Gifts From Mother Nature
Two days ago, when I went to chase the mysterious fog and tried to capture the scenes I had in mind, also noticed the gifts mother nature has prepared for me along with the fog. Fog doesn't only mean white, it also means precipitation and moisture. You can observe it on the leaves, or any surface that can hold some water.
Among other things, I came across the berries of the ivy, which usually is lovely on its own, because it has a red stem and the berries are blue, which is a nice colorful spot in this big gray surroundings.
Spider webs are always interesting from photographic point of view, but when there's a dew, frost or just fog sprinkling the web with little water droplets, it makes it more interesting. I was looking to capture the little water droplets on the berries, when I saw a spider web, trying to hold under the weight of those water droplets.
This was a real gift for me as if it wasn't for the fog, I would have never captured anything similar. Raindrops are way bigger than these droplets, so no chance.
For those of you who don't know what ivy looks like, or know the berries ivy has, don't let yourself fooled. This looks like grapes, but are not grapes. These are macro photos, so the berries look way bigger.
I took a photo for you, to see how small these cuties are.
Unfortunately, with the latest cold, I don't know how much these are going to last.
Pretty soon the berries are going to fall down, the red stem is going to turn brown and die eventually.
While I was taking these photos, my biggest fear was to touch one of the berries, that would have caused the droplets to fall. Needless to say such an act would have ruined my playground.
My plan is to capture them when the frost comes, or the first snow. Obviously no one knows if these are going to resist till then, or when we're going to have snow or frost, so this is just a dream, that may not come true.
On my way home, I spotted the wild cherry tree, that has already lost its leaves and the cherries as well, but the lichen seems to be doing just fine. Now that the moisture is constant, there's a high chance to see some amazing formations.
There's a lot of lichen on the vine at my dad's and most likely looking great this time of the year, but I'm not going to see that till last year, so I'm going to have to find some in the city.
Yesterday I spotted this beauty. Can you guess what it is? It's a cabbage flower, that we have every autumn all over the city. There's purple and white, planted in public parks. Last year I took some shots when these flowers were covered by snow and ice. This year this is what you get from me, little droplets caused by the fog. These flowers are pretty resistant to cold, this is why you see them in parks this time of the year. Although my heart breaks seeing them under the snow, half icy.
Sooooo, which one is your favorite today? 😏
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Seeing your finger next to those mulberries made me guess its real size. Otherwise I thought they were huge lol.
My favorite is of course the penultimate one, the first photo of the cabbage flower. It looks like a really impressive plant, but I'm sure I've seen 1000 of them, I just hadn't seen a pink one and I hadn't looked so closely 😂.
That's why I thought I can pretend to touch one, to show the size of them.
Yeah, we tend to walk blindly and neglect to pay attention to details 😁
When I saw those water droplets, I thought you captured them at just the perfect moment as the dripped from the berry towards the ground. That definitely is my favorite. It’s a rare occasion.
Did you say that was a cabbage flower with purple colored leaves?😳 is that a normal thing around your place?
It was indeed a rare occasion and I consider myself lucky for that.
It is cabbage flower but it's not the flower of the real cabbage we eat. These are ornamental flowers. On the other hand, we have purple cabbage here as well and it is very delicious.
when I saw the beautiful fruit, at first I thought this must be grapes because different regions might have grapes like that. and I continue to read the post it turns out explaining it's not grapes but it's actually a plant ivy. But I've really never seen this plant and it's weird that the red stems eventually turn Chocolate. Thank you @erikah for sharing at least we already know even if we don't Have seen in reality🙏
I know it can be deceiving, that is why I wanted to put my hand next to it to see these berries are tiny and are not grapes. The stems turn brown because they dry out and lose color.
This is the advantage of Hive and my pleasure to share what I see.
I love it all but I was more stunned with the cabbage flower Ma'am @erikah .Is it edible too, like the usual cabbage we have in the market? I was kind of curious about it.😅 By the way, I love the color.💜
The leaves are edible, but don't have the flavor of the usual cabbage. actually don't have any flavor at all and the root is poisonous.
Ohh I see, when you said "poisonous" my excitement faded. Hehe
Isn't it adorable how nature gives everything to us only asking in return that we take care of it?
I fully agree with you on that and it's a shame many can't see that or don't care at all.
I was really thinking that berries are similar to grapes in size and that picture includes your fingers made me realize the real thing.
I really loved the photos, all the photos of this place actually and it looks like those droplets were there waiting for you so that you can get these amazing shots.
It looks kind of similar, but the stem is different as this one has just a few fruits, while grapes are a lot on one stem and the stem of grapes is never red. Indeed, the droplets were waiting for me 😁
You're right, the droplets were waiting to be in your frames.
I never tasted these berries, how do they tastes?
Another adorable shots again..
This time I want to appreciate the effort you put in taking this pictures.
Because any one that knows me will know how particular I am with beauty nature..
I use them as wallpapers as they lighten my day. So few time I wish I can just keep some of this..
Nice one again @erikah I love all slide.
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Very cool photography.
Thank you!
Waw, that's a very beautiful photo ma'am, and whether it's a kind of grape, I saw something like this for the first time
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