Showing posts with label learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label learning. Show all posts
Tuesday
Monday
Wispy Dandelion
What is a weed?
A plant whose virtues have not
yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
About the Image: Dandelion Pappus - 12-03-11 Izaak Walton Park - Christiansburg, VA
I didn't know what the little "wispy" part of the dandelion was called. I looked it up and Wikipedia tells me that it is called a Pappus (Pappi would be the plural).
"feathery bristles of the pappus function as a "parachute" which enables the seed to be carried by the wind"
I LOVE learning new things!
I LOVE learning new things!
Thursday
Squirrel in the Morning Light
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
~Henry L. Doherty
Saturday
Simplicity in the Grasses
Photography is my creative outlet... and I try to find a quote or poem that goes
along with what I'm feeling about the shot.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
~
even the grasses
they make the most
of what they have
we can learn a lot
from nature
~
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