[goatsNdonkey]

Gray dogwood berries.



Sun Wide Zoom Macro f3.5 24-40mm Multi-coated
Honeywell Pentax ES
Ilford FP4 Plus

[paulh]

Gray dogwood berries.

So that's what those "eyeballs" are! I see them everywhere these days. Nice shooting.

Fallen tree in the creek:

[goatsNdonkey]

So that's what those "eyeballs" are! I see them everywhere these days. Nice shooting.

Thanks, Paul! The gray dogwood, at least around here often appears as a small to large shrub, sometimes growing in thickets, but they can get to be small trees of as much as 20 feet tall. The berries are white (not just on BW film) when ripe, but can be pinkish or even magenta at stages of development. The small speckles sometimes on them tend to be a pinkish shade of tan. The twigs where the berries form on are reddish, below which the twigs are light gray. If your "eyeball" berries are on different sorts of twigs, it might be a closely related dogwood tree or shrub, or a different but similar looking plant. Birds eat the berries, and disperse the seeds. We must have thousands of gray dogwoods on our farm. We cut some of them and toss them into the goat yard. The goats love eating the leaves, berries, twigs, and bark.

[paulh]

Thanks, Paul! The gray dogwood, at least around here

Here's what the local ones look like - taken late September:

[goatsNdonkey]

Here's what the local ones look like - taken late September:

That's definitely gray dogwood. Great picture.

[paulh]

That's definitely gray dogwood. Great picture.

Thanks goats. That was taken with a little Canon p&s I stick in my pocket during dogwalks, etc.

The jacarandas were blooming during my visit to SoCal last July. DA18-55 on K10D:

[dadipentak]

[Crooski]

Autumn is coming

[jcdoss]

Pod-Laden Catalpa
K-1 mII & K24/2.8

[CharLac]

The trees are spectacular right now

[paulh]

[paulh]

Backlit trees (and Jeannie) at the creek:

[WPRESTO]

This might be a young baobab - not sure (no label).

[jacamar]

Mizzy Lake Trail, Algonquin Park

[WPRESTO]

Two trees in the Namib Desert.