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I'm looking at the posts on this blog and I used to talk so differently not even that long ago...

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Golden and jewel-toned landscapes!

Sorry for abandoning this blog for a year or however long it was, anyone who follows it. I may make a new art blog soon too.

The flowers in the first picture are calico aster, you can see some new england aster in the fourth picture, the last picture is american bittersweet and common buckthorn, and the rest of the plants are too far away to point out, or shrubs trees vines and grasses that I don't know. Image IDs attached to the pictures.

#Flowers #Fields #Landscape photos #Photography #Wouldn't let me add a description for one of the pictures?

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Skunk cabbages babyyy!!! I was really happy to find them! First Spring flower... The first picture is two pretty baby ones, the second is a super wee one demonstrating its power to generate heat and melt through snow to grow. The third picture is a small patch of ground where there are a few full-sized ones, and the fourth picture is a whole slope full of them! When they first emerge in their muddy habitat they look similar to many Spring bulb plants, fairly wide bright green leaves sticking straight up. When they grow their flower though they develop a green to burgundy to green-burgundy-speckled spathes, which is a part of the flower structure that forms a cup around the rest of it. Within the spathe is the yellow nubby spadix, which is where the reproductive structures of the flower are. The flowers apparently give off a smell to attract insects to help them pollinate, but I've never been able to smell it myself... After the flowers are finished blooming, the plants will grow some very large heart-shaped leaves for the rest of the season. The fifth and final picture is not skunk cabbage, but rather two trees that have like? innumerable tall thin woody sapling sprouts coming up all around the base of their trunks? Don't know what's going on there, nature just does interesting things.

#Skunk cabbage #Botany

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Some pictures of various ices and waters from this Winter, I like these

#Ice #Photography

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[Image ID: Two photos of a gravelly beach with blue-green water washing over it in various stages. In the center of the frame is 2 by 2 by 2 foot chunk of concrete encased in iron girders in such a way that looks like a piece of a castle tower, also being hit by the waves. End ID]

I saw this on the beach and the first thing I thought it looked like was a little castle tower with parapets on its side, but it was actually a chunk of concrete with iron girders through it.

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[Image ID: A photo of a clump of red clover grown to about the size of a soccer ball beside a wire fence, and a photo of some black medic grown to about the length of a baguette draped over some grey rocks. End ID]

A lot of those plants you see that are really small and grow on paths and places people walk because they're tough... Can also grow bigger when they're not being walked on and I am always very surprised when I witness it

#Botany

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[image id: a screenshot of web browser search results of lists of cat pokemon: "The Complete List of All Cat Pokemon", "The Complete List of Cats in Pokemon", "Ultimate List of All Cat Pokemon", Full list of Cat Pokemon Names With Pictures", "Cat Pokemon: Ranking all the best Felines In The Entire...". The last title is cut off by character limit. End id.]

#I'm looking at the first result and it's claiming that absol is a cat #And that the three legendary dogs are cats #Unbelievable

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I learned something new about plants today which is that this, these plants, the ones that look iconically like clover? They're not even clovers!!! There are no clovers with leaves like that!!! They're sorrel!!! Never knew until now... Honestly though clover should be an acceptable common name for them, I'll never correct anyone on it unless just as a fun-fact-but-you-can-use-either way.

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It's a good plant finding excursion when I see something that makes me go "What is going on here? Is that the flower???"

#I think maybe it's not fully out yet and it'll look different later? #Maybe? #Or maybe it just looks like that??? #I don't know #Botany

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I don't know what this is but it's funky

#Botany #If anyone sees this and knows you may tell me

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Nodding Thistle (Carduus nutans). Honestly, a shockingly large thistle, I had to post a picture.

#Botany #Nodding thistle #Carduus nutans

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I was researching oak diseases because of a tree I saw at the park and shoutout to Slime Flux

(What the tree did have was fairly harmless and it's okay)

#Botany

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Here are some flowers with interesting petal arrangements I saw!

#Botany

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My plant identification list from a recent outing!

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Here are my lists of plants I identified on an outing a couple weeks ago when it was Spring-time early blooms, and this week with some early Summer plants! I had such an excellent time finding these and then identifying them! I was especially excited about the white campion, because, I just like campions a lot...

#Botany #Plant identification

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Looking at gardening supplies online and feeling a warm contentment

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Starting a video call doctor's appointment and him asking me if his succulent propagations are alright because they have new growth and showing me

#They were fine #Just growing