The pictures of
Easter Lilies from a few days ago obviously aren’t the big Japanese
lilies commonly sold as Easter Lilies; they’re a native plant,
found in their native habitat in Lowndes County, Georgia.
Everybody around here recognizes them, and seems to call them either
Easter Lilies, or “those lilies you see in the ditch by the road.”
Nobody seems to know any other name for them, neither common nor botanic.
So Gretchen and I journeyed two hours south to the strange land of
Gainesville, Florida, to attend the
Gopher Tortoise Council spring meeting, taking a few samples
of “those lilies” in hopes that the assembled botanists and biologists
could identify them.
And they could!
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You never know what you’ll find swimming about, such as this pair of
Canada geese on March 27 2008.
Gretchen didn’t have a telephoto lens, and the geese weren’t going to let us paddle any closer,
so she took this picture through one side of her binoculars.
