Jim

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Midwesterner. Proud Dad, lucky husband, retired teacher. [Woof] And Dog Dad. 5b/6a

An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, wings spread, partly visible against green foliage and pink phlox blooms. She moved too fast, and the photo ends partway along her left wing.
An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly resting on a long arching blade of iris foliage. The foliage is arching downward to the right and the butterfly is sitting, wings folded closed, in the middle of the frame, casting a shadow on the green iris leaf. There is grass in the lower left corner, wood chip mulch in the upper right.
A thick tree trunk, with exfoliating bark and a canopy of leaves, backlit by the morning sun.
A bee is poised to enter a small hosta flower. Trumpet-shaped white blooms streaked with lavender fill the upper right corner. The lower left part of the frame is all green foliage.
A view of the same Japanese maple bonsai, from underneath, with the foliage silhouetted against a gray, cloudy sky.
A Japanese maple bonsai, 30 inches tall, with delicate, cutleaf-type, dark red leaves. It is in a pale yellow, round bonsai pot, with a frosted glass screen behind and a blue sky and white clouds above.
A large, white clematis bloom fills most of the frame, with green foliage in the background.
A lush, green mountain laurel with showy clusters of pink and white flowers.
A close-up of a large, old oak tree in a grassy field. The trunk and thick limbs fill most of the frame. One huge branch in the background reaches down to the ground.
A lush, green mountain laurel with clusters of cherry red flower buds. Celandine poppy foliage fills the bottom of the frame.
A forest floor covered with green foliage and pale blue-white flowers. The background has slender tree trunks and the green canopy of the trees.
An azalea bonsai with pink blooms and a slightly bending, gnarled trunk. The branches extend outwards in a layered effect.
Looking skyward among tall spruce trees, trunks bare as utility poles, treetops all converging at the top of the frame. One tree has fallen onto another, angled across the picture. There is a light green glow of new vine leaves climbing the slope of the fallen tree, in contrast with the gray sky and shadowy treetops.
Tiny, pale-green oak leaves, backlit by the morning sun, sprouting from the tip of a branch, with beard-like catkins dangling below. There are blurred branches of the tree in the background, against a clear blue sky.
The base and trunk of a large white oak in a green lawn, with Spring Beauty wildflowers surrounding the flared base of the tree.
Spring Beauty wildflowers growing in concrete at the base of a park bench.
Creamy plumes and brown spikes of flowering Pennsylvania Sedge, among leaves of barren strawberry. A jumble of new spring growth emerging from the slender, tan, dead sedge leaves of last year. There are bright blue flowers blurred in the background.
Large yellow daffodil blooms atop green stems and leaves lit by brilliant afternoon sunshine.
Small, bright blue squill flowers surrounding tall, yellow daffodils. The yellow flowers are brilliantly lit with late afternoon sunshine. There are ribbons of green foliage poking out from the leaf litter.
A Larch bonsai tree with bare branches in silhouette against a white background. It has a thick trunk with rough bark surrounded by green moss. The outline of the branches forms a scalene triangle. There is a dead portion of the trunk artistically preserved for beauty and character.
A stout maple on water's edge, with a solid nebari of surface roots radiating outwards. The trunk has many twisted limbs, and the background has a glimmer of early morning light through gray clouds.
A woodland path winding through tall spruce trees. The tree trunks rise like straight columns with no branches until the upper reaches. The greenery of distant trees is visible in the background, as morning sunlight slants through the forest.
A gnarly old oak, bare in winter, in a fen, against a blue sky.
The same tree as the previous post, but with most of the leaves gone, revealing its uneven shape and long branches with many turns and bends.
A large, spreading oak tree in a sunny, grassy field, with branches covered in deep red-colored leaves. The right side of the tree has branches reaching to the ground and out of the frame. The trunk is in dark shadow, and the left side of the crown is bare. There are distant woods in the background against a blue sky, with a few wispy clouds.
A road disappearing into a misty woodland, with early morning sunbeams slanting through the trees. The trees have turned russet and gold, and the road and ground are littered with fallen, golden leaves.
A close-up of a red rose bloom. There is green foliage in the foreground. In the background, the limbs of a large, white birch tree reach toward the blue sky.
Large maple trees reach toward a clear blue sky. The leafy canopy covers almost all the sky, green but with a fiery patch of yellow and orange in the center of the frame.
Dark silhouettes of leafy trees against the last last glow of daylight in the west.
Carson Kelly looking shocked by a post from The Onion
Red leaves of native vine Virginia Creeper lit up with sunshine. In the background, limbs of a large maple tree with green leaves arch across a clear blue sky.
Bright purple tuft-like blooms of ironweed against feathery green foliage in brilliant sunshine. There are purple-gray stalks of Little Bluestem prairie grass in the background.
Two large, white, 5-sided blooms of moonflower, amid green, heart-shaped leaves. Another bloom is partially obscured by the foliage.
A white clematis bloom, with seven large daisy-like petals around a center of ivory with a touch of maroon. There are green leaves in the background, partially obscuring another bloom of the same type. Clematis variety: henryi
Two goldenrods. On the left is native goldenrod growing in a nature preserve. Spikes of gold flowers stand out against green undergrowth and a background of oak trees. On the right is a closeup of the cultivated goldenrod "Little Lemon" just coming into bloom. The opened flowerbuds are lemon yellow, against a background of unopened lime green buds.
