Here's a great word for the New Year. AHIMSA - Sanskrit word meaning respect for all living things and refraining from harming any living beings as well as the living environment.
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Happy Solstice!
Happy Solstice!
Charlotte View
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Monday, December 2, 2019
An Artist's Creations
My friend Gudrun is an amazing artist of many mediums. Here are some of her latest creations. She makes these wool capes, with wool crewel work embroidery, that you will never see anything else like. I adore her whimsical style. The cape is an ode to the evolution of Birds which includes the flying dinosaur (dragon) and the dino-chicken.
Evolution Of Birds
Evolution Of Birds
Dino-chicken
Flying Dinosaur (dragon)
Evolution Of Birds
Evolution Of Birds
The Faces Of Flowers
The Blue Dragon sculpture has sea shells for teeth and ears.
The octopus is tangled in seaweed.
Paper Mache Sculptures
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Happy Thanksgiving and World Compassion Day!
Happy Thanksgiving and World Compassion Day! Compassion is what brings us together in unity and harmony, overcoming all forms of discrimination. World Compassion Day is based on the concept of ahimsa. It means non-violence and absence of desire to harm Any life forms, dedicated to animal welfare, compassion towards all living things on the planet, and the growing importance of vegetarianism and veganism. I am grateful for Nature and all of her Beauty and wonder.
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Buzzing Around Lobelia
Buzzing Around Lobelia
Bumble bee on Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Monday, November 11, 2019
Vermont Fall Foliage 2019
Fall On A Charlotte, Vermont Country Road
Lainey Leaf Peeping in Cambridge, Vermont
Captivating Shapes Of Ancient Trunks & Branches
Autumn View From Overlook
Fall Colors Of Stowe Before The Snow
A Glimpse Of Lincoln Brook
Captivating Shapes Of Ancient Trunks & Branches
Autumn View From Overlook
Fall Colors Of Stowe Before The Snow
Fall Color Through Branches In Shelburne.
Reminds me of looking through lace curtains.
Monarch Butterfly Enjoying The Fall Foliage
Autumn Blooms, Sunflower Maxamillion & A Bee A Glimpse Of Lincoln Brook
Me On A Fall Foliage Run. Leaf peeping in Cambridge, Vt.
Photographed by Lainey Rappaport
Nature's Art
Grasses With Unusual Seed Heads
Northern River Oats
Also known as wood oats, inland sea oats, northern sea oats, river oats, Indian Wood Oats, Wild Oats, Flathead Oats, Upland Oats, Upland Sea Oats. Chasmanthium latifolium
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My photographs are available for purchase through EliseCreations.net
Thanks for your visits, favs and comments. As always, appreciated very much!
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Monday, November 4, 2019
Silver Spotted Skipper Butterflies
Silver Spotted Skipper Butterflies on Sedum
Epargyreus Clarus
The Silver-spotted Skipper shows a clear preference for blue, red, pink, and purple flowers and rarely visit yellow flower.
Epargyreus Clarus
The Silver-spotted Skipper shows a clear preference for blue, red, pink, and purple flowers and rarely visit yellow flower.
Silver Spotted Skipper Butterfly on Echinacea
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Thanks for your visits, favs and comments. As always, appreciated very much!
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Saturday, October 26, 2019
New Family Member
New Family Member at my Sister's home, today! Meet Tessra. Isn't she cute?
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Resinous Polypore Mushrooms
Resinous Polypore Mushrooms
Ischnoderma resinosum. Late Fall Polypore.
This is a very common edible-when-young fungus.
Resinous Polypore Mushrooms
Even as they age, these mushrooms remain beautiful, especially with deepening colors and
lines that make them even more interesting. Can the same be said about us?
There are more than 100,000 colors of synthetic dyes produced commercially, mainly for use in textile, paper, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and food industries. Many of these dyes are toxic and carcinogenic to living organisms, including humans. Shockingly, around 280,000 tons of textile dyes are discharged every year worldwide.
The resinous polypore, is a white rot fungus capable of degrading organic pollutants… including synthetic dyes. It's effectiveness has been shown to be even greater than the degradation efficiency of oyster and turkey tail mushrooms, which are also powerful bio-remediators.
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Sunday, October 13, 2019
Ollie Sighting
Ollie sighting, while on a Fall foliage run, yesterday. Ollie the Camel lives at the Round Barn Merinos Farm on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh, VT. with a flock of sheep and an alpaca. With two humps, the Bactrian camel, is part of what Judith Giusto, owner of Round Barn Merinos, a farm and shop in the small, northern Vermont village, calls her “fiber zoo.” Judith obtained Ollie in September 2002, when he was just two months old. The down from Ollie’s coat, along with the fibers from merino sheep are used to create sweaters, scarves, afghans and many other pieces of warm clothing.
Ollie was bred in Wisconsin. Bactrian Camels originate in the steppe country of Eurasia and Mongolia. There are more domesticated Bactrian Camels than wild Bactrian Camels. For a while there was some concern that they were extinct in the wild.
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Thursday, October 10, 2019
Tinder Conk Mushrooms
Tinder Conk Mushrooms
Tinder fungus or Fomes fomentarius, also known as Tinder Polypore.
Common on dead or dying birch and occasionally other trees.
Medicinal use: Traditionally used as a styptic agent, this common mushroom has significant
anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties. Steeped to make a tea, drink hot or chilled.
This mushroom has been used for millenia as an instrument for starting fires.
Tinder fungus or Fomes fomentarius, also known as Tinder Polypore.
Common on dead or dying birch and occasionally other trees.
Medicinal use: Traditionally used as a styptic agent, this common mushroom has significant
anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties. Steeped to make a tea, drink hot or chilled.
This mushroom has been used for millenia as an instrument for starting fires.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Toad Lily
Toad Lily
Tricyrtis hirta, the toad lily, or hairy toad lily, is a Japanese species of hardy perennial plants in the lily family.
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Sunday, October 6, 2019
Sunset On Lake Champlain
Sunset On Lake Champlain
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Monday, September 30, 2019
Fall Foliage & Fun 2019
Autumn View From The Shelburne Museum 9
Old wooden fence line and a touch of fall colors.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Apples & Pears Oh My!
Apples & Pears
Ready for picking
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Monday, September 23, 2019
Fun At The Reservoir
Karin & Etta
Karin & Etta
Etta
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