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Still not sure what it is
In early January I published a post about a flower bud. I wasn’t sure what it was. I still don’t know, but when I walked the dogs this afternoon it was blooming. It smells lovely.
Fuzzy-wuzzy fungus
A stray sun beam highlights the texture of this fungus, looking lush and happy on a dead tree stump.
Rosemary
Rosemary seems to bloom most of the year around here. Not sure why, since it is a Mediterranean plant. You’d think it would want more heat. Maybe the rain confuses it into thinking that it is always spring.
There’s one in every crowd
My first amaryllis bloom opened this morning. A welcome cheerful note on this gray day.
I got a group of three amaryllis for holiday cheer. Of course one of them has to be an over-achieving show-off… But in an amaryllis it’s cheerful and charming!
For Sunshine’s Macro Monday (I was sick on Monday) and Cee’s Flower of the Day.
A miniature forest
The closer one looks at moss the more fascinated one becomes…at least if the one is I. I can imagine a “Horton hears a who” story taking place on these tiny worlds tucked into the nooks of my dwarf apple trees.
The moss on my apple trees was catching the low angle of November’s light when I got home from walking the dogs this morning.
It seems appropriate for Sunshine’s Macro Monday!
Likin’ Lichen
I have a fondness for this not quite plant. The textures are amazing, as is the biology.
Fall leaf soon to fall
Up close and personal with sumac
I was out on a walk and noticed that several folks along my path had this interesting plant. I loved the velvety texture of what I know know to be a fruit cluster and the bright fall colors in the foliage.
Mama Cormier posted about it as a flower of the day earlier this month where I learned that it was sumac.
At once I wondered if it was the source for the Lebanese spice sumac. Research says it is a cousin: the type in my neighbor’s gardens is called staghorn and is indigenous, and common, on the eastern coast of America (not here on the west coast). The Lebanese spice comes from a European variety that is more purple than red. However, apparently the staghorn variety is also usable as a spice and some prefer it to the European. Here is an article about it.
Fall up close
