horsetail at the tail end of winter

since today is sort of a bonus day, a free extra day in the year, i decided to post this “extra” photo. i took the photo on my iphone this week while on my daily walk. it’s an interesting photo. and it almost meets my STILL blog standards, with the white snow providing the right backdrop, the horsetail serving as a worthy subject, and the composition just a little bit arresting in an interesting way. where it falls short is in sheer image quality, lighting, and pixel resolution. on a normal february day, i might not have posted these curious winter stems. but today, on february 29, i’m just going to take the leap.

winter horsetail (Equisetum)

p.s. i have shared this before…but i still find it so interesting i am going to share it again. from wiki:

“Equisetum is a “living fossil”, the only living genus of the entire class Equisetopsida, which for over 100 million years was much more diverse and dominated the understory of late Paleozoic forests.”