Tag: Biene

A single splendid sun

Although I was looking forward to Becky’s Square Challenge returning in October I am kind of sad to see summer go. Let’s hold on to it a bit longer with photos of the warm and bright season!

This sunflower is a kind of sun – to sustain us, hopefully, through the darker months ahead.

And yes, the title is a reference to that wonderful novel by Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Square 1 for the KindaSquare Challenge in October.

Remember: The photos don’t have to be square as long they are regular quadrilaterals, i.e. as long as they have four sides of equal length and four right angles.

Chinese stachyurus

The Chinese stachyurus is called Japanese stachyurus in Germany, which is wrong because it occurs naturally in China and Taiwan.  But I guess it was named at a time when everything further than a couple of hundred kilometres was considered far, and everything in Asia lumped together as exotic.

Linked to Sunshine’s Macro Monday.