When the docks and boats are off the water, it is still and peaceful, allowing reflections of the shore on the water. When the leaves are off the trees, the evergreens stand out, almost resembling a Japanese woodblock print. It was pretty, and it is everchanging. It will be different when I go this week with new things to discover and awe me.
love the fern in the crevice!!
ReplyDeleterevisited the fern room at the Garfield Conservatory a few weeks ago... and I've decided that ferns really are a most magnificent plant!
~Agent April Blossom
Wow. As usual, awesome pictures.
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The redbud growing out of the rock picture answers a lot of questions.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful picture.
I didn't move back to ND in 1995 because of the Redbud tree. I just couldn't bear not to see it in spring.
Thanks.
gene - it is NOT a redbud tree - it is red maple breaking bud - i learned the red maple was named for how red it is in the spring, not its orange fall color - and it is all over here as there are actual flood plains for it to grow in, but it also grows on the sandy clay hillsides and the drifts of it red among the other leafless trees is magnificent. it is a darker almost burgundy or pure red unlike the hot pink of a redbud tree first opening.
ReplyDeletei looked at the pic - if you click on them, you can make them get great big and fill your screen - did you know that? there are red maples in 'bloom' but i think that is just a red twig dogwood which are also in abundance in the flood plains and at the edges of woods in the part shade/part sun. It is fun to see natural woods here and not 'forest preserves' that are weed trees grown up in abandoned corn fields and overrun with buckthorn.
ReplyDeleteDid you catch any fish? Shoot any ducks?
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