Yes, I know ... more mushrooms .. enough already!
But I can't help it that they keep popping up everywhere! And there are so many different varieties ...
This plant, arum maculatum, grows under a tree at the bottom of the sloping field at our property where it's always shady and the soil nice and moist.
It's also known as the Cuckoo Pint, Jack-in-the-pulpit or ladies-and-gents, due to its flowers which somewhat look like male and female parts.
It's also known as the Cuckoo Pint, Jack-in-the-pulpit or ladies-and-gents, due to its flowers which somewhat look like male and female parts.
It's a 'painfully' poisonous wild plant, secretly full of little needles that injure the skin and cause your throat to swell ... it could end up killing you!
Oh well ... just don't touch or eat it I guess. Right now, in the fall, their fruit emerges on tall spikes, slowly coloring from green to bright orange.
The weather has dried up some over the last couple of days but the days are mostly gray and foggy.
Now we 'gained' an hour after the ending of daylight savings time and darkness is arriving earlier it makes for very short days already ..
The pond in Willamina loomed rather gloomy when I visited the other day ...
The first ducks are arriving, coming back from their northern summer vacations.
I saw some American Wigeons ..
... and a few Buffleheads :
Oh well ... just don't touch or eat it I guess. Right now, in the fall, their fruit emerges on tall spikes, slowly coloring from green to bright orange.
The weather has dried up some over the last couple of days but the days are mostly gray and foggy.
Now we 'gained' an hour after the ending of daylight savings time and darkness is arriving earlier it makes for very short days already ..
The pond in Willamina loomed rather gloomy when I visited the other day ...
The first ducks are arriving, coming back from their northern summer vacations.
I saw some American Wigeons ..
... and a few Buffleheads :
I finished my Halloween puzzle, thank goodness, that one is not for the faint of heart (!), started another and did a little baking.
These cookies look like speculaas but they're actually 'Jan Hagel', another dutch cookie, covered with pearl(or nib)-sugar, hence the 'hagel' which translates to 'hail', and almond shavings.
In hind-side I probably should have gone for speculaas since Sinterklaas once again 'arrived' in the Netherlands this Saturday (which is the 'official', televised arrival).
This year he arrived on the Wadden-Sea island of Texel, which so happens to be the island just above the city I used to live in!
It's a very pretty island, I've always said that if I would have stayed in Holland I would have liked to live there ...
Speculaas is eaten especially during the time St. Nicolas is in the country, but it's a favorite during all of fall and winter.
Jan Hagel is very similar though so I think I can get away with it ... I'll bake some (the thicker variety) speculaas on the 5th of December when we celebrate his birthday!
And that was all she wrote for this week ... life has slowed down with the change of the season, and the holiday-events haven't started yet .. soon though .. time flies .. less than 6 weeks to Christmas!
This year he arrived on the Wadden-Sea island of Texel, which so happens to be the island just above the city I used to live in!
It's a very pretty island, I've always said that if I would have stayed in Holland I would have liked to live there ...
Speculaas is eaten especially during the time St. Nicolas is in the country, but it's a favorite during all of fall and winter.
Jan Hagel is very similar though so I think I can get away with it ... I'll bake some (the thicker variety) speculaas on the 5th of December when we celebrate his birthday!
And that was all she wrote for this week ... life has slowed down with the change of the season, and the holiday-events haven't started yet .. soon though .. time flies .. less than 6 weeks to Christmas!
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