Up And Coming is a photograph by Connie Handscomb which was uploaded on May 4th, 2017.
Up And Coming
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without loss of enthusiasm.... more
Title
Up And Coming
Artist
Connie Handscomb
Medium
Photograph - Photography - Fine Art
Description
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without loss of enthusiasm.
~ Sir Winston Churchill
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Flowering Dogwood
Family : Cornaceae
The stretch of Pacific Coast from Vancouver Island through to San Diego is home to a flowering tree, the Pacific Dogwood - which is also the floral emblem of the province in Canada I live in (British Columbia). This is not the Pacific Dogwood; I believe this is the Cornus florida since the shape of the flower and petals are quite different to our Cornus nuttallii - named, incidentally, after a friend of James Audobon: Thomas Nuttall. The Pacific dogwood flowers, called bracts, are white and pink-tinged.
The dogwood is used frequently as an ornamental landscape tree, and since it is used ornamentally where I live, finding out the hardwood is used for many things surprised me: golf clubs, shuttles, and piano keys; also bows, arrow, harpoon shafts, and knitting needles.
The bark is high in tannic acid, and indigenous peoples made a tea from the bark for fevers.
Native Americans knew it was time to start planting corn when the dogwood started flowering.
In autumn, small multi-seeded fruits appear which can be used for jam (something else I wasn't aware of).
Sources:
The Encyclopedia of North American Trees [S. Benvie]
Plants of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland [C.Vaner]
Flowering Shrubs : A Gardener's Guide [Negus; Strong]
The Herbalist Almanac [C. & D. Meyer]
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The dogwoods are coming into bloom now, such a delight to see. More rain (! ... we've set records this year!) is anticipated and I'm looking forward to capturing more of these blossoms between the deluges before they disappear for the season. Like the blossoming fruit trees, they do not open all at one time, and there are so many here - this is the floral emblem of our province - I'm quite confident I will be able to do so regardless of the weather man's (ongoing) dour predictions.
Captured in natural light; uncropped; unedited ... nature in all its splendour :)
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♥ Heartfelt Gratitude to FAA groups for featuring this image :
Photography And Nature 101
Global Flowers Photography [Plus Pick Of The Week; thankyou!]
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May 4th, 2017
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Jasna Dragun
Congratulations, your fellow artist chose this work as "Pick For The Week" in the "Global Flowers Photography", check out the gallera and select another artist!
Connie Handscomb
Reagan, thank you! again, for featuring this image in Photography And Nature 101 :))
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