11 May 2024
This week I photographed a few puzzling objects for the record.
When I took a photo of Full Leaf trees in Schenley Park on 5 May I noticed something newly visible in the presence of leaves. Can you see it?
Look at the center of the photo where the path disappears in the distance. Above the path is a gap that allows you to see further under the trees. The gap flows to the right and follows the contour of the hillside. That’s the browseline, the cumulative effect of too many deer eating at the same location over and over.
I saw a native(!) honeysuckle this week. Pink with fused leaves, it’s called limber or glaucous honeysuckle (Lonicera dioica).
Was this a cattle egret at Moraine State Park? If so it was a rare bird! Nope. It’s a white bag.
On 3 May a leaf-footed bug appeared to walk across the sky.
During the Pittsburgh Marathon Dippy the dinosaur watched near the halfway mark.
What puzzles will we see this week?
Love that limber honeysuckle! I have a small one in the garden, that I bought from a native plant nursery, but I have never seen one in the wild; the flowers and fruits are both so tiny and unique looking.
Your bag did look like an egret. As you know I have tons of them. And your bug walking across the sky reminded me of all of the disgusting “love bugs” we have flying all over the place this month. My goodness there are so many, but we have been fortunate the last couple of years because there were so few. It is the “Revenge of the Love Bugs” this year!! 🙂