A Breath of Nature: Goldenrod

Friday, October 10, 2014

A Fence & A Whole Lot of Flowers

Around the bend from our place, about 1/2 mile or so, is a piece of country property for sale. It was probably a cow pasture at one time, or maybe someone's hunting area.

My son and I walked around the property to check out the wildflowers and have a look around. Goldenrods are everywhere, beginning from the fence and continuing across the open field, yielding only to the dense forest on the west side.

What a pretty meadow of wildflowers! Pretty patches of purple-pink grasses stood tall above the goldenrod and added a striking color contrast.

Narrow-Leafed Sunflowers are also abundant and look so pretty when paired with the Blue Mistflowers.

Small patches of these pretty pink flowers and tall purple flowers are scattered throughout the meadow. If you can identify their species, please let me know.

The autumn wildflowers have been exceptionally abundant and beautiful this year. Have any of you noticed any difference from previous years? I just wonder if I've actually paid more attention to them this year.

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Sunday, October 5, 2014

Autumn Wildflowers

First, I'd like to say Thank You for the comments wishing me well during our recent move. Your thoughtful comments were greatly appreciated :) Moving is tremendously exhausting and I'm so glad it's over and done. Now it's just a matter of unpacking everything and deciding where to put it all. I'm still wondering when so much "stuff" was accumulated. Much of it will go to storage or Salvation Army.

Now on to the topic of this blog post...

Located across the road from our new place is a large cut-over field which is now filled with a wonderful variety of autumn wildflowers. I just had to snoop around and see the wildflowers up close. It was early morning and dew blanketed the entire field.