All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.
Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749 – 1827)
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19 Comments CherryPie on Mar 31st 2013
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Science & Nature
And Still it Snows…
12 Comments CherryPie on Mar 24th 2013
A Light Exists in Spring
A light exists in spring
Not present on the year
At any other period.
When March is scarcely here
A color stands abroad
On solitary hills
That science cannot overtake,
But human nature feels.
It waits upon the lawn;
It shows the furthest tree
Upon the furthest slope we know;
It almost speaks to me.
Then, as horizons step,
Or noons report away,
Without the [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 15th 2013
Filed under Science & Nature
The Cropping of Ducks
Often when reviewing photographs that I have taken I see many photographs within the original photo. When I reviewed this photo I couldn’t see any way to better my original capture. I liked it as it was! So I didn’t work on any alternative views…
It seems from my comments thread that I may have been [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 19th 2013
Filed under Gardens, Science & Nature
52 Photos Project – Gallery 43 – Love
The Love gallery can be found here.
10 Comments CherryPie on Feb 18th 2013
Filed under Books, Science & Nature
The Biology of a Lichen
I have always loved seeing lichen on stone walls and in churchyards but until I read Katherine Swift’s The Morville Year I had no idea how fascinating it really is:
A lichen consists of not one but two organisms living in symbiosis: a fungus, capable of withstanding extremes of temperature and drought but unable to photosynthesis, and an alga, which [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Feb 11th 2013
