Nature redecorating

Being #inLOVEwithSWITZERLAND and walking #Ermatingen

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#Bodensee #Flowers #Grapes #LakeConstance #Rebhüsli #Schweiz #Summer #Switzerland #Thurgau #Thurgovia #Vines #WorkLifeBalance

Nice patch of dodder (Cuscuta sp.) at the restored meadow in the Crum Woods (Swarthmore College). No flowers yet so species ID is hopeless. #swarthmore #dodder #parasite #parasitic #botany #plants #cuscuta #nature #vines #convolvulaceae #ricohgriiix

the metaphor shop

#Shop #Seaside #Fantasy #Beach #Rustic #Path #Doorway #Vines #Plants #Sign #Whimsical #Symbolic #Stone #Wood
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion #Midjourney

in real life: https://aieris.art/featured/the-metaphor-shop-eris-and-ai.html

Last Saturday moment of Zen, tired and happy I was and looked for a place to put my souvenir from the No Kings Rally in Phoenix. As day was starting to turn to night, I saw the tiny indoor jasmine star vines are beginning to flower after a year and a half! You have to look really close). Nice place to rest a flag showing distress but hopeful a true, steady Resistance is growing. #Flag #Flowers #Jasmine #Vines

In North America, invasive English ivy is ecologically awful for many reasons and I hate it. But the tangle of stems also makes it dangerous for arborists when they need to climb trees. This pic is from Friday when my neighbor had a tree taken down. Everything went fine but you could tell the guy was being extra careful when he repositioned his spurs. #EnglishIvy #hedera #ivy #trees #arborist #invasive #vines #chainsaw

#Lightning strikes usually kill #trees. This one just grows stronger https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5357412/lightning-tree-dipteryx-oleifera

How some tropical trees benefit from being struck by lightning https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.70062

"The lightning's power cleanses these trees of parasitic #vines. It also zaps trees nearby, reducing competition. Dipteryx oleifera, a towering presence in #Panama's forests, is particularly adept at thriving after enduring events that are deadly to most other trees."

Vine-covered Building, Catania, Sicily, Italy

http://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/02/27/vine-covered-building-catania-sicily-italy-photography/

https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/800792347432464079

growing over

#WatercolorStyle #Leaves #Blue #Green #White #Spiral #Grasses #Vines #Rustic #Decoration
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

in real life: https://aieris.art/featured/growing-over-eris-and-ai.html

When we visited the Christchurch Botanic gardens recently my daughter took me to this ancient ivy, her favorite plant in the gardens. It has some terrifically twisted, creepy H. R. Eiger vibes.

It grows up the side of a giant sequoia tree that was planted in 1873. I expect the ivy cannot be much younger than that as its base is completely smothered by large sequoia roots.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/260229137

#botany #vines #plants #nz #Christchurch #BotanicGarden #ivy #ThickTrunkTuesday.

#Vines looking healthy before the big rains predicted for this weekend