A bumblebee in mid-flight as it buzzes between trumpet-shaped, pale-violet flowers of a hosta. The green flower stalk crosses diagonally toward the upper right. The bee's wings are invisible against a green leafy background.
A closeup of dozens of beetles clustered on light green, long, narrow Butterfly Weed seed pods. The beetles are orange with black dots, and range in size from rice grain to raisin-sized.
A collage of two photos. On the left, a purple coneflower blooming with yellow blooms of black-eyed susan in the foreground. On the right, blue lobelia flowers against a background of red cardinal blooms.
Corydalis plants surround taller hostas. The corydalis have fine-textured foliage with small, yellow, tubular flowers. The Krossa Regal hostas in the background are much taller, with a vase-like form and broad green leaves with a bit of blue tint.
A 4-foot diameter bur oak, with 2-foot diameter limbs spreading out beyond the frame. It is in full leaf, surrounded by green grass. There are assorted trees in the background and a blue sky, all barely visible through the tangle of branches.
A closeup of fine, white, hair-like roots extending out of the bottom of the pot. The background is brown potting soil flecked with white perlite.
The bottom of a pot being lifted up, showing very fine, hair-like, white fibrous roots extending from drain holes into a cavity in a larger pot.
A bur oak tree with a large, gnarly burl circling the base, at ground level, several feet in diameter.
A closeup of tiny emerging red leaves of Blackjack Oak, with light green catkins dangling down. The background has the blurred trunk of the tree and green grass.
A collage of three photos. On the left is a closeup of Dragon Spruce, with green needles and upright, bright purple cones. The upper right photo shows a cluster of Prairie Trillium, slender stalks rising up to three mottled horizontal leaves, and in the center of the leaves is a dark maroon flower, with three upright, recurved petals. The background is the charcoal-colored, furrowed bark of a black walnut tree trunk, flaring outward at the ground. The lower right photo shows a closeup of the tiny, newly emerging, dark red leaves of Blackjack Oak, with dangling light green catkins.
A close-up of a bur oak twig, with leaf buds greening and swelling, just about to open. The background has the blurred limbs of a large, gnarly oak, against a blue sky.
Blue sky with bare tree branches reaching upward. The tiny silhouettes of high-flying migrating sandhill cranes can be seen toward the top of the frame.
A collage of three photos. Lower right, a close-up of sunlit, gnarly tree roots with snow nestled in the crevices. Upper right, a frozen lake with with windswept snow patterns, and a sunlit woodlands beyond. Left: a grove of tall conifers reaching toward a blue sky, the sun casting shadows through the tall, bare, tree trunks.
A fox squirrel, tawny-colored, with his bushy tail curved over his back, sits on the back of a tree stump carved in the shape of an arm chair. He is eating a seed or nut of some kind. There is moss growing at the base of the "chair." Brown oak leaves cover the ground. The background is winter-bare woods, tree trunks and dormant ground plants with russet leaves still hanging on a few branches.
The same tree as the previous post, from a distance, and the whole tree is visible. The large, old branches stretch outward, and there are a number fallen off or removed. There is green grass stretching around, and other bare deciduous trees in the distance. The sky is a mix of white clouds and blue sky. The squirrels have scampered away.
A gnarly oak tree trunk, with light gray bark and a split running up the left side of the tree. A brown and tawny fox squirrel sits on the stump of a long-gone branch, eating a snack. There is another squirrel on a thick branch on the opposite side of the tree. Both squirrels are looking at the photographer, their colors lit by sunlight from the left. The background is a mostly cloudy sky with bits of hazy blue, along with the bare winter outlines of other deciduous trees.
A huge oak tree, with a 4-ft diameter trunk, and branches spreading beyond the frame. There are yellow leaves strewn across the grass in the foreground. Some large branches extend horizontally and then bend to rest on the ground. There are tall grasses in the background and more oaks in the distance. The scene is backlit by a hazy sun on the right side of the frame.
Late season roses blooming in the first snow.
The last few rose blooms in an otherwise dormant garden. Three canes with green leaves and a few, dark pink, snow-dusted blooms stretch across the picture. The brown stems and stalks of other plants form a background, with the ground covered in snow.
A collage of two photos. On the left is a photo of a large dawn redwood tree, with bright rusty-orange needle-like leaves. There are branches spreading low to the ground and upper branches that look like upraised arms, giving the tree an oval outline. On the right is a closeup of the trunk, showing a tapering, gnarly trunk with tan, flaking bark, deep fissures and many low branches extending in all directions.
Two photos. On the left, looking upward at orange flowers of black-eyed Susan vine amid lush green leaves, against a clear blue sky. On the right, pink impatiens blooming amid green foliage.
The garden feed instructions
A stocky tree, 3 feet in diameter, with many large limbs branching out low on the trunk. There is an enormous, gnarly root flare extending outward. Bright sunshine casts shadows from a low angle against a background of lawn and distant trees, against a blue sky.
A vase-shaped Ginkgo tree with bright gold leaves against a blue sky. The sun illuminates the left side of the tree.
A collage of flowers. On the left, yellow tuberous begonias spill over the edge of a pot, with green fronds of Boston fern in the background. Upper right, light orange flowers and green foliage of black-eyed susan vine against a blue sky. Lower right, pink impatiens amid green leaves.