Friday, March 15 - Skunk Cabbage Blooming!

            I am sure I have posted photos of this plant many times and many places and I am also sure I have at least 500 photos of this plant. Need I say that it is a favourite?

            The Skunk Cabbage is the first native flower of spring and always grows in very wet areas. This one, like many I have photographed, is in the RBG's Hendrie Valley. I always start looking for "blooms" in February. I know that it is blooming when I can put my finger inside the spathe and get yellow pollen.

            Just for the record, today was the first day since the first ice storm in February that I was able to walk in our meadow without worrying about slipping on the ice. The trails with trees on the south or on north facing slopes are still icy but out in the meadow I can walk easily. Yea!

Road Rebel 27 k Run from Brantford to Ancaster

            I was running support with my car and taking photos. I think the photos speak for themselves.

Goldenrod & Goldenrod Spider Display at RBG

            The Goldenrod & Goldenrod Spider display is finally up at the RBG. The reflections in the glass that they are behind are very distracting and nothing I could do in Photoshop could eliminate all of them but I did clean them up a little. Hope you can read most of the display.

            For those of you that forgot, this includes the goldenrod project I worked on last month.

Food, Snow, Ice-cycle

First attempt at a "French Style Dutch Baby Pancake".

        I like recipes that invite experimentation. This is one. I got the original from www.pardonyourfrench.com.

Snow and ice on a tall grass flowerhead.

This icicle turned into an ice-cycle due to the wind.

More Fleur-Ange Bird Photos