Lake Champlain View
From Charlotte Ferry Landing, After Yesterday's Rain.
Photographed by EliseT.Marks
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Another Sign Of Spring
Another Sign Of Spring
Robins Eggs, Such A Lovely Shade Of Blue In A Well Built Nest
Photographed by Elise T. Marks
The Turtles Are Out Sunning Themselves
(Chrysemys picta) a pond turtle native to North America. Fossils show that the painted turtle existed 15 million years ago. They eat aquatic vegetation, algae, and small water creatures including insects, crustaceans, and fish. Although they are frequently consumed as eggs or hatchlings by rodents, canines, and snakes, the adult turtles' hard shells protect them from most predators. Reliant on warmth from its surroundings, the painted turtle is active only during the day when it basks for hours on logs or rocks. During winter, they hibernate, in the mud at the bottom of water bodies. The turtles mate in spring and autumn. Females dig nests on land and lay eggs between late spring and mid-summer. Adults in the wild can live for more than 55 years.
(Chrysemys picta) a pond turtle native to North America. Fossils show that the painted turtle existed 15 million years ago. They eat aquatic vegetation, algae, and small water creatures including insects, crustaceans, and fish. Although they are frequently consumed as eggs or hatchlings by rodents, canines, and snakes, the adult turtles' hard shells protect them from most predators. Reliant on warmth from its surroundings, the painted turtle is active only during the day when it basks for hours on logs or rocks. During winter, they hibernate, in the mud at the bottom of water bodies. The turtles mate in spring and autumn. Females dig nests on land and lay eggs between late spring and mid-summer. Adults in the wild can live for more than 55 years.
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Sunday, January 20, 2019
Rainbow Cloud
Rainbow Cloud
also known as fire rainbows, occur when sunlight diffracts off water droplets in the atmosphere.
also known as fire rainbows, occur when sunlight diffracts off water droplets in the atmosphere.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Mushroom & Moss Microcosm
Tiny brown mushrooms and I'm guessing, Haircap Moss Spore Capsules (Polytrichum).
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
Remembering Summer Flowers
Flamingo Flowers
Anthurium
Flamingo Plant with a shiny red & yellow flower in the green house at Gardener's Supply.
The Anthurium is also known as Painted Tongue, Flamingo Flower (Flamingo Lily) or Tail Flower. The flowers are contained in dense spirals on the spadix. The spadix is often elongated into a spike shape. Anthuriums are herbaceous epiphytes native to tropical America. Anthurium is a genus of more than 800 species found in the New World tropics from Mexico to northern Argentina and Uruguay.
Flamingo Plant with a shiny red & yellow flower in the green house at Gardener's Supply.
The Anthurium is also known as Painted Tongue, Flamingo Flower (Flamingo Lily) or Tail Flower. The flowers are contained in dense spirals on the spadix. The spadix is often elongated into a spike shape. Anthuriums are herbaceous epiphytes native to tropical America. Anthurium is a genus of more than 800 species found in the New World tropics from Mexico to northern Argentina and Uruguay.
Water Lily
A reminder of summer.
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Monday, November 19, 2018
Gorgeous Day
View At Indian Brook Reservoir State Park.
Here is one of my favorite places in nature.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Exotic Wild Flowers
Arrowhead Plant
Flowering
Sagittaria latifolia
Common arrowhead, is a perennial aquatic plant in the Alismataceae (water plantain) family. The common names of duck potato and wapato for this plant refers to the rounded starchy golf ball-sized tubers that form at the ends of underground plant runners (rhizomes). Flowers bloom from July to September. Found in shallow water in lakes, ponds, tidal marshes, rivers, streams, and wetland margins. The tubers of the arrowheads are edible when roasted or boiled. They were important food sources of indigenous peoples and in some areas are still valued as a great food source. Tubers are typically roasted. Though the skin is edible arrowhead tubers are more palatable when peeled. The best time for collecting tubers is in fall or early spring. Tubers are high in starch and phosphorous.
Sagittaria latifolia
Common arrowhead, is a perennial aquatic plant in the Alismataceae (water plantain) family. The common names of duck potato and wapato for this plant refers to the rounded starchy golf ball-sized tubers that form at the ends of underground plant runners (rhizomes). Flowers bloom from July to September. Found in shallow water in lakes, ponds, tidal marshes, rivers, streams, and wetland margins. The tubers of the arrowheads are edible when roasted or boiled. They were important food sources of indigenous peoples and in some areas are still valued as a great food source. Tubers are typically roasted. Though the skin is edible arrowhead tubers are more palatable when peeled. The best time for collecting tubers is in fall or early spring. Tubers are high in starch and phosphorous.
Bittersweet Nightshade
Such cool looking flowers.
This plant is toxic to people, pets, and livestock.
Such cool looking flowers.
This plant is toxic to people, pets, and livestock.
Bottleneck Gentian
The corolla remains closed at the top even when the flower is ready to receive pollinating insects. Bumblebees are the primary pollinators of the flowers, as they are one of the few insects that can force their way past the closed corolla. Some gentians are used in herbal medicine as an anti-inflammatory, to lower fevers, and as a liver tonic. It is also used as a gastric stimulant to treat a loss of appetite, digestive problems, flatulence, and insufficient production of gastric juices and saliva.
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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 are poisonous or can have serious adverse health effects.
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