Today's two hour walk produced four decent pictures, one pair of destroyed pants, a wet person, tired dog, and an extremely frustrating and fruitless search for a (apparently lent and lost) book to ID the above right flower. I think it is some kind of toothwort, but don't know which one. Help would be appreciated. Also seen above is the amputated pincer of a crayfish, the flower of a tree I don't know (working on that as well--Sugar or Silver maple??) and below is the bud of a trillium. I need to get over the mania to name every flower, plant, tree, and bird I see. Seeing them should be enough. But I will continue the search for the missing book just the same.
"Their names didn't matter and if you knew their nature well enough, you'd know what they call themselves......Maybe the names we give them mean no more than the names we give ourselves, a fragile hedge against mortality." --from The Road Home, by Jim Harrison
I think it is a cutleaf toothwort. Can't be sure, without the actual plant and my Newcomb's guide... but it looks exactly like one that I spent some time IDing in Ohio. Definitely a toothwort.
ReplyDeleteI also think it is a box elder, sorry to tell you. Although again, without the actual tree, I can't be sure. But I spent some time sketching a box elder twig and it looked a lot like that.
And speaking of your need to name things, I was hoping you would know that little purple flower in my yard that I put a photo of in mine. But now I'll have to do some research.
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Oh. Here's another good one for you.
ReplyDelete"To see a wren in a bush, call it 'wren,' and go on walking is to have (self-importantly) seen nothing. To see a bird and stop, watch, feel, forget yourself for a moment, be in the bushy shadows, maybe then feel 'wren' -- that is to have joined in a larger moment with the world." -Gary Snyder.
Not that I'm saying you name things without watching them. I just thought of that quotation when I read your other one.
Hmm. I stopped emailing you because I needed to work, and now where am I?