i am so glad we didn't "round-up" aka "annihilate" everything on our high banks when we bought this patch as the neighbor, who had turf growing down to the waters' edge, advised us to do. of course he was a transplanted suburban flat-lander. (he didn't much like our outhouse, either.) instead we spot treated all the poison ivy and saved everything else. the bees and butterflies and all the other critters are happy we didn't want a lawn down to the river.
gimme a minute and i'll remember the name of this....
a woodland anemone.
a little wild potentilla.
the day's view downriver. peace on earth.
fox grapes growing at waters' edge.
i think it was emily dickinson who said it only takes one clover and one bee to make an entire meadow.
the name of this b'fly escapes me at the moment.
the official flower of june. i think oxeye daisies are just about my favorite wildflower. too bad they smell like crap...
i make dennis mow around this little white island of blooms.
boo and arrggh! still fighting the good fight against poison ivy. this is a baby plant--the pretty one on the upper left--"leaves of three, let me be". it will be history next time we're out there. i'll be packing round-up. the only time i will use an herbicide.
from a little acorn. someday this will be a big oak tree. i'll be dust.
this is where we make the turn off river road onto south park dr. it is brodie's signal to go nuts.In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. Aldo Leopold
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