14 Mar 2020
by Mary Mikawoz
in Canada, Canadian, Healing, Manitoba, Mary, Mary Mikawoz, Mikawoz, Nature, photograph, Photographer, Photography, Spirit, Spiritual, Spirituality, Spriitual, Winnipeg
Tags: Aesculapius, ancient, artist, asleep, associated, bodies, Canada, Canadian, coronavirus, crawl, Greek, green snake, Healing, health, Image, Leaves, looping, Manitoba, Mary, Mary Mikawoz, Medicine, Mikawoz, myth, Nature, night, Photographer, photography, plan, red, scale, scenery, shrines, sick people, snake, Symbolism, texture, Visual Artist, Winnipeg
Red And Green
There is a red and green snake amongst red and green leaves of a plant. I like the looping nature of the snake and how it is on top of each other.
According to Wikipedia, “Healing and snakes were associated in ancient Greek myth with Aesculapius, whose snake-familiars would crawl across the bodies of sick people asleep at night in his shrines and lick them back to health.”
I think of the Coronavirus and think of the symbol for medicine featuring snakes.
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08 Feb 2020
by Mary Mikawoz
in Animal, Canadian, close-up, Mammal, Mary, Mary Mikawoz, photograph, Photographer, Photography, USA
Tags: animal, Arizona, bodies, Canadian, detach, hair, Image, interesting, Mammal, Mary, Mary Mikawoz, Mikawoz, Phoenix, Photographer, photography, photos, porcupine, Quills, rodents, sharp, snouts, soft, special, unique, USA, Zoo
Porcupine Quills
This is a close-up of porcupine quills. I love to take close-ups especially of animals.
According to National Geographic, “Porcupines have soft hair, but on their back, sides, and tail it is usually mixed with sharp quills. … Porcupines cannot shoot them at predators as once thought, but the quills do detach easily when touched. Many animals come away from a porcupine encounter with quills protruding from their own snouts or bodies.”
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30 May 2013
by Mary Mikawoz
in Mary, Mikawoz, Poetry, Water, Winnipeg
Tags: ancient, artist, bell-shaped, bodies, Canada, Canadian, colour, eyes, flowing, gelatin, history, Jellyfish, life-cycle, Manitoba, Mary, Mary Mikawoz, medusa, Mikawoz, music, Nature, nerve net, Nettle, Ocean, ocelli, Pacific, Photograph, Photographer, photography, polyps, range, Seas, stages, system light-sensitive, tentacles, umbrella-shaped, variety, various sizes, Winnipeg
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Pacific Jellyfish
This is a photo of Pacific Sea Nettle Jellyfish. They have been roaming the seas for anywhere from 500 to 700 million years. They move elegantly with their gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell bodies and flowing tentacles. They dance as if to music and I was quite mesmerized by them. They range in size from 1 millimeter to 2 meters in size for their bodies. Their nerve net system is in their epidermis. Some jellyfish are light-sensitive through something called ocelli while some jellyfish have up to 24 eyes, 2 of which can see colour. As you can see, there is quite a range. They also have a life-cycle going from polyps to the medusa stage.
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