There Really Is A Pileated Up That Tree

- And Then There Is Jetsam

- technically I should have used the word 'lagan' : re "Lagan (also called ligan)^[4] is goods or wreckage that is lying on the bottom of the ocean, sometimes marked by a buoy, which can be reclaimed", but my nontechnical mind thinks of 'Jetsam' as what someone throws over the side. (and my nontechnical mind thinks of 'flotsam' as anything floating freely as in my previous post of the floating leaf ).

The Divine Osird Form of the Beard

- as I, camera in hand, was looking over the side of Twin Bridges and seeing the early fall leaf floating by and remembering the nice comment of my last floating leaf, I quickly snapped the lovely colour of autumn itself - and as a bonus the shadow of the leaf on the water reminded me of the divine Osird form of the beard, which was a long, narrow beard of several strands plaited like a pigtail with the end jutting forward, as on the gold mask of Tutankh.

Lovely Day

The scene is very pleasing to my eye - but as in the previous posts 'Early Fall Day' and 'Skeeter Boat' the scene is dominated by an invasive marsh grass that is rapidly displacing the native 'cat-tail' (Typha latifolia) and turning marshy areas into almost impregnable thickets for both man and native animals.

Phragmites australis, common reed, commonly forms extensive stands (known as reed beds), which may be as much as 1 square kilometre (0.39 sq mi) or more in extent. Where conditions are suitable it can also spread at 5 metres (16 ft) or more per year by horizontal runners, which put down roots at regular intervals. It can grow in damp ground, in standing water up to 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) or so deep, or even as a floating mat. The erect stems grow to 2–6 metres (6 ft 7 in–19 ft 8 in) tall, with the tallest plants growing in areas with hot summers and fertile growing conditions.

Early Fall Day