Tag Archives: native plant

05.25.2025 Silent Sunday

Posted on May 25, 2025 by Steve Gingold

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cypripedium acaule, native orchid, native plant, native wildflower, pink lady's slipper, white lady's slipper, wildflower | 12 Comments

11.20.2023 Your Ewer in Hawley Bog

Posted on November 20, 2023 by Steve Gingold

Purple Pitcherplant-Sarracenia purpurea in its autumn regalia. The body of the plant catches rainwater. The inside of the pitcher contains sticky hairs which keep the trapped insects that visit “stuck” inside where the water combined with some plant produced compounds, dissolves … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bog, carnivorous plant, Five College Consortium, flora, Hawley Bog, Massachusetts, native flowers, native plant, native wildflower, New England, Purple Pitcherplant, Sarracenia purpurea, The Nature Conservancy, western massachusetts, wetland, wetland plant | 27 Comments

09.19.2023 More Asters

Posted on September 19, 2023 by Steve Gingold

If you got ’em, flaunt ’em. We’ve got several nice bunches of New England Asters and every time I go out in the yard I feel compelled to shoot them along with whatever tiny wildlife I come across. There may … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amherst, flora, Massachusetts, native flowers, native plant, native wildflower, New England, New England American Aster, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, western massachusetts, Wildflowers | 11 Comments

09.14.2023 After the Rain

Posted on September 14, 2023 by Steve Gingold

We had a little more rain yesterday and one of the drops hung around for a candid photo shoot with a nice bloom. New England American Aster-Symphyotrichum novae-angliae with raindrop-guttis aquae pluvia 🙂

09.10.2023 Silent Sunday-An Autumn Delight

Posted on September 10, 2023 by Steve Gingold

New England American Aster-Symphyotrichum novae-angliae

09.06.2023 Wordless Wednesday-Morning Mood on Mount Pollux

Posted on September 6, 2023 by Steve Gingold

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amherst, Canada Goldenrod, flora, fog, foggy landscape, landscape, Massachusetts, Mount Pollux, native flowers, native plant, native wildflower, New England, Solidago canadensis, western massachusetts, Wildflowers | 12 Comments

09.04.2023 Macro Monarch Monday

Posted on September 4, 2023 by Steve Gingold

This was a first time seeing a Monarch on a New York Ironweed flower in our yard. No doubt it’s happened before but not on my watch. Monarch-Danaus plexippus, on New York Ironweed-Vernonia noveboracensis It was all over the plant … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amherst, Brush-footed Butterfly, Danaini, Danaus plexippus, insect, lepidoptera, Massachusetts, Monarch butterfly, native flowers, native plant, native wildflower, New England, New York Ironweed, nymphalidae, Papilionidae, Vernonia noveboracensis, western massachusetts, Wildflowers | 16 Comments

09.02.2023 09.01.2023 Sometimes luck favors the prepared..and sometimes it doesn’t and…

Posted on September 2, 2023 by Steve Gingold

sometimes you get a surprise extra chance the following Saturday. Or maybe lightning does sometimes strike twice. Or sometimes you guess that a certain frog has a favorite hang out log. Yesterday Rudi mentioned that it was a shot you … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American Bullfrog, Drosera rotundifolia, intimate landscape, Lithobates catesbianus, Massachusetts, native flowers, native plant, native wildflower, New England, New Salem, North Quabbin, Round-leaved Sundew, western massachusetts, Wildflowers | 25 Comments

09.01.2023 Froggish Friday-Sometimes luck favors the prepared..and sometimes it doesn’t

Posted on September 1, 2023 by Steve Gingold

I was focusing on this Round-leaved Sundew at 10x and the narrowed view was on the plant so did not see Flora Frog hop into the scene. After making the image I saw her but she immediately hopped away leaving … Continue reading →

08.29.2023 The return of Glinda the Good Mosquito

Posted on August 29, 2023 by Steve Gingold

I shared an image of this insect a few years ago and surprised a few folks that harmless mosquitoes exist. It certainly was a surprise to me. Last night when I took Bentley out for his bedtime chores, I noticed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amherst, Boneset Thoroughwor, Culicidae, diptera, Elephant mosquito, Eupatorium perfoliatum, flora, insect, Massachusetts, Mosquito, native flowers, native plant, native wildflower, Nematocera, New England, Toxorhynchites rutilus, western massachusetts, Wildflowers | 22 Comments