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Growing Up Alone

ingrid — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:47:44 +0000

photos ©ingridtaylar – email me for permissions First signs of spring at the Center for Urban Horticulture in Seattle. I posted a mini history of the Montlake-Fill-to-Union-Bay-Natural-Area transformation over at Seattleography.

Brave New Poppies . . . and David Lynch

ingrid — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:06:54 +0000

I appreciate spring this year. I didn't in 2009. Our California sod is parched from recent drought -- and the whimsy of a winter that flitted through last year felt like hope lost. [read the full post . . .]

Return to the Mother Ship

ingrid — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:47:30 +0000

This honey bee was one of a stream of honey bees, hypnotized into the maw of this cactus flower.

Spring in Micro (and Macro)

ingrid — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:35:14 +0000

My lens life felt banal this week, so I moved in and went macro. Super macro. I call it my “bug lens” but it’s actually a set of two lenses which go by the names of Raynox DCR-150 and Raynox DCR-250. They’re $40 gifts from macro heaven that snap on to the lens of my [...]

A Day in the Life of a Corpse Flower

ingrid — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:15:39 +0000

Well, more than a day actually . . . It’s supposed to smell like rotting flesh, hence the name. But during our visit with the corpse flower (Titan arum) at UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, the plant was nice enough not to pulsate and stink up the joint. The smells come in pulses, often more pungent [...]