Nature’s Dentures & Working with Depth of Field

 I found these fungi - I think that’s what you would call them - during one of my quiet walks through the woods. They were attached to the trunk of an old tree. The first one makes me think of a denture and the second a mouth full of popcorn with one shiny, loosened filling. Would someone please tell me what these are so I can add it to my book of findings on my walks?

 I continue to work with my 50mm lens trying to learn more about depth of field. As you can see in these two shots, I have successfully gotten blur and that bit of sharpness for which I was searching. 

“If a man walks in the woods for half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.”
~Henry David Thoreau

Tree in Black and White

Trees

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is preset

Against the sweet earth’s flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately ives with the rain.

Poems are made by tools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

~ Alfred Joyce Kilmer

Sgt. Joyce Kilmer, as a member of the Fighting 69th Infantry Regiment, c.1918

Born - December 6, 1886

New Brunswick, New Jersey USA

Died - July 30, 1918

near Seringes-et-Nestles, France

Occupation - poet, journalist, editor, lecturer, soldier

Nationality - American

Period - 1909-1918

Genres - poetry, literary criticism, Catholicism

Notable Works - Main Street and Other Poems (1913)

Trees and other poems

Notable Awards - French Croix de guerre

Purple Heart Medal

This post is linked with Weekend in Black and White.

Stop and Enjoy Nature ~ It’s Simple

Stop what you are doing.

 Put on a coat if you need one.  
Walk out the door.
Close it behind you.

Pull up a chair.
Look at all that surrounds you.
Take in the wonderful aromas.
 Listen to the beautiful sounds.

Enjoy the precious gifts of nature.

Don’t let them pass you by.


I'm joining with Rebecca at Simple Things for {simple things sunday

Spider Web or Christmas Lights? ~ 9-16-11

The Spiders Are Very Busy Here on the Creek

"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.”

~Frank Lloyd Wright

This post is linked with Weekend Reflections and The Weekend in Black and White.

A Weekend with Nature - Optimism vs Terror

I stop on my way home from work EVERY afternoon, rain (if it’s not too bad) or shine, to check check out this scary little fellow.  If I had gotten any closer this time, I think he would have tried to eat me.  He looks like he’s thinking, “Bring her on....I’m ready!” This is my representation of Oscar Wilde’s “The basis of optimism is sheer terror” from The Picture of Dorian Gray...this week’s prompt for “macromondays"

This week I am linking up with "Gemma’s Weekend Nature, the Flickr group “macromondays."