135: mo' money

another plant that reminds me of my grammie~ she had these growing next to her porch, and i always loved the silvery dry seed pods.  i discovered this one growing at random in the woods near our house.  we may try to transplant it, or propagate some of the seeds...

Chinese Money Plant, Lunaria annua

132: puff

probable Canada Thistle, Cirsium arvense

128: love thy neighbor

our neighbors' Eastern Redbud, Cercis canadensis

115: wishtle

probable Canada Thistle, Cirsium arvense, with Dandelion seed

91: ruby gloom

Red Maple, Acer rubrum, seed keys at twilight

82: wish fulfillment

younger son reaching for a Dandelion, Taraxacum sp. (possibly T. officinale)

81: wishful

Dandelion, Taraxacum sp. (possibly T. officinale) 

78: cat's tail

Cattails, Typha sp.

43: curly-qs

another phone-at-work photo...  in the rain...
i need to take another look at the rest of the tree to get a better idea of the possible identity, but i was intrigued by the curly seed pods that i had never noticed before...  after 9 years of working there.  #observationFAIL

possible Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis?

32: for the birds

today we made bird feeders using cones from one of the neighborhood Pines, and hung them on our Dogwood tree...

Pine cone with Peanut Butter, Sunflower seeds, Milo and White Proso Millet.

i'd also like to thank my lovely friend, Amy, and her Learning Photoshop experiments for inspiring me to start exploring my Pixelmator program!

27: sticky balls

seed pods of the Sweetgum Tree, Liquidambar styraciflua

10: mistaken identities

for several years we have assumed that these seedpods belonged to some Morning Glory vines, the bane of our existence in our garden area:

Honeyvine Milkweed, Ampelamus albidus

however, we apparently have two different vines~ Bindweed/Morning Glory and Milkweed, to which this pod belongs.

also, we thought the insect was a Box Elder Bug, but it is actually the very similarly colored Milkweed Bug.