morchella, dryland chicken, hickory fish, merkel, miracle, molly moocher, muggin, sponge mushroom. but sometimes its easy to get hung up on its initial phoneme, and just call it “mmmmmmmmmmmmm.”
morels
vadnais lake trail, saint paul, minnesota
our little baby robin is counting down the days to the end of her junior year. within days of the last day of class, she leaves for a scuba diving trip that she signed up for herself, paid for, and took classes for in order to get certified. she has never been underwater for more than about 30 seconds before, and now she will be hovering over reefs for hours. i love her intrepidity, but wish i could buy just a few more years with her in the nest with us.
robin’s egg
sucker lake regional trail, saint paul, minnesota
i just read that they are studying maple seeds to help find solutions for slowing down the descent of planetary probes in outer space. the twirling wing creates a leading edge vortex almost identical to the leading edge vortex created by the wings of hummingbirds and bats and other animals that can hover. that’s part of what i love about science. sometimes it’s inspired by the results of massive algorithms. sometimes by the backyard play of children.
boxelder seed
sucker lake regional trail, saint paul, minnesota
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This is such a tender, beautiful photo. It makes me think of healthy pink lungs of a newborn baby – not that I have ever seen any, just the way I imagine they look.
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we’ve been waiting all winter for our chance to grow some delicate new creative shoots. if only we could simply wait for the month of may, and let the process happen biologically like these balsam tips. instead we have to wait for july, and engineer the process manually, after economics, and education, and personal finance, and athletics, and technology have all been taken into account. sure it would be boring most days to be a balsam tree. but i can envy it that thoughtless and beautiful lime green growth, can’t i?
balsam branch with spring growth
saint paul, minnesota
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i love walking through the balsam forest in the spring. So fresh and fragrant.
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Thank you, every day I receive your Picture by RSS and it’s like a haiku (japanese poem) simple and so beautiful. Just need taking time to see the tiny things around us and it makes your day so wonderful. Thank you
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i have never looked at this many yellow goat’s beard flowers at one time before, and now i realize that, this whole time, they have been looking back at me. with wide stares, and, let’s not mince words, absolutely fantastic eyelash separation.
goat’s beard (aka western salsify) blooms
roadsidia along rice street, shoreview, minnesota
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WOW !!!
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