Can You Help ?

[chris]

I thought that since there are a lot more experienced folks on here than a mere city girl like me you could help me faster than me trying to search the Internet. I took some fotos the other day and need to know what they are. Thank you.

Wild flowers, from L to R :



1. maybe milkweed ?
2. some type of red berry
3.these pink flowers grow like ground cover almost look like clover
4. same pink flower
5. no clue
6. yellow is close up of the one in 5
not suree what the white one is either along side it

[dgriffin]

I didn't find it, but you might want to take a look at this interesting site:
weedalert.com/weed_listing/northeastern_weeds/wa_weed_listing_y.htm

And if you're willing to dig, here:
www.ppws.vt.edu/weedindex.htm

This looks like a great book, if you become a Weed Fan

www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801483344/ref=s9_simx_gw_s0_p14_t1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=15BZB42ZD63QRF6MZ7DE&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

[chris]

Thanks Dave....I checked those but there are just too many wildflowers and weeds and who knew.

I found some on this page and a couple great poems to boot (I like the first by Blake)

lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/usa2001/ny_wildflowers_2001.html

1. milkweed

2. Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii)

3. & 4. crown vetch (cornilla varia)

5. & 6. St. John's Wort, yarrow (white)

Hopefully these are all correct.

[dgriffin]

Tiger, tiger, the man certainly lived in another dimension. I found Peter Ackroyd's bio of Blake (pub. about ten years ago, I think) matched my level of interest in 18th century poets and artists. Blake was a fascinating character, an engraver by day. He had no formal training in art, but from the book illustrations he learned to create for his employers, he developed a style of art that (to me, at least) is at once startling and fraught with feeling. I'm no art major, but van Gogh surely took some inspiration from him.

I liked (from Auguries):

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent.
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for Joy & Woe;
And when this we rightly know
Thro' the World we safely go.
Joy & Woe are woven fine,
A Clothing for the Soul divine;
Under every grief & pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.

[stoney]

Whatever they are, they're pretty! Wildflowers are always the greatest...