Nature

What we did last summer

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Last August 20th, Mark Galvin and I painted the cover to the drain in the pond at Harwill Acres. (The county required our homeowners association to do this, indirectly as part of protecting the Chesapeake Bay.) Mark did the side using a borrowed canoe, and I did the top from the bridge. I documented the adventure with Mark’s iPhone:

Mayapple

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The Mayapple plants suddenly popped up about a week ago, in patches, here and there in the woods. This is the patch near the woodpile. Will keep an eye open for any flowers.

Bluets?

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Didn’t Wena call them bluets? We’ll have blankets of these soon, mostly in shady places on the lawn, but this is the first patch so far. Sometimes in the past I’ve been moved to mow around them. These are under the swing, where there’s not much grass left to mow anyway. Who knows what their real name is?

Eastern Redbud

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Beyond the forsythia, in the woods, see a patch or two of purple?

There’s redbud in bloom throughout the woods near us now, and along many roadsides. It’s a favorite sign of spring, but it doesn’t last long, and I’ve been finding it camera-shy.
Wikipedia reference: Cercis canadensis

Magnolias finished

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We still have one or two left . . .
 

 
. . . but after their glorious peak, it’s only a few days until most of the petals look like this:
 

 
Still, we shouldn’t shed a tear. With a little luck, there’ll be even more next year.