Mastodawn

Some Cobalt Elegance for Monday, have a great day!
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Spikyyn 2d ago

(a late #flowerfriday and early #insectsaturday post. Why not both?)

A #honeybee gathering nectar from a cluster of coral vine #flowers.

Shot on Google Pixel 7a. Edited in #Darktable
Jul 31, 2024

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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦2d ago

"Autumn Leaves," Mary Vaux Walcott, 1874.

Born into a wealthy Philadelphia Quaker family, Mary Vaux (1860-1940) took up watercolors in her youth, painting wildflowers during family trips to the Canadian Rockies. She also studied mineralogy and geology, studied the flow of glaciers, and became an active mountain climber, photographer, and all-around outdoorswoman while only in her 20s. She was the first woman to ascend Mount Stephen in British Columbia.

Beginning to focus on botanical illustration, she documented many plants of the Canadian Rockies. Late in life she married paleontologist Charles Walcott, then secretary of the Smithsonian, which in 1925 published a five-volume work of her illustrations.

She was a close friend of Lou Henry Hoover, was instrumental in the founding of DC's first Quaker meeting house, served as president of the Society of Women Geographers, and served on the US Board of Indian Commissioners from 1927 to 1935.

By the time of her passing she was hailed as the "Audubon of Botany" and a mountain in Alberta's Jasper National Park is named for her.

Not quite a flower, but still nice!

From the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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