Minutiae

Meadow beauty (Rhexia virginica) (at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge)

Eupatorium and Solidago growing in a roadside ditch (at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge)

Spending the morning at the Penn State flower trials

Stapelia flower One of my more unusual houseplants....smells like rotten meat

Duranta, Salvia Sallyfun Blue Emotion, Pelargonium Caliente Hot Coral

This plant combo I put in last fall is really starting to fill in quite nicely-- Switchgrass, Autumn Joy Sedum, Prairie Dropseed

Lobelia siphilitica beginning to colonize quite nicely in my butterfly habitat project

Sedum Autumn Joy, Salvia May Night, Prairie Dropseed

Grass

Baby northern water snake. I found about 20 today near their dying mother. Some jackass had apparently found her giving birth and took the opportunity to stomp on her. Water snakes are not venomous and will gladly leave you alone if you leave them alone

Nanticoke River sunset (at Woodland Ferry)

at Longwood Gardens

Patrinia, Veronicastrum, Joe Pye and Ninebark (at Longwood Gardens)

Joe Pye Weed, Amsonia and Hydrangea (at Longwood Gardens)

at Longwood Gardens

Crofton ' Mr Peters' (at Longwood Gardens)

at Longwood Gardens