Wildflower Wednesday Walk - September 18, 2024

 Jewelweed - The Hummingbirds like to hang out with this wildflower.

I did not see any today and think they may have begun their migration this week.

A purple wildflower - an aster I believe.

A large snapping turtle - always fun to see these big guys! 

Another view of the pond with a bit of fall showing.

Another 1 .6 miles walked today.

We saw Blue jays, Catbirds, Cardinals, and several squirrels and chipmunks.

And the groundhog and a cat was at our favorite coffee drinking spot.

Wildflowers and Wings

                                        Kind hearts are the gardens, 

Kind thoughts are the roots, 
Kind words are the flowers, 
Kind deeds are the fruits,
 Take care of your garden 
And keep out the weeds, 
Fill it with sunshine 
Kind words and kind deeds

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Jewelweed Embrace

 Instead of bracing yourself for the perils of the unknown, embrace the joy that is here, in your present moment. 

- Michelle Cruz-Rosado

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Jewelweed After The Rain

“Outside the open window

The morning air is all awash with angels.”

― Richard Wilbur

———-

Jewelweed after the rain.

Hummingbird Ballet in the Jewelweed

"Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.” 

- John Lubbock

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Hummingbird in the Jewelweed

"Life is a voyage of discovery." 

 ~ Unknown

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This Art was created from my original photograph

taken  along the Huckleberry Trail

in Blacksburg,Virginia.  

After An Autumn Rain

Never take anything for granted.  

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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Wildflower Art - Jewelweed

"None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones." 

 - Forbes Watson

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Jewelweed

And 't is my faith, 

that every flower 

 Enjoys the air it breathes. 

- William Wordsworth

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I read that jewelweed is an "all-natural" poison ivy treatment and is good for mosquito bites too. 

Apparent Silence

Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Another Wildflower for ID - I believe this one is Spotted Jewelweed.

Linking with Macro Monday 

After the Rain

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth;  without rain, there would be no life.
~ John Updike


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