Gaucho pants?!!! The horror.

Winged Elm
Ulmus alata
#nativeplants #southernappalachia #illflyaway

Fringe Festival
White Fringe Tree (aka Grancy Gray Beard)
Chionanthus virginicus
#nativeplants #southernappalachia #glassymountainpreserve

Day of the Locust
Black Locust
Robinia pseudoacacia
#nativeplants #southernappalachia #clemsonexperimentalforest #dayofthelocust #Robiniapseudoacacia

“Are those pussywillows?” (Still of Kathleen Turner from Serial Mom.)

Heartleaf Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia) with a Mayapple leaf backdrop.
#nativeplants #southernappalachia

Keto eleison?

Carolina Silverbells
Halesia carolina
#nativeplants #southernappalachia #silverbells #heaveninawildflower

First blossom pop of Mountain Laurel
(Kalmia Latifolia) after a light rain.
#nativeplants #southernappalachia #mountainlaurel

Pinxter (Pink Azalea)
Rhododendron periclymenoides
#nativeplants #southernappalachia #azalea #rhododendron #thinkpink

Dwarf pawpaw flower and new leaf growth.

Dwarf Pawpaw
Asimina parviflora
#nativeplants #southernappalachia #pawpaw

Trillium sp. nov. 'Jones Gap'
#nativeplants #southernappalachia #jonesgapstatepark #trillium

Black cherry
Prunus serotina
#nativeplants #southernappalachia #treetuesday

Or stupidly aggressive?

Southeastern Blueberry Bee (Habropoda laboriosa) buzzing towards some blueberry flowers.

Southeastern Blueberry Bee (Habropoda laboriosa) reporting for duty.
#nativeplants #southernappalachia #pollinators #vaccinium

Red chokeberry
Aronia arbutifolia
#nativeplants #southernappalachia #blueridgeescarpment #bluewall

The Killing (dir: Stanley Kubrick)

Oconee bells blooming on a mossy rock face at Devil’s Fork State Park

Oconee bells
Shortia galacifolia
#nativeplants #southcackalacky

Babadook on board!

“Other echoes
Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow?”

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The higher the waist, the nearer to god?

Jeffrey Epstein Chose New Mexico for a Reason A journey through the Land of Enchantment, where the now-dead sex trafficker and his co-conspirators found a haven for radioactive secrets.

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Pinesap stem and flowers backlit against leaf litter.

Pinesap
Monotropa hypopitys
#nativeplants #southernappalachia #pinesap

A row of Wild Potato Vine flowers. They certainly can cancan.

Wild Potato Vine
Ipomoea pandurata
#nativeplants #southernappalachia #prettymaidsallinarow

Chantarelle mushroom pushing its way through the leaf litter (and toward my mouth)

#mushroommonday
Chanterelle mushroom
Cantharellus appalachiensis
#southernappalachia #foraging #fungusamongus

Predators of a feather…

Wild Potato Vine flower above its heart-shaped leaves.

Wild Potato Vine
Ipomoea pandurata
#nativeplants #southernappalachia

Micro bee-fly - Geron An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

Thanks! The more you know 💫

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Stop trying to make Minj happen. It’s not going to happen.