Did it really rain all night long? It sure seemed like it and while it had stopped by morning, everything was soaking wet including the dank atmosphere itself. The indefatigable Clapper Rail was calling from the vegetation around our tidal pond but much as he seemed to move from one spot to another (a possible ventriloqual effect), he never showed himself.
The Deptford Pinks are coming into bloom and there are two hawkweed types putting on something of a display: One with dandelion-like leaves has good-sized and deeply colored flowers on tall thin stems that rise up from a basal rosette (one of the hawksbeards?). The other has narrow unsegmented basal leaves, a similar set of stems but noticeably smaller flowers (one of the Hieracium hawkweeds?).
Eric Salzman
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