James Dillon, PCH

October 7, 2025 🌱 Another of the columbabies.

The yellow, autumn colors of American Persimmon leaves (Diospyros virginiana) Most leaves have holes denoting their significance and impact in its surrounding ecosystem. Take time to breathe. Be outside in nature. It will provide peace and mental health. americanpersimmon fallcolors autumncolors nativeplants

Each fallen leaf has its story of birth and decay. Biodiversity. Balance. Hope. Autumn colors of American Persimmon leaves (Diospyros virginiana) #DiospyrosVirginiana

In the center, a large tree with branches covered in moss and in the background the tombs and the church of the Campo Santo of Ghent, Belgium. Campo Santo is a famous Roman Catholic public burial ground in Sint-Amandsberg.

#ThickTrunkTuesday 🌳 at Campo Santo in Ghent 🖤
#Gand #Gent #Ghent
#Cemetery #Cemeteries

'We have a genetic kinship with all life on earth, an atomic kinship to all matter in the cosmos, So when I look at the universe, I feel large, because I remind myself that not only are we living in this universe, the universe is living within us.'
- NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

A Pileated Woodpecker passing by overhead.

Hello from nature this morning! I'm struggling with optimism and not feeling people and that's OK but at least the world is beautiful and it's worth defending!

Here's a recap of the best moments of the first hour of my day ❤️ 🪶

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

A dense cluster of scaley pholiota grow off the side of a fallen log in a misty blue forest. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Three purple flowers with fringe-y petals in bright sunlight, with a dark bee on the yellow center of one of them.

Plenty of native bees on my walk today, including on these gorgeous asters

#invertebrates #BloomScrolling 🐝 🌿

:)) So awesome! Love watching them in my yard. Amazing capture of the bug snack!

YouTube video by Get To Know Nature Catbird Calls! And Fledglings

Two minutes of catbird fun! Including how they got their name. Plus the cutest baby

#birds 🌿 🧪

Photo of Jane Goodall. Text says, "You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world areound. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." -Jane Goodall

I am heartbroken to hear that Dr. Jane Goodall has passed. She has done so much to help people better appreciate Nature, animals, & women. She will be sorely missed. 🙁

The spiked skeleton of faded blooms is a natural fireworks display.

Autumn’s natural fireworks start to take over the garden 📷🌱 …

a shining example🐞

Your daily aster update.

#nativeplants #nativegarden #aster #bloomscrolling

So beautiful❤️ Stunning capture of the magic!
That layered vegetation!

Wavy-lined Emerald moth caterpillar on Brown-eyed Susan flower

Wavy-lined Emerald moth caterpillar on Brown-eyed Susan flower

Wavy-lined Emerald moth caterpillar on Brown-eyed Susan flower

Wavy-lined Emerald moth

Wavy-lined Emerald (Synchlora aerata) caterpillars hide by sticking flower petals to their backs. They mostly eat flowers, not leaves, which lets them use many natives like Rudbeckia, Helianthus, Solidago, Aster, and Verbena. They grow into small green moths with wavy-edged wings.

Thank you for bringing the amazing vibrancy of nature into my home and heart 💞✨🙏

I'll be vending my art (along with a draft of my new calendar) all weekend in New Hope. Come say hi!

a composite flower with over a dozen light, bright purplish pink disk florets and no ray florets. each disk floret is has a tubular corolla with five pointed, spreading lobes, and a long, bifuracted style that runs through a dark purple fused stamen tube. reddish purple bristles run up along the outside of the corolla.

several flowerheads near the top of a tall stem, each with over a dozen bright purple-pink, tubular disk florets with five pointed lobes & long split styles. below the florets, there are rows and rows of green & purple hoary, rounded phyllaries that curve out away from the columnar flowerhead.

two southern blazingstars growing in a patch of savannah among grasses, in front of some slenderstalk beeblossoms. the blazingstars are chest-high and leaning to the right. many lance-shaped green leaves grow alternately on the tall stems, many with budding flowerheads on their axils. the flowers are successively more developed nearer the top of the stems, which terminate in a few flowerheads in full bloom, each with over a dozen bright purple-pink florets with long styles.

🌸 southern blazingstar 🌿
Liatris squarrulosa

#nativeplants #flowerreport
#bloomscrolling #bloomsky

Nature always finds a way to brighten my day! 💛

I see a happy predator getting a pollen snack.

Thanks for such a thoughtful suggestion :))This plant rocks!

Awesome combos!

New england aster, drummond's aster, and frost aster.

Drummond's aster and New England aster

New England aster - both purple and pink, along with false sunflower.

It's no surprise, but I'll be posting a lot of aster photos over the next month.

#nativegarden #nativeplants

Thank you!

A front garden of this small cottage showing hints of the season. Black foliage of the spent Coreopsis contrasts with white misty flowers, reddish tones of the Little Bluestem grass, groundcovers, a dwarf conifer, and pale yellow Threadleaf Bluestar creates the backdrop and separation from the neighboring property.

This garden has been prolific all year with succession of bloom and now it will shine into the winter. I do like when Coreopsis can be all black (foreground, due to the drought and heat stress this year) and actually add to the garden because of the beautiful contrasts in color, form, life/death.

Spent blooms on the Onion punctuate the foreground with yellow Goldenrods proliferating the garden. The short one in the center is bright yellow with compact spikes. The 'Fireworks' in the background has a lacy flower texture.

I can't get enough Goldenrod and Allium. Here is A. 'Summer Beauty', S. 'Golden Fleece' (center), and S. 'Fireworks' (back right).

An extraordinarily fuzzy grass lights up red and glowy in the foreground... a see through effect, with the black seed heads of Coneflower behind. Yellow in the upper left is 'Fireworks' Goldenrod. Lots of seed heads from the 'Summer Beauty' Onion remain and punctuate. A stylized meadow effect in this garden.

After the summer heat and drought, 'Ha Ha Tonka' Little Bluestem takes the stage. Bravo. #nativeplants