{"id":3730,"date":"2013-05-17T06:07:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T10:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=3730"},"modified":"2013-05-17T06:07:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T10:07:23","slug":"wildflowers-in-the-yard-spring-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=3730","title":{"rendered":"Wildflowers in the Yard: Spring at Last!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I still have lots of birds to share from my trip to The Biggest Week in American Birding, but I feel compelled to celebrate the late but inevitable arrival of spring in Southern Maine. My wife has been working in the yard, planting and transplanting flowers, but I was mostly interested in the volunteers…the wildflowers of my mossy yard. Spring Beauty is always there, but the clumps this year seem bigger. And I caught a bonus Hoverfly at work in this clump.<\/p>\n

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The Dog-tooth Violets are blooming in every woodlot, and are even more lush in our sunny yard.<\/p>\n

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Then you have the Wild Strawberry, another widely abundant plant in Southern Maine, that has made a home in the margin of our lawn.<\/p>\n

And finally Cinquefoil, which might be new this year, creeping in from the woods across the road. Both this, and the Strawberry image are littered with fallen petals from our\u00a0Ornamental\u00a0Plum.<\/p>\n

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So, pretty tame by true wild-land standards, but not bad for a yard at the edge of town. And, just so you don’t feel deprived of wild, I will finish with a true wildflower, a Painted Trillium from a lunch-time walk around the trail loop at Rachel Carson NWR Headquarters yesterday noon.<\/p>\n

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Canon SX50HS. Program with iContrast and Auto Shadow Control. A mix of tel-macros at 1200mm and wide-macros at 24mm plus 1.5x digital tel-converter. Processed in Lightroom for intensity, clarity, and sharpness.<\/p>\n

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