Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: curls

I love curls and coils, but find it very difficult to get the kind of photos of them that I would really like. Never sharp. Meanwhile, I'll post this one, taken in the Conservatory at the Calgary Zoo.

I love the way Asters curl their petals when the flower is beginning to age. Noticed this one at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park on 23 September 2010. I knew I had a photo or two of this flower "somewhere" and discovered it a while ago, when I was backing up a few more photo files from 2010. It was a sad day yesterday at the Calgary Zoo. Foggy, a 47-year-old River Hippoptamus and the Zoo's oldest resident, had to be euthanized because of age-related problems. My condolences, especially to the Zoo staff. "Foggy, the 47-year-old hippopotamus at the Calgary Zoo who got his name from his foghorn-like bellow, was euthanized today by zoo officials because of the animal’s declining health. The hippo, which came to the zoo in 1965 after being born at the Houston Zoo, had been in deteriorating health for several years because of its advanced age, zoo officials said in a news release. “Sadly, the time had come when there was nothing more we could do to mitigate his many age-related ailments and we felt that his quality of life was simply not acceptable anymore,” said Jamie Dorgan, area curator. The hippo fathered seven offspring during its life with three different mates, including three with its enclosure mate Sparky. Foggy was the oldest animal at the zoo." © Copyright (c) The Calgary Herald

That's me on the left, with my younger friend, Linda, who grew up into an amazing woman and an even more amazing friend. This is the person (over in England) who arranged my brother's funeral just over a year ago, helped sort through every single item in his house and sent me photos of each thing by e-mail so that I could choose which precious items I wanted saving. All these things were carefully shipped over to Canada for me a few months ago. She, and my other friends, gave up a year of their lives to do all this - and many other things, too numerous to mention. Thanks, Linda - how proud your parents would be, to have raised a daughter like you!

Ha, I just had to photograph this Dandelion stem that had curled so beautifully into three coils. I would imagine that the flower head had been chewed off by some wild animal on Keith Logan's land, about 2 miles south of Water Valley. Can't say I've ever noticed this happen before. Photographed on June 17th. Have to go on a three-hour walk this morning and then have my volunteer shift this afternoon, so I'm posting really early today.

I got LOST after falling behind on a walk so that I could take a few photos of this beautiful Smooth Blue Aster flower with curling petals! I almost always fall behind a little so that I can take a photo of something, but I guess I must have taken longer than usual this time : ). However, one good thing that came out of the experience was that I discovered a tiny patch of Prairie Gentians, which had not been recorded there before. I have to admit that when I finally found the rest of the group, it then took a LONG time to find the Gentians again, LOL. I need a GPS :)

I finally took a new photo of the delicately curling petals of a Showy (?) Aster last week. I'm not sure you would even notice what was happening with the petals if you didn't know what to look for, as the curls on these wildflowers are only very small. I wonder if there is a purpose for this happening.