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#BloomWatch2024 continues! Unexpectedly pulling ahead of the Daffodils are the flowers of the #RedMaple #Acer_rubrum! And Lo! they did not flower in vain for unidentified wasps were collecting the pollen! Everybody’s early! This has been… Bloom Watch 2024 (*mentally insert jingle here*).
"Glorious Red Maple" by James DeFazio
Prints and more available at:
https://james-defazio.pixels.com/featured/glorious-red-maple-james-defazio.html
How it finally ended . . .
Today December 26th
Three weekend rainstorms later
How it's still going . . .
11-11-23: Red maple
Couple of photos from walking around the neighborhood to post. should be 4 or 5 days worth
I should probably look into the mystery of Why Is My #RedMaple The Tardiest In Town. All of the others have been leafless for weeks but mine was as green as summer until a few days ago. It’s even way behind the Oaks and Norway Maple. What gives?!?!
Why #Ecologists Are Haunted by the Rapid Growth of #GhostForests
A study in North Carolina of dying #trees may represent a foreboding preview of what may come to #coastal #ecosystems worldwide.
by Jim Morrison
"As the ocean intrudes and saltwater rises, it kills trees and creates these ghost forests—bare trunks, and stumps, ashen tombstones marking a once-thriving coastal ecosystem. In North Carolina, #pine, #RedMaple, #sweetgum and bald #cypress forests are being replaced by saltmarsh. Eventually, that saltmarsh will be replaced by open water, a shift that leads to significant and complex costs to the environment and the local economy. The loss of forests will reduce carbon storage, further fueling climate change, and the agriculture industry, timber interests will suffer as saltwater moves inland."
"Red Maple Against A Dark Sky" by James DeFazio
Prints and more at: https://james-defazio.pixels.com/featured/red-maple-against-a-dark-sky-james-defazio.html
Visiting a #Tupelo #Nyssa_sylvatica / #SwampWhiteOak #Quercus_bicolor / #RedMaple #Acer_rubrum #wetlands on a record-breakingly hot February (66° F / 18.9° C) day in Acushnet, #Massachusetts
Hey #mosstodon, @mara and I were putting up Christmas lights in our #RedMaple when I some beautiful #moss and #lichen.
I thought you all might approve!