Monday, 30 April 2012

2,000 PAGEVIEWS

Thank You readers and viewers.
 As of April 29, 2012  we passed the 2,000th Pageview for this Blog.

Thursday, 26 April 2012

TRAILING ARBUTUS

FLOWER TRAILS

Trailing Arbutus Epigaea repens Heath Family Ericaceae



The flowers are spring food for the Spruce Grouse


Evergreen



Found in conifer to conifir-mixed stands.
Local Nipigon  - Tower Raod, on the sunny side.
Still snow on April 26,2012

In 1985 I started sketching wildflowers on the twenty-first of May. I learned that I had to get started earlier if I was going to catch the Trailing Arbutus in bloom or a Nodding Trillium  coming out of the earth.

As the snow goes from the woodlands the wildflowers start growing even before the ice under their roots melts.

Not everyone can or does walk in the bush at just the right time to see all the wildflowers in bloom. Most people have to see the plant in flower to know it, too. What I'd like to do in this series is to let you, the reader, know what Nature is hatching in the woods and maybe how to identify it. I am no expert. I just happen to have grown up loving wildflowers by their common names.

This spring and summer as you go off willingly or unwillingly on fishing trips and berry picking watch the flowers for an unfamiliar face. The challenge of identifying it will take your mind off the black flies and mosquitoes at least for a little while.

Friday, 6 April 2012

Transition

Makes all the difference blogging with a new browser. All parts work as they should. No more gripes.