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Sheba Marx

Sheba Marx
Location
Near Bennington, Vermont, USA
Birthday
February 10
Bio
Sheba Marx has been employed as a writer, budget analyst, dishwasher, executive director, telephone operator, chief innovations officer, development director, swim teacher, custodian, assistant director, sales clerk, grants officer, transcript typist, facility planning coordinator, research assistant and consultant. She has been unemployed since October 26, 2009. Find all of Sheba Marx's Good Things about Unemployment at unemployedmarx.blogspot.com

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APRIL 28, 2011 9:10AM

Spring Wildflowers & Peepers

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Spring wildflowers in the rich woods of the Northeastern U.S.

I'm in the Berkshire mountains. I am so lucky to be able to take these photos: A very nice reward after such a long and heavy snowy/icy winter. These photos were taken Tuesday & Wednesday. We are now having a serious thunderstorm so I want to get this posted before the electricity goes out again.

TroutLily

Trout Lily

  Bellwort

Sessile Bellwort

PurpleTrillium

 Purple Trillium. One of my very favorites.

Anemone

Anemone

violet

Downy Yellow Violet

snake

He was trying to scare me. I love the snakes because they eat mice. 

 

My second video is 38 seconds. You can hear male Northern Spring Peepers-- tiny frogs with built-in amplifiers. They live in the small wetland next to our house. You'll see the vocal sac expand and deflate. They are about one inch and very difficult to see. This is all I could get of the guy. But enjoy! He has quite a voice.

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Sheba, these were great. You have a great eye. The video of the bird was just cool!
Such beautiful pictures and the site slowed down again.
This sucks but your pictures project only greatness..:)
From snow to flowers..
Yahoo
rated with hugs
Yes. "awesome" and more so awesome - after reading an interesting post...
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"comments closed"

But, that is often wise.

There is a lack snake under my porch. The snake is Friendly. and eats mice. This winter there were no mice visiting me on my computer table. I miss baby mice. One year the Mommy Mouse made a nest in the (now needing fixed) gizmo printer. I No got printer anymore.
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Bellweather Vance's mind expansion writ. hat was a wild morn read.
I felt like I was a nickel short, and I began shaking my computer as if
'it' was a candy machine.
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Bellwort? Is that also called a May Flower? This is glorious to Look at. Yoy ever sip Mountain Mead?
It's a mild traditional honey wine.
It's got no fruit, spices - just honey.
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Homebrews are best. Share communion.
There is a Redstone Meadery in Colorado.
But, I am serious. I thank my garden snake.
The poison snakes are awesome. Respects.
They hiss like a bursted plumbers Pot Pipe.
tease.
Plumbers just fix outhouses and no puff pot.
No you do puff pot too. Pot is still not legal.

The black snake comes out to say` Howdy.
If I am on the porch the dry leaves `Rattle.
One year there was a Rattlesnake. O Scary.
18 bangs to rate this.. Please fix the site EDi tor
ooooh! i love the snake! and the flowers are beautiful. :)
I miss the peepers from Wisconsin. great snake pic. Did the garter snake try to scare you by threatening to pee if you picked it up?

I Did a blog on Bluebird sightings yesterday, just in time for OS to crash and make it harder to view than most State Secrets. Hope OS has a less crummy day today.
Sheba, what a beautiful collection you have presented! We have the same sounding peepers here in the wetlands part of the property, too. I would be hard pressed to find as many wildflowers as you have presented here, however!
Thank you so much...I loved the sudden appearance of the snake...just like in life!
I miss Dogtooth Lilies . . .
Just what my eyes needed to see, love the Downy Yellow Violet. The little peeper was adorable but that constant inflating looks exhausting, poor guy. Thanks for working to get the video.
You do have a great eye. This was so great!
I love your nature posts. You have a wonderfully quiet way of sneaking up on amazing things. Thank you!!
Oh, I forgot all about tree frogs in the spring...sigh. You're so brave to get that close to the snake!!!!!!
I have never seen a trout lily in real before, what a treat, thank you, beautiful photos, btw!! Our trilliums are white in Mn. then turn pink before they die. Wrote a poem about them cause when they bloom, they are every 2inches all over our land up north. Lovely.
I will do spring wild flowers too but it will be awhile! Loved this, and congrads on your EP, one of the best!
Very cool! I love the frog video. My cats were perking up their ears out of curiousity. The flowers are lovely.
Beautiful breath of spring. Thank you for these.
The flower photos are amazing, the snake photo is my favorite (he needs a set of false fangs to look scary) and the frog video made my day. You call him Mario Lanza?
Nice, Sheba! What you call purple trillium, we call red trillium. I've been walking the woods, photographing the wild flowers as they open. The trillium opened a couple of days ago; still waiting for the trout lillies to burst into bloom, although their leaves have been out in profusion.
Trout lily bulbs are delicious! Gotta get them just as the leaves are unfurling.
Sheba these photos are fantastic and that frog made my day. Thank you. -R-
That snake definitely succeeded in scaring me, and it was only a photograph!

Great pictures. Wildflowers are so lovely.
You're an excellent photographer, Sheba! And loved the bird in your video. Thanks for sharing.
I love the snakes too!! Great pictures. Congratulations on the EP!
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I guess this why I love Vermont so much. It's my favorite state.
Such shy beauty wildflowers exhibit. Well, the purple trillium is a bit of a hussy. My cat also looked at the screen when the peepers came on :) You are such a great documentor. or -euse.
Beautiful ! And how that heart beats on the Northern Spring Peeper as he sings. Congratulations for the EP !
♥R
I dislike snakes bec you never know what they might do and they get scared easily - things or people that feel threatened easily can be dangerous in their fear. But otherwise loved this peek into the flora and fauna of your world - keep posting Sheba.

'Sheba' by the way in Bangla, my language, means to serve and you are doing a fantastic job celebrating life here in so many forms - thank you and a hug.
I was hoping for more snow pictures.
Thanks you all for all your generous comments. And Leepin Larry, you always crack me up. I certainly got a lot of mileage out of snow and ice. For months, that is all I saw and you were certainly tolerate of all those photos.
Loved the pics, much better than snow I think. Is that a garter snake? Loved the frogs too. Great post...
Yes, a garter snake.
Oh these images bring back so many memories. Esp the purple trilliom.
Why do I never tire of photos such as these? Great job. You got the depth of field right.