Explore Outdoors ~ flower watching

 Spring comes in its own time, sometimes in a flurry of flowering and sometimes a slow opening of a bud. While visiting Boston, I walked around the neighborhood every day just to watch this magnolia wake up from winter. 

This Earth Day, what's blooming in your neighborhood?

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April 14

 

Explore Outdoors ~ a prickly tree!

 

Sometimes when you get up close to a tree, you decide that maybe you don't want to shake it's hands! What sort of prickly trees do you have where you live?

Explore Outdoors ~ Fungi from the tree tops

 

 

 

Last month the wind blew lots of branches down from the trees. I'm always curious to see what's growing up in the sky... so I look at them all before tossing them into the brush pile. And one branch had this very bright and sunny lichen. It's got a bright and sunny name: sunburst lichen! I love the little cups. They are the fruiting bodies, and release spores.

 

What's growing on trees in your neighborhood? 

Wednesday Explorers Club ~ Wordless Wednesday