Posts Tagged ‘milkweed’

After a lot of procrastination, I finally created a set of milkweed web pages at my web site and changed to cover image to milkweed (for a while, anyway). The new pages are in the Projects section:
Milkweed seeds and pods

Milkweed has been a subject I pick up when the growing season is over – I [...]


Milkweed pod

27Nov07

There’s something about milkweed in fall and winter that catches my eye and my imagination – the seeds, the silky filaments, the way the pods split open and spill out, and the sight of seeds taking flight. Here’s an image from a recent encounter:

I’m working on a set of milkweed pages for my website – [...]


More milkweed beetles. This pair have been up to something, and now one of them is along for the ride:

When you’re outside these days, keep your eyes open for Red Admiral butterflies. There is a big migration of them, large numbers observed in reports from Wisconsin and even in the Atlantic off the coast of [...]