Tiltillate
Written and Photographed by Juliet Blankespoor
It is truly feeling like autumn with the temperatures dropping down into the thirties and the light slanting low and golden. The air like a cool mountain stream: cool, clear and invigorating. Here is the second set of my favorite summer photos.
Enjoy, and keep it frisky folks!
Calendula officinalis
Drosera filiformis, Thread-leafed sundew - My little pretty!
Rose of Sharon flowers (Hibiscus syriacus, Malvaceae) - edible flowers
My sweet Rose
Milk thistle - Silybum marianum
Trumpet creeper in bud
Sams knob, Pisgah National Forest (our annual school high elevation camping trip)
Hummingbird clearwing moth nectaring on wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa, Lamiaceae)
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Meet The Green Mastermind Behind Blog Castanea:
JULIET BLANKESPOOR founded the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine in 2007 and serves as the school’s primary instructor and Creative Director. She's been a professional plant-human matchmaker for close to three decades. Juliet caught the plant bug when she was nineteen and went on to earn a degree in Botany. She's owned just about every type of herbal business you can imagine: an herbal nursery, a medicinal products business, a clinical practice, and now, an herbal school.
These days, she channels her botanical obsession with her writing and photography in her online programs and here on her personal blog, Castanea. She's writing her first book: Cultivating Medicinal Herbs: Grow, Harvest, and Prepare Handcrafted Remedies from Your Home Garden. Juliet and her houseplants share a home with her family and herb books in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Joanna Simon says:
Your photos (or is it nature) get more and more luscious each time…wonderful. Wish I had a house full of them!
Rebecca says:
You really take such incredible photos…
sandra says:
so amazing. i love love love it!
Christine says:
These photos are so beautiful and inspiring! They offer a nice reminder of how wonderful summer was as we move into fall!
Julie Setzler says:
Juliet,
Thank you for sharing such beautiful photos of our wondrous world. They uplift and inspire.
Regards,
Julie
Patricia says:
Too bad it doesn’t come with scratch n’ sniff…beautiful photos!
cindy says:
Beautiful!