Some more cinnamon ferns. Closely related to the very similar royal ferns. The cinnamon color is the spores.
Series of spider webs from early this morning.
The misty pine savanna with webs speckled throughout.
The flowers are just starting on the pitcher plants. By the time the pollen is gone the leaves will have been fully developed and their death traps set as empty flowers lure in prey.
Uhyre my cat almost passed out while we were watching Higurashi.
The misty pines photos are gorgeous, the first one especially.
Thanks for these beautiful photos.
Nice to get a glimpse of your … familiar, the kitty. But I’m with Dale about those misty pine ve tree pics.
I like the pine savannas a lot when it’s misty too. The most creates this ghostly white background and plenty of light still gets through because there are few beaches in slash and longleaf pines and so they are just these very dark vertical shapes within. With all the birds singing too it was just a great and much needed short 30-45 minute hike.
Hard to decide if these go in this or the humor thread. It’s a beautiful spring day here in MI. Only windy. No sleet or rain. Here are a few highlights;
I call this masterpiece: Still Life with Fruit and Stink Bug
I dedicate it to @LM77.
Haha, the garden of weedin … aren’t they all (to some degree)?
A friend has a nice garden in Danville. When you enter the garden from the northside side gate there is a sign over the gate that says “Garden of Eatin’”. It opens onto a patio with tables and chairs.
I’m actually surprised how green and springy you are. I once accompanied my wife to see a show she was in at the Wavehill garden. It was probably in March and after reading about it I was very excited to see it. Turned out that it had not yet rebounded from sitting under snow that winter. It was so mucky that I felt cheated. (I’m so spoiled!) There were still many features to be admired but I don’t feel I’ve really seen it yet. Guess we’ll just have to get back there if the plague ever lets up enough.
Your friends garden sounds delightful.
We haven’t been hit by some of the really nasty, blustery rain we can get in the spring. Some years it’s 3 solid weeks of gloom with stinging, bone-chilling rain. Just some beautiful snow the other week. That has more time to sink in the dirt, without making huge messes of mud. It rained a bit though this evening. Maybe still now. That’s REAL March weather.
It’s amazing, when we get mid-winter melts what all has been growing all winter under the snow. Peonies, grass, bulbs, day-lillies. It’s really pretty incredible how tough and determined these plants are. And little wooly bears that had burrowed into the snow get exposed. Poor little dudes.
I looked around the yard today to see, if I could locate any of the “new” daffodils I planted last fall from huge balls I split up. Like a squirrel, I bury them and then forget where. Somewhere in the yard…
Spring colors in MI are brown-black, dirt-snow, black-brown, vivid dark green, bleached straw, cerulean, pale gray, and hits of red and pale chartreuse. Traditional Easter decorations were not designed here.
I’m not sure what a wooly bear might be. Maybe a caterpillar?
My friend with the Garden of Eatin’ is a Christian and even older than me. He had played center on the UC Berkeley Cal Bears basketball team back in the day, so quite tall. Since I organize garden visits for the group (and he was the treasurer for quite a while) he had to tell me some of us have somewhere to be on Sundays. So I made it half each Saturdays and Sundays after that. While visiting his garden one year I remarked on how much Lia admired Japanese maples. So he he disappeared and reappeared with big seedling in a 5 gallon bucket. He has seen it growing in my garden where I asked him if he’d like to see Baby Carl. He was pleased with its progress and its name. This a picture I took of it this week looking good as it comes back into leaf. Afraid I’m not clever enough to post it with bb code from my phone so this is a link.
Finally, true art! 
Here, the high temperatures are (as per the usual for March) alternating (with fronts) between 50s and 70s. Most local trees have budded.
Sounds plenty pleasant. So depending on altitude and how far from the ocean I imagine you can still get snow in winter. We did when we lived in Maryland near DC. I don’t think the nearness to the ocean or a bay means as much on the East coast as on the West. Since this is the only place in the US where a Mediterranean climate occurs.
We were in South Carolina for the big eclipse a few years back. Pretty country.
Here’s an internet picture of a woolly bear.
If one dares to pick them up, they will usually ball up. When they walk, they feel like little tooth brushes moving along. But I understand they overheat quickly, so it’s not good to hold them long. I usually hold them long enough to hide them under some dead leaves for cover, when I find them exposed.
What part of the world are you in? Sounds a bit south of me.
We are in the middle of the next big eclipse, 2025, I think. May have to have a party, if still around.
You are right! On the West side, we had ice and snow till this week’s warm snap
Cool. I’m not sure what part of Texas you’re in. Now if that eclipse would just align with wildflower season a trip would become absolutely mandatory… assuming as you say we are still organic.
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