Monday in Nature Weekly Photo May 25, 2015

[dcstep]

<p><strong>Wet Singer</strong></p>

<p><a title="Wet Singer by David Stephens, on Flickr" href=" src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5466/18090096761_36b9d7f72a_c.jpg" alt="Wet Singer" width="800" height="800" /></a></p>

[bing_huey1]

<p>Happy Birthday to Mondays in Nature. Thanks to Laura for her good work. Here is a nice patch of Indian paintbrush.</p><div></div>

[anthea50]

<p>Wow, 2 years, great job Laura and everyone! I found these bugs hanging around on some overgrown grass, they are quite small, and I had to take quite a dew shots before I got a decent image. For the life of me though, I can't identify the type, sorry.</p><div></div>

[thadley]

<p><img src="/photo/18025066" alt="" />Lots of beautiful shots.</p>

<p>Here is one I took in Candiac Quebec yesterday. Sigma 10-20mm 1/80s f8 - late in the afternoon and a condition that only lasted about 15 minutes.</p><div></div>

[marie_d1]

<p>Purple Iris </p><div></div>

[Glenn McCreery]

<p>Thank you Laura for hosting Monday in Nature Weekly Photo. I am not sure what plant we are looking at, but the leaves display interesting patterns. Photographed in a hotel garden in Boise, Idaho, after a thunderstorm. Identification help would be appreciated.(Whoops, the title should be plant leaves, not plant leave).</p><div></div>

[ShunCheung]

<p>Sea otter</p><div></div>

[paul_de_ley]

<p>Glenn those leaves are probably a variety of Hosta, looking lush and unusually intact - they rarely escape the attention of hungry slugs & snails.</p>

<p>Hoping to avoid the worst of traffic, I went looking for some lesser-trodden paths during the long weekend, which led me to this sleeping dragon:</p><div></div>

[johnfarrar]

<p>Glenn - I'm no gardener, but they could be <em>Hostea. </em></p>

[Glenn McCreery]

<p>Thank you Paul and John. When I use Google, I find references to both hosta and hostea plants, the photos of which appear to be the same. The garden looked well tended, so no snails or slugs were allowed to ruin the aesthetics of the leaves.</p>

[Mark Keefer]

<p>From the Nature Center.</p><div></div>

[de_isaacs]

<p>Not so much a Road as a trail over the Waves - I guess you might say the Seagull (Jonathan perhaps) was 'photo-bombing' my wave-break shot!<br>

Derek Isaacs</p><div></div>