I know I said I was through posting flower pictures for a while, but we seem to be moving rapidly through Spring and into Summer here, and everything is just so white. The backyard looks like it’s been dressed up for a wedding. A nice girl’s wedding, if you get my drift… Continue reading
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My Neighbor’s Garden.
We’ve had a couple of beautiful spring days here, and I thought I would take a break from my usual weighty topics to post a few pictures from a friend’s garden. Russell grows mainly peonies, as you can see, and he has a lot of them. Enjoy.
(Don’t worry, my usual post is coming up. Surely you didn’t think I had run out of things to say…!)
Happy New Year.
The wind is rushing around outside like — well, think of your favorite simile: the ocean; a herd of buffalo; a horde of flying monkeys. Continue reading
World Enough, and Time.
The crane flies are out and about this evening.
These creatures are a familiar sight everywhere during their brief mating season each year — flimsy tangles of thready legs and cellophane wings smacking into window screens and lampshades, dangling from spider webs, drowning in teacups, the survivors finally disintegrating after a few days into a litter of disorganized limbs under the porch light. Continue reading
After the Rain.
We got a brief break in the rain this afternoon, and I ran out the door with the camera. Tomorrow, I’m told, the rain resumes, but for a few hours Spring was very much in evidence in here in the Ozark foothills.
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- Thalictrum thalictroides, Rue Anemone
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- The man at the end of the block has lilacs already coming into bloom. I guess location really does matter.
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- Podophyllum peltatum, the Mayapple or Ground Lemon
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- Water droplets on a young Flannel Mullein, Verbascum thapsus.
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- Antennaria lanata, wooly pussytoes
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- Cercis canadensis, the Eastern Redbud, one of two species native to the Ozarks.
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- Erythronium americanum, the Trout Lily. In a few weeks it will produce a nodding yellow blossom.
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- The trees are budding out, and the streams are filling with water.
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- Although pretty now, these forest streams are ephemeral: the water will be gone in a couple of months.
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- A small waterfall bringing water down from the hilltop into the railroad cutting.
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- A forest stream.
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- Water droplets in a cedar branch.
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- The dogwoods are early and bright in the deep woods.
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- The dogwoods are only just beginning to come into bloom.
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- The dogwoods are blooming before most of the trees even have green buds.
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- The trees are just beginning to show buds.
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- One of my neighbors has cleared a homestead in the woods.
Spring has Sprung
Looks like Spring has arrived here in the southern Ozarks: it’s raining today, one of those gray, depressing rains that seems like forever, drumming on the tin roof of the cabin in bursts like someone throwing gravel from on high; punishing the daffodils, muddying the roads, soaking the stray cats that hang around my front steps. Continue reading