Friday, 25 April 2025
I’m calling this moment a slight lull in the flush of spring. The redbuds have bloomed, yet somehow have not dropped last year’s seed pods. Now, the leaves are more than half-grown, so that the visual effect is of a mix of brown-beige verticals and green-green rounded shapes.
Wednesday, 23 April 2025
Today, we toured the Etowah mounds, all six of them. That’s the largest and second largest in the distance.
Archaeology is ever-so-cool (duh)…I also enjoyed the vetch among the planted meadow flora. Bitter vetch is one of the earliest domesticated plants in the Levant. This, however, is probably common vetch…one of my favorites for the color and the delicate foliage with probing and twining tendrils.
The sacred zone aorund the mounds buts up against the Etowah River. That riffle on this side of the river is half of a weir that certainly has been built and modified in historical times, but may date back into prehistory and the era of the mounds.
Sunday, 20 April 2025
I don’t remember ever doing a night peony inspection. Turns out they fold their petals a bit, if this sample is representative.
Saturday, 19 April 2025
Just in time for tomorrow’s bunny visits, the peonies are open! [Neighbor-peonies, not in our garden, I admit.]
Thursday, 17 April 2025
The title says it all. Although momentarily I wondered if this was a tulip poplar…but, nope, it’s a maple.
Saturday, 12 April 2025
Until today when I dug into The Great Database In The Cloud, I didn’t know that fringetrees are native to greater eastern North America(ish), including the Southeast. And here’s a specimen to delight and amaze!
Thursday, 10 April 2025
I guess these are called flowers; certainly, they look like them, like tulips…hence, the common name: tulip poplar. The trees are darned tall, so I only ever see the fleurs on the ground, or, here, on a sidewalk.
