There’s Moss . . .
Moss Blooms Green
(NYC 2019)
The green lining to the warmer days is a brief flowering of the moss, the bright green being the first kind of blooming to be seen in the West Village this new year.
Where There’s Moisture, There’s Moss
(NYC 01 2019)
— rPs 01 31 2019
Holiday Rosettes . . .
Dandelion, Taraxacum
(NYC 12 2018)
The artful symmetry of plants has compelled my lifelong interest in botany. When the winter season begins damp and mild, as this year’s has, one of the most attractive plant patterns may be seen: the basal rosette.
Plantain, Plantago
(NYC 12 2018)
The fundamental base of the plantain, burdock, and dandelion appear like giant green snowflakes on the moist lawns of Manhattan. The designs are artful, not unlike the rose windows of festive houses of worship.
Burdock, Arctium
(NYC 12 2018)
– rPs 12 30 2018
Autumn Greens . . .
November: Impressionist Greens (Lichen & Moss)
The language of autumn so often goes to “russet glows” and ‘the tang” conveyed by the leaves, shed, and drying to curls, colors bright of yellow, orange, and red leading to brown.
November, the fleeting, waning of an Equinox, allows a continuity to the growing season when as wet as has been this year. Look closer to see lingering to lushness of veins of rich green nestled within all this glowing russet bed.
Green in the the moss and the lichen feasting on some of the clearest damp air of the year.
Green is the onion grass bathed by the sunset, light framed and focused by a high line of underglowed cloud stretched across the horizon of the Hudson.
Wildflowers in the West Village.
— rPs 11 30 2018
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)
