A little bit of nature

[smallwanderings]

These were taken along Little Gunpowder River at Jerusalem Mill in Baltimore County, Maryland. The hornets are European Hornets, about 1¼" long. They are not agressive; I was 7 - 8" away when I took the pictures. I took about 10 pictures and they ignored me, though I did see one flinch from the shadow of a bird flying overhead.

Social Wasps: Yellowjackets, Hornets, and Paper Wasps | University of Maryland Extension

How to identify and manage common wasps such as yellowjackets, European hornets, baldfaced hornets, and paper wasps found in Maryland. The Northern giant hornet ("murder hornet") and yellow-legged hornet are not present in Maryland.

extension.umd.edu

 

[Tobaccofieldsforever]

@smallwanderings Nice, did you pop any pods on the touch me not? I guess I’m still a child because I can’t resist when I see one!

 

[smallwanderings]

@smallwanderings Nice, did you pop any pods on the touch me not? I guess I’m still a child because I can’t resist when I see one!

No, I had completely forgotten that or I would have. I very much like such childlikeness. "Except you become as little children...." we miss so much to see aound us.

C. S. Lewis said that when he became a man he put away childish things, one of which was the fear of being thought of as being like a child.

 

[smallwanderings]

Yesterday along the Big Gunpowder River, Baltimore County, MD

 

[smallwanderings]

And the "pot rocks" in the river bed.

 

[deluxestogie]

Wonderful photos. I see fossil traces in the pot rocks:



Bob

 

[smallwanderings]

 

[Homegrowngoodnes]

And the "pot rocks" in the river bed.
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Looks like a bear head right? Krikey! Lol

 

[Knucklehead]

And the "pot rocks" in the river bed.
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I found a website to your park. Beautiful place.

Pot Rocks – A Gunpowder Falls Favorite :: Find Your Chesapeake

My discovery of Pot Rocks came while searching for a swimming hole last year. I’d recently returned from the rainforest of Puerto Rico and had become…

www.findyourchesapeake.com

 

[Homegrowngoodnes]

Beautiful place

I found a website to your park. Beautiful place.

Pot Rocks – A Gunpowder Falls Favorite :: Find Your Chesapeake

My discovery of Pot Rocks came while searching for a swimming hole last year. I’d recently returned from the rainforest of Puerto Rico and had become…

www.findyourchesapeake.com

 

[deluxestogie]

How a pothole forms in rock:

Potholes

Bob

 

[smallwanderings]

How a pothole forms in rock:

Potholes

Bob

I lived along the Susquehanna river 40 years ago near the small town of Marietta, Pa. A short walk upriver, along the shore there were pot rocks big enough that I could have stood in them, at least up to my shoulders if not higher, and I am 6'3", or at least I was then.

 

[smallwanderings]

A swallowtail butterfly caterpillar in a bed of carrot plants of another gardener where my garden is.

 

[Cray Squirrel]

A swallowtail butterfly caterpillar in a bed of carrot plants of another gardener where my garden is.

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Awesome.This summer when up in the nearby mountains here in Colorado, a pair of tiger swallowtails did a brief and frantic dance and I was fortunate to catch a quick picture of one

 

[Cray Squirrel]

Awesome.This summer when up in the nearby mountains here in Colorado, a pair of tiger swallowtails did a brief and frantic dance and I was fortunate to catch a quick picture of one View attachment 39350

White lined Sphinx on 4 Oclocks.

 

[Cray Squirrel]

 

[smallwanderings]

Awesome.This summer when up in the nearby mountains here in Colorado, a pair of tiger swallowtails did a brief and frantic dance and I was fortunate to catch a quick picture of one View attachment 39350

I was born in Colorado Springs when my family went there from Pennsylvania for a vacation and decided to stay for a while. I remember nothing, being still an infant when they moved back to PA. I have never been back.

 

[Cray Squirrel]

I was born in Colorado Springs when my family went there from Pennsylvania for a vacation and decided to stay for a while. I remember nothing, being still an infant when they moved back to PA. I have never been back.

I was almost born in France but my family got on the ship that took them to America and so I was born an American citizen. We emigrated in through Texas and the family worked in the fields harvesting fruit and vegetables. Hard life but a good life for non English speaking people.

 

[skychaser]

View attachment 39351 White lined Sphinx on 4 Oclocks.

That's the only kind of Spinx moth I have ever seen here. My wife once spent hours trying to get a photo of one. They don't come out until it's nearly dark. They love petunias and tobacco flowers too. But don't lay eggs that turn into tobacco horn worms.

 

[netreeguy]

Found this last week and only reason it survived was it's appetite for purslane. Big, had a horn on it caterpillar and think one of many white lined sphynx varieties.