Foto Friday - Getting a little closer

I love seeing things close up,

And lately I can't seem to get enough.

There is just something very intriguing about the world around us that we don't normally get

 to see close-up or that our eyes can't focus on that closely. Amazing details in ordinary things and happenings in a miniature world that go on and usually without our knowledge.

So this week, I'm sharing some of the details I saw through my lens. Details that have details, whether seen or unseen and ones that I am grateful for.

God is in the details.

This is a wild morning glory that just showed up in my garden, not quite open and covered with the dew of the morning.

My rose, Belinda's Dream, starts out like a tea rose and opens up like an old fashioned cottage rose.

Probably by far my favorite and so easy to grow. Since we live in a mild climate it produces nearly year

around although the blooms are not as proficient or multi-petaled in the cooler weather. One of the most important details of this rose is its heavenly scent.

From the same rose bush, a backlit leaf showing its veins. The details we cannot see are the tubes that

carry water and minerals to the leaf from the roots.

A gulf fritillary drinking nectar. What we can't see is the nectar being drawn up in the proboscis.

Some of you are familiar with the dreaded fire ant. If you look closely you can see their mouth parts that

they will use to hold on to you while they sting you. What we can't see is the venom they inject and if you've never been stung all I can say is OUCH!! To give you an idea of their life size, these guys range from 2-6mm (.012-.024"). I have no idea what they were doing and by the size of the one in the middle I'm wondering if she was the queen. They seemed to be tending to it at first and then there was a fight . . .

A cute daisy like flower . . . what you can't see is that it is really part of a weed.

Who knew weeds could be so beautiful!

Sparkling like diamonds, dew on a rose leaf and the result of surface tension. Does this boggle anyone else, the fact that round water drops can form and stay without immediately rolling off?

Straight from my dining room wall and my interpretation this week for straw, is wheat and what we can't

see inside of each tightly closed husk is a grain.

{linked to Lala's home daycare - theme straw}

I used this same image as my Photo Art Friday subject. I used a pencil sketch action with a

slight orton-ish action. I have never used the pencil sketch before and really like how it turned out.

{Shoot and Edit /Fabulous Friday}

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far reaching.    -Sivananda

Because life is so full of details it can sometimes be difficult to choose which ones to give

our attention to, and there are those we cannot go back and notice. Sometimes there are no second chances. I would rather notice the people, places and smallest of things around me than to have a detailed clean house. Oh how it used to be so much cleaner until I discovered photography!! (sorry honey!)

So, I'm wishing you a weeked full of a dirty house! ; )

Love, Kim

XO

 

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