{"id":865,"date":"2021-09-08T14:13:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T19:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/?p=865"},"modified":"2021-09-08T14:16:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T19:16:04","slug":"80-acres-other-views-of-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/08\/80-acres-other-views-of-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"80 Acres–Other Views of Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Views of the grass to woods margin: I was north of Center Walk, where the Indiangrass had stopped, and the only tallgrass is Little Bluestem.\u00a0 The purple thistle-y looking plants aren’t thistles at all, but Eryngo, which is related to pineapple.\u00a0 Distantly.\u00a0 The grass has greened up after six-tenths of an inch of rain night before last.\u00a0 All the vertical “brushstrokes” are Little Bluestem, which is slowly moving up-slope and taking over from the “improved pasture grasses” that had been grazed to the nub when we bought the place.<\/p>\n

Some closeups of Eryngo, one including an example of local invertebrate fauna.\u00a0 (The charming little ladybug beetle on the tip of a little bluestem stalk couldn’t be photographed because I can’t sway in the wind to stay focused on it.<\/p>\n

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\"\"It really is royal purple…and silver flashes from the leaves.\u00a0 The grass there is probably KRB, King Ranch Bluestem, a common pasture grass from Africa, but there are scattered plants of Silky Bluestem (another import) and even Silver (or Sugar) Bluestem, a native.<\/p>\n

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Although it gets stemmy and raggedy looking as lower leaves turn brown, it’s otherwise elegant and beautiful in all stages of flowering.\u00a0\u00a0 The first opening is a lovely silver-green with bright silver leaves and just touches of purple…then it’s about half and half–green, half-purple surrounding bay purple leaves, and then it goes ALL purple…<\/p>\n

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Green lynx spiders commonly hang out on Eryngo (they’re not the only spider but one of the more obvious) and I have photos of them from previous years.\u00a0 Notice that blob of green that’s not the Eryngo, and the lanky, orangish, sparsely-haired spider legs on the left of this Eryngo.<\/p>\n

What else, besides vultures and Eryngo?\u00a0\u00a0 Lots more than I took pictures of, but a good number of pics.<\/p>\n

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Bur oak planted near the north fence years ago…many were planted, this one survived.<\/p>\n

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South grass meadow, below the Dry Woods knoll. This morning we had especially heavy dew, and it stuck in the interstices of the seedheads of wildflowers.\u00a0 As I walked back toward the house, the whole area appeared silvery.\u00a0 You can see the round heads of gaillardia at the bottom margin, just right of center: they glow in the light anyway, but with the dew it’s a glittery-glow.\u00a0 And they’re all through the area.\u00a0 I had to hold my hand partly over the lens to shield it from the sun angle or the whole thing would’ve glared out, but…it was a sight to see.\u00a0 Foreground grass is partly Meadow Dropseed, with tufts of Curly Mesquite, Texas grama, and Buffalograss in the mix, lower than the dropseed.<\/p>\n

Progress in physical conditioning (how far I can walk, how fast–both improving) and weight, less than a pound to go to be at the halfway mark of the 60 pound goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Views of the grass to woods margin: I was north of Center Walk, where the Indiangrass had stopped, and the only tallgrass is Little Bluestem.\u00a0 The purple thistle-y looking plants aren’t thistles at all, but Eryngo, which is related to pineapple.\u00a0 Distantly.\u00a0 The grass has greened up after six-tenths of an inch of rain night Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,16,32],"tags":[52,17,51],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-80-acres","category-life-beyond-writing","category-progress","tag-80acres","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}