Amelia's photos with the keyword: Close-up

Moss humps on our garden wall. I love the moss which grows on our sandstone wall, so do the birds, and the schoolchildren who often scoop it off.

This week Saturday Sels Challenge: let's concentrate on: "Harmony'' The waves were moving bits of seaweed around with each ebb and flow. This was an 'O' to begin with, but by the time I got the camera ready it had changed into an 'R'. Nina and Frederik - Listen to the Ocean

The first PiP is Larch bark. The second PiP is Horse Chestnut bark

#5 Spring Flowers The Wood Anemone is named after the Greek wind god, Anemos, who sent his namesakes, the anemones, in early spring to herald his coming. This legend gives the flower its other common name of ‘Windflower’.

The Saturday Self Challenge for this week is: Our challenge for this week is: "Close-up in colour". Let's keep post-processing to a minimum. The colours are true, but I have cropped the photo to a square frame, and used Pic Monkey to add a simple frame.

Vivaldi - Spring

The smallest stone, lower right, is approximately 0.8cm. The flint in the PIP is 4.2 cm

Here's how port is made: www.taylor.pt/en/what-is-port-wine/how-is-port-made This bottle has been laid down in our wine rack since 1995 when we were given it as a Christmas present, so it's definitely vintage dust. I don't like port so am open to offers. I'm a tad ashamed of all the dust photos that I tried, so they are all deleted both from the camera and the hard drive. Now - let's clean, but the port bottle has gone back in the wine rack, almost untouched. ;-)

Foliose lichens are some of the largest and perhaps most complex lichens. The thallus generally forms flat, leaf-like lobes. The first PiP shows a Crustose lichen, possibly Lecanora muralis, growing on a sandstone wall. The thallus forms a crust over the substrate and is firmly attached to it. Consequently, the lichen normally cannot be collected intact without collecting a portion of the substrate along with it. The second PiP shows a Fruticose lichen, possibly Usnea subfloridana growing an a larch tree. The thallus is extended up into a tufted or pendant branched structure and is attached to the bark by a basal holdfast.