July 25, 2008
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My New Pic Picks
I uploaded 20 new photos today, filled the entire photo module with shots taken yesterday evening on a short walk I took, accompanied by three of the Piebeans.
This tiny translucent mushroom, growing in a scatter of moose droppings, was one of the first things to catch my eye
Click here to fill your monitor with a 1024x768px moose nugget.
One of my favorite wildflowers is Potentilla palustris, the marsh cinquefoil. I have never seen so many of them as there are this year. The plants are lusher than ever and the flowers more numerous on each plant.There are many berries thanks to the abundant rainfall, but they aren’t ripe yet.
I have never seen this place so green before. There has always been a lot of bare ground between patches of greenery in my yard, but now there are tall clumps of several grasses, some isolated spires of fireweed, Norwegian cinquefoil, yarrow, and duckfoot, and the ground around them is covered with a solid mat of chamomile, chickweed, and my favorite weed, knotgrass, below.
I think this shot of Linda, my favorite Piebean, is the best cat photo I have ever taken. You can have her in a 1024×768 size for your desktop HERE
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This is a mystery plant. All I know about it is that it is a hardy perennial. It could be wild, or some kind of cultivar. I found it, as a rosette of leaves, in one of my old gardens across the road last year. I didn’t recognize it, but dug it up and potted it, and placed it in the yard here. The showy yellow flowers were a great surprise this week. The closeup below is also desktop size HERE.
The wild fleabane we have around here is usually short, sickly and scraggly, but it is thriving in this extraordinarily wet season. This one is also desktop size.
…as is this fireweed.
…and Mandoline Piebean.
Okay, I got carried away… so sue me.
Comments (14)
The mushroom looked like a dandilion flower gone to seed at first. The ones you make wishes with or watch faries fly in my house. It’s beautiful. Your green is a treat for the summer mind.
Wouldn’t think of suing you…the pics are so beautiful. There is an advantage to lots of rain.
@wixer - me too ^^
The piebeans are beautiful!!! They sure grew up to be nice lookin’ kitties. Scuse me, I react to kittens the way normal people react to babies. And your photos are really great. I love enlarging them and really checking them out. Thank you.
Great pictures! I love the fireweed…
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I like plants and flowers but I’m partial to the Piebeans. They are adorable! We have an unofficial “cat colony” of sorts, and the latest edition is a six-month (I’m guessing) year old orange tabby. I named him Rusty Ray. I love him!
The kitties are gorgeous. and the flowers, the leaves look like a wild geranium, but the flower look like something from the mallow (hibiscis) family. That sure is pretty! You get to name it if you are the original discoverer~ I love all the PIX
@DancingBrush - We have wild geraniums around here, and that’s what I thought it was when I transplanted it. I was expecting lavender/blue flowers. Nice surprise. Still no success at an ID.
I’m not saying I know for sure what that plant is but it looks like a relative of a buttercup. I looked up several different kinds from the same family and they look pretty similair. Who knew there are about 15 different buttercups?? Wikipedia had some nice pictures of the buttercups.
I’m not only going to sue you, I’m going to su(e)su(e) you.
I now find flowers to be more fierce than beautiful. And I have always found them to be very, very beautiful.
Beautiful…. There’s nothing like green, is there?
What do those kitties do in the Winter?
@SeanHarrington - The Piebeans were born on Valentine’s Day this year, and were out in the snow before they’d been weaned. Their mother, Alice, is semi-feral, only comes in occasionally for food or a warm place to have kittens. There is a thriving feral colony here. People help them survive the winters by giving them liquid water. We put a steel bowl out, and when it freezes it goes on top of the wood stove to melt.