Fieldnotes
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Metasequoia Cone
Cone of the Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), which is more rectangular than the ball-shaped fruit of the similar looking tree, the Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum). I bought one of the Baldy fruits home to photograph, too, but it fell into its constituent pieces in my bag, each heady with resin. They are put together like…
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Tree Woods
An enormous weeping willow (Salix) on 6th Avenue in Park Slope.
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Woodcock Wednesday
As I finished photographing the leaves I posted yesterday, I heard a leaf being crunched behind me. I turned and saw this Woodcock (Scolopax minor) wobbling along. Before the bird settled down, I had a fine view of its beautiful cinnamon-tinged belly. This has been the third weekend in a row I’ve seen Woodcock in…
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Sunset Park Elm
Another view of the great American Elm in Sunset Park. Two weeks after my first picture.
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Seedhead
Autumn and winter are a lot more subtle than springtime and summer, but there are still wonders and glories out there to be discovered.
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Hickory Yellow
So many hickories, genus Carya, so little time. They are a blaze of yellow now.
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Persimmon Bandit
Yesterday’s pictured Persimmons (Diospyros virginiana) were not quite ripe. Here’s another: Looks ripe, but it’s still pretty hard. And they really have to be smushy soft to eat. Then they are perfumed and delicious. But bite too soon and you’ll get a mouthful of astringent tannins that you’ll rue all day long. Bleagh! Funny thing,…
Backyard and Beyond 