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| Cattails and stripy green water |
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| Rushes. I used to make braids out of these, supposedly to use for something, but I never got that far. |
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| Cross spiders use the rushes as framework for webs hanging over the water. Good mosquito control. |
"Sedges have edges; rushes are round." I always have trouble sorting these out, so I was glad to run across this mnemonic, referring to the cross-section of the stems. Rush stems are also pithy, whereas sedges have solid stems.
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| Tall sedges, against the sky. |
And up the hill under the trees:
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| On the floor of the evergreen "forest". (It's about as tiny as the lake below.) |
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| Back yards merge gently, unfenced, into the mowed grass between the houses and the wild bush. This hydrangea is nearing its sell-by date. |
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| Bird "whitewash" and rust spots on salmonberry leaves. |
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| Blackberries are red when they're green. The black ones were delicious. |
