Saturday, 1 May 2021
This magnolia is rather small as magnolias go, perhaps not quite four inches across…so…vente?
Looks like a lake…looks like a river…um, impounded river…still great for boaters and kayakers on a lovely Saturday afternoon.
Dusk sky hues, stripes, and graduations…such lovely eye-candy.
Today’s state count: four. PS: title has nothing to do with baseball.
Friday, 30 April 2021
This is a kousa dogwood flower; they have the pointy petals. Only they aren’t petals; if you’re wearing your precise botanic hat, they’re actually white bracts.
No idea what kind of insect is visiting that right bract.
Bract. Bract. Trying to remember that word and its meaning.
Thursday, 29 April 2021
I’m still enamored of the (free) “iNaturalist, LLC” app as a wonderful and fast identification assistant; however, its first few choices for this are bluets, and as far as I know bluets have just four petals. It is that size and in the color range…so I’ll have to take a deep dive into the alternative possiblities. I found these “gone wild” in a yard, so that’s little help at all.
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
We’re full on in foxglove season. [My fingers typed both floxglove and foxgove earlier; got it right this time.]
Our temporary resident heating and air crew finished today—usually two and sometimes three guys. Now we have new units for up- and down-stairs. It was time, as the technology we had was in the 25+ year age range. We’ll see what happens to our electric bills. Plus…yay! a $500 rebate!
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Vocabulary reminder to self: these maple winged achenes are called samaras.
Do you know the smell of fresh-cut oak wood? It’s distinctive, yes, woody, but a particular woody fragrance.
Sunday, 25 April 2021
Quite the stand of lilies…truly impressive. I went back for this shot; didn’t quite take it in at first.
Fruitiness. I’m going with flowering crab…in any case, look how far past flowering the fruits are! Is one still retaining a petal? Or did it float by and stick artistically to the floral parts remaining on the pome?
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Today I focused on little things. Like dust on a Venetian blind. I only got to one of them; more await.
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
A UP friend (who now lives in Florida, far from snow banks and running-board slush stalagtites) suggested I might enjoy a free app called “iNaturalist, LLC” that identifies plants. And boy howdy is it fast, even with a crappy picture with lots of shadows. I’m so loving it.
Even though I know this as Queen Anne’s Lace, the app notes that it’s Daucus species, probably Daucus carota, also known as wild carrot. Look how much I’m learning. Watch out, AT&T, I’m going to be burning through my data!
Also, I’m sorry I didn’t capture what looked to me like a hornet buzzing these flowers…it’d be another species for me to identify (somehow)!
Sunday, 18 April 2021
To my eye, when I found this flower, I thought it was a rusty dark-beige, not as it appears here. Sunglasses?
This yellow one, on the other hand, looked like this.
