Patterns are always fun. Your no Id might be a big rumex: the seeds look familiar.

Deutrocohnia

Fungus

Oak

Haemanthus

Hierecleum

Very nice, as always mac.

A few more...

Simple sunflower

and a little closer.

A bit of Thalictrum

Climbing Hydrangea

Let's see, there's a gaggle of geese, is this a cupboard of silphium?

...or a plethora of petiolaris?

tj

tj this has become an annual event that I so look forward to. Thank you! Wonderful pics everyone!

Flower pattern on fungi.

Iris s. Ruffled Velvet - so many patterns & colours.

Iris s. Snow Queen simple but elegant I think.

Lilium philadelphicum I think. Full of speckles & shadows.

Lobelia cardinalis

Great Spangled Fritillary

GSF with pattern on reverse.

Monarch on Vernonia.

Bombus on... name that plant?

AgastacheCampanula incurvaSarracenia flava ornataAsclepias exaltataLichen on split rail fence Dunno... name that plant? Blooming in June at an old fort down by Corvallis.Iris bracteataCypripedium californicumTriteleia hyacinthiana and Allium acuminatum? I don’t remember which Allium it is.

What a visual feast this is — thank you!

Darlingtonia californica. I have no idea if this pic is appropriate, so please forgive me if I’m a bit obtuse for showing it.

Do these count? Christmas gift from someone who knows me well.

Giggle!

cyclamen coum

symphytum 'Axminster Gold"

I have no idea...

maple stump fungus

athyrium otophorum

arisaema thunbergii

acanthus spinosus

fun stuff

???

cyclamen coum

symphytum 'Axminster Gold'

maple stump fungus

athyrium otophorum

arisaema thunbergii

fun stuff!

So nice Steve! Your unknown is something I have never seen before but I believe it is Multiclavula mucida. Love it.

Viburnum tinus

And V x bodnantense is already opening...

Sorry for the repeats, Houzz posting problems.

Thanks peren.all, that certainly looks like my unknown.

Boy do I live in the wrong climate. mac the fact that V. x bodnantense is opening up speaks to that.

Bee on Allium tuberosum - a pollinator magnet for all.

Wing pattern

Variation in sun

This baby Hummingbird was fine but mom gave it heck for being on the ground.

Feather pattern so different from baby.

Asclepias t.

Trillium luteum leaf.

Tricyrtus hirta

These are gorgeous photos! I can add these :)

Swallowtail caterpillar on dill:

Swallowtail:

And some of my favorite hostas. :)

These pictures are all reminding me how much I miss the spring.... soon enough. Except for Peren who will be in the winter for the next 4 months. It hasn’t actually gone below freezing here this year at all. We’ve had a couple frosts, but the banana at my work is still completely unfazed. This follows three summers of the hottest summer on record. I’d take a bit of snow at this point.

On a walk today.

Some orchids

Haworthia flowers

and the plant

Echeveria runyonii 'Topsy Turvy'

Pachyphytum compactum, I like the geometric lines

Kalanchoe tomentosa

Great pix, everyone, thanks.

As for my mystery plant, I think Dr. Seuss did something on it. "Hortensis Hears a Who".

Never enough pix, never enough pollen...

'Inaba Shidare' up close.

Iris pallida

Poppy 'Lauren's Grape'

tj

tj glad to see our fearless leader back! After "feeding" us another clue I think your mystery plant may be Atriplex hortensis.

Gorgeous moth on Astrantia.

Orgyria antiqua

Dragonfly catching the light.

Anaphalis margaritacea

Armeria

El Desperado

Voodoo Dancer

Phlox p. Mystic Green

Yes, peren, it is indeed Atriplex hortensis. Or... Orach (salad days) 'Oracle' (Prophet).

tj

That makes sense - it looks a bit like Amaranthus gone to seed, and they are related.

I wish more people would join in to keep this going. It is -32 C with the windchill that's -25.6 F brrrr. I do have things to do outside but for now....

L. Valentine

D. cucullaria

E. v. Sulphureum

Helleborus

Platycodon Hakone Blue

Pulmonaria - back with more later.

Very nice peren. That does seem a bit chilly. I can’t even imagine what that feels like... I don’t think I’ve ever been anywhere colder than -5F, and not since I was a kid. It still hasn’t gone below 30F here with no forecast to, so here are some photos from yesterday of all 4 seasons:

Fall

Winter

Spring:

Only a tiny shred of summer is left in a Shasta daisy I found. Not worth posting...

So strange to hear complaints about the cold weather! Here in Oz it's the opposite.

