spontaneous explosion
sunflowers and goldenrod are not the only golden yellow flowers of late summer. jewelweed is also doing its part. preferring the creek-sides and bottomlands instead of the open fields and roadsides. see those seed pods? while i was snipping these flowers off their stems, one of the seed pods spontaneously exploded, releasing a dozen green seeds. that was a new experience.i love being on nature time.
jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
I loved walking through my woods in upstate New York and set off a bombardment of “touch me nots” as they were called there
Oh Wow! I just learned something new.I didn’t not know they were called touch me nots. How fun!
They look like little families.
A previous neighbor once told me that she and her sister would hook these flowers into their ears and pretend they were earrings. Makes sense, considering the name “jewelweed”.