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Photo of the Day - September 2021
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Digby's been experimenting with new ways of getting a bit closer to the birds!
With that knowledge, they must be the latter, as the leaves are definitely not grass-like. Thanks for the ID!If they have grassy leaves which appear with the flowers, or in spring, they're autumn flowering crocuses (croci?). If they have quite big leaves that appear in spring, they're Colchicums, also known as Autumn Crocus because they look rather like crocus even though they're not related.
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Sentinel Peak and Island Lake, Alberta from earlier this week. Fuji Xp90 camera.
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At Green Spring Gardens I was surprised to learn that they have fruit trees, too, and shot a few photos of what was on one of the trees. Unfortunately there was no signage to indicate what kinds of trees and fruits they had planted there, but my guess is that this is some kind of pear? Although it has the rosy blush and golden yellow color of some apples, the shape is wrong for an apple.
i think pears are done for the season....and it isn't really shaped like a pear, either. the leaf doesn't look like pear, either. i was going to guess paw paw, but the leaf is wrong for that as well.
Thanks, Molly! Yeah, it's not exactly the classic "pear-shaped," so that threw me off, and my knowledge of fruits in general is quite limited. I was pretty sure that it wasn't an apple, though -- I did know that much! LOL! It did look kind of like photos I saw online of Kieffer pears and another kind of pear which name I forget now, and those can still be growing until mid- October.
Since we've had a very hot summer and an extended period of warmth throughout September I suppose it is possible that this is why there was still fruit on this tree and also the one next to it (I haven't finished editing the images yet so haven't got to that one, but the fruit on that tree looked kind of like an orange, which doesn't make sense for Northern Virginia. The only signage around was warning people not to touch or pick the fruit. Wish they'd told us what the fruit is!
Since we've had a very hot summer and an extended period of warmth throughout September I suppose it is possible that this is why there was still fruit on this tree and also the one next to it (I haven't finished editing the images yet so haven't got to that one, but the fruit on that tree looked kind of like an orange, which doesn't make sense for Northern Virginia. The only signage around was warning people not to touch or pick the fruit. Wish they'd told us what the fruit is!
the orange one might be a persimmon, but i can't find anything that has a similar leaf to your photo above.
The leaves on this tree were shiny, long and narrow.....
Either today or this evening I'll probably get around to doing some more editing and I'll make it a point to do that other fruit. Persimmon makes sense just off the top of my head, as it was about the right size and definitely the right color. Good thought!
Either today or this evening I'll probably get around to doing some more editing and I'll make it a point to do that other fruit. Persimmon makes sense just off the top of my head, as it was about the right size and definitely the right color. Good thought!
never heard of it but the fruit and leaves both match!
Some marigolds still bright and colourful - observed during a recent walkabout in Harrison, BC.
Mongoose in Hawaii, among the lava rocks
Cat has the vertical pupil, mongoose the horizontal
Thanks, Katbel! Gosh, this does look a lot like what I saw (and shot) at Green Spring.... I'll have to do some research now on it!
A little spider in a plant on the parking lot.
Adding on to what I had written earlier, it does seem that these can grow successfully in Virginia and there are other photos online that definitely look very much like the one I presented here. I think you've nailed it, Katbel! Thanks!
Yes, last week it snowed for a couple of days, but some melted because the temperatures were around 38-40 degrees F. Two nights ago the temperatures were in the low twenties. I took several photos like this one before the snow came, however:If they have grassy leaves which appear with the flowers, or in spring, they're autumn flowering crocuses (croci?
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