confessions

[OT from cottage renovations]

might as well out with it:

1. I don't know what this lovely yellow blossom is.  not a clue. 
   confessions of botanical ignorance are hardly unusual in this space -- they happen all the time -- but this supposed to be a learning experience, however irregular and autodidactical.  by now I should be doing a better than this.  my excuses are distraction with tomorrow's travel and a few other things that are on my mind.  not much but they're all I have. 
    
2. in order to capture these two images I engaged in some minor trespassing. 
   with very few exceptions images in the space are taken either from public property or with the permission of the property owner or tenant. 

I should probably go on to confess that this journal's content really isn't very interesting, but that point is not in dispute. 

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Grove Avenue

 Flora incognita   Impatiens pallida

seed dispersal

[OT from cottage renovations]

there's only one objective here: getting those seeds spread.  even so there seems to be plenty of variance from one cluster to another: 

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Town Nursery

hold them up high ...

... and wave them around ...

... or let them droop them down;

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or hang them out on a stalk ...

... to scatter around

teasel (1 of 2)

[OT from cottage renovations]

take a walk through the field and the teasel is easy to find: the stalks are easily more than 2 m high, towering over the prevailing line of brush top even as it rises in the absence of mowing or cleansing fire. 

their shape and form are fascinating, leading one to wonder whether they inspired the designers of the Jetsons' urban environment.  looking at them, one thing is clear: this is one species that's doing its best to attract airborne pollinators (more on that later). 

what they attracted in today's late afternoon sun was somebody bumbling through the field with camera and tripod.  there's no sound track so let's just agree that had you been within earshot of my encounters with nettle and multiflora rose you would have heard the praises of long trouser cuffs and sturdy fabric.  yeah, that's right, I'm sure that's what I said. 

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upper field

Dipsacus fullonum

teasel (2 of 2)

[OT from cottage renovations]

... yes, those high teasel stalks are wonderfully accessible to flying pollinators. 

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upper field

(  .. let's follow the butterfly (7) ..  )