Blog

  • Today’s Shot 207

    Today’s Shot 207

    Mirror, Mirror

    Baby Vanya looking in the mirror
    Baby Vanya sees her reflection

    Mirror, mirror beneath my paw – I came, I meowed, and of the fairest, I saw.


    One – Liner Wednesday


    ©  Pilgrimage Studio
  • Color me Calm 3

    Color me Calm 3

    Under Umbrellas

    Frogs sheltering under flowers in the rain ​

    🖍 🎨 The Escapist Coloring Club 🖍 🎨

    It has rained a lot here and I liked the thought of frogs using these flower heads as their umbrellas. There were a few days I wished I was small enough to fit under a flower. 😊



    © Pilgrimage Studio
  • Today’s Shot 206

    Today’s Shot 206

    Whispers

    A single yellow fall leaf  on the forest floor

    A light breeze whispers

    A solitary leaf falls

    Winter is coming


    🍁Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD🍁


    There’s a chill creeping into the air. Be well, be safe, and happy new week!

    © Pilgrimage Studio
  • Today’s Shot 205

    Today’s Shot 205

    Late Bloomer

    Daisy Bloom
    Last Blooms

    🌻Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD🌻


    © Pilgrimage Studio
  • Today’s Shot 204

    Today’s Shot 204

    Snacks

    Leaves with holes eaten out of them
    Someone was Hungry

    🐛 Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD 🐛


    Be well, be safe, and happy foraging friends!

    ©  Pilgrimage Studio
  • Today’s Shot 203

    Today’s Shot 203

    Spurred Butterfly Pea

    Large Spurred Butterfly Pea Bloom
    Centrosema virginianum

    Centrosema virginianum, Spurred Butterfly Pea, Butterfly pea, Wild blue vine, Blue bell, or Wild pea is an herbaceous perennial. It is often confused with Clitoria mariana which is also called Butterfly pea. The difference is in the spur. With virginianum, you don’t see the long corolla tube like you see on the mariana.

    Telling the difference


    🌸 Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD🌸


    Be well, be safe, and happy foraging friends!

    © Pilgrimage Studio
  • Today’s Shot 202

    Today’s Shot 202

    Small Dragons

    Lizard on a tree

    Some moss and some bark

    A chance meeting in the woods

    Here, there be dragons

    Lizard poses in the moss

    Size small, it is true

    Imagination wanders

    To when giants roamed


    Be safe, be well, and happy new week!


    © Pilgrimage Studio
  • Today’s Shot 201

    Today’s Shot 201

    Discoveries

    Large yellow mushroom

    The forest floor was one discovery after another! We met so many mushrooms and then their sister and brother.

    From large to small – they were short and they were tall. I hope we meet many more this fall.

    🍁


    🍄Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD 🍄


    Be well, be safe, and happy weekend friends!

    © Pilgrimage Studio

  • Today’s Shot 200

    Today’s Shot 200

    Luna

    Large Luna moth
    Actias luna

    Dear Friends,

    I am counted along with the largest moth species in North America flying in with a wingspan of 3-4 inches. You might be surprised to know that as an adult, I don’t eat. I don’t have a digestive system and my mouth no longer has any useful function for eating. My only job by this age is to reproduce and I have a time limit of about a week – and then I die. I know that doesn’t sound very cheerful, but it’s just how I am, and I’m ok with that.

    Camouflage is the name of my game and I have more than one trick fluttering in my wings. For one, I blend into the leaves in the daytime which can make me a rare find in my natural habitat. For two, the tops of my wings look like twigs and my teardrop shapes look like buds, so I blend in with the branches of plants. My teardrops also look like eyes which can scare away predators like birds during the day. The third trick I posses is my tail. I need most of my protection at night when preditors hunt by sound or sonar. My ruffled tail creates an echo from all directions which can confuse preditors’ sonar (like bats) so that I can escape being their dinner.

    Thank you for reading a little about me.

    Sincerely, Luna the Moth

    Luna Moth

    Luna’s Sources:

    University of Washington

    Smithsonian Magazine

    Goddess of the Moon


    © Pilgrimage Studio
  • Today’s Shot 199

    Today’s Shot 199

    Green

    Large Green Leaves ​covering the forest floor

    The monster does mock

    Like grasping a hot handle

    Release, and let go


    🍃 Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD 🍃


    “Never forget the nine most important words of any family: I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.”

    H. Jackson Brown Jr.


    © Pilgrimage Studio