It can be downright depressing just how quickly the details of springtime bud, blossom, and bust. Throughout winter we anticipated the flowering of mountain laurel, peach, vetch, yucca, or spider wort, and then one spring day we find the flowers already mature and some of them fading. Depressing, the rate of change across a limestone hillside or in the wet sands of a creekside.
"Although not a true buckeye, it is so called because of the similar large capsules and seeds. This distinct plant, alone in its genus, commemorates Baron Ferdinand von Ungnad, Austrian ambassador at Constantinople, who introduced the Horsechestnut into western Europe in 1576." (Thanks to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center for their amazing Native Plant Database for sufficient information to identify and learn about this plant. http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=unsp)
A Mexican buckeye (Ungnadia speciosa Endl.) near the pond, though
many have been seen all the way up Whitman's Rough.
many have been seen all the way up Whitman's Rough.
"Although not a true buckeye, it is so called because of the similar large capsules and seeds. This distinct plant, alone in its genus, commemorates Baron Ferdinand von Ungnad, Austrian ambassador at Constantinople, who introduced the Horsechestnut into western Europe in 1576." (Thanks to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center for their amazing Native Plant Database for sufficient information to identify and learn about this plant. http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=unsp)
The cricket frogs will seek a landing on her feet
just as soon as they will take to a raft of algae or sunny a stone.
Pumped and hosed water for a fruit tree.
Blackberry.
Thanks to Ben and Emily for a beautiful visit, with plenty of wise advice and a swim in the pond.
Pond level down two inches.
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