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Siempre se echa de menos a la gente que quieres cuando no está, luego hay días especiales donde esa falta se vuelve un recuerdo continuo, sobre todo el primer año.
Una imagen de las que le gustaban para intentar compensar la falta de sus llamadas, cada año, entonando perfectamente el cumpleaños feliz para mi.
The residents of a beaver lodge have been busy building a dam on Cecilia Creek.
Seminary Wood in Decatur Legacy Park
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
15 March 2025.
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Raindrops bring New Life and Universal Joy
to everything they touch.
(Jeffrey Favero)
Looking close... on Friday! - Spring Flora
Colorful Nature - Orange/Yellow Thursday
(photo by Freya)
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New spring growth on a loblolly pine tree.
Freedom Park (connector trail)
Atlanta (Inman Park), Georgia, USA.
27 April 2024.
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Native red splendor, in...
DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
15 May 2022.
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▶ Spigelia marilandica —Indian Pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Worm grass— is a is a perennial wildflower [in the Loganiaceae family], found in moist, open forests [of the eastern US]. Spigelia marilandica has a cluster of several flowers composed of a red corolla tube which flares open with 5 narrow, pointed, greenish-yellow lobes. It flowers in June, attracting hummingbirds. It is rarely taller than about 30 inches. Poisonous.
— Wildflowers of the United States.
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A tiny chervil wildflower, blooming in...
Trailhead Park of the East Decatur Greenway
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
10 April 2025.
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☞ This is a closeup. These tiny blossoms —maybe ⅒ inch wide (¼ cm)— appear much larger in this image than they did in 'real' life.
☞ Can a fellow Flickr-er identify exactly which species of chervil this is? Southern chervil (Chaerophyllum tainturieri), perhaps?
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Whilst visiting friends in Malvern I was walking past a garden and chanced upon an ornamental "Coccinella" apple blossom tree that had sprung into an early cloud of delicate pink and white blooms. It had rained a little earlier in the morning, so the blossoms were covered in a spray of raindrops which glinted in the sunlight.
The "Coccinella" is a hardy variety of ornamental apple tree that blooms profusely in reddish-pink and white blossoms. The flower apple tree is a magnificent ornamental tree that can be a real feature in any garden as it changes dramatically as seasons come and go. So not is only a delight in spring when it sends forth a 'frou-frou' of blossom, but is also one of the most beautiful trees in autumn.
At the beginning of spring, pink and carmine red buds appear on the ornamental apple tree. The color then changes to shift to variations of pure white, pink or red as the blooming evolves. At the end of the blooming season, the foliage covers the entire space, with its distinctive deep green that will turn to orange red in autumn. At the end of summer, small red, orange and yellow apples appear on the tree for the most part of winter.
Whereas ox-eye daisies sprout in late summer, it's the fleabane daisies (Erigeron annuus) that spring up now, in early spring!
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
7 April 2025.
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Yellow iris, growing in the wild, on the banks of...
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
20 April 2022.
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Cascades of Burnt Fork Creek...as seen from a century-old granite pedestrian bridge along the South Peachtree Creek Trail.
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
29 April 2025.
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Eastern Bluestar, blooming wild, alongside the...
Decatur (Old Depot District), Georgia, USA.
4 April 2021.
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▶ "Amsonia tabernaemontana, Eastern Bluestar is an herbaceous perennial that is native to the American South and north up to Illinois. It grows to about 3 feet in height and displays clusters of blue star-shaped flowers that bloom in the spring. It is a member of the Dogbane family which means your dog won’t like this plant. However, hummingbirds and various bees, moths, and butterflies will."
— Prairie Moon.
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Bucolic riffles on Shoal Creek West Tributary.
City of Decatur (Midway Woods), Georgia, USA.
20 April 2024.
▶ Another view, downstream: here.
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Native "hairy spiderwort" wildflower, blooming in...
Trailhead Community Park, of the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
5 May 2024.
▶ See a furled bud: here.
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▶ "Tradescantia hirsuticaulis — commonly called hairy spiderwort — is a species of plant in the dayflower family (Commelinaceae) that is native to south-central United States. It is frequently found in thinly wooded deciduous forests, plains, prairies, and healthy fields, often alongside other native wildflowers.
Tradescantia grows 1-2 feet tall (30–60 cm). It is a perennial that produces purple or blue flowers in the spring on herbaceous stems. Each spiderwort flower bud blooms for a single day, hence the 'family' name. Each flower has many buds that help the plant appear in flower for many weeks from early April through late June.
The common name 'spiderwort' refers to the sap which dries into web-like threads when a stem is cut; the common name 'hairy,' because of the hair-like filaments surrounding the stamens."
— Wikipedia.
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Look down! It's a tiny, native 'weed' with a sublime name —"Small Venus' Looking-Glass"— seen blooming alongside a sidewalk.
