Big Bird Interlude

The geese from Canada I knew. The other big bird is new to me. A juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron is what I'm thinking.

Mid-August Glimpses or Gleanings?

Gather your rosebuds while you may or sweet moments with blooms you pass and learn the names of along the way.

So We Got More Than a Little Rain

And then this happened. 

Mushrooms spotted on this evening's short walk. 

Foliage Focus

There are leaves, and then there are OMG, check out these LEAVES!!!

Where My Bees At?

 Vitextree blooms and a bumble bee

Side Benefit of Weeding

An encounter with a future butterfly.

A Weed Not in New York News Today

Pokeweed.
As far as I know, no one smokes it because it is poisonous but people do forage and eat young shoots (they are cooked though) in salad in spring. 

Not Tired Yet

The Queen Anne's Lace is in bloom for a long time every year and then there is when it goes to seed and then also there are those dried seed heads which linger for even longer still. And I'm not tired of it yet.