Friday Botanical Blogging

The flowers, both domestic and wild, are not doing much around here...but the other day when I was out walking I noticed these fruit down near the bank of the pond that abuts our property, so I went back with a camera. There are two or three of these shrubs in amongst the sumac and other shrubs and small trees "with wet feet" near the water's edge; they have leaves like a maple, so I'm thinking they're in the hawthorn family...but I honestly don't know; my Audubon field guide has failed me. In any event, they speak to the bittersweetness of late summer -- one of the first hints of the season to come.

Late summer at water's edge