Halloween Color . . .
Halloween Foliage: Somewhere in New York
(10 30 2018)
Perhaps the most iconic Halloween image is the bright orange pumpkin. Leaves of the sugar maple have a similar shade, and the wildflowers of the late autumn, if not ghost white, are a shade of yellow, gold, or Halloween orange.
Northern Bush-honeysuckle:
Diervilla lonicera
(NY 10 30 2018)
— rps 10 31 2018
September Contrast . . .
Rainy Day Salad: Dayflower, Lady’s Thumb, Pokeweed
(09 2018)
September, full of promise, and fast going.
The ninth month in New York City is often a gray and green temperate deluge, or else a sun, golden, set in a bluebird bright sky, high and dry.
One natural extreme, or the other, contrast with very little, an almost imperceptible, transition time if you get some sleep overnight.
Late-Summer Whites: Asters & Snakeroot
(09 2018)
— rPs 09 30 2018
Cinnamon Sighting(s) . . .
Cinnamon Chanterelle in the Rain
(08 2018)
Attractive, and edible, find small bright colonies around damp tree roots and other wooded areas.
Tiny Beauty
(08 2018)
Wild Fruits of the West Village . . .
Rhus coriaria
(NYC 07 2018)
The crabapple grove in the park is so much an orchard as the roadside strip of sumac bearing berries ripe for the making of cool drinks. Many of the fruiting trees are now heavy with their fruit.
Malus
(NYC 07 2018)
Ginkgo biloba
(NYC 2018)
Bloomsday 2018
Clover . . . Bloom.
(NYC 06 2018)
Today is June 16, the date immortalized in James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses, the day now come to be called . . .
Bloomsday.
– rPs 06 16 2018
Postscript: Read the full Bloomsday story from the WWV archives here: https://wildflowersofthewestvillage.com/2010/06/16/bloomsday/
Flores de Mayo . . .
Viola sororia
(NYC 05 06 2018)
Instant summer temperatures in the center heart of the spring season have made Manhattan bloom at the start of May.
Just a few days of sun and shower have combined to turn the blue, white, and brown tones of the cold season into a multicolored outdoor scene anchored in green:
Dandelion
Taxicum officinale
(NYC 05 06 2018)
Dead-nettle
Lamium purpureum
(NYC 05 06 2018)
English Plaintain
Plantago lanceolata
(NYC 05 06 2018)
Garlic Mustard
Alliarim petiolata
(NYC 05 06 2018)
And one for the late Gary Lincoff, mycologist, guide, and author, who left us in Manhattan on March 16th:
Order Agaricales: for Gary
(NYC 05 05 2018)
Memories remain as May flowers on the West Side of Manhattan.
— rPs 05 06 2018
Earth Day 48 . . .
A Good Sign
(NYC 04 22 2018)
Earth Day 48 in New York, New York: bright sun under a bluebird sky, air still chill, trees just in the mood to flower.
The open ground has begun to be graced, laced with a scattering of new blooms, some wild:
Blue
Scilla siberica
Gold
Ranunculaceae
Spring has certainly “felt late” this 2018. Clouded rain has dominated, interspersed by days, like today’s Earth Day, as bright as can be.
Bittercress Brassicaceae Bathed In Brightness
Happy Earth Day 48!
– rPs 04 22 2018
