Figure 1 – Early meadow rue, Fresh Pond Reservation, Cambridge, MA. (c) DE Wolf 2015.

When I go out on my camera-in-hand walks I’m usually looking up at the trees in search of birds to photograph.  As a result I can miss what is going on at my feet. Case in point being the photograph of Figure 1.  This little greenish bell-shaped flower struck me as such a beautiful world in miniature – much like a Japanese garden. It was really just a little weed along the fence, but despite the fact that all I was toting was my 70 to 200 mm zoom. I just had to photograph these delicate little flowers set against a wonderful bokeh of magenta.

I am not a botanist by any means. So I am reluctant to take a guess as to what exactly it is. I am thinking early meadow rue as called quick-silver weed (Thalictrum dioicum). But I am hoping that one of my readers who is more familiar with wild flowers than I will set me straight if I am wrong. But either way, right or wrong, I find the shape and the colors ever so peaceful.

Canon T2i with EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens at 103 mm, ISO 1600, Aperture Priority AE mode, 1/3200 sec at f/7.0 with -1 exposure compensation.