Virginia Strawberry

I’ve never grown corn before, let alone tiny red popcorn. I might be hooked!

Anyway, here’s one of my favorite little pine trees.

forest textures 

Black-Eyed Susans at the lake

Polypodium vulgare (top) and Dryopteris marginalis (bottom)

Spotted Touch-Me-Not, Impatiens capensis, was used traditionally as a treatment for poison ivy. I find that pretty ironic, given its common name (actually, “touch-me-not” is in reference to its exploding seed pods).

A Creation Myth

I will always be with you <3

I envy their buoyancy

lil orange mushrooms

based on the long-tailed weasel,  Mustela frenata, found through out the U.S., Mexico and Central America 

(Bottom) Yellow-Crowned Night Heron with Marsh Pinks ( Sabatia stellaris)

Autumn in the wildflower field, Sweet Briar College

Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) is in the grape family (Vitaceae), but its berries are inedible. Both Virginia creeper and its delicious cousin the muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia) grow like crazy in my yard. 

ducklings

🐟 fishing 🐟

Just offscreen: the great blue heron who stole this egret's fishing spot