NEW POST CAPS... A WET MORNING
BLADDER CAMPION FLOWER
BLADDER CAMPIONSaturday , 8:00 AM. 63 degrees, wind WNW, light with gusts. The sky is overcast and there was fog earlier, but the barometer predicts partly cloudy skies. It rained another .8” while we were gone.
Our trip was uneventful except for the threat of severe thunderstorms, which we dodged. The meeting was productive and interesting. We saw a lot of turkeys between Mercer and Hurley on Hwy 51. There are signs of fall in the marshes and bogs, both red maples and tamaracks beginning to turn.
Bladder campion, Silene cucubalis, in the pink family, is a European roadside and field flower which turns up in a lot of places. It is so-called because the base of the flower is bulbous, like a bladder.
The lawn is like a hayfield and I shall mow it as soon as it dries out a bit. I have just finished installing coper caps on the posts of the north deck. They turned out very nicely.
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