Monday: tracks on leaves

[OT from cottage renovations]
[crossposted to texture]

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Columbine

Thursday: spike shadow

[OT from cottage renovations]

the arrival of pokeweed is celebrated in no garden.  when detected by the people in whose yard this hapless specimen can be found its half life will be measurable only in the shortest of increments of time.  on a good day the same thing happens whenever I happen to find any of it on Town property. 

that doesn't keep me from appreciating for a moment the delicacy of the pattern formed by the shadow cast by its spike onto a lower leaf.  after that, well, it's a weed. 

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Chestnut Avenue

Phytolacca americana

Friday: a drop of rain

[OT from cottage renovations]

a bit of rain, always welcome.  a drop in ambient temperature, even more so. 

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the Circle

Naked Lady lilies.  with a common name like that there's bound to be no end of misunderstandings cropping up.  there was even a verse dropped from the song "Take Me Home, Country Roads" because it contained a reference to "Naked Ladies in the Front Yard".  outside the mid-Atlantic region it would lead to confusion, not to mention further propagating cultural stereotypes about West Virginia. 

Amaryllis belladonna

what's neat about these ones is how they survived the water company's pipe replacement exercise.  not all of the ones in the patch were as fortunate, but I hadn't expecting any of them to have made it. 

Hibiscus

I have long admired the work of Andy Goldsworthy.  this found juxtaposition of leaf types made me think of some of his work. 

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lower field

flora incognita

I don't have to be able to identify this plant to admire its long dark seed pods streaming down from upward reaching branches and the contrasting red and green shades of stem and leaf.  when it isn't so late I'll take the time to look it up. 

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Brown Street

hibiscus

afternoon sun falling on and passing through this blossom caught my attention; I then managed to catch that of a couple of persistently yapping dogs while capturing this image.  they did their thing and I did mine on opposite sides of a fence and as far as I could tell neither party was harmed by the other.