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
Brown, White, and Blue . . .
Brown, White, and Blue
Brown, white, and blue fills out the flag of the season marked by low light and temperatures. Late autumn, the winter proper, and early spring together sing in a harmony of three colors on clear bright days.
American Pokeweed stands shriveled and tan with a few blackened clusters of berries still in grip.
American Pokeweed
12 12 2014
Asters of several varieties have browned and gone to seed in heads as white as frost.
Asters of New York
12 12 2014
Snow, a bit, marks the edges. December, a proper cold one in New York City, can still give the hiker or cross country runner gifts of discovery as long as fans of wildflowers respect and appreciate the full life cycle of urban species.
December: Two Species Together
– rPs 12 12 2014
Flowers Like Fireworks . . .
A Raceme like a Rocket: American Pokeweed (photo taken 07 04 2014)
American Pokeweed, Phytolacca americana, has begun to bloom in lush scattered patches in Riverside Park. The white flowers are displayed on racemes that resemble ascending rockets, or fireworks. This American native then makes an appropriate symbol for the holiday.
Happy 4th of July!
— rPs 07 04 2014
Wildflowers of the West Village 