This year there are very few scouring-rush showing up and they are very small but they are decorated every morning just as they always are in spring.
April 21, 2017
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Love your pictures. Look forward to your posts!
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Comment by Anonymous — April 21, 2017 @ 9:03 am
Thank you!
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Comment by montucky — April 21, 2017 @ 9:10 am
Those drops of morning dew are like little light bulbs on a tree. So pretty. I love close-ups like these. And I continue to marvel at the beauty of nature, thanks to your photos, Montucky!
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Comment by Mama's Empty Nest — April 21, 2017 @ 10:02 am
I’m glad that you like seeing some of the things that nature produces around here. There is a lot of beauty to be seen!
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Comment by montucky — April 21, 2017 @ 11:41 am
Beautiful! It’s the little things like them that make living this life such a pleasure and I wish more people could see things like them.
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Comment by New Hampshire Garden Solutions — April 21, 2017 @ 2:55 pm
Yes. I think of a natural display like that as one of nature’s treasures.
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Comment by montucky — April 21, 2017 @ 7:09 pm
Diamond-covered horsetails. Beautiful.
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Comment by wordsfromanneli — April 21, 2017 @ 4:33 pm
I’ve always been fascinated at how those happen.
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Comment by montucky — April 21, 2017 @ 7:10 pm
The water droplets really add a special element.
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Comment by wordsfromanneli — April 21, 2017 @ 8:25 pm
Yes. It must take a certain combination of temperature and humidity to get those drops to form the way they do.
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Comment by montucky — April 21, 2017 @ 8:38 pm
You certainly have caught the sparkle.
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Comment by wordsfromanneli — April 21, 2017 @ 11:24 pm
I certainly remember these. Seeing them again isn’t at all boring or repetitive. It’s even more of a delight, partly because the thrill of recognition has been added. It’s like seeing old friends pop up in the meadows in spring, I suppose. Who gets tired of seeing “the same old plants” over and over? Not me!
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Comment by shoreacres — April 22, 2017 @ 8:11 am
That’s just how I feel about seeing the new things of spring; a fresh sense of amazement at their form and color and patterns and relief and joy that they have once again appeared on the scene.
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Comment by montucky — April 22, 2017 @ 9:26 pm
Great photos!
I have always loved the soft, feathery but uniquely primordial look of Equisetum. However, in trying to maintain a garden area in my yard, they do become somewhat of a nuisance. They grow extremely fast and before long take over an entire area. They are also deep-rooted and almost impossible to eradicate once they are established. I have seen them even break through the surface of paved roads in rural areas. In my yard, they tend grow best around the edge of the ponds. My theory is, the black pond liner creates enough extra heat to provide the horsetails with an optimal growth environment just under its edge.
All that being said, I do think Equisetum can look quite striking, and at least once a year they seem to captivate me to the point that I let them have their way in my backyard garden area, until I come to my senses and pull them all out again.
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Comment by btweenblinks — April 23, 2017 @ 3:30 pm
I’m fortunate in that they grow along a rock wall that stands beside a seldom used country road that passes in front of my house. Nature cares for them and I don’t have to: I just enjoy seeing them along with a profusion of other wild plants that find a home there.
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Comment by montucky — April 23, 2017 @ 7:21 pm
These are such great pics .. your morning dew is special 😀
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Comment by Julie@frogpondfarm — April 24, 2017 @ 1:58 pm
Thanks Julie! I look forward to the short period of time each year when they look like this. I wonder if it is just incidental or whether perhaps a unique survival strategy is involved with it.
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Comment by montucky — April 24, 2017 @ 8:23 pm
This is the first time I’ve seen drops on a horsetail. Even in rainy New Zealand I don’t recall seeing that.
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Comment by Steve Schwartzman — May 7, 2017 @ 9:36 am
I think it’s dew that causes the drops to form on cold, humid mornings.
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Comment by montucky — May 7, 2017 @ 5:57 pm
I love very much this set of photos. I had to stare them for a long time.
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Comment by Sartenada — April 26, 2017 @ 1:44 am
I have been fascinated by these too, ever since I first noticed them.
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Comment by montucky — April 26, 2017 @ 9:40 am
Prettier than a mini-Christmas tree!
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Comment by Candace — April 26, 2017 @ 5:01 pm
A Spring Christmas tree!
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Comment by montucky — April 26, 2017 @ 7:57 pm
Absolutely beautiful. Like one of the previous commenters, I could gaze at these for ages!
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Comment by Jo Woolf — April 27, 2017 @ 12:52 am
It’s interesting what Nature will do with something usually very commonplace.
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Comment by montucky — April 27, 2017 @ 7:28 am
These are stunning, Terry! Reminded me of small Christmas trees decorated with crystal balls! 🙂
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Comment by bayphotosbydonna — April 27, 2017 @ 5:34 am
They seem so very simple, but I still wonder how those little drops form where they do. They last only a few minutes in certain mornings when everything must be just right.
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Comment by montucky — April 27, 2017 @ 7:31 am
What a cute morning dew!
You have beautiful photos of flowers and plants ^^
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Comment by Fury and Fluffy — May 11, 2017 @ 3:57 am
Thank you!
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Comment by montucky — May 11, 2017 @ 7:02 am
Ooh I love those, we have them all over the riparian areas here in Idaho!
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Comment by Faith Rudebusch — May 13, 2017 @ 3:34 pm
I like them too and there are plenty of them. This time of year though, they think they are Christmas trees.
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Comment by montucky — May 13, 2017 @ 7:49 pm