Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand
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Lilith __, in reply to
‘No picture available’ for the Cold Shag!
But we already have your picture! ;-)
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Lilith __, in reply to
I made a quick vid from some of the bird pics
Bravo, sir.
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1. Not spring flowers, I know, but I was quite taken with these ones on a bean vine of some kind my father in law is growing in his courtyard.
2. And these pink ones growing on a very thin vine wrapping itself around the corn in the field just outside our gate.
3. And for the baby animals file, this wee fella was very hard to catch, being so wary of anybody outside his immediate family. He'd pop out for a look, then dart back into the undergrowth fast as lightning.
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Islander, in reply to
Good gonna-be-watchdog that one...got all the charactersitics-
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Lilith __, in reply to
Surely both the blue and the pink are morning glories aka convolvulus? Gorgeous.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Surely both the blue and the pink are morning glories aka convolvulus?
No idea. The blue were on a very thin vine winding itself around the corn. The pink were so much a part of the same tangle of vines as the beans I couldn't see if they were separate or not, equally distributed throughout the beans my father in law was growing in the courtyard, and in a place where one would not expect anything to be growing wild, unlike the blue.
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Lilith __, in reply to
Here they are in the same shot. I reckon. :-)
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It’s not Friday, but I’m burning to share this amazingly gorgeous video:
Enjoy.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Surely both the blue and the pink are morning glories aka convolvulus?
No idea.
They are indeed both morning glories. Their main aim in life seems to be to completely cover other plants and then turn the mass to brilliant blue (or pink - or white) with their flowers.
Caught this plant in the beginning stages of being bound by creeper....
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Lilith __, in reply to
Their main aim in life seems to be to completely cover other plants and then turn the mass to brilliant blue (or pink – or white) with their flowers.
While I know they are so absurdly invasive and almost impossible to eradicate...I find myself sighing over the pretty flowers if I think no-one's watching.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
That does look like them. And I realise now I got my flowers backwards - it was my blue ones in with the beans and pink ones wrapping themselves around the corn. Now I'm curious how the blue ones spread so thoroughly through the beans. It's not like my father in law to grow flowers or let anything interfere with his crops.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
sighing over the pretty flowers if I think no-one’s watching
I'm with you there - they are supremely beautiful - I lazily let mine get way out of control on top of my wall just to see that dazzling display of blue.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Now I’m curious how the blue ones spread so thoroughly through the beans
I think they grow readily from seed – which they will have spread around rampantly – but also the ‘runners’ become very tough and strong and they will develop roots in places where they touch the soil and spread themselves around that way. And to make matters worse, they will develop these strong tough rooty nodules (that’s the technical term of course) in crevices in rocks or where ever they can and then send out new growth from that in the spring. So they are very crafty with many strategies for taking over and letting their blueness or pinkness or whiteness shine.
Though I should add that I have the white variety in my front garden and that is a little bit different in it's deviousness - it spreads through it's underground runnery-shoots (more technical terms) and cleverly if you pull them up but leave a little bit behind it then regenerates from the bit you left and off it goes again, and again and again. -
Chris Waugh, in reply to
Just three and a bit years ago the patch of courtyard where those blue ones are doing their best to smother the beans was home to 50-odd sheep, and it took some time before anything was growing there again after the sheep were sold, so these ones must be fairly new. I guess they're there to stay, now.
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I’ve just been sitting outside in the sun with my cat. It’s the most beautiful day, still and warm, and the birds are singing* and the sea is sparkling. My cat was very ill and now she is better, and her worst problem is trying to find a sleeping spot with just enough sun but not too much.
It’s that day when if you’re lucky someone makes you a cake, and my sister has made me a cake with a “1” on it. I think I have been wound back! Just a spring chicken. Happy days. :-)
*some people are also clanking around with heavy machinery, but I’m choosing to notice the birdsong.
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JacksonP, in reply to
I think I have been wound back! Just a spring chicken. Happy days. :-)
Words that take a thousand photos. ;-)
We're having a day of days here in Auckland too. I walked across the city earlier, for one reason or another, and it was as springy as a spring thing.
Glad to hear your cat is well again. Might go find a sunny spot myself.
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Lilith and Jackson – it is SO spring,
I have morphed into a spring-being ….
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And the cat opts for both sun and privacy - courtesy of her superior camo skills.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
I guess they’re there to stay, now.
not if effort is applied, get in there and carefully uproot those pesky twiners.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
not if effort is applied,
Well, my father in law doesn't seem too concerned for the health of his beans, and I don't know who owns the corn outside the gate (our village land is parcelled out old-school peasant style), but it's a couple of metres tall and looking much healthier than the morning glory vine, and the flowers are pretty, so I'll leave it up to somebody else to tackle it. Besides, I'm back in Beijing and probably should be more proactively preparing for the impending start of semester.
Oh, and I read that morning glory is good for shading houses in the summer, so perhaps next time we're out there I might try and sneak a seed or two into one of the cracks in the pavement along the front of the house... We've already got a bit of corn growing wild out of those cracks, but it doesn't seem to do so well as the corn planted properly...
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Beidaihe, last Thursday afternoon. Hey, spring-time people, it can't be too long til you're on the beach, too.
And it wasn't just the beach that was tigtly packed out at Beidaihe. Still, some people managed to grow flowers in the middle of all that.
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Rob Stowell, in reply to
I DO love these glimpses of China :) Thnx
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Taken today.
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Today
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Wow, Sofie, great shots. Love the intensity of those colours!
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