The hills near Petaluma, California are crowned with live oaks: The site is Helen Putnam Park outside of Petaluma. Last week the hills were green and filled with wildflowers. Later in the year th...
Flowers from the northeast woods: The bluebells started opening last weekend along with many wood poppies and Trout lilies. For the wood poppies, I used a wide angle lens to give a sense of what ...
https://tomwhelan.wordpress.com/2024/05/04/wood-poppies-trout-lily-and-bluebells/
Lots of wildflowers were blooming last weekend, this is a selection of white blooms: In the left column. from the top, Spring beauty (Claytonia virginica), Twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla), Wood a...
https://tomwhelan.wordpress.com/2024/04/26/white-spring-flowers/
A bloodroot bloom from last weekend: This is from a location fairly close to where I live. It’s a spot I’ve been visiting for a .number of years. Finding the first bloodroot there is a “it�...
A couple of flowers just starting to open: On the left, Pasque Flower and on the right, the first bloodroot I’ve seen this season. The petals of both flowers were mostly closed, leaving had onl...
One new arrival: The first bluebells (Mertensia virginica), more hepatica, and the ubiquitous early bittercress, perhaps a native species (and maybe not!). The tiny bluebell buds may be open by n...
A collection of ice crystal images: I love really cold weather (from 17 deg F to 0 deg F) for the beauty it brings: crystalline ice in many different forms. And I love getting out in it, at least...
https://tomwhelan.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/when-winter-was-winter/
My first of the year look at hepatica: The common name is hepatica, the old genus name, now classified as Anemone acutiloba. I tried different angles and magnifications as I waited for the wind t...
https://tomwhelan.wordpress.com/2024/03/22/three-views-of-a-spring-flower/
A few wet things I saw after the rain fell: I don’t know if what you’re seeing in the first image is a second moss capsule in the same drop or (probably) another capsule in the background, ma...
The first flowers of the year, the usual early ones, all nonnative: Last weekend at Acton Arboretum I saw the flowers above: winter aconite, snowdrops, and Adonis vernalis. On the same visit, I s...
https://tomwhelan.wordpress.com/2024/03/08/buttercups-and-snowdrops/