Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
This is the time of year when Americans, representing every pretty well every human combination join family and friends to celebrate our life and give thanks. There's gratitude for natures bounty and for the fortune of yet another year.
People collect cones from evergreen trees and dried flowers and leaves for decoration. We make pumpkin pies and special breads and choose a huge turkey, enough to feed all the guests and then some. I came across these "cones" for want of a better word in an abandoned lot nearby. They start off pink and as they burst open and dry to release and scatter their bright red seeds. I'd love to know what kind of a tree they come from!
Canon 5D EF 24-105 f4L IS at f 8.0 1/25 sec ISO 1000 filtered afternoon sun, processed in ACR
© 2007 Asher Kelman Please "Red Seeds from a Neglected Lot" Do not copy or download or edit
So I felt they would be perfect to go with a bowl of fruit and pumpkins and grabbed as much as I could and hence this photograph. What is it about these remnants of a bountiful earth that we need to gather them and enjoy them again and again?
I hope you will share your own photographs of nature's riches too!
Happy Thanksgiving no matter what! Yes the Turks, Dutch, French, British, French, Portuguese, Irish, Aussies too and our friends we have made all over the planet! That's India, China, Iran and Indonesia and everywhere in between! We hope you are all safe and have what to be thankful for.
Asher
People collect cones from evergreen trees and dried flowers and leaves for decoration. We make pumpkin pies and special breads and choose a huge turkey, enough to feed all the guests and then some. I came across these "cones" for want of a better word in an abandoned lot nearby. They start off pink and as they burst open and dry to release and scatter their bright red seeds. I'd love to know what kind of a tree they come from!
Canon 5D EF 24-105 f4L IS at f 8.0 1/25 sec ISO 1000 filtered afternoon sun, processed in ACR
© 2007 Asher Kelman Please "Red Seeds from a Neglected Lot" Do not copy or download or edit
So I felt they would be perfect to go with a bowl of fruit and pumpkins and grabbed as much as I could and hence this photograph. What is it about these remnants of a bountiful earth that we need to gather them and enjoy them again and again?
I hope you will share your own photographs of nature's riches too!
Happy Thanksgiving no matter what! Yes the Turks, Dutch, French, British, French, Portuguese, Irish, Aussies too and our friends we have made all over the planet! That's India, China, Iran and Indonesia and everywhere in between! We hope you are all safe and have what to be thankful for.
Asher
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