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.

Buzzing Around Lobelia

Buzzing Around Lobelia

Bumble bee on Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)

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A Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Could Lead to a Sustainable Futur...

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

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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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.

Silver Spotted Skipper Butterfly on Echinacea

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New Family Member

 New Family Member at my Sister's home, today! Meet Tessra. Isn't she cute?

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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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