I promised you a nature post...

[rubyelf]

So here is is... these are pictures from my walk yesterday. I think it was yesterday. I had class today and it fried my brain a little. There's still not much going on as far as flowers or leaves, but I did find some pink acorns...

Comments

[mikononyte]

I always learn something from your Nature Walks. Don't know anything about the cabbage... I'm the type would say "green plant" and move on. LOL But the tree photos... I've never seen a maple in my life so seeing one not pictured in a book, just coming into its flowers is wonderful! :)

And, pink walnut... could it be because of the severe and long winter out there?

[rubyelf]

I've seen acorns turn brown over the winter but I've never seen pink before. And whatever it is seems to have either split them open or been the result of them being split open by something else. Normally a lot of these acorns would have been eaten during the winter but the snow was so deep I doubt the squirrels could get to them.

Maples are probably one of the commonest trees around here, along with oaks.

[fourchambered]

These pictures are beautiful.

Also: I took a field botany class in the fall, and those two plants are COMPLETELY different. You win!

[rubyelf]

LOL... my husband ALWAYS loses when he argues biology with me. If it's electronics or physics, he wins. And if it's tree identification, he wins too because he does all the logging to heat our house and he's very picky about which trees he takes. But when it comes to most science stuff... and most other stuff... he knows he shouldn't argue with me! :)

[sadme4b]

I'll be back to read this when the curtains are up and the bed changed, to read and enjoy the pics. BTW - I've thought of you every time I see some of those shelf fungi thingys!

[rubyelf]

It makes me proud to hear that people see fungi and think of me! :D

[sadme4b]

I always do! The people that gave me MisChief & Butterscotch brought me a bunch of Morels today! Nice ones, that I'm cooking now! (and I thought of you!)

[rubyelf]

Oooh... jealous. First of all, it's too cold for morels here still. Second of all, someone always finds them before I do. And third of all, my family will not eat mushrooms even if they come from the store, much less a wild mushroom. Sigh.

[sadme4b]

glad your ospreys are back
the two green plants ARE different
and I'd seen yellow flowers on one of our PO walks, so am happy to know what they are!

[rubyelf]

Coltsfoot is little but very common and it'll grow almost anywhere. It isn't native to North America but was probably introduced here by settlers because it was a very popular medicinal plant for treating coughs and just about anything else.

[mayanas]

Clearly not the same plant! Your husband is wrong. So there.

[rubyelf]

LOL... he should know better than to argue with me.