Posts Tagged ‘photo’
Mourning cloak
The first butterflies of the season aren’t freshly emerged from the chrysalis, they are about a year old. Early spring butterflies in the northeast – Mourning Cloaks, Eastern Commas, Milbert’s Tortoiseshells, and Compton’s Tortoiseshells – were caterpillars in the summer of 2007. They emerged as adults during midsummer last year, and spent the winter [...]
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Green Dreams
The season is changing, but now spring is more an expectation than an event. The redwings have been back for a month, I saw my first butterfly of the season last week (an Eastern Comma), my crocuses are up, but… the green thing isn’t happening yet. You can hear spring in the birds voices, but [...]
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Ice shapes
When it freezes, the water in slow moving streams makes neat curving shapes and bubble patterns. Ice art! I spent a happy morning last week walking along a stream called Clematis Brook finding all sorts of beautiful ice shapes. Click a thumbnail to see a larger image:
In the first two, [...]
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Beech leaf, stream ice
Last week was extremely cold in the Boston area – single digits, negative wild chills. When it gets that cold streams and brooks form beautiful ice patterns. Sometimes streams accumulate star-shaped ice crystals on the icy surface (I call them ice flowers), and there also can be tiny delicate ice crystals. I’ve seen a bit [...]
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More 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 [...]
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Winter
The last couple of weeks have dumped a couple of feet of snow in my area. I’ve been out trudging around in the woods, checking out frozen streams, glorying in in it all except my frozen feet. Leaves in the snow are an old standby winter macro subject; here’s a somewhat different angle on the [...]
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