Okay, so strictly speaking, that photo up there isn’t a macro. It’s not properly 1:1, but it’s getting all up in there, so we’re just going to handwave away the macro specifics.
*hand waves*
Took that one on the desert floor at Arches National Park.
No idea what kind of flower it is, so we’ll just say it’s a Southwestern Articulated Elkblossom. Good? Good. We’re all in agreement. At the bottom, I’ll toss in a couple more flower photos because yay spring.
What else is going on?
First up, I know that those who subscribe to this blog are no longer getting emails sent from terribleminds and are instead sent from WordPress. If anybody has any idea how to fix, give a shout. I’ve tried everything.
Second, since occasionally I am struck by folks who don’t realize or have forgotten Thunderbird is out — aka, the fourth Miriam Black book — hey, looky here, it exists, woooo, go grabby. It’s got the desert and drugs and psychic shenanigans and a creepy militia and vultures and domestic terrorism and Miriam saying snarky mean shit and woo and huzzah and whatever. I dug it, hope you dig it, too. (Thunderbird at Indiebound, at Amazon.)
Third, you can watch my interview at SyFy while sitting inside a landspeeder, motherfucker. Er, I’m the one sitting in a landspeeder, not that you can watch it from inside a landspeeder.
There’s probably something else, but it’s Monday and my brain is poop.
*flails wildly*
*flings flower photos into your eyeballs*
Donna Lewis says:
Your photos are AMAZING! Just lovely.
May 15, 2017 — 9:21 AM
MsShonnerz says:
These are beautiful. You should frame them for the writer shed.
May 15, 2017 — 9:33 AM
Rebecca Douglass says:
It’s some kind of sunflower, aka DYC (damned yellow composite). Without more of the plant, it’s hard to tell, even if I could remember, which I probably can’t.
May 15, 2017 — 11:08 AM
Julianna Aislynn d'Merricksson says:
My first thought was sunflower too.
May 15, 2017 — 12:31 PM
Jill Sardella says:
Here’s an article that might point you in the right direction for resolving your “from” name issue. My recommendation would be adding a snippet to your functions.php file as opposed to a plugin. https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-email-settings/?fbcb=b&utm_expid=3606929-105.kKHVTz43T_CV513Vo9oSow.1&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
May 15, 2017 — 12:21 PM
Julianna Aislynn d'Merricksson says:
I bow to your phenomenal photo faculty. Just beautiful, as always. They would make lovely postcards! We have a professional photographer who makes cards and postcards that he sells in the sandwich shop in our village
May 15, 2017 — 12:30 PM
inkgrrl says:
Purty! Also, LANDSPEEDEROMG.
May 15, 2017 — 12:43 PM
writing, writing, words words words. says:
Gorgeous!
May 15, 2017 — 1:03 PM
Jill Sardella says:
Not being able to ignore a techie mystery, I’ve continued to dig around into your WordPress “sent name” issue. Now I’m not sure how helpful my previous comment is. Unless you are hosting your own version of WordPress, you won’t be able to get into the php files. And, without knowing how your site is setup, what plugins you are using, what you’ve already tried, etc., it’s difficult to know what to recommend. What I can tell you is something has changed (obviously), so look into any updates to plugins, WordPress versions, and don’t rule out gremlins. It always comes down to gremlins. :-O
I wish I could be more help. If you do find a resolution, please post it. I’d love to know what it was.
And your flower photos are spectacular. 🙂
May 15, 2017 — 1:30 PM
terribleminds says:
I am hosting! Subscriptions go through Jetpack. Made no changes (though have made changes since, trying to get it to update).
May 15, 2017 — 1:41 PM
Jill Sardella says:
I sent an email to you early today in case you didn’t see it.
May 16, 2017 — 10:11 PM
Jill Sardella says:
That’s good! At least you can get to all the WordPress files. I’ll see what I can find out using Jetpack on my site…which files it stores data in, etc.
May 15, 2017 — 5:07 PM
Frauke Möbius says:
Love your flowers. *picks them out of her eyeballs*
They are amazing pictures, with just the right background to make the colors pop. The droplets are spectacular. Thank you.
(Good luck with the email issue.)
May 16, 2017 — 5:02 AM
brucearthurs says:
The top photo looks like one of the wild sunflowers occasionally popping up among the tumbleweeds and other plants appearing on the uncultivated/unwatered land around my employer’s property.
May 17, 2017 — 11:52 AM
curleyqueue says:
Middle two images are TOTES GORGE!!! 😉
May 17, 2017 — 12:25 PM