After two weeks of legitimate winter, I’m ready for spring. Hasty, yes. But it’s slippery out. Here are a couple pictures around the old homestead taken during the spring in years past.
Crabapple fruit from the previous year
Sedum and Pin Oak Leaves
An old log
A nearby farm
Out in the woods behind my parents' house -- I'm not sure who pounded all these nails in this log, or why. You can see some of the early spring plants that carpet the forest floor below
Chinese lantern fruit in its husk
Washing the pulp off Chinese lantern seeds in a flour sifter, getting ready to help the lantern continue its nigh unstoppable rhizomatous spread in a new garden
Here’s something new I learned today. Chinese lantern is in the same genus as tomatillos (Physalis), a fact I should not have found as surprising as I did given that they share such similar seed covers, and probably other traits I hadn’t noticed. On that note, it would be fun to make a floral arrangement with both plants. I will try that this year if I can recover from the profound mental scarring caused by the college plant breeding experiment from hell, which prominently featured tomatillos.
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Very nice pictures, the spring is different throw your eyes!!!
Thank you! That was my hope, to capture slightly different pictures of spring.
Great photos!
Thank you!
I like the photo about lantern fruit.
Thanks!
That crabapple photo reminds me of a few sci-fi movies,
Oh funny, which ones?
One that quickly came to mind was Aliens. I don’t remember which one it is, but it’s the scene where they see the Queen Alien with all the eggs. The crabapple remind me of the hatched/opened alien eggs in that scene.
You have a great eye for photography :o) Good job as usual!