On the Road and In Your Backyard

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Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!

Errors and leaving things until the last minutes meant I don’t have pics from BillinGlendale today, but I will soon!

 

Today, pictures from valued commenter J R in WV.

Back in February we had spring, far more spring than we have today.

So I went outside with a camera, the Olympus TG-5 that I used for whales and sea-lions in my last set of photos from Baja California. It has a Macro close-up mode which I used for most of these photos – mostly moss greening up after winter.

Spring moss 1

Taken on 2018-02-20

My yard

f/6.3 for 1/100 at 30mm with flash

Green moss with some older spore fronds

Moss and tiny fern

Taken on 2018-02-20

My yard

f/6.3 for 1/30 sec at 30mm with flash

Moss on a boulder with a tiny new fern

Macro Moss

Taken on 2018-02-20

My yard

f/11.0 for 1/60 sec at 65mm with flash

Moss preparing to reproduce

Taken on 2018-02-20

The yard

f/11.0 for 1/60 sec. at 65mm with flash

These are newly grown sprouts that will develop spores

Creek in Yard

Taken on 2018-02-20

The yard

f/4.9 for 1/160 at 100 mm

Moss on a small rock

Taken on 2018-02-20

The yard

f/2.8 for 1/400 sec. at 25mm

 

Thank you so much J R in WV, do send us more when you can.

 

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