Hearts-A-Bustin’

An Evening Walk in the Woods

| Flower Roberts

I took a walk down our road this evening.

I wanted to photograph two of our wildflowers.

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Jewelweed/ Impatiens capensis/Touch me nots

The orange Jewel weed was being molested by a group of hummingbirds.

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They were zipping through the patch, shaking the plants and making all kinds of racket.

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Periodically one would sit and rest on the nearby Pokeberry weed.

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I also wanted to get some pictures of hearts-a-bustin’.

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Hearts-a-bustin/ Euonymus americanus

I cut across my neighbors’ property on the way home.

I found even more fungi.

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Red -belted polypore/ bracket fungi

This snail is having this knocked-over-one for supper.

IMG_4304I gave it back after the photo.

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Amanita ? Poisonous ? Never eat tall white.

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‘Tis the season!

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Snail on a mushroom on a tree. Food chain!

Snails love their ‘shrooms!

Wild FLOWER

Hearts-a-Bustin’

| Flower Roberts

I find many lovely wild plants along my driveway.

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This one is especially interesting in the fall.

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During most of the year it is a nondescript, wiry, open shrub.

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Its only distinctive feature while not in bloom is that its stems look like green wire.

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It turns into a marvel in the September when its seed pods ripen.

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They burst open to expose the orange-red seeds inside.

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It is also called American strawberry bush, but do not eat the seeds they are poisonous.

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Its scientific name is Euonymus americanus. 

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Wonderful weed!