I stopped by the reservoir at White Park yesterday to photograph the rose mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos), sometimes referred to as swamp rose-mallow, which is now at peak bloom. This is a healthy and vigorous wetlands community visited by great blue and little green herons, kingfishers, a variety of ducks, and the occasional osprey - all the more remarkable because it’s within walking distance of downtown Morgantown. Anyway, the rose mallow was fabulously beautiful in its various shades of crimson red, pink, and white, and the hollow Joe Pye weed (Eutrochium fistulosum) was equally impressive, presiding over its wetlands kingdom with the massive lavender crowns of true kings.
From top: rose mallow, whose flowers display high variability in color and petal sizes/orientations (although some specimens may be hybrid escapees, this plant nonetheless possesses some wild genetic impulses); wild mint (Mentha arvensis), a cosmopolitan mint with a strong flavor and an affinity for wetlands; Allegheny monkeyflower (Mimulus ringens), a whimsical perennial that forms dense stands in swamps and along streambanks; seedbox (Ludwigia alternifolia), so named because of the four-sided shape of its seed capsules; and without further adieu, a true king bowed under the weight of its elegant crown.
Something that I find funny is how I’ve kept Dutch and the gang waiting for days to go kill Angelo Brontë because I’ve been picking flowers and various herbs.
I was thinking about Wild eating food to regain hearts, and
New headcanon: Wild stress eats. At the most inopportune times ever. The chain is fighting some really powerful monsters and most of them, including Wild, are injured. And then someone turns around to find Wild demolishing both a bokoblin and sandwich at the same time.
And like. He seems to be having no problem with doing both things at once. So the one who saw him decides to not worry about it, because they’ve got bigger problems.
Wild and Hyrule go exploring and they get lost as they usually do. They both end up injured, but Hyrule is more wounded than Wild is, and Wild has to carry him back to the others.
Legend, who is worried and stressed about Hyrule, lashes out at Wild, who no one knows is injured. Wild is barely standing at this point, and slips away to deal with it himself.