Moving forward
Today’s two hour walk produced four decent pictures, one pair of destroyed pants, a wet person, tired dog, and an extremely frustrating and fruitless search for a (apparently lent and lost) book to ID the above right flower. I think it is some kind of toothwort, but don’t know which one. Help would be appreciated. Also seen above is the amputated pincer of a crayfish, the flower of a tree I don’t know (working on that as well–Sugar or Silver maple??) and below is the bud of a trillium. I need to get over the mania to name every flower, plant, tree, and bird I see. Seeing them should be enough. But I will continue the search for the missing book just the same.
Oh. Here’s another good one for you.
“To see a wren in a bush, call it ‘wren,’ and go on walking is to have (self-importantly) seen nothing. To see a bird and stop, watch, feel, forget yourself for a moment, be in the bushy shadows, maybe then feel ‘wren’ — that is to have joined in a larger moment with the world.” -Gary Snyder.
Not that I’m saying you name things without watching them. I just thought of that quotation when I read your other one.
Hmm. I stopped emailing you because I needed to work, and now where am I?
I think it is a cutleaf toothwort. Can’t be sure, without the actual plant and my Newcomb’s guide… but it looks exactly like one that I spent some time IDing in Ohio. Definitely a toothwort.
I also think it is a box elder, sorry to tell you. Although again, without the actual tree, I can’t be sure. But I spent some time sketching a box elder twig and it looked a lot like that.
And speaking of your need to name things, I was hoping you would know that little purple flower in my yard that I put a photo of in mine. But now I’ll have to do some research.
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