RHH's photos with the keyword: drop

Thought I'd post something a little different today. These were photographed on a spring outing to Vancouver, British Columbia, to Queen Elizabeth Park where we explored the Bloedel Conservatory and walked a bit out in the park.

This was photographed in Queen Elizabeth II Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, on a spring outing there.

This was taken in Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, on a spring excursion there.

"Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.” Samuel Ullman. Tamron SF AF 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro

Rhododendron hybrid.

Alchemilla mollis, Lady's mantle, photographed on a morning walk. --- The common name, Lady's Mantle (in its German form, Frauenmantle), was first bestowed on it by the sixteenth-century botanist, Jerome Bock, always known by the Latinized version of his name: Tragus. It appears under this name in his famous History of Plants, published in 1532, and Linnaeus adopted it. In the Middle Ages, this plant had been associated, like so many flowers, with the Virgin Mary (hence it is Lady's Mantle, not Ladies' Mantle), the lobes of the leaves being supposed to resemble the scalloped edges of a mantle. In mediaeval Latin we also find it called Leontopodium (lion's foot), probably from its spreading root-leaves, and this has become in modern French, Pied-de-lion. We occasionally find the same idea expressed in two English local names, 'Lion's foot' and 'Bear's foot.' It has also been called 'Stellaria,' from the radiating character of its lower leaves, but this belongs more properly to quite another group of plants, with star-like blossoms of pure white. ---The generic name Alchemilla is derived from the Arabic word, Alkemelych (alchemy), and was bestowed on it, according to some old writers, because of the wonder-working powers of the plant. Others held that the alchemical virtues lay in the subtle influence the foliage imparted to the dewdrops that lay in its furrowed leaves and in the little cup formed by its joined stipules, these dewdrops constituting part of many mystic potions. www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/l/ladman05.html

This photo was taken on our recent field trip with the Washington Native orchid Society - the forest was very dry at the time, there was no dew or moisture on any of the plants except this immature shelf fungus. When we returned the next day we found the same thing and can only guess that the temperature of the fungus was cooler than the temperature of the air, causing the drops of water to form.

This orchid had just been watered and the water was dripping from it when I took this photo.

The title really says it all. Taken on the Fragrance Lake trail in Larrabee State Park. I am not sure, however, which fern this is. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-wet-walk-...