#boglife
Good luck with your surgery today!
Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) &
Pitcher Plant Moth & Caterpillar (Exyra fax)
From my Bog Life poster (jadafitch.etsy.com)
#carniverousplants #pitcherplant #botanicalart #watercolor #boglife
Gorgeous - we need all the joy we can find and @tinaclaffey.bsky.social images life us! #BogLife
don't talk me until I've had my waterlogged, spongy peat soil and sphagnum moss. I'm not me until I've had my waterlogged, spongy peat soil and sphagnum moss.. #BogLife
it's actually quite easy for me to thrive in nutrient-poor, acidic conditions fed primarily by rain. that's just #BogLife baby
when the bog is lowkey a quagmire π€¦ββοΈ #BogLife
Clear blue sky with wispy vapour trails above a frosty peatland raised bog.
Molinia or purple moor grass coloured golden in the late autumn sunshine. On the horizon is a line of birch trees.
Gorgeous out there today.
Didn't feel the cold once we got stuck in clearing scrub and then the sun did it's thing.
#peatland
#conservation
#boglife
Sphagnum Moss is actually a genus of moss, with over 300 species within it. I took a picture of this particular Sphagnum Moss at the Mer Bleue Bog in Ottawa. #moss #bog #boglife
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I took this picture of Marsh Calla at the Mer Bleue Bog. #wildflowers #bloomscrolling #boglife
A bearded zombie looking man half submerged in a bog. Watercolor and micron pen drawing.
Bog Fashion π±
#art #myart #drawing #inkdrawing #micronpen #painting #watercolor #zigkuretake #bog #swamp #mire #bogfashion #skull #skullart #zombie #ghoul #natureart #nature #mushroom #fungi #dragonfly #reed #submerged #moisturising #inmylane #boglife #flytrap
This summer Iβve been chipping away at a new poster, featuring 50 species commonly found in northeastern bogsβfrom carnivorous plants to sphagnum mosses and dragonflies. Hereβs a peek at the sketches...
#bogs #boglife #natureillustration #botanicalillustration #floraandfauna #drawnfromnature
I'm more about the #boglife
This is a color photograph of a Northern Purple Pitcher plant taken in a wild bog in Northern Minnesota. Very low to the ground visible tufts of moss grow at it's base, to the left and seen above and below through gap's in foliage. Some green leaves of other low growing wild plants are below, above and to the right. The purple leaf, centrally focused is a excellent example of the plant's defining feature. They are hollow, curved, and hold rainwater in a tube like shape, larger at the top and tapering towards the base. The inner surface of the pitcher has downward-pointing hairs and a slippery rim, making it difficult for insects to escape after they fall in. The color is a deep maroon, purple with green vein like markings towards the base and green spot like patches on the top of the leaf above and leading into the 'pitcher'. Darker purple veins help to define the giraffe like green patches through the contrast in color and help attract insects. The outside edge of this upper part of the leave is scalloped and wavy.
#Stunday
#NorthernPurplePitcherPlant
#Carniverous
#BogLife
www.minnesotaseasons.com/Plants/north...
A bright blue damselfly (bluet) is hanging down in a bog of red sphagnum moss with its tail and wings stuck to the tentacles of multiple carnivorous sundew plants (Drosera rotundifolia)
I call this "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" because this damselfly (bluet) is stuck to no fewer than three and possibly four Round-leaved sundews. I did feel bad for its fate!
#SundewSunday #sundews #damselflies #boglife #carnivorousplants
A Round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) with its hairy stalk and sticky tenacles
A bright blue Damselfly (Bluet) sits on the sphagnum moss of the bog with its wing hopelessly caught in the folded-over sticky Round-leaved sundew tentacles
Amazing life (and death!) to be observed in a #bog: Tiny Round-leaved #sundews are much the same size as the surrounding sphagnum moss and have gorgeous tentacles--not a happy thing for this unfortunate #damselfly (Bluet)!
#bogs #boglife #damselflies #carnivorousplants
Two pink lady slipper blossoms in the woods near our house in Maine.
These Cypripedium acaule (pink lady slippers) are flowering in the swampy woods adjacent to our house. I love living in a Maine swamp.
#swamplife
#boglife
#Maine
Our local Sandhill Cranes, Bob and Betty. They made a visit to my porch this morning to snack a few pieces of corn! π½ π₯° Such big beautiful Dino birds! Hoping we will see a baby soon! π #birds #cranes #birdwatching #becurious #wetlands #boglife #nature
Emily standing in front of a toilet - her usual evening out picture
Late to get started this year with the #boglife calendar but here we go. By the banks of the Thames
I am in this photo #boglife
Emily posing in her hotel bathroom. Grinning like a lion because she is going out for cheese
#boglife. My trademark toilet picture series finally migrated to Bluesky
This also applies if travelling by train from Edinburgh to Glasgow via Carstairs. π
#boglife