slabtown – Page 24 – Black and White

lightning bugs

fireflies in a tree at night. — 10 seconds, Lampyridae display. They are hanging out in a quercus palustris.
They don't hang out in the tulip tree to the right.
This chemically-produced light from the lower abdomen may be yellow, green, or pale red — wavelengths from 510 to 670 nanometers. Most fireflies are quite distasteful and sometimes poisonous to vertebrate predators.--Wikipedia

red moon

moonrise over town creek, corrotoman river — June 27, 2052 hours, 90 degrees

under the tulip tree

June 10, Buddha's birthday, date of photograph. This liriodendron tulipfera is next to the water source, a bored well. Great place to sit. — microclimate. First tree I planted.

tree of heaven

ailanthus altissima — grove of ailanthus altissima

tree tubes

quercus laurifolia from an acorn collected in Williamsburg — deer, volves, rabbits and invasive plant species make tree tubes a necessary evil if the desired outcome is anything other than than a grove of ailanthus

Corvus brachyrhynchos

sentinel crow leaves perch, the one remaining tree in a clearcut — for the queen of crows

Our Father’s Wheelbarrow

wheelbarrow in a field, April 17, 2010 — in this case, the wheelbarrow of life

Quercus michauxii

swamp chesnut oak, new leaves
juvenile leaves, swamp chestnut oak

excellence, heart, injury

Sophie used to retrieve on land. She can’t do that anymore. She goes at it too hard. Adapted that to plain running. Me on a bike, Sophie running alongside. That is out now, she goes lame, the impact aggravates her arthritis. The only place she is free now is in the water.

tired of cutting grass

shade in twenty five years.