Memories of 2016 (part 2)
January 10th, 2017
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Magnolia Warbler, photographed in early July in Denholm, Quebec.
Purple-Flowering Raspberry, also photographed in Denholm in July (while staying at a friend's cottage.) This common flowering bush is in the rose family and looks similar to Pasture Rose, but has maple-leaf-like leaves, and instead of producing rose hips it produces very tart raspberries! They are virtually inedible raw, but it's said you can make jellies and pies out of them.
(ETA: See comments on the question of edibility/palatability of PFR berries.)
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A Northern Water Snake pokes its head up out of Roger's Pond in Marlborough Forest. This is a harmless snake, to humans anyway, that leads an aquatic lifestyle and eats mainly fish and amphibians.
A luminous Black-Eyed Susan in Marlborough Forest.
January 10th, 2017
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Magnolia Warbler, photographed in early July in Denholm, Quebec.
Purple-Flowering Raspberry, also photographed in Denholm in July (while staying at a friend's cottage.) This common flowering bush is in the rose family and looks similar to Pasture Rose, but has maple-leaf-like leaves, and instead of producing rose hips it produces very tart raspberries! They are virtually inedible raw, but it's said you can make jellies and pies out of them.
(ETA: See comments on the question of edibility/palatability of PFR berries.)
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A Northern Water Snake pokes its head up out of Roger's Pond in Marlborough Forest. This is a harmless snake, to humans anyway, that leads an aquatic lifestyle and eats mainly fish and amphibians.
A luminous Black-Eyed Susan in Marlborough Forest.
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Mike
January 10th, 2017 at 1:33 pm
I remember that snake!
It's refreshing seeing the bright colors, especially the green, at this time of year.
ilanikhan
January 10th, 2017 at 2:24 pm
Stunning as always. I appreciate the sharpness of your subjects.
I'll echo what ironphoenix said because I was thinking it too - it's a wonderful shot of colour in a dreary day.
dagibbs
January 10th, 2017 at 2:30 pm
"produces very tart raspberries! They are virtually inedible raw, but it's said you can make jellies and pies out of them. "
We used to eat these as kids, and if you let them get properly ripe, they were quite edible right off the bush. Not a lot less sweet than a normal (wild) raspberry, though a different flavour.
Suzanne
January 11th, 2017 at 1:19 am
Interesting--is there a trick to telling when they're properly ripe? Anytime I've tasted them off the bush, even when the berries looked big and ripe, they've puckered my mouth! I've read mixed reports from others, with most saying likewise, but a few saying like you that they're actually good to eat.
dagibbs
January 11th, 2017 at 1:44 am
Hm... been decades... but I think they needed to get to a really deep red colour, almost purplish, and be starting to separate from the (don't know the word... not stalk, or stem, but the holder bit) when properly ripe.
Suzanne
January 11th, 2017 at 3:01 am
Thanks...will have to give that a try next summer :-)