WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: GREEN

For this week’s photo challenge, I put together some old photos that are green. I needed to string together this motley of photographs, so please please, pardon my hasty and silly rhyme. 🙂 And feel free to ignore the words too and head straight to the pictures. 🙂

There are greens that I truly detest

at spring time, they are big pests

The Nasty Caterpillar — This caterpillar which grows to about 1-inch long appears in early spring and gobbles up the tender spring shoots. They especially like young rose and young blueberry leaves. I do not know how to control them without using pesticides. I used a mixture of soap, garlic, and pepper flakes once. It did not work that well.

there are greens I am happy to see

makes this world as pretty as pretty can be

Lily of the Valley — Spring rains and plants go together.

there are greens that are quite resilient

they grow anywhere, how efficient.

Lichen — I found this lichen growing on a fallen branch in our backyard. I was intrigued by the little tentacles catching the light. I just had to take a photo before the branch was cut up and tossed in the brush pile.

there are greens for souvenirs

of how life was before I moved here

Calamansi, or kalamunding in my hometown, is our version of lime. The closest fruit I foound here is the key lime. They do not have the same flavor. It is the tartness in our marinades, the extra boost to pancit, the cure-all for our cold (in the form of Calamansi juice, a.k.a., limonada.) Its plant has little fragrant white flowers that scent the air.

Then there is the green that’s truly useful

the tractor, not the man, is an excellent tool. 😉

John Dear — The man and the tractor have the same name, and are both dear. 😉 Goodbye, dandelions. We need to keep up with our neighbors’ neat yard. Before we had the tractor, we – the Dear, rather, used a push lawnmower to trim the yard.

Here are the rest of the Green photos.

Here are more of my spring bane. These tiny winged insects eat the plants. I always rejoice when the spiders appear later in spring time.

This grasshopper is relatively. Its body is about an inch long.

I do not know if this bug is friendly or not. Maybe, it is judging from the fact that the blueberry leaf does not seem to be munched on. I spied it sunbathing one sunny spring day. This bug is a tad smaller than a ladybug. I wonder what its name is.

How could a big tree, the oak tree, have such tiny flowers?

This fern was growing in our backyard. One spring afternoon, while I was taking pictures of bugs and weed flowers, I saw this fern stretching out in the sun.

This moss was growing on the bark of a tree in the woods of Maine.

I found this lichen during one late spring walk in the woods near my in-laws’ place in Maine.

GRANADA. That is how we call this fruit in Batangas, Philippines. It looks like a guava on the outside, but the inside looks like the pomegranate’s. It remains green even when mature and the seeds are tart.

This picture is especial to me because I took it from the front yard of my parents’ house when we visited in the summer. I think that this is the leaf of a wild ampalaya, bitter melon. I saw it clambering all over the plants in the yard.