Fragrant Water-Lily

An edible food source, the unopened buds and unfurling leaves can be boiled 5-10 mins and served with butter. The tubers can be dug up and prepared as potatoes. The tubers can also be made into flour. 

Yellow-legged Meadowhawks Mating

 

Pickerelweed

An edible food source, the young leaves can be chopped and added to salads, or boiled 10 minutes and eaten with butter. The fruits hold a starchy seed that can be eaten plain, or dried and added to granola, or can be roasted and ground into flour. The leaves should be harvested in early summer and the fruits containing the seeds should be harvested in late summer and early fall. 

Yellow-legged Meadowhawk

 

Heron

 

Black & Yellow Argiope

I can't tell you how wrong it is that this monstrocity occurs in nature, but there you have it in black and yellow! A spider trying to disguise itself as something pretty...who can blame it really, if I were a spider, I'd try to hide it too!

My New Favorite

 

Red & Green

 

Avery Point & Cormorants

 

Beach Boardwalk

 

Bluff Point Beach

 

Pretty Boy!

 

Camouflaged