Of course it’s an Eastern Swallowtail. I’ve posted pictures of swallowtails before, but I guess you can’t have too many pictures of this lovely insect.
Taken with a Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II
Around the Neighborhood – A butterfly
Around the Neighborhood – Interesting clouds over a meadow
This meadow is about a fifteen minute walk from my house. I like to take the dog there. Lots of wildflowers and insects. Also a small pond. If you read my posts you might recall that I posted a tree silhouette (See: Around the Neighborhood – Tree Silhouette). This is the same tree. At the time I wrote the earlier post it was bare and I thought it was dead. You can see that it’s not.
The clouds stimulated me to take this picture.
Taken with a Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II
Around the Neighborhood – Skunk Cabbage
Skunk Cabbage growing in wetland near to the house. Again created by Caney Brook, but this time on the other side of Sleepy Hollow Road.
For those who are not familiar with skunk cabbage Wikipedia describes it at follows: “Symplocarpus foetidus, commonly known as skunk cabbage or eastern skunk cabbage (also swamp cabbage, clumpfoot cabbage, or meadow cabbage, foetid pothos or polecat weed), is a low growing plant that grows in wetlands and moist hill slopes of eastern North America. Bruised leaves present a fragrance reminiscent of skunk…Eastern skunk cabbage has leaves which are large, 40–55 cm (16–22 in) long and 30–40 cm (12–16 in) broad. It flowers early in the spring when only the flowers are visible above the mud. The stems remain buried below the surface of the soil with the leaves emerging later. The flowers are produced on a 5–10 cm (2–4 in) long spadix contained within a spathe, 10–15 cm (4–6 in) tall and mottled purple in colour. The rhizome is often 30 cm (0.98 ft) thick.”
I don’t really understand the last sentence above, but this is skunk cabbage after the flowers have disappeared.
I liked the light.
Taken with a Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II
Around the Neighborhood – A small waterfall
In the preceding post (See: Around the Neighborhood – Bullrushes) I mentioned Caney Brook flowing over a brick wall. This small waterfall is where it occurs.
Taken with a Sony A6000 and some kind of adapted manual lens, I don’t remember which.
Around the Neighborhood – Bullrushes
Caney brook seems to run through the garden of a house near to mine and creates an area of wetland. The brook then runs over a brick wall and continues on for some distance until it runs into Pocantico Lake. These bullrushes grow in the wetland.
Taken with a Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II