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Looks like a snowball bush. We have one in our back yard, but not as big.
We also have some hydrangea bushes. They are quite a bit smaller.
https://homeguides.sfgate.com/difference-between-snowball-bush-hydrangea-52472.html
Nice petunias!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petunia
Looks like you found some tansy! Nice photo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tansy
Chicory's pale blue flowers are so pleasant. Oh, and you can eat the greens too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory
Nice picture of sorghum!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum
You are getting to pretty familiar territory for me .... my parents used to live on Lake Holcombe, about a 40 minute drive north of Chippewa Falls. My first viewing of the original "Star Wars" was at the Falls drive-in theater, summer of 1977.
6 years agoDogwood. Possibly gray dogwood.
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/shrub/gray-dogwood
I'd never heard of this and I think this is pretty cool too. Thanks for backtracking to show us.
6 years agoI really like how birch bark peels back like that! And it makes the best fire starter too! Even when wet!
6 years agoI always enjoy seeing butterfly weed!
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/butterfly-weed
Wild plums look about ready to eat!
http://wisflora.herbarium.wisc.edu/taxa/index.php?taxon=4686
Looks like choke cherries. Not a bad snack except for the big seeds and somewhat bitter/astringent flavor.
https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/prunus/virginiana/
Looks like clearweed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilea_pumila
Nice! Tree frogs are so photogenic! That one is either an eastern gray tree frog or a Cope's gray tree frog. Really hard to tell without having one of each species side by side.
http://simpsonstreetfreepress.org/science/tree-frogs
Mike,
6 years agoYes, I walked. The clearance on the curved ceiling was such that I'd have hit my head if I strayed from the center, even walking.
Jeff