CapeBreton-NorvellHimself-SingleMalt: August 2018

Up In Flames - and I am going home away from toxic fumes from (more than likely) burning paint in the repair shop

Up In Flames - bottom photograph from where I had driven on a back private road

Up In Flames

I was filling the Ridgeline (Honda AWD pickup-truck) and several gasoline cans when I turned to watch a police cars lights flashing and siren wailing - this is what I saw moments later.

Lizzie's Lake - Pitcher Plant - IV (my favorite photograph of this strange and lovely wild flower)

Lizzie's Lake - Pitcher Plant - III

Flowers and seeds

Cutaway view of a Sarracenia flower

Flowers are produced early in spring, with or slightly ahead of the first pitchers. They are held singly on long stems, generally well above the pitcher traps to avoid the trapping of potential pollinators. The flowers, which depending on species are 3–10 centimeters in diameter, are dramatic and have an elaborate design which prevents self-pollination. It consists of five sepals superintended by three bracts, numerous anthers, and an umbrella-like five-pointed style, over which five long yellow or red petals dangle. The whole flower is held upside-down, so that the umbrella-like style catches the pollen dropped by the anthers. The stigmas are located at the tips of the umbrella-like style. The primary pollinators are bees. Bees searching for nectar must force their way past one of the stigmas to enter the chamber formed by the style. Inside, they will inevitably come in contact with a lot of pollen, both from the hanging anthers and from the pollen collected by the style. Upon exiting, the bees must force their way under one of the flap-like petals. This keeps them away from the stigma, avoiding self-pollination. The next flower visited receives on its stigmata some of the first flower's pollen, and the cycle continues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarracenia

Lizzie's Lake - Pitcher Plant - II

nearing Lizzie's Lake we came to heathy fen areas where Pitcher Plants grew in profusion

Sarracenia purpurea
Sarracenia are herbaceous perennial plants that grow from a subterranean rhizome, with many tubular pitcher-shaped leaves radiating out from the growing point, and then turning upwards with their trap openings facing the center of the crown. The trap is a vertical tube with a 'hood' (the operculum) extending over its entrance; and below it the top of the tube usually has a rolled lip (the peristome) which secretes nectar and scents. The hood itself frequently produces nectar too, but in lesser quantities.
The inside of the pitcher tube, depending on the species, can be divided into three to five distinguishable zones: zone 1 is the operculum (or hood), zone 2 is the peristome and rest of the trap entrance, while zones 3 and 4 (which in some species are combined) and 5 (only present in S. purpurea) are further divisions of the actual tube. Each of these zones has a specific function, with corresponding morphophysiological characteristics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarracenia

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