Michael Menefee Photography

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The Variety Collection

My images in this gallery are used in other galleries or for elements of the website, but please do feel free to browse/shop it if you are curious. You will find a large potpourri of my photography in this collection with image subjects ranging from urban to wilderness.
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Blazing Mentzelia Bloom
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Blazing Mentzelia Bloom

One of the cooler wildflowers, Mentzelia has some stunning blossoms.

Mentzelia is in the Loasa Family, which is noted for the sandpaper-like surface of the leaves, which is caused by some of the strangest plant hairs known. The hairs are broad-based, shaped like a pagoda, each cell capped by a ring of stuff, curved hooks, which, unlike the corners of pagoada roofs, curve down, not up (description taken from Weber). If you see one of these plants touch some of the foliage with your finger and be amazed at how well it sticks to your skin thanks to those hairs. This "stickiness" results in the fruits and foliage of the plant sticking to about any article of clothing and going for a ride.

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  • Curve-billed Thrasher on Nature's Concertina Wire
  • You Rang?
  • Spiderwort So Blue
  • The Crowned Crane Conversationalist
  • Common Nighthawk Resting
  • Blazing Mentzelia Bloom
  • Caged Great Ape
  • An Orang Prior to  a Harangue?
  • Round Trinidad
  • Umbel of Yellow
  • Spring Catkins
  • Good Morning Flickizens
  • The Black-crowned Night-Heron Express
  • Tiny Bit of Joy in My Lawn
  • Narnia Entry in Spring
  • A Dandy-Burst of Lions
  • Front Range Farmer Views
  • The Buzz on the 24 Hours of Flickr
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