Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: snowflake

(+1 inset!) (please view large to see the snowflake better!) :D There was a very light dusting of snow this morning which began to melt as I walked up and down the driveway. It was so nice to hear the birds doing their thing. I couldn't help hearing several Acorn Woodpeckers being loud and obnoxious but I love to hear them yelling at each other! They are so rude! :D We also have two kinds of noisy jays. Stellar's and Scrub Jays both vie for the title of "Most Obnoxious" along with the Acorn Woodpeckers. It's always fun to see them though, such pretty birds. Today I've decided to share a couple of snowy sporophyte pictures to go with the light dusting of snow this morning. I took them a couple of weeks ago when I woke up to a world covered in white. I really hoped to get some unusual macro pictures and I sure got lucky with these images! At the time, I had no idea that I'd captured actual snowflakes until I looked at them on the computer. Two of the pictures needed to be tightly cropped so I made them into a collage. I hope you enjoy them--the buried sporophyte makes me laugh! (I provided two sizes so you can see the inset snowflakes better) Pam, you made a beautiful snowflake artwork which I admire every time I look at it. It reminds me of kaleidoscopes, something I always enjoyed as a kid. Maybe that's one of the reasons that I love abstracts so much! I hope you are having a good day Pam!! *BIG HUGS* Explored on 2/18/19, highest placement, #1.

As usual, Steve and I stayed up way too late last night, and it was well after 1am when I stepped outside with the dogs before we all went to bed. Upon opening the door, I exclaimed, "OHHHH!!! IT'S SNOWING!!" Mesmerized by the beautiful scene, I watched the huge, fat flakes drifting slowly down from the silent sky. I noticed that the snow wasn't melting instantly when it landed on my car, and I thought to myself, "Hmmm...I wonder if I could get a picture of a snowflake!" I didn't know that a snowflake could be photographed until I saw an image posted by one of my Flickr friends, and ever since, I've been hoping for the right conditions to try for myself. But...it was so late. Yawning, I went back inside and told Steve about my idea, and he said that I should give it a try, since we both agreed that the temperature would probably be too warm in the morning to try for a snowflake picture. So, I bundled up, grabbed my tripod and a flashlight and out I went! I didn't have a clue if I would be successful so I took a dozen pictures with the hopes that maybe, just maybe, I would find a snowflake in one of them. After I felt that I might have gotten something, I went back inside and crossed my fingers as I started studying each picture on my computer. When I came to this one, I squealed out loud, "IT'S A SNOWFLAKE!!! I GOT A PICTURE OF A SNOWFLAKE!!!!!!" :D :D :D Bertrand Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these in any profound sense. Wikipedia: Bertrand Russell