From the green season
A few images of green things that caught my eye:
Ferns
Clover
Forest buds
Ferns are looking their best now, there are so many different species. The buds may be from this plant.
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I’ve kept looking and looking at that clover, and even went browsing among other clover images. There’s something about it that seems unusual, but I can’t say what it is. It seems as though all the leaflets are on one side of the stem. I’m not sure if that’s so, or if the impression’s a result of your composition. In any event, it’s a lovely image. Your ferns certainly seem fresh and lovely, too. The last time I was in east Texas, our ferns were crisping up and turning brown. I wish I could have seen them when they were as pretty as these.
That is an odd plant you linked to. Have you identified it?
The odd plant? Yes, I have identified it before, and I haven’t found my notes on it. I’ll keep looking 🙂 And I should try harder to identify the clover.
I think the odd plant is sarsparilla, an Aralia species, maybe Aralia hispida. I found a couple of nonnative Trifolium species with alternating groups of leaves, one was T. campestre. The Clover plant was on a forest trail not far from a field.
There’s a famous poem by Federico García Lorca that begins “Verde que te quiero verde,” or “Green, how I love you green”
Walking in the woods this time of year is refreshing- these pictures reflect that. I should read Lorca.
Here’s an English translation of that poem, followed by the original Spanish:
https://poets.org/poem/romance-sonambulo
Thank you, just read the poem. Green wind and green branches, that’s what the green season looks and feels like.
I like the green season so much better than the stick season! Just look at those luscious ferns.
The brown and black season is more challenging for me. June and July are so lush with growth.
Here’s to green! Long may it sustain our foolish species….