Common Nature

I took some pictures of the wildflower garden today after I finished cleaning it up. I leave things through the winter because some of the plants, like the northern sea oats and echinacea, have seeds for wildlife. I pick off and plant a lot of the seeds but never get around to all of them. Goldfinches especially like to cling to the seedheads and peck out the seeds.


This is a view of the wildflower garden looking west, after I finished the tidy-up trimming and raked away the cut stems.




Here is a closer view of the wildflower garden.




This is a view of the wildflower garden looking north toward the prairie garden. You can see the log edging well. All of that wood is from the yard. Permaculture: obtain a yield.




A wild strawberry is sprouting in the wildflower garden. I've never seen one fruit here, but sometimes they do in the prairie garden.




This big green thing is penstemon.




The pointy green bit by the upright brown stem is a blackberry lily.




Various bulbs are sprouting in the wildflower garden. There are dwarf irises but those have flat pointy leaves. These might be wood hyacinth.




This is the sunset and a tree silhouette looking west from the savanna. I took a bunch of sunset pictures. This first one focused on the tree instead of the sky, but I decided that I liked the silhouette effect. The seedpods are from a redbud but the trunk is a black walnut.




Here's a clearer view of the sunset.




This is the view looking northwest from the road past the savanna.




The moon is rising in the east, seen through the trees around the ritual meadow, as I walk up the driveway.