Beauty in ordinary things, dept.

February 21, 2008 – I’ve been taking photos of beautiful roadside weeds, and Mary Letcher was good enough to e-mail me and tell me they are a wetland reed known as Phragmites, growing abundantly in boggy areas, swamps and surrounding vernal or man made ponds or lakes.. Some, she says, find the Phragmites a blight, but they are believed to act as a barrier to flooding and home to muskrats, spring peepers and Red-winged blackbirds. I took this photo today near Saratoga, and I love the way they photograph. Nearly got run over by a truck or two. Got to get one of those orange vests. Thanks, Mary.