"It was 48.9C last Tuesday in Port Augusta,
South Australia, an old harbour city that now harvests makes solar
power. Michelle Coles, the owner of the local cinema, took off her shoes
at night to test the concrete before letting the dogs out. “People tend
to stay at home,” she said. “They don’t walk around when it’s like
this.”

It’s easy to see why: in the middle of the day it takes seconds to
blister a dog’s paw or child’s foot. In Mildura, in northern Victoria,
last week gardeners burned their hands when they picked up their tools,
which had been left in the sun at 46C. Fish were dying in the rivers.

Almost every day last week a new heat record was broken in Australia.
They spread out, unrelenting, across the country, with records broken
for all kinds of reasons – as if the statistics were finding an infinite
series of ways to say that it was hot..."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/19/australia-swelters-as-relentless-hot-weather-smashes-records

Now that I've had my moan about that, I've gone back to my files and dug out some older pics, many from Bhutan and some from Oz. I know some are "weedy", but beauty is where you find it...

And I assume that we all know that clicking on any pic enlarges it to show more detail?

There appears to be a limit to the number of pics per thread, so I'll take this opportunity to bore you guys some more...

Same here. I like the moths and butterflies.

Buck moth

Maybe a Catocala caterpillar

Cecropia moth

Gold-banded Skipper Butterfly

Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly

Gulf Fritillary Butterfly

Hummingbird Clearwing Moth

Common Buckeye Butterfly

Angulose Prominent Moth

Fiery Skipper Butterfly

And a few more ……..

Common Tan Wave Moth

Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly

Creole Pearl-eye Butterfly

Hyalophora cecropia (Cecropia Moth) caterpillar

Leonard's Skipper Butterfly

Little Satyr Wood Butterfly

Mottled Prominent Moth

Mourning Cloak Butterfly

Can't forget my beautiful shingle-back lizards. They have a pattern too, no?

How plants are doing in that terrible heat shaxhome? Those in gardens, in the fields, in the wild? We, people can always find a shelter to protect us from extreme weather, they can't.
How about animals? I recently stumbled upon the article about bats dying by thousands in Australia's heat, too https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46859000 I am afraid it is not only fish and bats.

Ah, Windberry. I live 0n 100 acres of native bushland. I'd estimate I've lost 200 mature trees to the drought so far. Their bark peels back and then the trunks split from top to bottom. I'm talking 30' to 60' trees here.

My 10-15 year old fruit trees are mostly dead. Apples, cherries, lemons, oranges. I've given up on growing vegetables these last 3 years. They literally bake in the ground. Every day before and after work, I fill small troughs with rainwater (all I have, as I live off-grid) for the kangaroos and birds. They'd drink more if I had it, but I'm running out of water myself now.

I pick up dozens of dead micro-bats every weekend. It's relentless, heartless weather. Talk about the frog in a pot slowly coming to the boil. Only this isn't so slow...

Our koalas don't drink water, and avoid human contact wherever possible. They get their hydration from the juicy leaves they eat.

However...So Thirsty

I love the patterns in our local terrain. These were taken in Sep a few years ago, after we finally had rain at the end of a summer with drought.

And more butterflies and moths

Pearl Crescent Butterfly

Pink-striped Oakworm Moth

Red Admiral Butterfly

Red-spotted Purple Butterfly

Reversed Haploa Moth

also a Reversed Haploa Moth

Rosy Maple Moth

Silvery Checkerspot Butterflies on dung - they bite, too

Skipper Butterfly

Small-eyed Sphynx Moth

Final group of butterflies and moths

Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly

Spotted Apatelodes Moth Caterpillar

Spotted Apatelodes Moth Caterpillar legs

Sweetfern Geometer Moth

Tersa Sphinx Caterpillar

Tersa Sphinx Caterpillar with head pulled in to scare me off

Whit-marked Tussock Moth Caterpillar

Zabulon Skipper Moth

Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly

So happy to see more joining in!

Thanks mac. You lead a charmed life weather wise. To add to the "fun" yesterday the power went out for about 6 hrs. It is a good thing I heat with a wood stove as well as propane.

shaxhome I wish our weather could even out between the two of us. I would happily give up some of my cold to off set your dreadful heat. We actually do get to 40 the odd time if you include the humidity. In our summer the humidity plays a large role.

Gorgeous pics all! jekeesl I enjoy photographing moths & butterflies too. I had no idea any butterflies bit.

The closed wings of a Red Admiral.

So many patterns in this dragonfly.

Tree frog - one of my favorite critters.

Pulsatilla

Rheum p. Atrosanguineum breaking ground.

Tradescantia

The very common Agriope aurantia.

Man, those were some great additions by you folks. Thanks.

tj