Here’s a bit of a rarity: milkweed pods not covered with milkweed bugs. I love how milkweed pods look, whether they’re fresh and bursting in Summer or brown and exhausted in Winter. Here are the former, seen through the macro closeup lens, giving me many shades of green and yellow in the July afternoon light.

July 25, 2010. Nikon D90 (DX sensor), 105mm Nikon macro lens (35mm equivalent: 155mm), f/18, 1/125, ISO 640.