Mushroom & Moss Microcosm

Tiny brown mushrooms and  I'm guessing, Haircap Moss Spore Capsules (Polytrichum).

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Remembering Summer Flowers

 Flamingo Flowers

Anthurium
Flamingo Plant with a shiny red & yellow flower in the green house at Gardener's Supply.
 The Anthurium is also known as Painted Tongue, Flamingo Flower (Flamingo Lily) or Tail Flower. The flowers are contained in dense spirals on the spadix. The spadix is often elongated into a spike shape. Anthuriums are herbaceous epiphytes native to tropical America. Anthurium is a genus of more than 800 species found in the New World tropics from Mexico to northern Argentina and Uruguay.

Water Lily A reminder of summer. 

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Gorgeous Day

View At Indian Brook Reservoir State Park. 

Here is one of my favorite places in nature.

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Exotic Wild Flowers

 Arrowhead Plant

Flowering
Sagittaria latifolia
Common arrowhead, is a perennial aquatic plant in the Alismataceae (water plantain) family. The common names of duck potato and wapato for this plant refers to the rounded starchy golf ball-sized tubers that form at the ends of underground plant runners (rhizomes). Flowers bloom from July to September. Found in shallow water in lakes, ponds, tidal marshes, rivers, streams, and wetland margins. The tubers of the arrowheads are edible when roasted or boiled. They were important food sources of indigenous peoples and in some areas are still valued as a great food source. Tubers are typically roasted. Though the skin is edible arrowhead tubers are more palatable when peeled. The best time for collecting tubers is in fall or early spring. Tubers are high in starch and phosphorous.

 Bittersweet Nightshade
Such cool looking flowers.
This plant is toxic to people, pets, and livestock.

Bottleneck Gentian 

The corolla remains closed at the top even when the flower is ready to receive pollinating insects. Bumblebees are the primary pollinators of the flowers, as they are one of the few insects that can force their way past the closed corolla. Some gentians are used in herbal medicine as an anti-inflammatory, to lower fevers, and as a liver tonic. It is also used as a gastric stimulant to treat a loss of appetite, digestive problems, flatulence, and insufficient production of gastric juices and saliva.

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Disclaimer

My blog is meant to inform and I strive to be totally accurate. It is solely up to the reader to ensure proper plant identification. Some wild plants are poisonous or can have serious adverse health effects.

Happy Halloween

Me in an interactive art exhibit at this year's Art Hop

Baneberry

I found this in the woods, in Essex Jct. Vermont, a few weeks ago, and wondered what it is. Turns out that it's Baneberry, after the berries fall off. Actaea pachypoda Ell., doll's-eyes, white baneberry. The fruits of both red or white baneberry are poisonous. Native Americans used the roots in herbal medicine and as a ritual plant.

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Happy National Cat Day

 Happy National Cat Day

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Farmers Market Explored 2018

 Spring In City Hall Park

Under The Canopy Of Flowering Trees At City Hall Park

 Dougal & His Lamb

 Those Eyes

A colorful dog at the Burlington Farmers Market, with amazing eyes.

 A Girl & Her Dog on the steps of the fountain in City hall Park, during the farmers market.

 Anticipation Or Are You Going To Share That

Red Kuri Squash And Other Veggies at the Burlington Farmers Market

 Dogs & Kids

 Pop Drop

When you accidentally drop your popsicle while walking through the farmers market, in the park.

 Shallots & Garlic

 Farmers Market Veggies

Grey Oyster Mushrooms

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Big Hydrangea

Big Hydrangea Bush

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Fall Foliage Photography

Me Photographing Fall Foliage
Thank you Ishana Ingerman for taking this photo.

Silvery Birch Trees 8

I love these silver birch tree trunks on Smugglers Notch.

Silvery Birch Trees 4

 Fall Color Reflections

Gateway To Autumn Color

 Spring Into Fall
Here is my favorite spring in Smugglers Notch. I don't know why so many photographers blurr running water, when water is so beautiful running naturally.

Spring Into Fall Amongst The Trees

Colorful Autumn View From Cedar Knoll Country Club, in Hinesburg, Vermont. 

 I don't know how anyone can play golf here without getting lost in the view.

Cows Enjoying Autumn, Or perhaps it's me who enjoyed cows as part of the Autumn colors.

Fall On The Winooski River

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Purple Asters With Pollinators

Purple Asters & A Bee

Clouded Sulphur Butterfly (Phoebis sennae), On New England Asters. I believe this one is a female.

Monarch Butterfly On Purple Asters

Painted Lady Butterfly On Purple Asters

Painted Lady Butterfly On Purple Asters

Painted Lady Butterfly On Purple Asters

Painted Lady Butterfly On Purple Asters

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Put A Woman In Charge

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16 Wild Edible Mushrooms You Can Forage This Autumn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PNq6paMBXU

NOTE- Forage Only When Necessary: Do Not over harvest wild foods. Foraging is fun, but remember that as a human, you have the ability to source your food in your natural environment - wildlife does not. If you must forage for food or herbs for an ailment, only harvest 5% -10% of what you see of any plant or patch you find, so it has a good chance to keep growing and come back next year. Remember that other lives depend on it. 

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