American Bog, Swamp and Wetland Plants
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It's been over a year since frost first appeared.
This is one of the pictures I took on the first day I used my new camera. At dawn, I went to a lake to see sunrise. Steam was coming off of the surface of the lake. Frost formed across the field surrounding the lake. Then I went to a nature park for hiking. The frost didn't melt for a while. In this picture, you see yellow foliage, a metal fence, and a frosty lawn in the background. My fingers and feet were numb with cold. I couldn't help going ahead because the frosty sight was beautiful under sunshine.
P.S., This picture was taken on the second weekend of October instead of November. I had my camera mistakenly set the date for a month during the first few weeks of use.
The Latin name of bog asphodel, ossifragum, literally translates as 'bone-breaker'. This unassuming plant acquired this violent name because it was believed that the livestock that grazed on it got brittle bones. However, it was actually the calcium-poor pastures that caused the problem.
Une photo pour la scène pas la beauté, et difficile à prendre j'ai dû marcher un bon bout dans la tourbière et me suis tenu loin pour ne pas les déranger. A photo for the scene not the beauty, and difficult to take I had to walk a good in the bog and stayed away so as not to disturb them.
Randring-Perlmutterfalter / Boloria eunomia, .... noch sehr früh morgens diesen schönen Falter an seinem Schlafplatz gefungen
an idea Ephran came up with ages back and we only managed to get photos just the other night.
its out of my norm of pretty faces ....but Ephran has a great eye for detail and a wonderful imagination, so i don't hesitate when he wants to dress me up !
He mostly played with the photography, but i did one shot of my own.
Thank you for a wonderful night of your company Eph.
<3
This looks like all solid land but it is actually a bog. It is so thick that I can walk on it without falling through. You can feel the squishy nature of it though. :D
I hope everyone enjoys this image! :D
New Forest, Hampshire
Our smallest orchid, these were little more than an inch high and incredibly hard to spot
Flower detail, New Forest, Hampshire
Our smallest orchid, the flowers are just a few millimetres across
Ferds Bog is located on the south edge of the Pigeon Lake Wilderness Area located in the southwestern corner of the Adirondack Park.
I haven't posted any bird shots for a while, so here's one from the late winter archives. It's a Sandhill Crane, photographed at Volo Bog State Natural Area, in Lake County, Illinois.
Not sure what these are but clumps of these large, yellow standouts abound in marshy areas. Eye-catching indeed. There was a time when I would have taken the time to research the species but I'm getting too for this kind of scholarship anymore...;-)