3:00 snapshot, #110.

[urbpan]

All the ash trees at Drumlin Farm are falling down, one by one.










Hidden the roots of this tree: a horseshoe.

Disgusting substance of the day: sandy mud coating my cuffs all day.

On this day in 365 Urban Species: Horseweed. I'm almost positive that the photographs on this entry actually depict toadflax. The two plants look very similar before they flower.

Comments

[martianmoons.livejournal.com]

How old that horseshoe must be! How cool to imagine people playing with it a long time ago, and then to have it lost in the weeds, to eventually be found under a big tree! :)

[droserary.livejournal.com]

What's the culprit behind the ash trees succumbing to gravity? Emerald ash borer?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Definitely a combination of insects and fungi, but I don't know for sure that we have the Emerald ash borer on site. It wouldn't surprise me--we have the hemlock adelgid, winter moths, and all the other celebrity invasives.

[broken-angel.livejournal.com]

Neat find with the horseshoe! A good one for found_objects.