Winter Milkweed

- Aperture: ƒ/5.6
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Exposure bias: +3/10EV
- Focal length: 219.82mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/1000s
There is a large cattail marsh close to home full of these stately spires
Pearly Everlasting as winter begins and we wake up to garden frosts
The first cherries of the 2020 harvest are starting to ripen – the birds will be so pleased.
To the left Amelanchier canadensis and to the right a sour cherry tree just coming into blossom. The bench between is for morning coffee and pondering.
A huge magnolia tree outside my office window offered the perfect sight this evening as I went to close down the computer. Thank goodnes for tripods.
We have a stand of ornamental grasses in the garden that we leave through the winter as they have seeds for birds and hollow stems for insects to overwinter in. They will be cut down in a few weeks but this evening the low golden light lit up the seed feathers from within. Beautiful.
Found while out birding.
VERY similar to Common Oak Lichen which grows here, but in France this is collected commercially for fragrances that are used in perfumes.
As well as benefiting birds by providing seeds for food, leaving seed-heads to stand through the winter enables snow to form delightful “sculptures” for us to enjoy. A few months ago this was an inflorescence on a wild, carrot plant that was abuzz with insects.