Ode to Green

What you always knew!

 

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Well!!!

 

Actually I was shocked yesterday. So I want to dedicate the following to Kermit and Jim Henson.

 

 “If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider 

 

  “Simple is good.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider 

 

  “No time is wasted time”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider 

 

  “I know that it's easier to portray a world that's filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show that you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that, you have to put yourself out on a limb, take chances, and run the risk of being called a do-gooder.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider 

 

  “Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider 

 

“Moving right along
In search of good times
And good news,
With good friends you can't lose.
This could become a habit.

 

 

 

“Moving right along
In search of good times
And good news,
With good friends you can't lose.
This could become a habit.

Opportunity just knocked,
Let's reach out and grab it,
Together we'll nab it,
We'll hitch-hike, bus, or yellow cab it.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider  

 

Thanks for the memories,

 

W O B

Einfuhrung = Introduction

Durham Forest - Oak Ridges Moraine

Wir waren etwas bei "D" in Oak Ridges, quelle für Duffin Creek Ost (rechte Arm)

  Parkplatz:

Canadians are well educated, and understand the law and so have no problems obeying it. Social distancing, wearing a mask, dog on the leash, paying taxes, saying "Sorry, eh!" Wahrscheinlich auswanderer von der Eifel -Ardenne!

Old forest -200 years old - the road-trail-Weg was never built.

Mai Apfel!

And fiddle heads oder Geigerkopf - gebratten in Butter =  lecker -

Und was wir gesucht haben -

White Trillium.

Aber oben ist normal - es gibt doch andere:

Und dann

Und viel mehr, many more variations, Volker!


WOB

Ten thousand saw I at a glance

It is hard for me to realize how long it has been between entries. 2000+ photos later and I have a mission to communicate some observations I made of trilliums in Scout Valley. The quote is from a
poem by William Wordsworth entitled "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

Now I am anything but a poet. However, I did see close to 10,000 trilliums, maybe not in a single glance but over an interval of an hour  and a hillside. The following shows their state of blooming this year.

More or less: all the whites are trilliums. (There were a few other species with white flowers but not enough to alter the statistics - I haven't showed all the plants.

Ten-Thousand

Ten-thousand saw I at a glance at Grant's Woods this afternoon - much better viewing than bird watching.

The canopy of green below the blue sky:

Trilliums among the fallen birch:

The traditional -

The red -

And some unusual -

A lovely afternoon

You can't see "Trillium white"; so it must be:

Wise Old Bird in Lincoln Green?