Last night I went out in the rain. Silver maple seeds are falling.
Like little wings on the ground.
This morning I took another look at the few remaining on the trees.
Silver Maple
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Tag Archives: Trees
Inside a hollow tree
Let’s look inside…
Downy Woodpecker, oak tree
Downy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker in flight
Hawthorn
Something about the calm tone of grey of the bark drew my eye. And the rich texture.
Cottonwood ancients
“Some of these trees were my friends!” -J. R. R. Tolkien
A tiny stream
Buds and blossoms begin
The wild fruits have just barely begun to bud and bloom.
Saturday, possibly a young pincherry sapling.
Sunday, a wild plum branch at the top of an as yet leafless tree.
Yesterday it rained
After the rain was mostly over, I went to the woods.
A bracket fungus?
This one oak tree branch ended in a symphony of intricate bends. In a lush green.
Oh oak tree!
We may not have a show of blooms in this part of the world just yet, but there is plenty of colour, and there are even some exotic specimens.
Bear in the field
A bend in the creek
The Red Osier Dogwood branches have always been one of my favourites.
Hazelnut?
Coral spot fungus, and moss
There is bright colour and loveliness if you know where to look…
Great Horned Owl
I knew she was nesting somewhere nearby. I saw her one midnight as a patch of paleness perched high in a tree behind our house, when I looked out my window. Today as I walked across our yard she swooped by me. I sat in a lawn chair for half an hour, and finally she returned.
Great Horned Owl
After posing high up in a poplar for a few minutes, she flew by me again. I remember wondering at the stick she held in her claws. It was only as I looked at the photos on my computer tonight that I realized that was no stick she flew over my head with…
Great Horned Owl
I have Ophidiophobia. Snake phobia. I sit here at my computer and shudder, and want to lift my feet off the floor, every time I look at these photos or think of how she flew over me with that!