Saturday, January 6, 2024

Summer Wildflowers

Wild & Blue

Asiatic Dayflower

Blue-eyed-grass Flower

Sisyrnichium bermudiana L.

& Buttercup

In the language of flowers, the Buttercup traditionally carries the symbolic meaning of growth, youthfulness, good health, and attraction. 

Northern Bush Honeysuckle

Wood Asters
Birds Foot Trefoil

Bittersweet Nightshade
New England Asters

Canada Anemone
Blue Vervain
Bunchberries
Button Bush
Bladder Campion
Celandine
Wild Columbine
Common Hemp Nettle
Creeping Bellflower
Daisy
Dames Rocket
Deptford Pinks
Gentian
Black Cohosh
Indian Pipe
or
Ghost Pipe
False Hellebore
False Solomon's seal
Fleabane Daisy
Fringed Polygala
Golden Rod
Herb Robert
Indian Hemp Dogbane
Blue Flag Iris
Jewelweed
Joe Bye Weed
Knapweed
Lady Slipper
Lupine
Mallow
Milkweed
Marsh Hedge Nettle
Common Wood Sorrel
Purple Loostrife
Purple Flowering Raspberry
Pasque Flower
Queen Anne's Lace
Wild Rose
Spreading Dogbane
Maximilian Sunflower
Vetch
Wildflowers

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Sunday, December 31, 2023

Happy New Year!

Thank you for the Happy Birthday messages.
Happy New Year!
May 2024 be filled with love and laughter, good health, great adventures, and Peace.


 

Sunday, December 24, 2023

Cardinals

Cardinal Taking A Stance Amongst New Leaves

Female Cardinal


Cardinal In Flight

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Thursday, December 21, 2023

Happy Winter Solstice!

Happy Winter Solstice!
Wishing I was in this spot right now.

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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Fragrance Free Respect

For those of you who wonder why I haven't attended many events or been around much, over the last decade or more, this is why.

 

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Iberville Shale

These remind me of icebergs.

Iberville shale

The flat, dark gray stones streaked with unmistakable white lines on the shores of Lake Champlain are Iberville shale – a name that comes from the Quebec town where the shale was discovered by Western geologists. It’s a thinly layered, sedimentary rock that was formed from marine silt deposited roughly 500 to 440 million years ago. Iberville Shale was created during the Ordovician period, when almost all of the earth north of the tropics was ocean. The silt deposited deep in these ocean waters became shale as it hardened and compacted over time. It’s younger than most other sedimentary rocks in the Champlain Valley, which date back 600-500 million years. The tell-tale white stripes are veins of mineral calcite formed by powerful compressing forces that drove calcium carbonate in the water to coalesce into mineral calcite.

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Indian Pipe Plant

Indian Pipe Plant, Ghost pipe, Ghost Plant, Corpse Plant, Dutchman's Pipe, Monotropa Uniflora

This unusual plant has no chlorophyll, so is not green. It therefore cannot make its own food, and is a parasite having a relationship with a fungus and a tree. It takes nutrients from both and so is found under American beech and pines along with types of mushrooms which include the Russula and Lactarius mushrooms. 

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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.