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04.01.2023 Symplocarpus foetidus triad

Skunk cabbage’s flower, a spadix, is one of the earliest to be seen in Spring, seen here inside the foremost bud.  Actually the plant can be seen in mid-winter as it is thermogenic and produces heat which helps clear away … Continue reading

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03.20.2023 Happy Equinox

Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire from Enfield Lookout in Quabbin Park. Looking northward at sunrise. For whatever reason known only to WordPress, the sky color looks much better enlarged.

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03.05.2023 Silent Sunday

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02.19.2023 Silent Sunday-Floating on a Frozen Sea of Green

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02.15.2023- Wordless Wednesday

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01.21.2023 Jagged Edge

The leaf would appear to be the subject but the shape of the ice, part of Nature’s Chaos, was what attracted me. I made an image of just the edge but did not find it as satisfying as this composition.

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01.05.2023 Thermospadix Thursday

Skunk Cabbage-Symplocarpus foetidus is the earliest flowering wildflower of the year.  As a matter of fact it sometimes flowers even before the year changes. It does this by creating its own heat through a chemical reaction between oxygen and the … Continue reading

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12.31.2022 Goodbye 2022! Hello 2023!

2022 hasn’t been an awful year compared to the last couple. Although Covid is still around, most of us have either had it without serious consequences, some with, and the rest either avoided it or had such slight symptoms that … Continue reading

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11.26.2022 Sunfire

Standing at Enfield Lookout in Quabbin Park on a mostly cloudy day, a shaft of sunlight burst through a gap in the clouds and lit the base of Mount Ram on fire.

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11.12.2022 A day late for Foliage Friday

Especially since it would be the one, I am pretty sure. This birch image was made a few minutes after the previous solo oak tree on Quabbin Hill and just before the oak tree in fog.  They are all just … Continue reading

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