68 garden/world

natural art from the garden here: this is a common “Wicke”. i just checked in Wikipedia, the english word for it is Vicia – a flowering plant that belongs to the “legume” family.

which is funny, as legume means “vegetable” in French. so i looked that up, too, and it turns out that “the term legume is derived from the Latin word legumen (with the same meaning as the English term), which is in turn believed to come from the verb legere “to gather.” English borrowed the term from the French “légume,” which, however, has a wider meaning in the modern language and refers to any kind of vegetable; the English word legume being translated in French by the word légumineuse.

The history of legumes is tied in closely with that of human civilization, appearing early in Asia, the Americas (the common Phaseolus bean in several varieties), and Europe (broad beans), where they became a staple, essential for supplementing protein where there was not enough meat.”

after this little legumes world trip, now back into the garden, with the full image:

3 thoughts on “68 garden/world

  1. What amazes me too is the crystal clarity of the cropped shot as taken from a much larger whole. I guess the digital sizing helps us here. This one is amazing.

  2. it’s same for me: i really like to see the crop and the original on one page. about the clarity: it’s partly the digital sizing, and then also a click of photo editing to sharpen contures (which is basically done with every photo that is resized, as every resizing causes a loss of quality = loss of sharpness, which is then edited back digitally.)

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