got about 2400 images created over a couple of years. What a revelation that was!
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SSDs are much more reliable and it’s always better to have more memory than you need…now. My main drive is just 500GB but is an SSD and only houses my programs and documents. All my image files are on external drives. My second drive is just a Sata but 4 TB. All I keep on that are my web image copies and documents, downloads, etc. My LR files start on my 12TB external and then copied to a couple of 8TB drives. The processed images are on two other 8TB externals.
My computer was built by a company in WA called Puget Systems. Although across the country rather than across town they also warranty the computer and I could send it back if needed. It’s my second with them and whenever I needed something on the first they sent the parts with instructions on how to do it myself. Worked out fine. They also have a video on dismantling the box and cleaning the dust out which needs doing periodically. My first of theirs started making a lot of humming sounds and it turned out the fan was covered with dust. Easy fix. They are a little pricey but worth it, I think. However if I had a local company whom I had faith in I might go to them but so far the few times I need local help I was disappointed.
Wow, did you sort through those 2400 files to see if there was a little gem hidden in there somewhere?
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