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Fen Thistle

7/30/22

Cirsium muticum
Every so often I accept a commission, and when it is from my good friend Linda I know it will be a cool one.  This one is Cirsium muticum, or fen thistle.  A rare and very special plant, we find the flower buds particularly striking.

 


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Reed-Turner Ravine

7/15/22

Reed-Turner Ravine
One of the places I love to go is the Reed-Turner Nature Preserve in Long Grove.  This lovely preserve boasts a hilly trail that leads you from the bottom, where you can watch the damselflies dance over the water of a stream, up to the top where you can look out over the trees and get an elevated view of that stream.  Along the way are some nice specimens of woodland plants that I don't see just everywhere, like baneberry, white trilliums, and even a mermaid's tail or two.
To celebrate a recent visit there with my daughter I created this serene little painting.  We're at the top, here, looking down on the stream as it wends its way through the trees.

 


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