Columbine Portrait Baby Onesie

Photographed at the Jackson Lake Lodge. Arrival of the genus Aquilegia into North America is a recent event occurring 10,000 to 40,000 years ago during the Pleistocene. Columbines crossed into North America from Asia over the Bering land bridge that connected the two continents during that period. A progenitor columbine began to radiate rapidly out of Alaska and throughout the North American continent. As the columbines were moving through out the continent, new species developed.
As with Darwin’s finches, columbines developed similar but differently shaped and colored flowers in response to newly encountered habitats and pollinators. They developed different positions for presenting their flowers, sepals, and spurs, and different spur shapes in response to their primary pollinator.

Harriet Feagin is a photographer /artist in West Texas. Her photography spans the spectrum from abstracts and still life to landscapes. She has been fortunate enough to travel to most of our fifty states and several countries abroad with her camera in hand. Harriet resides in Plainview, Texas with her husband, a minister, and although he does not share her passion for photography, he is very supportive. Besides photography, she plays the piano, loves sports and is an avid reader. Please feel free to browse her galleries. Any watermark will not be visible when printed. Thanks for stopping by. All photographs and artworks in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Harriet Feagin. Any publication, reproduction,...