City of Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
6 May 2024.
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▶ "Triodanis perfoliata — commonly known as Clasping bellflower, Clasping bellwort, or Small Venus' looking-glass — is a small, annual flowering plant belonging to the bellflower family (Campanulaceae), native to North and South America (from Canada to Argentina). It grows in prairies, along the edges of woods and rocky outcrops, and in disturbed soil, such as roadsides [and sidewalks!].
Triodanis perfoliata grows to a height of 4-18 inches (10–46 cm). On the upper part of the stem, the plant produces bell-shaped five-petaled flowers, approximately ½ inch or less across (1.3 cm), that range in color from blue-violet to pink-purple to lavender, with a white center. There are also flowers on the lower part of the stem but they do not open. These are cleistogamous — automatic self-pollinators that produce seeds."
— Wikipedia.
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
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Tall, upright white wild indigo wildflowers are among the first native plants of the spring season to bloom in the Trailhead Community Park, on the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
15 April 2023.
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▶ Baptisia alba —commonly called white wild indigo or white false indigo— is a herbaceous, perennial plant in the pea family, Fabaceae, native to central and eastern North America, growing in grasslands, favoring moist soils, and typically 2 to 4 feet tall (0.61 to 1.2 m).
White, pea-like flowers occur from a long spike inflorescence [cluster of flowers arranged on a stem], and bloom from April to July, earlier in the southern part of the range. Leaves have an alternate arrangement, and are trifoliate [three-parted], narrow, and oblong. Clusters of large, black seedpods often remain attached to the naked winter stems. Bumblebees pollinate the flowers. The plant can be fatal to cows and irritating to humans, if ingested.
— Wikipedia.
— Lady Bird Johnson Wildlife Center.
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Pungent aroma and brilliant color, but...a weed? Wild garlic, blooming, in...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
27 May 2023.
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▶ "Allium vineale —commonly known as wild garlic, onion grass, crow garlic, or stag's garlic— is a perennial, bulb-forming species of wild onion in the genus Allium and family Amaryllidaceae (amaryllis). It is native to Europe, northwestern Africa, and the Middle East. The species has been introduced in Australia and North America, where it has become a noxious weed.
All parts of the plant have a strong garlic odour. The underground bulb is 0.4 to 0.8 inches in diameter (1–2 cm). The main stem grows 1 to 4 feet tall (30–120 cm), comprising a number of small red bulbils (exterior bulbs) with a few pinkish-green flowers, 3⁄32 to 3⁄16 inches long (2.5 to 4.5 mm)."
— Wikipedia.
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A bearded iris (Iris × germanica), blooming in a garden.
DeKalb County (Northlake), Georgia, USA.
22 April 2025.
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Don't call it a weed: it's bloomin' orchard grass!
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
24 April 2025.
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▶ "Dactylis glomerata — commonly known as cock's-foot, orchard grass, or cat grass — is a species of flowering plant in the grass family (Poaceae). It is a perennial tufted grass native throughout most of Europe, temperate Asia, and northern Africa, widely used for hay and forage, and naturally found in meadows, pastures, roadsides, and rough grassland. It has been introduced into North America, New Zealand, and Australia, and is now widely naturalised.
Dactylis glomerata grows in dense perennial tussocks [clumps] to ½ to 4½ feet tall (20–140 cm) with a distinctive tufted triangular flowerhead, 4-20 inches long (10–50 cm), either green (in shade) or red- to purple-tinged (in full sun). The plant is also known as cat grass due to its popularity for use with domestic cats."
— Wikipedia.
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Native wild white indigo (Baptisia alba), blooming in the...
Trailhead Community Park of the East Decatur Greenway
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
7 May 2025.
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Looking Close... on Friday! Spring Flora theme.
It's taken me a while to identify this one but I think it's right, feel free to correct me if you know better. 😊
Over the dun hill,
A tree comes into blossom.
A moment recursive
In Brigid's turn.
City of Atlanta (Candler Park), Georgia, USA.
21 March 2025.
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📷 Photographer's note:
Here — at the Candler Park Municipal Golf Course— the Stone Mountain Trail (managed by the PATH Foundation) and the Freedom Park Trail (managed by the Freedom Park Conservancy) converge along the same route.
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Tall, yellow ragwort wildflowers, growing abundantly in the wetlands of Glenn Creek in early spring.
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
22 March 2024.
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▶ "Packera anonyma — commonly known as Small's Ragwort, Appalachian Ragwort, Southern Ragwort, Plain Ragwort — is a wildflower in the aster family (Asteraceae), native to much of the eastern United States, south of New England.
Small's Ragwort flourishes in habitats that are wet during the winter and dry in summer and is one of the first native flowers to bloom in abundance, beginning in March and continuing into June. The ray and disc flowers are bright yellow, 8-15 rays per flower. The plant grows up to 3 feet tall (1 m)."
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
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▶ Seen on the purple-blazed Three Creeks Trail: one in a "labyrinth of soft-surfaced trails" in and around a 120-acre Piedmont forest in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. The trail connects Ira B. Melton Park to the larger Mason Mill Park. The three creeks of the trail's name are Glenn Creek, Burnt Fork Creek, and South Fork Peachtree Creek; the first two are tributaries of the third.
