Hanging Out Together Photograph by Connie Handscomb

Hanging Out Together

by Connie Handscomb

Canvas Print

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Shower Curtain

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Title

Hanging Out Together

Artist

Connie Handscomb

Medium

Photograph - Photography - Fine Art

Description

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell.
~ John Muir [fr. My First Summer In The Sierra,1869]

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Oregon grape
Mahonia aquifolium
Mahonia nervosa (formerly Berberis nervosa)

Family = Barberry

This evergreen shrub, the leaves which resemble those of a holly with its sharp spines, is native to the Pacific Northwest and North America. It will be found in the open woodlands. In autumn, it turns shades of orange.

The Oregon Grape is really not a grape at all, but its fragrant yellow flowers, like berry bunches, do hang like miniature bunches of grapes. The flowers turn to midnight blue berries. The bitter berries can be eaten raw, but since they are very acidic, so they are best used in jellies and jams,as well as a meat seasoning.

The indigenous people used the yellow pigment of the inner bark & roots to dye baskets bright yellow.

The genus name Mahonia is a tribute to an Irish horticulturist named Bernard M'Mahon who moved to the United States in 1796 to start a nursery. The species name Nervosa means there are distinct veins (nerves) on the plant leaves.

Sources:
Fr. Food For Free (Richard Mabey)
Fragrance In Bloom [A.Lovejoy]
The Herbalist Almanac [C. & D. Meyer]
The Carefree Garden, Letting Nature Play Her Part [Bill Terry]

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Close to one of my very favourite places,our public library, was a small Orgeon Grape shrub. I'm not exactly sure what provided the soft pastel background here ... I kept moving the camera to connect with different light ... so it was very possibly the sunlight caught in a new unique way on a leaf in the background.

And the angle of the capture caught some of the blooms behind, providing a natural, mirrorlike reflection. Captured in natural light, uncropped, unedited .. nature in all its splendour :)