Ides of March 2019 . . .
Liquidambar styraciflua
(NYC 03 2019)
for New Zealand
Quiet,
Silence.
Riot,
Violence.
Lost cause.
Lost mosques.
Christchurch;
We search.
Gentle
Islands;
We are
Crying.
“Kai su,
Teknon.”
— rPs 03 15 2019
Posts Tagged Upper West Side
Ides of March 2019
Lichen the Weather
Lichen the Weather . . .
Lichen in Bloom
(NYC 02 24 2019)
Punxsutawney Phil predicted on February 2nd an early spring. He has been correct but for two spells of clear, cold artic gale.
The freeze left behind the windswept spells softens after just a day or two of damp, soft rain warm enough to compell the morning doves to coo.
The air is crisp, damp, clean, and cool enough for the lichen to flower in the West Village. Ground level, too, starts to stir, sprout, and shoot.
Sprouts
(NYC 02 2019)
Shoots
(NYC 02 2019)
Winter Spring: a new subseason?
— rPs 02 27 2019
There’s Moss
There’s Moss . . .
Moss Blooms Green
(NYC 2019)
January can be a month of peaks and valleys in terms of temperature. 2019 has been no exception. One day was damp and in the 50s, a few days later, there was gusting wind and single digits.
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
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
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
September Contrast
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 Sighting(s) . . .
Cinnamon Chanterelle in the Rain
(08 2018)
Cinnamon Chanterelle (Cantharellus cinnabarinus), quite an unexpected appearance, has popped up here and there, no doubt because of the incessant rainfall on the the West Village.
Attractive, and edible, find small bright colonies around damp tree roots and other wooded areas.
Tiny Beauty
(08 2018)
— rPs 08 31 2018
