New York

NYBG Plants

2021-09-062021-08-30Sherry Felix13 Comments

5 of 6 of the New York Botanical Gardens.

NYBG Lilies

2021-09-052021-09-05Sherry Felix12 Comments

Lotuses and Lilies

4 of 6 of the New York Botanical Gardens. I like the sculptural form of the lily seed pods. Each one is slightly different. I replaced most of the backgrounds and enhanced my photographs in Photoshop.

I just learned the difference between a lotus and a lily:

Lotuses belong to the family Nelumbonaceae. The leaves and flowers of a lotus rise above the water’s surface.
Water lilies belong to the family Nymphaeaceae. The leaves and flowers of a water lily float on the water surface. The leaves of a tropical water lily float on the water surface, but its flowers are about 6-8 inches above the water surface.

NYBG Roses

2021-09-042021-08-30Sherry Felix7 Comments

3 of 6 of the New York Botanical Gardens. The red rose is an oddball in this series, but it is a rose.

NYBG Flowers

2021-09-032021-08-30Sherry Felix16 Comments

2 of 6 of the Bronx Botanical Gardens series. You may notice that I swapped out backgrounds in some of these.

NYBG Ferns

2021-09-022021-08-30Sherry Felix9 Comments

While the weather was hot to hot to enjoy going out I stayed home and worked on the photographs I took in the New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx, New York on August 18, 2011. There are so many that I would like to share I will be posting these for six days.

Jamaica Bay

2021-09-012022-08-15Sherry Felix12 Comments

We had a brief but rewarding trip out to Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn, New York on the 15^th of August. I added a few new odonates to my life list. I learned the word odonates from my fellow Linnaean NY members. September starts the new Zoom meetings and they are free. You may attend one from anywhere or view a recording of one if the timing isn’t right linnaeannewyork.org. The first one on September 14 will be about Bats.

Reed grass (Phragmites), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021

Ghost Forest

2021-08-312021-08-22Sherry Felix2 Comments

Maya Lin: Ghost Forest — Madison Square Park Conservancy 49 dead white cedars to depict climate change at Madison Square Park, New York City by Maya Lin. Play the audio tour which highlights some of the sounds of animals that where once found in Manhattan. The names are given in English and Lenape.

Ghost Forest by Maya Lin, Madison Square Park, NYC 7/30/2021

Harriman Fungi

2021-08-302021-08-30Sherry Felix10 Comments

Here are some of the fungi we saw on July 29^th by Stony Brook in Harriman State Park, NY. There were more mushrooms than I have seen in years that day. Conditions must have been just right. I did my best to ID these with my two books on Fungi. I am not 100% sure if I got them right. If there are any mycologists out there who can correct me, please do.

Need I say, do not eat the Destroying Angel, Amanita bisporigera – Wikipedia. I included the Indian Pipes, Monotropa uniflora – Wikipedia which is a plant and not a fungus.