May 25, 2018
May 19, 2012
June 6, 2011
Wildflowers of spring (8)
With a few warm days recently and plenty of rain the wildflower blooms are coming rapidly now, as though they are trying to catch up to the season. I’m still trying to post to document them but feel like I’m losing ground.
Yellow Corabells, Fuzzy Emera ~ Elera racemosa 5/29
Common Sheep Sorrel ~ Rumex acetosella 5/29
Common Dogmustard ~ Erucastrum gallicum 5/29
Suksdorf’s desert-parsley ~ Lomatium suksdorfii 5/29
Chokecherry ~ Prunus virginiana 5/29
Siberian Springbeauty ~ Claytonia sibirica 5/29
May 25, 2010
Prunus virginiana
The chokecherries are blooming now and if the quantity and quality of blossoms are any indication it will be a good year for making more of my favorite jelly and syrup!
(For those not familiar with this plant, here is a photo of a group of the whole plants down by the river last summer.)
May 20, 2009
Born in the rain
These are the first blossoms of their species to appear around here this year and when I saw them this morning while I walked in the rain, it seemed important to me that they be displayed. Then as I clicked the shutter from under my umbrella, the reason occurred to me: the exuberance of these brand new arrivals that entered our world on a rainy day needed to be shared.
Goatsbeard,
Yellow Salisfy
Tragopogon dubius
Aster family
Chokecherry
Prunus virginiana
Rose family
May 31, 2008
Chokecherry blossoms
When the chokecherries blossom there are big white splashes across the landscape everywhere. I caught a few last night just before the sun went down.
The blossoms fill the trees,
and the trees line the river banks.
Oh, and it pays to stay alert: there are other things that lurk among the chokecherries too! (This shot was more difficult to get than you might think!)