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Tag Archives: Quabbin Park
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
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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Tagged landscape, Massachusetts, Mount Monadnock, New England, Quabbin, Quabbin Landscape, Quabbin Park, sunrise, western massachusetts
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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.
Posted in Abstract, Closeup Photography, Ice, Intimate Landscape, Nature Photography, Patterns in Nature, Western Massachusetts
Tagged abstract, abstract ice, ice, ice abstract, intimate landscape, Massachusetts, Nature's Chaos, Nature's design, nature's patterns, New England, Quabbin Park, Quabbin Park Orchard Trail, western massachusetts, winter
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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
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
Posted in Landscape, Mountains, Nature Photography, Quabbin, Western Massachusetts
Tagged fog, fog filled valleys, foggy landscape, hills and valleys, landscape, Massachusetts, Mount Monadnock, New England, Quabbin, Quabbin Landscape, Quabbin Park, Quabbin Valley, western massachusetts, winter
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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.
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