Photographs from our trip to Harriman State Park(Upstate New York). Magic macro zoom lens uncovering detail almost invisible to the naked eye…

I love the heart pattern on the dragon fly tail.

Photographs by Paul Gower

July 03, 2011

Above: Rhododendrons blooming everywhere.

Above: Blueberries.  Not yet ripened

Carless days. Catching a train from New York City,  Penn Station to Sloatsburg then hiking to Harriman State Park(Upstate New York)

June 11, 2011

Fresh poppy seeds - delicious! Beautiful photography by Inmost Light

Above:  Inmost Light

June 08, 2011

Thirty five leaves silhouettes can be found on http://forestry.about.com

June 04, 2011

Illustration by Maayan Pearl and Emily Keegin.

Read article in Bloomberg Businessweek

May 30, 2011

“I grew up on the countryside where my parents run a plant nursery and a flower shop.   I decided to show nature how I experienced it as a child.”

-http://www.amirafritz.com

May 21, 2011

Above: Dress made from yucca leaves and flowers.

May 16, 2011

Image above: http://www.bloom-magazine.eu

Place flower between 2 sheets of paper to protect the pages of the book. Leave at least 1/8” of pages between pressings, weigh the book down and wait a couple of weeks.

May 15, 2011

-http://treehugger.com

May 13, 2011

Above:  Tree says hi.

Photos by Israel based photographer Ella Sverdlov

May 12, 2011

Stunning drawings by Japanes artist Ikeda Manabu .  Click on images to view larger.  On view now at Japan Society.

May 01, 2011

April 27, 2011

“Захотелось вернуться в васильковое лето,
когда от зноя плавится воздух, от тишины звенит в ушах” - Х.Росс

В чистом поле, у реки
Распустились васильки.
Синенькие крапинки,
Словно неба капельки...

April 24, 2011

Tonatiuh Ambrosetti has been making these stunning photographs of glaciers melting in his home country of Switzerland.

- http://www.tonatiuh.ch

April 20, 2011

April 16, 2011

April 14, 2011

Great blog from Vancouver, BC - http://www.old-chum.com/

April 12, 2011

Wild fields, abandoned fields, nobody’s fields, everybody’s fields….{Does anyone know a large to medium size field near New York City area anyone
can walk on?  )

April 09, 2011

April 03, 2011

Green streets in my neighborhood Moscow, Russia(Москва, район Ленинского проспекта и ул. Обручева).  One thing I miss about growing up during Communism - the overgrowth.  Photograph by Dmitriy Chistoprudov. 

http://chistoprudov.ru/portfolio/

March 29, 2011

Wild Tigers Will be Extinct in 2022. Poster found on http://fourleafcloverblog.com

March 27, 2011

When I was little I loved jumping on puddles after rain. 
Beautiful photographs by The Rivers Closet

March 05, 2011

Snow Piece by Yoko Ono.

February 21, 2011

February 19, 2011

I do not remember where I found this photograph or artist
but I think this photo is really funny.  Ha-ha

February 09, 2011

The Laughing Owl (Sceloglaux albifacies), also known as Whēkau or the White-faced Owl, was an endemic owl found in New Zealand, but is now extinct. It was plentiful when European settlers arrived in New Zealand in 1840.  By 1880, the species was becoming rare, and the last recorded specimen was found dead at Bluecliffs Station in Canterbury, New Zealand on July 5, 1914

The Laughing Owl generally occupied rocky, low rainfall areas. Being quite large, Laughing Owls were able to deal with the introduced European rats that had caused the extinction of so much of their prey; however, the stoats introduced to control feral rabbits, and feral cats were too much for the species.

January 31, 2011

Lawrence Beck is a New York based artist who explores controlled and unbound nature. Beck takes photographs plants in national forests, city parks and botanic gardens. He celebrates the beauty of plants while undercutting this ’natural’ elegance by revealing its manufacturedness.

January 24, 2011

Gulf of Mexico oil spill from space

January 21, 2011