Going on three springs now, our exploration of Little Crum Creek has been adding up to a fair catalogue of life along the water.
All along, I’ve been looking forward to creating a page where visitors can easily browse lists of flowers, trees, birds, insects, and everything else we’ve found.
Now, on the brand new Browse page, you’ll find several lists arranged for easy reference and identification.
Just click on any topic to see all posts that have featured what you want to see.
Browse potential will grow with every new post to the Home page.
Hope you find it as useful as I do!
Native columbine in a creekside garden. Will it eventually naturalize and make our lists?
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April 23, 2012 at 6:35 pm
excellent work! scott, i would buy a book with all your wonderful photos and writing in it. though i love the easy and informal format of the blog, i really think you should consider publishing something! (or maybe you already have, and i just don’t know about it…?)
April 25, 2012 at 9:41 pm
Thank you, Ann!
I’ve mostly scribbled lines on leaves floated downstream.
But if ever I did publish something, I’d happily take pay in trade … say, some ikebana perhaps …?
April 23, 2012 at 5:30 pm
Great feature on the browse page, Scott! I like that a lot.
April 24, 2012 at 5:24 pm
Cool, thanks T!
April 23, 2012 at 11:39 am
Pretty capture Scott! Love the index, when revisiting your birds, I specifically looked for the robin sunning on the bench, still LOVE that shot!
April 23, 2012 at 12:14 pm
Cool! I’m looking forward to some of those funky summer sunning poses. Hope the index made it easy to find!
(P.S. Recent sighting here that might interest you … hope to post it soon.)
April 23, 2012 at 9:21 am
I appreciate the enormous amount of work that you’ve done to build the index. You’ve inspired me, too.
Columbine does seem to spread once it’s found a happy spot. That is a particularly attractive example.
April 23, 2012 at 9:55 am
Thanks Gerry … I hope you’re right about the columbine, that it’s in a happy spot and will spread.
It’s funny. Of the handful of native plants introduced, I had the least confidence in columbine because it seemed so fragile in a high traffic area (fox, opossum, raccoon, woodchuck, deer, rabbit, squirrel). But, so far, it has done the best!
April 23, 2012 at 10:21 am
Maybe it doesn’t taste good . . . 🙂
April 23, 2012 at 10:25 am
Maybe … and hopefully won’t be trampled.
April 23, 2012 at 9:19 am
The index is very useful. I noticed you have garlic mustard on it. I just found that here and didn’t know what it was so I looked it up and found that it’s number two on the worst invasive species list. But it smells delicious!
April 23, 2012 at 9:49 am
Yes, apparently its herbal appeal compelled settlers to bring it in the first place.
Garlic mustard partly inspired the index. Since I aim to feature a new subject in each post, but plants like garlic mustard are so common along LCC, I thought the Browse page would help keep those plants in readers’ minds long after being featured. Maybe it’s working!
April 23, 2012 at 7:12 pm
I’ve been urged to do the same thing, but have yet to do anything with it. Mine would be just wild flowers, but I’m not sure how best to catagorize them.
April 24, 2012 at 5:35 pm
You include a lot of great information & IDs in each post. I guess that would make indexing a particular challenge. But I know you’d put one together that I’d use.
April 22, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Great photo, and I love the index, I am just starting something similar on my blog.
April 22, 2012 at 6:57 pm
Cool … looking forward to seeing it!
April 22, 2012 at 6:36 pm
The same to you! That is one of the prettiest columbines I have ever seen.
April 22, 2012 at 6:46 pm
The columbine came from Catherine Smith at Redbud Native Plant Nursery and was planted here three years ago. It’s doing really well!
http://www.redbudnativeplantnursery.com/
April 22, 2012 at 5:51 pm
Columbine? Great find!
(love the new index of topics – good idea!)
April 22, 2012 at 6:40 pm
Well, the columbine was planted in a little native plant garden by the creek, and it’s come back fuller for three straight seasons. This year, another took seed a few feet away and has one single flower. Hopefully a sign of more to come!
Glad you like the new index!