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Mar 14
Posted: under photography, Wildlife.
Tags: beauty, bird behavior, observation, photography March 14th, 2010
Spring is one of our busiest bird seasons, with winter residents often still around, spring migrants moving through, year-rounders breeding, and the first of the summer residents showing up.
Mar 06
Posted: under photography, Plantlife, Wildlife.
Tags: beauty, bird behavior, native plants, photography March 6th, 2010
The thicketing plums in full bloom–this thicket began with a few stems of plum stuck in the ground.
Feb 26
Posted: under photography, Plantlife.
Tags: beauty, native plants, photography February 26th, 2010
The earliest native plum is a thicketing bush plum that’s spread in what we laughingly call the orchard. First bloom opened yesterday; this morning I found these, with many more to come.
Feb 25
Posted: under photography, Weather.
Tags: beauty, photography, snow, Weather February 25th, 2010
We get snow so seldom (and enough to take pictures of, even more seldom) that I feel several posts of snow pictures are justified.
This is on the trail north from Fox Pavilion to the north fenceline.
Feb 24
Posted: under photography, Weather.
Tags: beauty, photography, Weather February 24th, 2010
Early morning, 22F, snow has crunchy crust…the little Eleocharis there in the wet area are ice-coated but they don’t mind. What a difference a day makes. I took different trails than yesterday and have over a hundred images–here are some of my favorites.
Feb 17
Posted: under photography, Plantlife, Wildlife.
Tags: beauty, butterflies, insect, native plants, photography February 17th, 2010
Elbowbush, either Forestiera pubescens or F. angustifolia (we have both species), is the first of our woody plants to flower in spring, and yesterday the first of the elbowbushes on the north fenceline west of the dry woods was opening.
Feb 11
Posted: under photography, Plantlife, Water, Weather, Wildlife.
Tags: beauty, native plants, natural water, observation, photography, rain, seasons, Weather February 11th, 2010
Feb 10
Posted: under Land, Plantlife, Water.
Tags: beauty, native plants, natural water, photography February 10th, 2010
The upstream part of the dry woods swale, with water seeping through the grass on both sides. This area produces the best water quality, as most of the water has seeped through both rock and soil. Read the rest of this entry »
Feb 05
Posted: under photography, Plantlife, Water.
Tags: beauty, native plants, natural water, observation, photography February 5th, 2010
At the end an hour slogging around a very wet, running-water-wet field as the sun gets low, you might wonder why you didn’t go back before now. Then you look down and there it is…the first one this spring. The sheer audacity of it–that determined stem, those leaves reaching for sunlight, and then that fragile, pale pink flower.
Jan 27
Posted: under photography, Plantlife.
Tags: beauty, native plants, photography January 27th, 2010
A little rain, after the hard freeze…a week of warmer weather and some sun…and more plants have burst into bloom or begun to pop buds. Here a rusty blackhaw viburnum’s buds have lengthened and changed color and texture, reaching out for another year’s growth:
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