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Morning Eye Candy: Bough Dancers

Posted in Photography on June 13 2011, by Ann Rafalko

There’s something about this image the evokes dancers: the movement, the volume, the geometry.

Ross Conifer Arboretum (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)

 

Morning Eye Candy: Photographer’s Choice

Posted in Photography on February 16 2011, by Plant Talk

When the Garden photographer emails you to say that he really loves a photo he took, you just know it’s going to be good. And we agree. This is one pretty pine tree!

Pinus strobus, the eastern white pine in front of the Visitor Center (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)

Morning Eye Candy: A Funny Little Tree

Posted in Photography on January 8 2011, by Plant Talk

We just love this little conifer, Abies koreana ‘Aurea’, known more commonly as the golden Korean fir. And some of us here see a certain, wise, green character from Star Wars in its silhouette. Do you? Or do you maybe see something different?

Golden Korean Fir (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)

Morning Eye Candy: O Tannenbaum!

Posted in Photography on December 23 2010, by Plant Talk

Du kannst mir sehr gefallen! You give us so much pleasure!

O Christmas tree! (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)

Morning Eye Candy: Light in the Boughs

Posted in Photography on December 15 2010, by Plant Talk

Not Christmas lights. Sunlight.

In the Ross Conifer Arboretum (Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)