Bright White Water Lily

Blueberries Ready To Pick

Spiny And Beautiful

Pink Water Lily In Contrast To It’s Green Pads

Striking Water Lily Glistening Above The Pond

Vibrant Iris Glowing In The Sun

Majestic Purple Reign

Stunning Bush Bloom In Spring Sun

We have enjoyed a warm spring with beautiful sunny days. Plants are blooming early and pushing amazing blooms out. This bush produced stunning blooms.  Enjoy!

Delicate, Beautiful, Spring Wildflower

While enjoying a beautiful spring walk, I came across this delicate wildflower.

Seeds Expended All Dried Up In The Winter Air

The former bloom became a seed head and expended all of its seed to the atmosphere around it. Over winter it has dried. Its structure is a thing of beauty and wonder.

The Cocklebur Is Nature’s Velcro

The Cocklebur’s are dry and ready to attach to anything that brushes up against them. This seed pod disintegrates as you try and detach from it – assuring a great seed spread.

Decomposing Cattail In Marsh Land

The seeds of this cattail are long dispersed and now the cattail flower is breaking down. The density of the stamens in this flower are amazing. When all of the other flowers are long gone, the cattail still stands.

Seeds About To Go Airborne

Hundreds of seeds about to go airborne.

Spray Of Milkweed Seeds About To Launch

I happen to catch a large area of milkweed plants whose seed pods were dried enough to launch their contents. The large silky spray of seeds were just ready to leave this pod. The photo was taken on a windy fall day – it was quite challenging to stop action on this subject while it was within lens center!

Millions Of Seeds Poised To Launch

These wind dispersed seeds are many in number but the quantity that actually germinate and become adult plants will be few. In God’s design for this, the plant knows to make many seeds so that it’s species will continue to have offspring.

Virginia Ctenucha Moth On A Milkweed Bloom

A Virginia Ctenucha Moth was discovered on a Milkweed bloom. Many thanks to the “Bug Man” for identifying this critter. If you have interest in learning more about this winged fellow – you can read about him here.

Bold and Beautiful Hydrangea Bloom in Purple Tones

This bold and beautiful Hydrangea bloom stood out from its surrounding green foliage. It has purple tones come from being in alkaline soil. Their beauty is weighed with the fact that they contain cyanogenic glycosides or more commonly referred to as the poison cyanide and would be harmful to anyone or animal who consumed any part of the plant or flower.