Monarch Butterfly On A White Zinnia

Monarch Butterfly On A White Zinnia

They say that the name Butterfly is of unknown origin, but I believe that they were originally called Flutterbys, as I like to call them, and that someone (perhaps a child), probably mispronounced it, and it stuck. They are fascinating creatures who take to the air on gossamer wings. They've come to symbolize metamorphosis. These remarkable pollinators display a diversity of colors and patterns.

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ARROWHEAD

 ARROWHEAD/DUCK-POTATO Sagittaria spp. 

Common arrowhead or Duck-potato is a colony-forming, aquatic  perennial, rising above water level to a height of 3 ft. Members of the Water-Plantain Family grow in water, in swamps, on muddy banks, or occasionally in wet sand. 

 The rhizomes, young leaves, young shoots and young inflorescences are all edible, but it is the corms that are most widely valued for food. Arrowheads are also important sources of food for ducks and geese.

Arrowhead tubers were high valued food sources for Native North Americans who consumed them raw, boiled, dried, baked, roasted, mashed, ground into flour, or candied with maple sugar. Be sure to only eat from arrowhead plants growing in unpolluted waters. To gather the tubers, use your hands or feet to follow the rhizomes that extend out from the center of the plant’s roots in the mud and water. Remove the tuber growing at the end of each rhizome. Scrub the tubers clean and them boil them in salted water for 15 minutes. Though the skin is edible arrowhead tubers are more palatable when peeled. The best times for collecting tubers is in fall or early spring.

A number of tribes are known to have used the arrowhead plant for medicinal purposes. The Navajo used the arrowhead plant to treat headaches, the Ojibwa ate the corms (tubers) for indigestion, and the Algonquin of Quebec used the root to treat tuberculosis.

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Purple Cup and Saucer Vine

Purple Cup and Saucer Vine 

Aka Cathedral Bells, monastery bells, Mexican ivy.

(Cobaea Scandens) 

A fairy tale vine with flowers that will scale a trellis quickly in warm weather and will be covered by midsummer all the way until frost with lovely 3" violet purple flaring bell flowers that glow in the late afternoon sun and evening light.

From Central and South America

 

Cathedral Bells

Cathedral Bells Going To Seed

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Virginia Virgin's-bower

Virginia Virgin's-bower, 

Clematis virginiana L.

(also known as devil's darning needles, devil's hair, love vine, traveller's joy, virgin's bower, wild hops, and woodbine), and is the most common clematis in New England.

Attracts: Hummingbirds & Bees. 
Medicinal: An extract of the stems was used as a wash to induce strange dreams by the Iroquois. It is a hallucinogen. Aboriginals used this plant as medicine for many purposes. The Cherokee used an infusion of this with milkweed (Asclepias) to treat backache, as well as using it in ceremonial medicine to induce dreaming. They also used it as an ingredient in ceremonial green corn medicine. An infusion of the root is taken for stomach trouble and nerves. An infusion taken from the root was used to kidney trouble by the Cherokee and the Iroquois. The Iroquois also used and infusion of the roots to treat veneral disease sores.

Warning: All parts are POISONOUS. The toxic foliage is avoided by mammalian herbivores. However, the foliage of Virgin's Bower can provide significant cover and nesting habitat for many songbirds.

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Vermont Fall Foliage 2017

Fall color in Vermont has begun, and though it is sporadic, due to the unusually warm, dry weather, there are pockets of great beauty. I adore the sparkle of the fall grasses against the spectacular color of the trees.

Autumn Grasses & Trees

 Golden Tree
A Golden Tree stands out against the glorious fall foliage of the Mountains and Forests of Autumn in Vermont, 2017.

Autumn Horse

Long Fall Shadows At The Water Front

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Wild Morning Glory

Flowers At The Beach
Bindweed, also known as (wild morning glory), amongst purple flowers, red berries, and driftwood, at the beach. Other names include Calystegia sepium, hedge bindweed, Rutland beauty, bugle vine, heavenly trumpets, bellbind, greater bindweed, bearbind, hedge convolvulus, hooded bindweed, old man's nightcap, bride's gown, wedlock (referring to the white gown-like flowers and the binding nature of the vine), white witches hat, belle of the ball. A common childhood pastime in the UK is to 'pop' the flowers from the sepals while chanting "Granny, granny- pop out of bed".

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