tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296284051502496327.post3094458221405831849..comments2023-11-05T07:04:54.561-05:00Comments on Chronicles of a Country Girl: Mystery flower is identifiedCountry Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14432335393660130255noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296284051502496327.post-39499711158587477962008-04-28T09:54:00.000-04:002008-04-28T09:54:00.000-04:00When they dry throw pull those two apart and throw...When they dry throw pull those two apart and throw them in the air, we used to call them huppacups(because helicopter is a darn hard word for a kid) they spin the whole way down.Bekahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11037471560725774085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296284051502496327.post-13552356132489304492008-04-28T09:53:00.000-04:002008-04-28T09:53:00.000-04:00I was reading along about how boring the site is, ...I was reading along about how boring the site is, trees, yellow violets, la dee dah, peacefully reading reading and then skidded to a stop and backed up a word or two.<BR/><BR/>Did I actually see the word 'dendrology'?<BR/><BR/>Be still my heart....!<BR/><BR/>Oh, Kate, prepare for my inner geek to surge forward in helpful delight! Trees were my very first passion (before boys, and then the land)and while my knowledge is spotty in parts, I love opportunities to improve it.<BR/><BR/>I'll give you the breathless play-by-play:<BR/><BR/>I'm looking at the photo, thinking, no....not a red maple, hmm, I looked these up several sugar seasons ago and talked with my naturalist friend Kirk about them. Ran to the shelf, searched wildly for one of the tree books, all the while humming 'dendrology' to myself and thinking 'oh, Kate, you tease, going on and on about how unexciting your blog is'; thinking about the trees in a park I love, and how these very trees turn lovely yellow in the fall, how you can get a little sugar from them but not much, wondering if you look at the young branches if you see longitudinal white and green sort of stripes; <BR/><BR/>and there was the page. What I think you have is Striped Maple, Acer Pensylvanicum. Look how the three tips of the leaves are almost the same length. And the flowers, pendulous, drooping, dare I get to say it: a raceme.<BR/><BR/>Deep breath: I have helped resolve a mystery, and I got to use a word I never do. Raceme isn't as good a word as frolic or whatever your favorite equivalent is, but golly. I feel fufilled.<BR/><BR/>happy day, thank you, and the baby ducks are SO FREAKING CUTE!<BR/>KatieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296284051502496327.post-87040994421817388422008-04-27T21:48:00.000-04:002008-04-27T21:48:00.000-04:00Incredible macros!! Beautiful!Incredible macros!! Beautiful!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296284051502496327.post-58253806994243737832008-04-27T19:44:00.000-04:002008-04-27T19:44:00.000-04:00Oh, Josie, that's terrible that your daughter ate ...Oh, Josie, that's terrible that your daughter ate those Laburnum seeds! I've never seen them, but that's pretty scary.<BR/><BR/>And Kacey, I hadn't even thought of wood in that light while I was writing this post. Leave it to you to find the dirt in it. (And thanks for pointing it out, it's pretty funny!)Country Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14432335393660130255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296284051502496327.post-91276864172533438812008-04-27T19:29:00.000-04:002008-04-27T19:29:00.000-04:00Ah, we had a red maple sapling that didn't make it...Ah, we had a red maple sapling that didn't make it through the winter. SuperGuy didn't care. He said they're just too soft of wood. You know men and well, soft wood. Did I say that outloud?? You should delete this comment. I mean, a family blog and all. Well, except for those slutty brood mares...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296284051502496327.post-32397943556716325152008-04-27T15:58:00.000-04:002008-04-27T15:58:00.000-04:00At first the pictures reminded me very much of Lab...At first the pictures reminded me very much of <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laburnum" REL="nofollow">Laburnum</A> which grow on the boulevards here in Vancouver. One year my daughter ate the "pea pods" from the laburnum, which are highly toxic, and she ended up in the Emergency Ward of the hospital. Children think the pods are peas and they eat them.<BR/><BR/>But on second glance, the seeds on your photos do look like Maple seed pods.Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06979114933441527890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296284051502496327.post-33368666692818725432008-04-27T15:18:00.000-04:002008-04-27T15:18:00.000-04:00We have those here in our yard.We have those here in our yard.Beth from the Funny Farmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14648093449310949014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296284051502496327.post-79940902443476804602008-04-27T10:18:00.000-04:002008-04-27T10:18:00.000-04:00When I was a kid we used to take one of those, hol...When I was a kid we used to take one of those, hold it in our mouths and "whistle" with it. I probably couldn't do that today if you PAID me! We also called them whirlygigs - in the fall they float down to earth, spinning in circles. Beautiful photos.abbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08879476262337290531noreply@blogger.com