Friday, 8:30 AM. 60 degrees, wind WNW, very light. The channel is glassy, the shoreline trees of the Island casting their reflections far out onto the water. The sky is partly cloudy and the barometer predicts more of the same. It is a fine day.
Pictured is a common native plant of fields and roadsides, the daisy fleabane, Erigeron philadelphicum. There are white flowered species of Erigeron as well. This one may be a garden escapee, as fleabanes are somewhat used in the garden. Fleabanes are in the Aster family and look quite similar but the composite flowers are much smaller and more delicate. Its name is said to be derived from the fact that the small seeds look like fleas, but I find no mention of it being used to ward off fleas, as the appellation "bane" would indicate, although it does have some uses in folk medicine.
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