I know people keep going on about this and it’s a bit tiresome, but it really is lazy to just swap out “ne” for “ly” and consider it a whole new month. “August” and “September” I can get behind, two entirely different words with almost nothing in common; you know you’re making changes when September comes around. With these two, you can only abbreviate them by dropping the last letter, a mere 25%, otherwise it can still be confusing. I propose we rename July to “Maxuary,” after a gerbil I once had…
Which means it’s time for the end of the month abstract, of course. “What could it be?” you ask breathlessly, to which I reply, Oh, for dog’s sake, calm down…
I’ve known these flower clusters since childhood as Queen Anne’s lace, which is somewhat curious in that it’s only known by this name in North America where we’re proud that we told the British royal family to get lorried, immediately afterward hanging on their every antic; elsewhere it’s known as wild carrot mostly, but Daucus carota for the pompous and pedantic. The deep purple flowers in the center are what the band took their name from, and exist mostly to make birds think there’s a bug there and waste time flying down to it, because the plant is easily amused.
But that’s not all that we have for the day! June yielded yet another that qualified, in the vague and formless structure of the term “abstract” in my head.
Despite it being high summer, this leaf from an American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) got convinced that autumn was nigh and dropped vividly into the water, likely to the sniggers of its brethren still greenly partying up in the parent tree. Wankers. But this meant that it stood out distinctly when I was out there chasing birds, and thus gets featured here today, with the foam at the water’s edge included as an extra element. But we need a closer look.
Not too shabby for being shot at 150mm with the Tamron 150-600, eh? I know you’re jealous, but if you’re nice to me, I’ll sell you a large print of the overall frame where you can see both the exquisite composition and the amazing leaf detail all together, and for an extra fee I won’t sign it and you can claim that you took it yourself in a casual, devil-may-care manner that therefore hints of even greater hidden talents and will surely get you laid. I’m that kind of guy.