Common Mullein

I met up with Nada at the Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center in Chatham NJ today. We had so much fun walking through the area and photographing the flora and fauna. The Great Swamp is not entirely swampland but rather a mixture of marshes, meadows, dry woods and brush-covered swamps. It is the intermingling of these four habitats that gives the Great Swamp its unique character, allowing the swamp to support a wide variety of plant and animal life. As visitors walk along trails and over boardwalks, they can observe plants varying in size from the tiny duckweed to the towering red oak. I believe this beauty is called Common Mullein but I'm not absolutely certain since the flowers aren't in full bloom yet.

Thanks Nada for a wonderful day!!

[Maggiemae]

The plant is interesting with all its little nests of flowers!

[Nada A.]

So pretty. The macro setting works so well, creating such a lovely depth of field.

I am already ready to plan our next outing.

[Laraine Kensicki]

beautiful shot! so glad the weather was good ~

[Kerri]

Beautiful

[Colleen]

This macro is tremendous Ann!

[Liane]

amazing

[Terry]

Very nice, bold colors.

[Taffy]

Fantastic -- greens are SO hard to capture!

[Janice aka JPlovesCOTTON]

Love the depth of this photo!

[Rick Schies]

Those colors are so rich and pure looking

[Suze]

Sounds like an interesting place and this is an interesting plant - great capture

[bkb in the city]

Nice shot. Glad the two of you had a good time

[Sarah Bremner]

pretty!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@maggiemae @nadaa @eniaral @kerristephens @httpgeffed @lfrans @sarasdadandmom @taffy @jplovescotton @digitalrn @roddy @bkbinthecity @sarah19

Thank you so much to everyone who is still commenting on my pictures while my world is upside down! Jeff and I are learning that Siberian Larch (our new floor) does not act or react like the typical oak or wood floors that people put in their homes. It's still drying! Add to the fact that I've had an extremely busy week and you get one 365er who is VERY behind on her own viewing and commenting! My profuse apologies as I try to get into some sort of rhythm or pattern going in my world.

@nadaa Next stop the Arboretum with Laraine!

[Nada A.]

Arboretum sounds good to me!

@eniaral

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@eniaral The ball's in your court Laraine- give us some dates to choose from!

@nadaa

[Allison Williams]

I remember the director of the nature camp where I worked as a teen ager telling us the story of how the settlers dipped these stalks in tallow and used them as lanterns. Great angle.

[PamSnaps1]

It sounds like such a lovely place! Great depth of field on this photo!

[Dakotaburns]

Nicely composed.

[Phil]

Beautiful greens.... bet you had a wonderful day :)

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@allie912 Thanks Allison- I was just reading about that too!
@potsbypam Thanks Pam!
@dakotaburns Thanks Donald!
@filsie65 Thanks Phil!

[Nicole Campbell]

Great dof Ann, very pretty indeed.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@nicolecampbell Thank you Nicole!

[Bev]

Nice shot, Ann. Lovely color and detail! Sounds like you had a great time. Glad you got to do it. Nice job, Ann! :)

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@prttblues Thanks Bev! We did have a nice time- nothing fancy but we did have fun following the pathway and seeing the sights.

[summerfield]

yay! you had a 365 meet up! it was quite fun, wasn't it? it's different when you're taking photos with someone who appreciates you stopping and sneaking and nosing at something before finally taking a shot. lovely details on this beauty! nice shot, ann.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@summerfield Thanks Vikki! Two more meet-ups on my list: You & Bev. Thinking that both will occur sometime this summer. The next one is June 1 where I will meet Rick Schies at Hawk Mountain. Looking forward to all of them! And of course Nada and I will be doing more too.