Tag: plants

  • Bumbler

    This is a small bumblebee, one of many I saw dining on the spirea bushes. The plants have odd, spikey blossoms and they die a few days after blooming. Maybe that’s why the bumblebees were hustling.

  • Caught

    There’s a fence along the river and this morning I saw this shred of leaf caught by a web. A fragile scene.

  • River grass

    When the grass is growing and blooming in the river it has an abstract quality because of the flow of water and the light. Views are different every moment because of that motion and light. I’ve enjoyed watching the changes. Even when the river is low in the summer the grass looks so interesting. Canada…

  • Phlox

  • Fading Lily

  • River grass: eel grass

    As the flooded river calms and drains to a lower level I have first look at this season’s river grass, or more specifically, eel grass. Summer river grass includes many varieties. They are just as beautiful in the fall when like the leaves they turn yellow and brown until they disappear.

  • Mouse-eared hawkweed

    For years I’ve been mislabeling this little flower a dandelion. Why? Because I wasn’t paying close attention to the differences in shape. This lovely weed has squarish petals, compared with the dandelion’s, which are thinner. I apologize, little weed. My bad.

  • Mountain laurel

    This is the first year I’ve seen this tree bloom. It’s almost against the pilings under the old factory. it grows beside the white great laurel I’ve photographed for a few seasons.

  • A stump

    This looks like an old stump by the river and right now it is only that. Last spring I was lucky to see a black capped chickadee moving into this stump. I’m still hoping it will become the site of a bird’s nest.

  • Multiflora rose

    Two small patches of flowers behind an old building. When I see flowers in an abandoned area I admire their toughness in this careless world.