Happy Birthday To Me! & Happy New Years Eve To You!

 Happy Birthday To Me! & Happy New Years Eve To You! Wishing You Much Love and Hugs In The New Year! Thanks Andrea Parker for taking this fun photo.

Goodbye 

& 

Good Riddance 

2020

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Shore Views & A Storm

North Shore View From The Beach

Storm Rolling In Across Lake Champlain

 View from Colchester, Vermont. 

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Bovine Beauty

Caddy

My sister and I, saw this beautiful newborn baby bull, while driving around on a fall foliage run. We named him after the road he was born near.

The Farm he was at.

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Late Summer Wild Flowers

Golden Wildflowers In Late Summer In Monkton. 

Golden Wildflowers In Late Summer In Monkton. 

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My Warmest Fall Foliage Tour

     

The Warmest Fall Foliage Tour Ever

There's nothing quite like shooting fall foliage in 75-80 degree weather. Here I'm at the New Haven River.

Then a windy day at Metcalf Pond in Fletcher.

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Vermont Fall Foliage 2020

 The Yellows Have It On The Beach In Isle La Motte

Sweet Color In a view from South Burlington                           

Views From All Souls In Shelburne

Autumn Sky

Views From All Souls In Shelburne

Views From All Souls In Shelburne

 Starksboro Color 

Amazing having wildflowers still blooming and 80 degree weather during fall foliage.

Horse Grazing On The Mountain In Jeffersonville

Autumn Hay Rolls At Last Resort Farm

Autumn Elm Silouette 
in Milton, Vt.

Autumn Elm

Fall On A Vermont Country Road

Autumn Road Trip In Vermont

Autumn On A Farm In Milton

Autumn View From A Farm In Monkton

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Windy Day Magic

Windy Day Magic Kite Surfing On Lake Champlain

Oliver Berlic wind magician.

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Room With A View

 

Room With A View

At All Souls

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Autumn Light

 Autumn Light On A Vermont Country Road

Autumn Light At The Heart Of A Vermont Country Road

Autumn Light On A Vermont Country Road

Golden In Charlotte

Photographed by @elisecreations 

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Autumn Farm Animal Beauty

 Autumn Cow Beauty

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Columbine

 Blue & White Columbine

Purple  Columbine

 Pink Columbine

 Purple  Columbine

 Wild Columbine

 Wild Columbine

Wild Columbine & Wild Blueberry Flowers

Wild Columbine or Aquilegia canadensis is an herbaceous perennial native to woodland and rocky slopes in eastern North America, prized for its red and yellow flowers. This beautiful woodland wildflower has showy, drooping, bell-like flowers equipped with distinctly backward-pointing tubes, similar to the garden Columbines. These tubes, or spurs, contain nectar that attracts long-tongued insects and hummingbirds especially adapted for reaching the sweet secretion. It is reported that Native Americans rubbed the crushed seeds on the hands of men as a love charm.

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Queen Anne's Lace

Wild Carrot

Daucus carota, also known as, bird's nest, bishop's lace.

Lovely Lace

Queen Anne’s lace earned its common name from Queen Anne of England (1665-1714) who was an expert lace maker. Legend has it that when pricked with a needle, a single drop of blood fell from her finger onto the lace, leaving the dark purple floret found in the flower’s center. 

Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota) can reach heights of about 1 to 4 feet high. You can find these biennials in bloom during their second year from spring on into fall. The fruit of this plant is spiky and curls inward, reminiscent of a bird’s nest, which is another of its common names. Belonging to the carrot family, Queen Anne’s lace is also known as wild carrot.

Queen Anne's Lace Going To Seed

This photo was awarded Photo of the Day, on Capture My Vermont, for October 15, 2017.

The Queen Anne's lace flower resembles lace, and oftentimes the flower has a solitary purple dot in the centre.

Early Europeans cultivated Queen Anne’s lace, and the Romans ate it as a vegetable. American colonists boiled the taproots, sometimes in wine as a treat. Interestingly, Queen Anne’s lace is high in sugar (second only to the beet among root vegetables) and sometimes it was used among the Irish, Hindus and Jews to sweeten puddings and other foods.

Edible Parts

Using first year Queen Anne’s lace roots are recommended. Roots are long, pale, woody, and are finger-thin and are edible, and can be cooked and used in a similar way as cultivated carrots, used in soups, stews and in making tea. The dried roasted roots can be ground into a powder and used as a coffee substitute. First year leaves can be chopped and tossed into a salad. Flower clusters can be ‘french-fried’ or fresh flowers can be tossed into a salad. The aromatic seed is used as a flavoring in stews and soups, tasting like caraway. The leaves are edible as both a raw (when young) and cooked green. Since wild carrot is a biennial, and flowers in its second year, the root of a carrot in flower is too woody to be used. At this point you can peel the stem and eat it both raw and cooked.

Medicinal Uses

The seeds are a diuretic and they support the kidneys and help prevent kidney stones. They are also carminative, soothing the digestive tract in case of gas, diarrhea, or indigestion. The seeds can also be used to stimulate the appetite, and alleviate menstrual cramps. An infusion of the seeds can be made using one teaspoon of the seeds per cup of boiling water.

Women have been using the seeds as a contraceptive for centuries.

Medicinal History Of Use: Queen-Anne’s-lace belongs to the carrot family (Umbelliferae) and contains beta-carotene and other properties that are used to treat bladder and kidney conditions. American colonists boiled the taproots, sometimes in wine. They also mixed the leaves with honey and applied  the poultice to sores or ulcers, to help heal and kill bacterial infections. The seeds were used as a form of contraception. The roots were roasted and used as a coffee substitute or infused as a mild diuretic tea. Settlers also used the herb as a source of orange dye. 

NOTE:

Queen Anne’s lace and poison hemlock appear very similar, so be very careful when harvesting Queen Anne’s lace from the wild. The most telling difference is the existence of a red or purple flower in the center of the wild carrot umbel. Not all wild carrot umbels have a dark flower, so the second difference is that Wild carrot stems are hairy, while the stems of both hemlock’s and fool’s parsley are smooth and hairless. This difference is important because it can be noticed in even the first year plants, which otherwise look very similar. Wild carrot also smells like a carrot.

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RIP RBG

Rest In Peace and Power RBG.  Thank you RBG for working all these years. We will honor you by continuing to fight for equality, empathy and justice for all.

Japanese Knotweed Flowering

Japanese Knotweed Flowering 

in Underhill, Vermont. Knotweed is native of China, North and South Korea as well as Japan. Outside of its point of origin, Japanese Knotweed was introduced as an ornamental plant. It is widely distributed across the United States and Canada and is found growing wild along rivers. Resveratrol has been identified as a potent flavinoid in high concentrations in the root of Japanese Knotweed and is used as a Antioxidant, and for Cardiovascular issues, Cancer, Weight Loss, and treating Lyme Disease. Nature provides what we need, at a time when Lyme disease is rampant, Japanese Knotweed is abundant.

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Head In The Clouds

Head In The Clouds

In Fairfax, Vermont

Clouds Over Lake Champlain

Clouds Over Lake Champlain

Clouds Over Indian Brook Reservoir

Clouds Over The Green Mountains

Mackerel Sky
is a term for clouds made up of rows of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds displaying an undulating, rippling pattern similar in appearance to fish scales.

Clouds Over Charlotte

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