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Fall In Montpelier

Fall Hydrangeas

 Fall Reflections

Fall At The Cemetary

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Velvet Leaf Plant

Abutilon theophrasti

Other common names for Velvet Leaf include: Buttonweed, Indian Mallow, Butterprint, China Jute, Abutilon Hemp, Manchurian Jute, American Jute, Tientsin Jute, Piemaker, and in Chinese Ching-ma. It’s debatable whether the plant is native to India or China.

Velvet Leaf is a commercial failure but a successful foreign invader. A flop as a fiber plant and cursed for its infiltration of food crops, it was first cultivated in China some 3,000 years ago. From there it made its way nearly everywhere on earth. First the Mediterranean area, then Europe. It was introduced into North America before 1750 to make rope but never became popular for that. Velvet Leaf never became the great promised fiber plant in North America because of the lack of machinery to economically process it. Instead it became an agricultural pest. That is has edible parts went by the wayside.

  Where the plant is native its seeds are a common outdoor snack of children. The unripe seeds are edible raw. Young seeds taste similar to sunflower seeds. Ripe seeds, however, must be leached until not bitter, then dried they are ground into flour. Usually the flour was used to make noodles. The seeds contain between 15 and 30% oil.

  Usually Abutilon theophrasti is found near farming activities: gardens, crop fields, nurseries, orchards, groves and the like. It’s significant problem where corn, cotton or soybeans are grown sometimes displacing 35% or more of the crop causing losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars. As a fiber source in Asia it has been used for rope, bags, coarse cloth, fishing nets, paper stock even caulking boats.

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Missing Summer

Family Outing On The Bike Path

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Autumn Color Around A Crescent Moon

Camels Hump Viewed From A Boat On Lake Champlain.

Fall on the road to All Souls Interfaith Gathering Center in Shelburne, Vermont.

Fall on the road to All Souls Interfaith Gathering Center in Shelburne, Vermont.

Autumn on the UVM Campus

Autumn View of Camels Hump and a farm, Classic fall in Vermont.

There's a beautiful little gazebo, in the Hyde Street Triangle Park, that looked really lovely amongst the autumn leaves. The O.N.E.DER DOME Artists: Terry Zigmund, John Marius, & VSA students. Made of stained glass and steel. With help from a CEDO grant, VSA arts of Vermont's four-year goal of erecting a dome with stained glass panels made by adults with developmental disabilities in Burlington's Old North End came to fruition in the spring of 2010. The stained glass panels in the sculpture were made by community artists in VSA Arts of Vermont classes presented in partnership with Howard Center Developmental Services and Champlain Community Services, and taught by Terry Zigmund of Burlington Community Glass Studio. The steel dome was made by John Marius of Champlain Metals.

Fall Light And A Monkey, do you see the monkey.

Autumn Fence Line Glory

Autumn View of Camels Hump With Earthtones

More Fall Fenceline Color

Autumn Ferry Cruise on Lake Champlain

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