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Walk this Earth: March 2009
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Monday, March 2, 2009. Winter at the Pond. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Habit of Reading. 100 Species at Rockhound Place. The camera I'm currently using is a five-year-old Canon PowerShot G5. I'm still learning all sorts of things about it, but I do wish it had a better zoom lens. Winter at the Pond. View my complete profile.
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Walk this Earth: April 2009
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Sunday, April 12, 2009. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Habit of Reading. 100 Species at Rockhound Place. The camera I'm currently using is a five-year-old Canon PowerShot G5. I'm still learning all sorts of things about it, but I do wish it had a better zoom lens. View my complete profile.
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100 Species at Rockhound Place: 16. Bittersweet Nightshade
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100 Species at Rockhound Place. Tuesday, August 26, 2008. This tiny jewel of a flower was the only one still open in the area (the boundary between the backyard and the woods that abut them), and I was so pleased to find it. Unfortunately, either my camera does not have a setting for extreme close-ups or I just haven't found it yet. I've actually come across Solanum dulcamara. Before now, but the flowers ha. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). About the 100 Species Challenge. A Habit of Reading. Other 10...
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100 Species at Rockhound Place: 23. White Oak
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100 Species at Rockhound Place. Tuesday, October 14, 2008. This time I didn't have my camera on our walk. This leaf is from a very young specimen of an important lumber tree, Quercus alba. Also called "Stave Oak," because the wood is used for making whiskey barrels and barrels for other liquids. Used for shipbuilding in colonial times. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). About the 100 Species Challenge. Learn to identify one hundred species of flora within walking distance of your home! A Habit of Reading.
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100 Species at Rockhound Place: 11. Hedge Bindweed
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100 Species at Rockhound Place. Saturday, August 16, 2008. Jumped out at me on a walk with my younger son and dog this afternoon. It was all alone in (what else? A hedge (for which the Latin word is sepes. That borders a path in our wilderness-surrounded neighborhood. I lifted M. up to see this lovely pink flower, and the response I got was, "Mmm, pretty. Can we go home now? Part of the morning glory family. From the National Audubon Society Field Guide to New England:. August 17, 2008 at 9:39 PM. About ...
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100 Species at Rockhound Place: 24. Oriental or Asiatic Bittersweet
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100 Species at Rockhound Place. Tuesday, October 14, 2008. 24 Oriental or Asiatic Bittersweet. Is considered a noxious weed in the state of Massachusetts. Evidently this vine can smother plants over which it grows, and its weight can cause other plants to be uprooted, and it is displacing American Bittersweet, according to The National Park Service. Ah, well- it's fall colors are pretty, and I have wound it around our front yard's lamppost as a decoration in years past. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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100 Species at Rockhound Place: 14. Indian Pipe
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100 Species at Rockhound Place. Monday, August 18, 2008. Here, at last, is O.'s find: Monotropa uniflora. Or Corpse Plant, as it is also known. I might have missed this one, thinking is was a fungus instead of a plant, and, indeed it is a saphrophytic plant, feeding on decaying organic matter. The flower nods at first, then turns upright in fruit,. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). About the 100 Species Challenge. Learn to identify one hundred species of flora within walking distance of your home!
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100 Species at Rockhound Place: 12. Common or Highbush Blackberry
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100 Species at Rockhound Place. Saturday, August 16, 2008. 12 Common or Highbush Blackberry. Quickberry, Quackberry,. Pick me a blackberry! Trainberry, trackberry,. By Bruce Degen, one of M.'s favorites, and probably his favorite four pages of the whole thing (the train). These blackberries ( Rubus allegheniesnsis (argutus). Though I have to say I had a lovely black raspberry margarita tonight, and could see what I could do to make a blackberry syrup to add to the tequila next time around. I recommend Bl...
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100 Species at Rockhound Place: 20. Staghorn Sumac
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100 Species at Rockhound Place. Tuesday, September 09, 2008. Got this photo of Rhus typhina (hirta). A few weeks ago when the berries were bright. I walked by this spot on Sunday and the berries look dark and drying. Part of the Cashew family (others in this family include poison ivy and mango), the leaves of the Staghorn Sumac as well as the Dwarf and Smooth Sumacs turn red in the fall. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). About the 100 Species Challenge. A Habit of Reading. Make your own badge here.
