September 23, 2019 at 12:24 pm · Filed under Wildflower Related, Wildflowers: White ·Tagged Autumn, Autumnal Equinox, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, Upper West Side, West Village, Wildflowers
Autumnal Apiaceae . . .
Queen Anne’s Lace: Family Apiaceae
(NYC 09 2019)
Fall arrives late this year, the 23rd of September, on a sunny day as hot as July.
Although it doesn’t quite feel like it, day and night are in balance. Tomorrow begins the speedy transition to shorter days and fall season temperatures.
Meanwhile, the plant world remains green, for now, and the late season palate of white predominates among those still in bloom. The most visible examples are the broad umbels of the wild carrot, Queen Anne’s Lace, Daucus carota.
Living bouquet can be found in bloom throughout the NYC area along fences, beside lamp posts, and even sprouting from the spaces between the stone walls lining the Hudson River.
Lamp Post Bouquet
(NYC 09 2019)
— rPs 09 23 2019
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August 28, 2019 at 8:47 pm · Filed under Wildflowers: Blue, Wildflowers: Pink, Wildflowers: Purple, Wildflowers: White ·Tagged Manhattan, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, West Side, West Village, Wildflowers
Through the Fence . . .
Asiatic Dayflower:
Commelina communis
(NYC 08 26 2019)
Property shaped by fences is a reality in the developed and redeveloping city. A fence, though, not be just used to keep some thing or some one out. A fence can aso keep things contained in a sustained, unmolested zone of wild flowering green.
Bittersweet Nightshade:
Solanum dulcamara
(NYC 08 27 2019)
A blooming even so in August, the late last of the growing season, when the sun still hangs high over the region’s annual dry season.
Canada Thistle:
Cirsium arvense
(NYC 08 27 2019)
Sun, followed by a late afternoon shower that keeps the city parks in formal, and informal, flower.
Phytolacca americana
(NYC 08 28 2019)
This time of year it is pleasant to peek through the fence if on the other side there are wildflowers.
— rPs 08 28 2019
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July 31, 2019 at 5:02 pm · Filed under Wildflowers: Pink, Wildflowers: Purple ·Tagged heatwave, Manhattan, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, Thistle, Upper West Side, West Village, Wildflowers
High Celsius Circium . . .
Thistle: genus Cirsium
(NYC 07 2019
July has baked in an actual sense. Hot days, humid, sun bright and still. New York City heats.
Somewhat in the shadows, ar the base of some shade trees, both native and immigrant thistle species of human stature may be found in vigorus bloom on the green West Side of Manhattan.
High Celcius Circium . . .
— rPs 07 31 2019
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June 16, 2019 at 2:34 pm · Filed under Wildflower Books, Wildflower Related, Wildflowers: Blue, Wildflowers: Pink, Wildflowers: Purple, Wildflowers: Red, Wildflowers: White, Wildflowers: Yellow ·Tagged Bloomsday, James Joyce, Manhattan, New York City Wildflowers, Red Clover, Ulysses, West Village, Wildflowers
Bloomsday 2019 . . .
Trifolium pratense
Bloomsday on a Father’s Day Sunday, 2019 celebrates quite a packed, stacked, and weighty day for the wildflowers situated in sutu within a peak perlod of . . . bloom:
Chicorium
Chicory
(NYC 06 2019)
Malva
Mallow
(NYC 06 2019)
Brassica
Wild Mustard
(NYC 06 2019)
Solanum
Bittersweet Nightshade
(NYC 06 2019)
Circium
Canada Thistle
(NYC 06 2019)
ReJoyce and Enjoy!
(NYC 06 16 2019)
— rPs 06 16 2019
Postscript: Read WWV’s original Joycean odyssey here:
https://wildflowersofthewestvillage.com/2010/06/16/bloomsday/
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May 31, 2019 at 8:59 am · Filed under Wildflowers: Red, Wildflowers: Yellow ·Tagged Henry David Thoreau, Manhattan, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, Upper West Side, West Village, Wildflowers
Path and Pond . . .
Tulip Tree Flower
(NYC 05 2019)
Spring season stalwarts of the wildflower world are in full bloom throughoit the city as the month of May comes to a close.
Two of the most iconic can be found along two distinct spots: the shaded path and the sunny pond.
The park trail may well be lined by the subtle reds of the bushy wild red columbine, Aquilegia canadensis.
Aquilegia canadensis
(NYC 05 2019)
By the water, the full sun fuels the rich nectar of the wild iris Henry David Thoreau called the yellow flag, Iris pseudacorus.
Iris pseudacorus
(NYC 05 2019)
These are just two of the many wildflowers to be found flowering in the West Village and the rest of Manhattan during these salad days of spring. These living still lifes in situ make a great excuse for a walk in NYC’s park(s).
— rPs 05 31 2019
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May 1, 2019 at 12:28 pm · Filed under Wildflower Illustrations, Wildflower Related, Wildflowers: Yellow ·Tagged Dandelion, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Manhattan, May Day, New York, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, Spring, West Village, Wildflowers
May Day 2019 . . .
Lush Lawn Still Life: Taraxicum officinale
(NYC 05 2019)
Today, the first day of the fifth month, a century to the day after the Cleveland socialist riots, the set date of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s epic novella May Day.
“May Day!” — def: distress signal
Here. Now. Happiness. Everything green seems to be in bloom in the West Village along the verdant basalt bluffs of the Hudson River.
Winged Liberty “Mercury” dime minted in 1919.
Once in the pocket of F. Scott Fitzgerald?
(NYC 05 2019)
— rPs 05 01 2019
Postscript: Link to an online copy of “May Day” by F. Scott Fitzgerald:
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/May_Day_(Fitzgerald)/Chapter_I?fbclid=IwAR35fVS-XMY_htrkXtSPFV7YkhvRi5zvnkVG6_2NhO8uOyHRK-8Ezu5X8nw
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April 22, 2019 at 10:58 am · Filed under Wildflower Related, Wildflowers: Orange, Wildflowers: Pink ·Tagged Earth Day, Manhattan, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, Upper West Side, West Village, Wildflowers
Earth Day 49 . . .
The author of Philadelphia on the Fly celebrates Earth Day “by the book” . . .
(Planet Earth 04 22 2019)
Earth Day has reached the cusp of a human’s middle age. The planet remains older, larger, and more important than all of us people put together. Let us try, at least try, to be stewards and gardeners and protectors rather than mere users of our one and only green, white, and blue home.
Trout lily and others spring into being.
(04 2019)
Earth Day 2019.
— rPs 04 22 2019
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