Botany Photo of the Day

Happy holidays!

You will be missed, but you are deserving of some off time. Happy holidays.

Daniel,
Thanks for all of these postings. I am always intrigued by your finds and comments, and greatly enjoy each image you share.
Happy Holidays. Annie

Many thanks again for your wonderful photos and excellent descriptions. Merry Christmas and may 2010 bring you good health and joy.

this site is always a welcome addition. i know what you mean when you say 'out of the corner of my eye'. i've walked some woods...

Thank you so so much for the daily enrichment you provide us. Enjoy the holidays!

yes, thanks so much for all you do, thanks for being willing to come back sharing wonderful things - here's to all the elves' and imps' solstices......

Happy festive season, and many thanks for these daily e-jewels!

Yes, thank you for the beautiful photographs and the informative writing. I'll be looking forward to the resumption of these daily pleasures. Happy Holidays!

I haven't said "thank you" for your efforts in finding, photographing, and posting the information you send day by day. So, herewith, a word of gratitude.
I live in the deep southeast U.S. (Mississippi) and find most of the specimens very much different from what I see in our woods and forests.

gently at night how lovely
the virgin snow falls
each ice crystal a pattern
silenty drifting down
a comfort in the darkness
of the night my thoughts
drifting as quietly as the
snow in silent meditation
elizabeth a

merry christmas to daniel and ubc

to the whole world of people who
visit this page and contribute
have a merry merry holiday

And when the light returns, so will Bpotd. Thank you Daniel for joy and fascination every day.

....peace on earth...peace on earth through science....peace because of the awesome beauty and mysteries around us....peace because we are intellegent....peace because we know love....

thank you ...BPOD....and all my unknown friends for another year...

...peace on earth...

Happy holidays, Daniel and the UBC group.

I love getting this in my email each day - have a relaxing break, and I'll look forward to hearing from you again in the new year!

...elizabeth a....one of the most beautiful things you've written....!!

What an interesting and appealing little plant!

And happy holidays, Daniel. I look forward to seeing the photo every day, and will miss it in the interim! Keep up the excellent work.

Thank you for another year's beautiful photos and fascinating information. May you have a wonderful Christmas with time to take more photos for us to share in 2010.

Thankyou for this window on the beautiful plant world. These photos deepen my love and awareness for the wonderful planet in which we live. May you have a peaceful and happy holiday.

Thank you for these pages -- I enjoy them immensely. Have a happy and restful holiday.

. . . an interesting little plant. "Gnome plant" is a good name for it!

Have a very good Holiday period. You surely bring so many nice things to us all.

i also want to extend my thanks to daniel for the gifts of beauty and knowledge and celebration...and to the community, joyonya!
i sense i am so often way 'out of my league' with the vastness of awareness and experience here, still, i take in the teaching, i listen to the comments and as with all that live and breathe and have being, i find i belong....(wouldn't it be lovely if the biodiversity celebration turned swords into plowshares?)

plants planet planter planner?
breath-taking photos...thanx..bbb

What a fascinating little plant - of the Ericaceae family no less.
Thank you for the daily images and the informative writing. It must be a lot of work to find something new to tickle our curiosity and wonder, every single day; and I have to say, you do a wonderful job.
Have a great holiday season Daniel.
Cheers

Thank you Daniel --for the daily enchantment as well as enrichment. Happy thoughts for you and friends of this site.
Happy Holidays to all!

Enjoy your time off. Peace and Happy Holidays to all. I like to image what the plant will look like from the name before I open the picture, but the plants you chose are so different from what I expect - great fun.

All the best of the seasonals to everybody. Thank you, Daniel, thank you for all the photies and informative texts. And thank you to elizabeth a for her almost daily pomes: I look for them every day!

Thanks Daniel for Botany photo of the day. I will miss it until it's back in January.
I look forward to it every day and enjoy seeing such a great variety of photos from BC and around the world as well as the very interesting write ups.The links to other websites is also very good.
I wish you and all that have contributed to BPotD a very happy holiday.

Yours is truly a work of the heart, Daniel, and I'm glad you're taking time to refill your energy bank. Thank you from my heart to yours for the gifts of delight you give to our e-community all year!

Well, this seems to be the place to post a thank you to Daniel and all the UBC elves who bring us such wonderful gifts all year long, so I'm adding my thanks. I enjoy reading the comments from all you readers too.

Thank you Daniel and all at UBC BPotD for your fascinating daily contributions for our little e-community (perhaps not so little any more!).

May you all have a peaceful, fun and beautiful seasonal break, and I very much look forward to your return as the days are growing longer.

I love elizabeth a's poetry too, what an extra special one today.

I want to join all your other fans who watch this site daily, to thank you for running our favourite site. Living in England, I enjoy viewing plants in their natural habitats from other parts of the world, & especially enjoy the factual information and links.

Have a great break, and long may this site continue!

Amazing to think that's related to the rhododendrons and heathers I have in my garden.

Some families are tight and don't require the examination of their respective blooms with a loupe to deterimine their relationship, while others show amazing diversity.

Enjoy the winter break. Fortunately, there is a vast archive of past entries to explore here.

I wonder if there isn't a way to set up BPotD to randomly access the archive to keep interest up during periods when you are away, Daniel?

Certainly, we can just look around ourselves, but it is nice to have the prompt to come look around.

Thanks,

D

Happy Holidays!!!! Thanks for a great year of photographs.

thanks for all the great photos! i will have to look into this "year of biodiversity" - sounds interesting!

Hi Daniel, Merry Christmas and thanks for all the great posts. Knowing what BPotD means to me, it is fun to read the comments from the regulars in this post. Thought to be perfectly honest, a Holiday break fits nicely into my life. I know I'll be ready to avidly read and view in January. And once again, you've come up with a fascinating, new-to-me plant. Love those mycoheterotrophs.

first come, cool job. But why stop here?

well. did not read carefully just now...
Happy New Year!

happy new year happy new year happy new year

I want to add my thanks and best wishes for a peaceful, healthy, & abundant New Year to Daniel, the BPOD & all who visit this wonderful space!

While looking at previous entries, I remembered the abstract pictures. Will you please consider doing something like that again? Those were really interesting and creative, not that the realistic ones aren't!

Just wondering.

Hope you all had Merry Christmases and Happy New Years!

Thanks for the kind thoughts, all.

Sophia, re: the abstract photographs -- unfortunately, there were a few strong negative reactions to that series. I had considered doing it again for these past two weeks, but since my Internet access would be poor, I decided I wouldn't have the ability to address any anticipated negative comments, so left it aside.

However, that series will make a return in December 2010, as part of our BPotDs for the International Year of Biodiversity -- our December theme will be Biodiversity and Inspiration.