Thursday, December 31, 2020
Happy Birthday To Me! & Happy New Years Eve To You!
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Bovine Beauty
Saturday, November 28, 2020
Late Summer Wild Flowers
Friday, October 23, 2020
My Warmest Fall Foliage Tour
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Vermont Fall Foliage 2020
Autumn Hay Rolls At Last Resort Farm
Autumn Elm Silouettein Milton, Vt.
Autumn Elm
Fall On A Vermont Country Road
Autumn Road Trip In Vermont
Autumn On A Farm In MiltonAutumn View From A Farm In MonktonFriday, October 16, 2020
Windy Day Magic
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Room With A View
Sunday, October 4, 2020
Autumn Light
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Autumn Farm Animal Beauty
Saturday, September 19, 2020
RIP RBG
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Japanese Knotweed Flowering
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Heart Of A Tree
Sunday, September 13, 2020
Pitching A Tent
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Orb Weaver Garden Spider
Black & Yellow Orb Weaver Garden Spider, Argiope aurantia, amongst the Blue Lobelia in my garden. Even if you don't like spiders, this large female still looks amazing. Orb web means it spins a web in a circular shape, which can be up to 2 feet (60 cm) in diameter, with a dense zigzag of silk. They eat a wide range of flying prey including flies, moths, beetles, wasps, grasshoppers, aphids, mosquitoes, etc. They breed once a year. Adult males roam in search of potential mates. When they find a female, they build a small web with a white zigzag band across the middle either nearby or in an outlying part of the female's web. Potential males court by plucking and vibrating her web. They are not dangerous. They may bite when harassed but it is no worse or harmful than a bee sting to a healthy adult.
LOBELIA is a plant who's above ground parts, mainly the flowering parts and the seeds, are used to make medicine. Lobelia is used for breathing problems including asthma, bronchitis, whooping cough, and shortness of breath (apnea) in newborn infants. Some people take lobelia as a sedative to help them relax. Other people use it to increase sweating. Lobelia is applied to the skin for muscle pain, joint lumps associated with rheumatoid arthritis (rheumatic nodules), bruises, sprains, insect bites, poison ivy, and ringworm. Lobelia (Lobelia inflata) or Indian tobacco is an herbal remedy recommended for addressing acute asthma symptoms. It has a long history of use by Native Americans who smoked lobelia as treatment for asthma. The name Indian Tobacco was assigned because the Aboriginal people smoked dried leaves of the plant. Historically, the Aboriginal people were very creative and efficient in using the Lobelia plant for medicinal purposes. The Iroquois used the root to treat leg sores, venereal diseases and ulcers. The Cherokees used a poultice of the root for body aches. They also used the plant for boils, sores, bites and stings. Considered a plant to cure asthma, phthisic (lung disease), croup and a sore throat, it was also used to discourage the presence of gnats. The Crows made use of it in religious ceremonies. In the 19th century, American physicians used lobelia to provoke vomiting as a means of removing toxins from the body. For this reason, it has also been called "puke weed." The reason you've heard lobelia described as a toxic herb is that high doses cause serious effects: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, profuse sweating, tremors, rapid heartbeat, mental confusion, convulsions, hypothermia, coma, and possibly death.
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Friday, August 28, 2020
Amanita Jacksonii Mushroom
Monday, August 24, 2020
INDIAN HEMP (DOGBANE)
INDIAN HEMP (DOGBANE)
Apocynum cannabinum (dogbane, amy root, hemp dogbane, prairie dogbane, Indian hemp, rheumatism root, or wild cotton)
Hemp Dogbane stems have a tough, fibrous bark that can be used like hemp for making rope, nets, straps, and so on. Native Americans made nets and rope from the fibers of pounded stems and roots. People still use it for making rope and twine, and fabric for clothing.
The milky latex sap which can potentially be used for making rubber.
When bruised, all parts of the plant exude a toxic white juice; the plant has a long list of folkloric medicinal uses.
The toxic juices make this plant inedible to most mammals, but several types of moths eat this plant as caterpillars. They build up the toxin in their bodies and become unpalatable to predators. The delicate cycnia (Cycnia tenera), a tiger moth, is found wherever dogbane grows. Dogbane is also is a larval food plant for the snowberry and clearwings hummingbird, sphinx moths, as well as food for many other insects.
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Saturday, August 22, 2020
Lovely Country Shed
Sunday, August 16, 2020
American Copper Butterfly
White Clover is Edible
All aerial parts, including the seeds, are edible. The young leaves are harvested before the plant comes into flower and are used in salads, soups etc. They can also be used as a vegetable, cooked like spinach. The leaves are best cooked. Flowers and seed pods are dried, ground into powder and used as a flour or sprinkled on cooked foods such as boiled rice. Very wholesome and nutritious. The young flowers can also be used in salads. Root - cooked. The dried leaves impart a vanilla flavour to cakes etc. Dried flowering heads are a tea substitute. However, it is highly advised if you have never eaten these before to start with a very small quantity. Clovers can cause mild or severe gas.
Medicinally an infusion has been used in the treatment of coughs, colds, fevers and leucorrhoea. A tincture of the leaves is applied as an ointment to gout. An infusion of the flowers has been used as an eyewash.
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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 and mushrooms are poisonous or can have serious adverse health effects.
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Hummingbird Moths
This is a Hummingbird Clear Wing (Hemaris thysbe) on on (Monarda). They fly and move just like hummingbirds, and can remain suspended in the air in front of a flower while they unfurl their long tongues and insert them in flowers to sip their nectar. They even emit an audible hum like hummingbirds.
Bee Balm, Oswego Tea, Bergamot, Horsebalm Botanical Name-Monarda didyma, is in the Lamiaceae (mint) family. In the language of flowers, Monarda symbolizes compassion and sympathy. Bee Balm leaves and flowers and stems are used in alternative medicine.
This photo was Awarded Capture My Vermont - Photo of the Day, for September 4, 2015.