Gleaning Facebook: Spring Tinies

I set out to record some of the plants in Mama's woods and the tiny gardens in the average yard.

These stunning little flowers are everywhere. So diminuative that we rarely notice.

The invasive periwinkle (Vinca sp.) Thirty years ago or so I pulled two or three of these out of th eground at Mama & Daddy's little shack at Indian Springs Camp Meeting. I stuck 'em in a tiny waste area at our house on Cedar Avenue. Now they are everywhere.

The little strawberry blossum you might notice, but how many folks stop to contemplate the goegeous, tiny, white stars .. I have no idea what they are.

 

Southern Adder's Tongue.

This little rose is under the Turner-McCall Bridge on the Riverwalk.
Christie Hufsteter Boyd:  think this is the Cherokee Rose. Very small and tiny and very beautiful.

The little wood behind my mother's house is home to lots of violets.

This is either Solomon's Plume or Solomon's Seal -- in Mama's wood.

Everyone's favorite, Toxicodendron radicans or Poison Ivy. See the glossy red baby leaves. Leaflets three? Let it be!

Spring Beauties along Mama's little creek.

Another Spring Beauty.

Wild Ginger or Heartleaf or Little Brown Jug or whatever you want to call it -- in Mama's wood.

Crossvine along the Riverwalk.

This cottony little tree is giving its seeds to the river winds just south of the Oostanaula Bbridge near State Mutual Stadium.

These glorious little spikes of blue decorate the margins of the wetland around State Mutual Stadium.

City workers have trimed out some of the trees along the Riverwalk near the stadium. Here in an inspired moment of gas-powered creativity they manufactured a recliner and two matching more upright chairs from a stump and two sections of bole. The model is my bride.

Two tiny Sensitive Fern fiddleheads in Mama's back yard.
Christie Hufstedler Boyd: Up in upstate New York, they sell these in the spring in the produce section at Wegman's grocery store. They are very expensive. They are also sold in a vegetable medley that you saute.