The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns.
We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own part of the world, and to share your observations in the comments below.
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June 2019
Pacific Northwest
Last week Redwoodman showed us globe-shaped....spherical…..rotund....planet-shaped nature sightings. That inspired me to look around and see roundness in my neighborhood too. Here are a few sightings of that configuration I’m seeing in my neighborhood these days. Interestingly, most of them are in or related to plants, as his were.
Fruits of Twinberry
CAPRIFOLIACEAE
Lonicera involucrata
Black Twinberry
Burl on Douglas fir
Spiny rose gall wasp (Diplolepis bicolor) larvae are in this gall
Rose rust Phragmidium taking over some hips on this bush.
Most of the roses have dropped their petals (that was quick :/ )
Big bales of hay. It’s haying season.
Salal flowers are round urn-shaped...
...and are starting to form fruits, also basically spherical
ERICACEAE
Gaultheria shallon
Salal
Pink version of roadside common white clover. I see you!
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High overcast this morning, and cooler. Brisk westerly breeze. Grasses are blowing pollen around now.
What’s the nature news in your neighborhood?
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