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A trio of rue-anemones blooms along the South Fork Peachtree Creek.
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
26 March 2025.
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▶ "Thalictrum thalictroides (syn. Anemonella thalictroides) —commonly known as rue-anemone or windflower— is a herbaceous perennial plant in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae), native to woodland in eastern North America. It has white or pink flowers surrounded by a whorl of leaflets with many yellow stamens in the middle."
— Wikipedia.
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Butterfly milkweed wildflowers, blooming in a native plant pollinator garden.
Trailhead Community Park , of the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
1 June 2024.
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▶ "Asclepias tuberosa —commonly known as butterfly weed— is a species of milkweed in the dogbane family (Apocynaceae), native to eastern and southwestern North America.
Asclepias tuberosa is a perennial plant growing to 3½ feet tall (1 m). Flowers appear from April to September, in umbels [short flower stalk with umbrella-like ribs] of orange, yellow, or red, ½ wide (1.5 cm), each with five petals and five sepals. Butterflies are attracted to the plant by its color and its copious production of nectar" [hence the plant's common name].
— Wikipedia.
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▶ Native plant pollinator garden
"Pollinator species such as insects, birds, lizards, and mammals are crucial to our food production. About 75% of US food-crops depend on these pollinators. Pollinator gardens support and maintain native pollinators by supplying pollen and nectar using a variety of native plants [such as milkweed], depending on the location and the natural pollinator species of the area."
— East Decatur Greenway plaque.
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A yellow flag iris (Iris pseudacorus), blooming wild on Burnt Fork Creek, in...
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
12 April 2025.
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Blue lyreleaf sage, blooming wild, in...
DeKalb County (Northlake), Georgia, USA.
9 April 2022.
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▶ "Salvia lyrata —commonly known as lyreleaf sage— is an herbaceous perennial in the mint family (Lamiaceae) and native to the eastern and central United States. It may grow 1 to 2 feet tall, with leaves that originate at the base of the stem. Each basal leaf [arising from the base of the plant.] is lobed like a lyre, hence the species name, and lavender flowers occur in rings around the stem from mid-spring to early summer, attracting butterflies."
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension
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Common grape hyacinths (Muscari atlanticum), blooming —wild and untended— in the shade of an oak tree.
Atlanta (Candler Park), Georgia, USA.
21 March 2025.
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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ This is a closeup. These small hyacinth blossoms —about 6 inches high (15 cm) and 3 inches wide (7½ cm)— appear much larger in the image than they did in 'real' life.
☞ According to NC State Extension, the plant recently has been reclassified from Muscari neglectum to Muscari atlanticum.
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Wild red clover: a most gorgeous and valuable 'weed.'
Trailhead Community Park of the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
28 April 2023.
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▶ "Trifolium pratense — commonly known as red clover— is a herbaceous species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae. It is native to Europe, Western Asia, and northwest Africa, but has been naturalized in many other regions, such as North and South America.
☞ Trifolium pratense grows 8 to 31 inches tall (20–80 cm). The flowers are dark pink with a paler base, 0.5 to 0.6 inches long (12–15 mm), produced in a dense inflorescence [cluster of flowers arranged on a stem], attractive to bumblebees.
☞ Tolerant to drought, Trifolium pratense is widely grown as a fodder crop, valued for its nitrogen fixation, which increases soil fertility and promotes protein rich growth, and enables it to support a wide range of wildlife including deer, turkeys, and rabbits. Its flowers and leaves are edible."
— Wikipedia.
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Look down! It's pink, on the banks of...
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
19 June 2021.
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▶ "Rhexia mariana (aka Maryland Meadow Beauty, Pale Meadow Beauty) is a small genus of about 13 species, all of them in North America, and is the only genus in the Melastome family found on the continent outside of southern Florida.
Rhexia is mostly a genus of the southeastern United States, with only two species found north of Virginia. Rhexia mariana is one of those two, ranging as far north as Michigan and New York. It has four pale pink petals (white in var. exalbida) and prominent stamens with long yellow anthers."
— Wildflowers of the United States.
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— Focal length: 25.0 mm
— Aperture: ƒ/5.6
— Shutter speed: 1/200 sec.
— ISO: 200
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection.
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An outdoor shot from me for once. This was taken at the bottom of my garden, which I appreciate more with each passing day.
It was so moving yesterday to see, and hear, everyone around me come to their doors at 8pm to applaud our wonderful NHS and thank them for everything they're doing for us. And now, this morning, we've just heard that our Prime Minister has tested positive for Covid-19. Look after yourselves, everyone.
For this week's Looking Close... on Friday! group theme, Spring flora.
A red poppy (Papaver rhoeas) blooms in an urban wildflower meadow.
City of Clarkston, Georgia, USA.
13 May 2025.
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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R.
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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