Shrub Roses

Shrub Rose Blushing Knock-out

These images are from Kingwood Center in the middle of the last decade.

Shrub Rose Katheryn Morley

I think this one is my favorite because I worked hard to clean up the background and save it from the scrap heap.

Shrub Rose Ambridge Rose

I experimented with Depth of  Field, DOF, to obtain this one with which I was happy.

Shrub Rose Manhattan

I wasn't sure about this one at the time but am pleased with it today.  It seems to have withstood the test of time.

Thanks to Kingwood Center for the opportunity to capture these images. 

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A Contemplative Revelation

Tony Hillerman, in his novel Ghost Way, has one of his Navajo wise man elders give this advise:  "Memorize places," his uncle had told him. "Settle your eyes on a place and learn it.  See it under snow, and when first grass is growing, and as the rain falls on it.  Feel it, smell it, walk on it, it is there in your mind."

I became contemplative and realized I have done that at least once in my life.

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Vivianite

Vivianite

This mineral is hydrate of Iron phosphate.  (Fe2+Fe2+2(PO4)2·8H2O)  

The sample comes from Mullica, New Jersey.

Vivianite

Vivianite was named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1817, the year of his death, after John Henry Vivian (1785 - 7855).  Vivian was a Welsh-Cornish politician, mine owner and mineralogist living in Truro, Cornwell, England.

Vivianite

Pure Vivianite is colorless, but the mineral oxidizes easily, changing color, and is usually found as deep blue to deep bluish green prismatic to flattened. 

Thanks to Wikipedia and Mindat.org for the information herein provided.

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