Night harvesting
Month: August 2014
Blue feast
Flower head of chicory (Cichorium intybus) with four insects, the small one perhaps grazing pollen, the others going for the rich centre and trampling the (male) pollen bearing anthers held bifurcating on thin blue-lined tubes and curling inwards like muscle-flexing stick-men
… on an organic farm, East Lothian, 15 August 2014 (Image by Squire).
Ripe wheat
No more cuddly thistle
XQ3 early August
Descriptions at The Year. For a quick look at images around the other quarter days and cross quarter days – winter solstice, XQ1, spring equinox, XQ2, summer solstice, autumn equinox, XQ4.