tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88136867951141098852024-03-13T12:28:03.890-04:00Outside NowSweetgum Thursdayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07940208313204210876noreply@blogger.comBlogger1074125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813686795114109885.post-96739291802554242018-11-06T21:33:00.001-05:002018-11-06T21:33:19.719-05:00Fountain Grass Weather Report<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t_isHK5yUw0/W-JNdx9qrJI/AAAAAAAAqBg/StMtIHhgn6I7BMqPiWLCIHHkXWNVdKpNgCLcBGAs/s1600/20181105225826_IMG_3252.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t_isHK5yUw0/W-JNdx9qrJI/AAAAAAAAqBg/StMtIHhgn6I7BMqPiWLCIHHkXWNVdKpNgCLcBGAs/s640/20181105225826_IMG_3252.JPG" width="640" height="480" data-original-width="1600" data-original-height="1200" /></a></div><br />
For a second, I thought I was seeing the first frost of the fall on the fountain grass. But it was way too warm to be frost and just the morning's rain drops on gorgeous display. <br />
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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.<br />
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Gather your rosebuds while you may or sweet moments with blooms you pass and learn the names of along the way. <br />
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Sweetgum Thursdayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07940208313204210876noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813686795114109885.post-7430527413663207612018-08-14T22:10:00.000-04:002018-08-14T22:10:41.397-04:00So We Got More Than a Little Rain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And then this happened. </div>
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Mushrooms spotted on this evening's short walk. </div>
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There are leaves, and then there are OMG, check <i>out these LEAVES</i>!!!</div>
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Vitextree blooms and a bumble bee</div>
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An encounter with a future butterfly.</div>
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Pokeweed.<br />
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. </div>
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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.Sweetgum Thursdayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07940208313204210876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813686795114109885.post-40945318637990882882018-07-31T21:17:00.000-04:002018-07-31T22:05:12.908-04:00Swirl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This time of year it seems like the Morning Glory vines that nobody planted are growing, oh, like a foot a minute. Sweetgum Thursdayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07940208313204210876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813686795114109885.post-58430806735755356502018-07-30T07:22:00.000-04:002018-07-31T22:05:13.235-04:00Anticipation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm waiting on the Anemones, but in love with the beauty of the buds at the same time. Win/win.Sweetgum Thursdayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07940208313204210876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813686795114109885.post-20104540060196355452018-07-27T10:22:00.000-04:002018-07-27T10:22:56.030-04:00The Heart Wants what the Heart Wants<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I guess they aren't for everyone, but if I had a yard I might not be able to resist putting a crepe myrtle in it.<br />
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Yup, it's wet. </div>
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Or should I have said "drying gracefully" instead or dying? Some things are pretty fine on the way out too. </div>
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Looking up and out.</div>
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Among the many lovely specimens at Hostra, there are a few Japanese Clethra trees which are getting ready to bloom right now. Such pretty things they are too.Sweetgum Thursdayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07940208313204210876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813686795114109885.post-64740049017039399482018-07-15T23:01:00.000-04:002018-07-15T23:01:44.296-04:00A Little Treat by the Sidewalk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A little treat by the sidewalk is always appreciated. Coneflowers are a favorite of mine.Sweetgum Thursdayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07940208313204210876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813686795114109885.post-87837603486028925172018-07-14T20:58:00.000-04:002018-07-14T20:58:09.788-04:00A Little Bit of Light and Anticipating a Bloom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A little bit of light through the petals and anticipating a bloom; just some fleeting moments spent looking at a plant I passed while out walking this week. </div>
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The swamp milkweed at the Children's Museum is blooming so pretty in pink, coinciding with my first monarch sighting of the year. (yesterday-- no picture though) Bees and other butterflies, like a skipper for example I saw today, are digging those pretty pink blooms too.<br />
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Future dinner. Or maybe lunch? (Well not the flower, but the fruit that hopefully will follow.) Sweetgum Thursdayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07940208313204210876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813686795114109885.post-74695031274188998722018-07-06T10:42:00.000-04:002018-07-14T21:04:10.887-04:00Summer's Bloomers: Black-eyed Susans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sFT_y6e3afU/Wz983L2qj8I/AAAAAAAAk1Q/XDvFC_Q5a7MDIdppKvQQ9WvZ4Dau6wUpgCKgBGAs/s1600/20180705061617_IMG_1764.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sFT_y6e3afU/Wz983L2qj8I/AAAAAAAAk1Q/XDvFC_Q5a7MDIdppKvQQ9WvZ4Dau6wUpgCKgBGAs/s640/20180705061617_IMG_1764.JPG" width="640" height="480" data-original-width="1600" data-original-height="1200" /></a></div><br />
Seems like a bit of a tradition for me: snapping at least one picture of black-eyed susans this season. <br />
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Today's weather report brought to you by a dripping wet pine cone. She says it's hot, hazy and humid out there today, a real scorcher.Sweetgum Thursdayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07940208313204210876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8813686795114109885.post-84902670193036872952018-07-02T15:12:00.001-04:002018-07-02T15:12:54.833-04:00Goldenrain Tree: Summer Bloomer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-803rNVl2Lhc/Wzp4AvO8FcI/AAAAAAAAkrQ/2ktJZfuIu_YPF_ax1g8M3utKXC-d89FkwCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_20180702_103158_005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="768" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-803rNVl2Lhc/Wzp4AvO8FcI/AAAAAAAAkrQ/2ktJZfuIu_YPF_ax1g8M3utKXC-d89FkwCLcBGAs/s640/IMG_20180702_103158_005.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
I haven't had luck with getting a picture of a bee on the blooming Goldenrain Tree this year, but one place the bees are right now is visiting this summer bloomer. <br />
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