Larry at Larry's Images.com: 7/31/11

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Chickory

Common Chickory

You will see these growing along the road side this time of year. I have long thought they are beautiful. Much of the time I don't stop to look at it. Maybe it is because it is not large, about one inch. Maybe I consider it a weed.

According to Wikipedia, the root can be baked and ground for use as a coffee substitute or additive.

I enjoyed taking time to look at it again when I made this image. I used a "rose holder" to stabilize it. I then made three images for ample depth-of-field and combined them in Helicon Focus software.

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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Caterpillar?

I think this might be a caterpillar. The head end looks to me like a caterpillar. The posterior end looks like the parts are not as large as I would expect. It is eating the leaf of a common milk weed. I found it while looking for the monarch caterpillar. From my observation of the the monarch caterpillar, I have noticed that they always look like a monarch caterpillar, just smaller. Does anyone have an idea about this?