Catalpa

 

They rain down flowers on the path, quite beautiful, but I don’t want to step on them. Southern catalpa: “The catalpa has the distinction of bearing some of the showiest flowers of all the American native trees.” The natural range of the tree was in central Louisiana, but seems to have adapted all over America and southern Canada.  

Clover, honeysuckle and mulberry

 

Article in honeysuckle. 

Like knowing names

I showed my son my meditation spot, where the turtle came up and meditated with me, and told me I was enlightened. I'm not going to repost a photo here of that, there's a million posts about that spot on here.

I've googled the trees outside my window. One is a Norway Maple, and the other is European Ash (pictured above).

Blue Flag

Snails

Fragrant

Rosa multiflora (syn. Rosa polyantha)[2]is a species of rose known commonly as multiflora rose,[3] baby rose,[3]Japanese rose,[3] many-flowered rose,[3] seven-sisters rose,[3] Eijitsu rose and rambler rose. It is native to eastern Asia, in China, Japan, and Korea. It should not be confused with Rosa rugosa, which is also known as "Japanese rose", or with polyantha roses which are garden cultivars derived from hybrids of R. multiflora. It was introduced to North America, where it is regarded as an invasive species.

I hear at least 3 of these bird songs walking by the lake.

Flowers

 

Saw robins, mourning doves, mallards and red wing black birds.

Rainy foggy day

 

This was the biggest one I saw. There were some blocks to raise up out of the swamp and they were covered with tiny ones that were impossible not to crunch a few. New York is home to over 100 species of land snails.