The art of Nature - or the nature of Art?

I love slow-walking! We miss so much by sitting in cars or dashing everywhere as fast as possible. Last week I took my camera and hunted down these close-ups of our amazing natural world - will pop the orchids in the next blog.

A bidibid seed head

Close-up of the bidibid seed head

Land of the long white clouds

Close-up of cutty grass seed head

Another species of cutty grass - droopy seed heads with fluffy white ends

And yet another type of cutty grass with seeds hanging off the seed head

Close-up of the cutty grass leaf - watch your fingers!

Close-up of a fertile frond of a fern

With a bit of imagination this new fern frond looks like people queuing up

Are these the three wise men?

A lancewood reaching for the sky

Fern koru

Another koru

Another koru looking like a caterpillar laying on its back