Sweet Beauty
Callicarpa americana is known as American Beautyberry, French Mulberry and Spanish Mulberry.
Callicarpa means beautiful fruit. The bush is not much to look at until these magenta beauties appear in early fall. The berries have been used for jelly and wine and are another favorite for wildlife.
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Mirror, Mirror
Mirror, mirror beneath my paw – I came, I meowed, and of the fairest, I saw.
Under Umbrellas
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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. 😊
Whispers
A light breeze whispers
A solitary leaf falls
Winter is coming
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There’s a chill creeping into the air. Be well, be safe, and happy new week!
Snacks
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Spurred Butterfly Pea
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.
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Small Dragons
Some moss and some bark
A chance meeting in the woods
Here, there be dragons
Size small, it is true
Imagination wanders
To when giants roamed
Be safe, be well, and happy new week!
Discoveries
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.
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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’s Sources:
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