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Ha ha, yes I'm copying a bit of Mistwalker's style, but not getting quite the shots he does!
Spent a few hours in the prairie with the dogs this weekend. The place is as green and lush as can be and a different realm than only a few months before where it was all wet and muck.
An unripened blackberry, in other spots they are starting to become red with only one or two ripened that I came across as of yet.
A colourful leafinsect getting prepared for the 4th of July...
Yarrow in bloom, with its umbrella florettes it can be mistaken for wild carrot, parsely or hemlock. I find the leaves of yarrow more pungent during flower. Crushed they are used to treat minor cuts having some antiseptic characteristics and act as vasoconstrictors.
A young oak leaf
Crazy beetle in flight...
Maybe he was nervous of one of these guys...
A neat and rare sight (for me) - a hummingbird moth. These are sizeable insects that hover and glide just like humming birds do. This one was feeding on bergamot flowers. I like using the leaves for a tea.
The highly toxic water hemlock...
Wild parnip - also gets a bad rap, apparently the sap when absorbed on skin reacts with the sun to cause severe blisters. The sap of wild parsnip is less active then that of its cousin, the giant hog weed which is particularly vigorous. I was corrected on another forum by edibleplantguy that the parsnip sap is just as noxious as the giant hogweed, but you have to mash up the plant more to get at it. Silly me, I have a bad habbit (yeah a nun's outfit) and also a dump compunction to mash leaves and smell them. Did it with the parsnip, but I shouldn't have. No ill effects thanks-yee sai.
Unknown but interesting flower
Six spotted tiger beetle, sometimes confused with the emerald ash borer due to its colour.
I liked the way the light was hitting this new grape leaf
Some fruit forming under a Russian Olive or Autumn olive branch
More unripened fruit - chokecherry
Macro blow up of that orange flower - my fav. of the walk
Thats about it!
Spent a few hours in the prairie with the dogs this weekend. The place is as green and lush as can be and a different realm than only a few months before where it was all wet and muck.
An unripened blackberry, in other spots they are starting to become red with only one or two ripened that I came across as of yet.
A colourful leafinsect getting prepared for the 4th of July...
Yarrow in bloom, with its umbrella florettes it can be mistaken for wild carrot, parsely or hemlock. I find the leaves of yarrow more pungent during flower. Crushed they are used to treat minor cuts having some antiseptic characteristics and act as vasoconstrictors.
A young oak leaf
Crazy beetle in flight...
Maybe he was nervous of one of these guys...
A neat and rare sight (for me) - a hummingbird moth. These are sizeable insects that hover and glide just like humming birds do. This one was feeding on bergamot flowers. I like using the leaves for a tea.
The highly toxic water hemlock...
Wild parnip - also gets a bad rap, apparently the sap when absorbed on skin reacts with the sun to cause severe blisters. The sap of wild parsnip is less active then that of its cousin, the giant hog weed which is particularly vigorous. I was corrected on another forum by edibleplantguy that the parsnip sap is just as noxious as the giant hogweed, but you have to mash up the plant more to get at it. Silly me, I have a bad habbit (yeah a nun's outfit) and also a dump compunction to mash leaves and smell them. Did it with the parsnip, but I shouldn't have. No ill effects thanks-yee sai.
Unknown but interesting flower
Six spotted tiger beetle, sometimes confused with the emerald ash borer due to its colour.
I liked the way the light was hitting this new grape leaf
Some fruit forming under a Russian Olive or Autumn olive branch
More unripened fruit - chokecherry
Macro blow up of that orange flower - my fav. of the walk
Thats about it!
