Musings

It’s all about the droplets.

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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.

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I don’t remember ever doing a night peony inspection. Turns out they fold their petals a bit, if this sample is representative.

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Just in time for tomorrow’s bunny visits, the peonies are open! [Neighbor-peonies, not in our garden, I admit.]

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The title says it all. Although momentarily I wondered if this was a tulip poplar…but, nope, it’s a maple.

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Fleur blanc is not beurre blanc.

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No flocks of phlox blooms any more this spring.

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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!

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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.

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Every spring these days, I find myself surprised at the yellowy green of the new growth…and then I forget to watch it transition to the dark green that the plant will sport for…well, for years, or, I think its lifetime.

The Botanist always called these types of evergreens Taxus, and I never thought anything about it—I simply internalized that these are Taxus. I just looked it up and that’s the genus (aha!), while the common name in English is yew. There’s plenty of variation among the Taxus species, so the most efficient name is…tada…Taxus, when you’re not sure which species you’re looking at. Ah, taxonomy.

Perhaps I should have saved this post for the 15th? 🤣 🤣 🤣

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