Marianne Denton

Bee smothered in pollen on a sunflower I have grown from seed

This evening's labours have rewarded the bee. This makes me so happy 🐝🌻

This web color, when written as computer code in HTML for website color display, is written in the form forestgreen (no space). The first recorded use of forest green as a color name in English was in 1810. Forest green is a representation of the average color of the leaves of the trees of a temperate zone deciduous forest.

Forest Green

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #18-3838 TPX—Ultra Violet.[16] Ultra Violet was named as Pantone's Color of the Year for 2018.

Ultra Violet

Ultramarine is a blue pigment in use since medieval times. It was originally derived from lapis lazuli, a bright blue mineral.

Ultramarine

Celadon is a pale greyish shade of green, or rather a range of such shades. Celadon originates as a term for a class of Chinese ceramics, copied by Korea and Japan. However, the name, which is European, may originate from the character Celadon in L'Astrée, a French pastoral novel of 1627, who wore a light green color. Celadon glazes were very common, with the green color being reliably produced from about the tenth century onwards; this was appreciated in Asia for resembling jade, the most prestigious material of all. The glaze color comes from iron oxide's transformation from ferric to ferrous iron (Fe2O3 → FeO) during the firing process, but is affected by a wide range of other factors and chemicals, making the precise color very difficult to control. As well as green, a wide range of browns, yellows, greys and sometimes blues all count as "celadon".

Celadon

Pistachio is a dull yellowish-green color resembling the pistachio nut.

Pistachio

Displayed here is the color tango pink, a moderate reddish pink. Another name for this color is tango. The first recorded use of tango pink as a color name in English was in 1925. The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.

Tango Pink

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Side view of three and four inch pieces of rock core that is gray with specs of mica. All the gray is almost pure quartz

View of the top of one of the cores showing there's still some banding of the mica within the quartz and also some specs of a small black mineral that's probably biotite or hornblende

Jfc no wonder coring is going so slowly

As if it is one object.

A large brown water bird with an orange beak perches in a bare tree both glowing in late day sun.

I love the mahogany glow of this tree and matching cormorant

#birds 🌿

I couldn’t find mine before Smashing Pumpkins this past year and it sounded like I was listening through oatmeal. Told Husband it was a terrible concert - that the sound was dull. He said nope, great concert, great sound. Fortunately found them for Meshuggah.

Gorgeous evening.

How do can I tell the difference? I have the best pumpkin garden I’ve ever had and only on tiny pumpkin 😕

Heart hugs. It’s so hard when they’re at the end of their life but our love still flows with abundance.

Close-up of yellow, orange and black fuzzy robber fly looking directly at camera with large reflecting black eyes.

Same fuzzy robber fly sits in the sun, seen from above.

#InsectThursday Bee-mimic Robber Fly (Laphria sp.) last weekend at #PtReyes. Such a fetching fuzzy face.💚

#Inverts #Insects #NaturePhotos #iNat #Bugsky 📷

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I love love love my custom hearing protection. So much better than the foam plug, and my ears are not in pain.

So wild. And good.

Male Gila Woodpecker boring a cavity in a Saguaro cactus.

Let’s talk about the importance of how birds utilize Saguaros in the Sonoran Desert 🌵 🧵 Woodpeckers & Flickers do the heavy lifting and create the cavities.

(Pls don’t judge me - I’ve never seen a single episode. I don’t watch TV.)

Better here anyways.

You mean Meta ? - who whenever I report romance scammers using military or celebrity impersonations as fake & frauds, they tell me the account is okay & doesn’t violate their “community standards?” Who took a year to delete the account of a scammer who threatened to hunt me down & kill me? wtf?

Isn’t it so good?? Keep following Ryan for his next release - you never know when it will happen!

I was really dragging my heals extra slowly. I wanted to throw myself onto the ground and just gaze.

A cartoon illustration showing the life cycle of our Solar System’s star. It has a timeline in estimated billions of years showing the progress. The Sun is represented by the life stages of a girl to woman. The head of each figure is how the Sun would appear. Birth: stellar nebula (baby in purplish) Protostar (young girl in pink) We are here: Main Sequence Star (late teen/young woman dressed sorta hippy-ish in warm yellow/gold) Red Giant (glamorous woman in an red evening gown) Planetary Nebula (older woman in a dark blue bathrobe) Death: White Dwarf (very old woman in a white dress and cane)

I’m excited about that moment to be honest. This is one of my favorite illustrations.

🎨 by @feefal.bsky.social
(artist’s website feefal.com)

You and I shared the same afternoon and the same smile ☺️💛

A single prickly poppy freshly bloomed in the morning sun. Likely from June. From Wikipedia: This poppy bears its flowers on erect, spiny stems which can exceed a meter in height. The blue-green or mint-green, lobed leaves are also very prickly. The white poppy blooms usually have six crinkly petals, each up to 4 centimeters long, and three sepals. The center of the flower is surrounded by a dense ring of up to 250 small yellow or orange stamens bearing the pollen with the dark pistil in the center.

Two prickly poppies side-by-side freshly bloomed in the morning sun. Likely from June. From Wikipedia: This poppy bears its flowers on erect, spiny stems which can exceed a meter in height. The blue-green or mint-green, lobed leaves are also very prickly. The white poppy blooms usually have six crinkly petals, each up to 4 centimeters long, and three sepals. The center of the flower is surrounded by a dense ring of up to 250 small yellow or orange stamens bearing the pollen with the dark pistil in the center.

Desert wildflowers have necessary defenses!

It is a Flatbud Prickly Poppy or Chicalote (Argemone munita). It is native to California, Baja California, Arizona & Nevada. ”Munita”≈ armed due to the long prickles. Native bees love it because there’s hundreds of pollen drenched stamens. Lovely in June.

Just walking along this dirt road, passed it and backed right up. It was just right.