The Neighborhood Revisited
August 6, 2023
The last time this blog featured photographs taken in my neighborhood was February 23. Here are some photos taken between then and July 20.
1 The first three photos show what I see when I look out my back window in the rain.
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4 This crabapple tree is flowering on the island of Island Pond.
5 This and the next photograph fall in the category of photographs I don’t take.
6 But some sunsets are irresistable.
7 As many of you know, I don’t photograph flowers either, even crabapple flowers (cf. #4).
8 The willow on the edge of Meadow Pond always looks best to me when it is beginning to leaf out.
9 Surrounded by woods, Green Pond often offers good reflections and companionable tree branches . . .
10 . . . as it did on this day.
11 The Buttonbush Vernal Pool was filled with water in early spring.
12 Soon last year’s cattails would be replaced by new green shoots.
13 Meanwhile, decorated with duckweed, the old ones served my purpose.
14 Queen Anne’s Lace grows in abundance in our neighborhood.
15 Iris leaves lie down after a spring rain.
16 I caught these hosta leaves through a window with my iPhone.
17 I remembered this grass from childhood but never knew its name. It took an internet search of hours to find it: Hordeum jubatum, also known as foxtail barley, bobtail barley, squirreltail barley, and intermediate barley. What satisfaction to finally know.
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