Goat's Beard : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Goat's Beard / Giles Watson's poetry and prose
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| 説明 | GOAT’S BEARDJack woke up before the lightAnd went to bed at noon,Hid his yellow locks from sight.His long and pointed shoonWere buried in the rocky chalk;His fingers all grew speared,And tall and thin – a wiry stalk – He grew a goatee beard.Jack became a hoary man;His head turned to a sphere.He ended where he once began:The zenith of the year.Source material: Goat’s Beard, or Jack-Go-To-Bed-At-Noon, is a relative of Salsify, with a long, pointed, edible tap-root. The flower closes at midday; hence the folk name. As the flower is going to seed, it closes, and the silky hairs which will eventually provide each seed’s means of locomotion are bunched together in a pappus, which resembles an inverted goat’s beard. When the seed-head opens, around midsummer, it looks similar to a dandelion “clock”, but is three or four times as big. Its complexity has been compared with that of an astrolabe (Richard Mabey, Flora Britannica, p. 362), but it is perhaps more like an armillary sphere. See Geoffrey Grigson, An Englishman’s Flora, p. 422; Gabrielle Hatfield, Hatfield’s Herbal, pp. 146-7; Roy Vickery, Oxford Dictionary of Plant Lore, pp. 152-3; Marjorie and Philip Blamey, Flowers of the Countryside, London, 1980, p. 198. My lyric is, of course, indebted to the tradition of 'John Barleycorn'. Poem by Giles Watson, 2009. |
| 撮影日 | 2009-06-14 07:17:26 |
| 撮影者 | Giles Watson's poetry and prose , Oxfordshire, England |
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| カメラ | E8700 , NIKON |
| 露出 | 0.005 sec (1/220) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.3 |