The Autumn landscape now wears russet and deep golden hues.As strong tall Oaks free their true colors. This morning the landscape and gardens were tossed ahead a few months into winter temperatures and snow! Most unusual for this time of year.This young buck forages through the wet snow. I love the way one of his budding antlers is directly poised 'side by side' with a plant stalk. By late morning the snow begins to melt and fall from the greatly relieved shrubs and … [Read more...] about Mighty Oaks Begin Their Show Early Winter Paints the Landscape White!!
Archives for October 2011
Mighty Oaks Begin Their Show Early Winter Paints the Landscape White!!
The Autumn landscape now wears russet and deep golden hues. As strong tall Oaks free their true colors. This morning the landscape and gardens were tossed ahead a few months into winter temperatures and snow! Most unusual for this time of year. This young buck forages through the wet snow. I love the way one of his budding antlers is directly poised 'side by side' with a plant stalk. By late morning the snow begins to melt and fall from the greatly relieved … [Read more...] about Mighty Oaks Begin Their Show Early Winter Paints the Landscape White!!
Looking Back Wildly Native Highbush Blueberries Flowers to Fruit
Blueberry blooms in foreground. Lilac colors beyond.Blueberries to the left . . . Snowy Crabapple on right.The Blueberry field is down the hillside directly east of the old farmhouse retreat. Gray Birch growing around BlueberriesMagnolia blooms in the distance . . . Blueberries growing around Gray Birch.Blueberry pendantsYummy to pollinators.Swelling fruitRose violet to blue purple.Portrait within a drop of water upon a blueberry. Robin youngster eying berries and meScarlet … [Read more...] about Looking Back Wildly Native Highbush Blueberries Flowers to Fruit
Looking Back Wildly Native Highbush Blueberries Flowers to Fruit
Blueberry blooms in foreground. Lilac colors beyond. Blueberries to the left . . . Snowy Crabapple on right. The Blueberry field is down the hillside directly east of the old farmhouse retreat. Gray Birch growing around Blueberries Magnolia blooms in the distance . . . Blueberries growing around Gray Birch. Blueberry pendants Yummy to pollinators. Swelling fruit Rose violet to blue purple. Portrait within a drop of water upon a blueberry. Robin … [Read more...] about Looking Back Wildly Native Highbush Blueberries Flowers to Fruit
Delicious Autumnal Palette In Varying Light
Days of the late summer and fall of 2011 will be recalled as perpetually wet and as if the whole of the landscape had been marinated in a slate gray soup. Drenched by Irene fed floods and months of moisture, the trees seem as unhappy about all the dampness as do the humans that live mostly within sheltered structures, where swollen doors refuse to completely close. Though in general the autumnal palette is of a duller value, there are a few trees . . . perhaps younger . . . that … [Read more...] about Delicious Autumnal Palette In Varying Light
