Flower in bloom in the early evening sunlight along Diamond Head drive in Budgewoi (larger image).
Merry Christmas, see you in 2010.
Photo: Christmas bloom along Diamond Head drive, Budgewoi
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 25 December, 2009 to the snap shots subset
Photo: all this ant’s Christmases have come at once…
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 25 December, 2009 to the snap shots subset
My efforts at photographing Christmas lights (at night) still leave a lot to be desired, so I went about seeking out some more examples of nature related Christmas colours instead.
I’d say this ant enjoyed Christmas day though.
Photo: bell flower in summer bloom
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 13 January, 2009 to the snap shots subset
Random white bell flower in bloom.
Photo: Christmas decorations courtesy of nature
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 25 December, 2008 to the snap shots subset
In bloom just in time for Christmas.
The mind boggling reality of giving flowers
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 14 October, 2008 to the comment subset
The gift of flowers in actual fact stimulates both the left fusiform gyrus and inferior frontal cortex of the brain… it all makes so much sense now.
Kristian Tylén from the University of Southern Denmark in Odense and colleagues wanted to know which part of the brain was used to understand the meaning behind items placed [...]
Girlfriends score more flowers than mothers. O RLY?
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 28 May, 2008 to the comment subset
At least according to reasonably circumstantial evidence based on the Alexa traffic rankings of online flower vendors.
When comparing the traffic of three major online florists and one gift site, Tiffany.com, I notice something interesting: moms don’t make out as well as sweethearts. For all of these sites, there are the predictable spikes around holidays. Christmas [...]
Plants, for Your Health
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 26 May, 2008 to the comment subset
Plants, for Your Health
Chart showing common indoor pollutants, together with a selection of indoor plants and flowers that can help clear their toxicity.
Unless you live in an organic bubble, chances are that most days you interact with plastics, paper goods, synthetic fibers, and other household items that contain trace amounts of toxins – toxins that, [...]
Fibonacci Numbers in Nature
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 8 May, 2008 to the comment subset
Fibonacci Numbers in Nature
You can find examples of these Fibonacci numbers everywhere if only you look.
This article points out instances of the sequence in flowers. Knowing the Fibonacci number of a certain flower may be useful for those who like doing the “he/she loves me, he/she loves me not” thing, so they know exactly where [...]
Glare
Posted by John Lampard on Saturday, 30 June, 2007 to the snap shots subset
I’m a little fussy when it comes to the photos I’ll post up on my Flickr page. Ideally I prefer they were prefect, crystal clear and sharply focussed. Maybe that will have to wait though until I upgrade the four year old 3.2 megapixel Optio I am currently using!
Anyway I did a bit of driving [...]
