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Leaves Are Changing in Schenley Park
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Mushrooms in Riverview Park
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Shapes in the Woods
A selection of interesting logs, stumps, and trunks in Riverview Park.
Camera: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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Early Fall in the Woods
Leaves are starting to turn along the Liberty Trail, Kane Woods Nature Area, Scott Township.
Camera: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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Tomatoes That Hate You
The Phipps Summer Flower Show this year was devoted to “weird and wonderful” plants. It closes tomorrow, though you’ll be able to see bits and pieces of it a while after that during the gradual transition to the Fall Flower Show.
Here are two members of the tomato family that want to kill you. Above, Malevolence (Solanum atropurpureum) from Brazil, absolutely stuffed with poisons and guarded by horrible thorns, but decorative in its own quirky way. Below, Porcupine Tomato (Solanum pyracanthos) from Madagascar, which is also prickly and toxic, but quite beautiful in flower.
Camera: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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A Walk in the Woods
A stroll through the dappled shade of the Kane Woods Nature Area, Scott Township.
Camera: Kodak EasyShare Z1485 IS.
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Caterpillar
A caterpillar of the Hickory Tussock Moth (Lophocampa caryae) crawls through the leaves.
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Mushrooms in Schenley Park
To Father Pitt’s untrained eye they look like boletes of some sort. He will not attempt an exact identification, because he is not very well informed in fungal matters.
Camera: Canon PowerShot A590 IS (hacked).
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Differential Grasshopper
A Differential Grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis) on a seedhead of Queen Anne’s Lace (Daucus carota) in Schenley Park. These grasshoppers are sometimes destructive to crops, but they can have all the Queen Anne’s Lace they want. There’s plenty to go around.
Camera: Canon PowerShot A590 IS (hacked).
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Grape Vines in Schenley Park
KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA Grape vines can cover acres, blanketing everything in their way to form a surreal topiary.
Camera: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
