Grafton Peace Pagoda Flower Festival

Celebrating the birth of Buddha...

I attended the Flower Festival hosted by Jun Yasuda this morning at the Grafton Peace Pagoda. A beautiful traditional Buddhist ceremony in the temple replete with chanting, drums, symbols, and Dharma talks was followed by anti-nuclear power plant messages, singing, and Irish step dancing.  Attendees then lunched and roamed the gorgeous grounds.

Bear Tracks

I took a walk this evening around our "under construction" raised bed septic system. The excavator has some top soil set aside for the final layer. Part of it he had already smoothed out, providing a perfect media for black bear track molds.

The whistle's a Fox 40 Classic -- 115 dB of black bear eardrum shattering sound waves. Kind of like your nature St. Christopher's medal.

Woolly Bully

Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs

Common Buttercup

Ranunculus bulbosus

Kingdom	Plantae– Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta– Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta– Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta– Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida– Dicotyledons
Subclass	Magnoliidae
Order	Ranunculales
Family	Ranunculaceae– Buttercup family
Genus	Ranunculus L.– buttercup
Species	Ranunculus bulbosus L.– St. Anthony's turnip

Build Me Up Buttercup
The Foundations

Kingdom

Plantae– Plants

Subkingdom

Tracheobionta– Vascular plants

Superdivision

Spermatophyta– Seed plants

Division

Magnoliophyta– Flowering plants

Class

Magnoliopsida– Dicotyledons

Subclass

Magnoliidae

Order

Ranunculales

Family

Ranunculaceae– Buttercup family

Genus

Ranunculus L.– buttercup

Species

Ranunculus bulbosus L.– St. Anthony's turnip

Heartleaf Foamflower

Tiarella Cordifolia

Kingdom	Plantae– Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta– Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta– Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta– Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida– Dicotyledons
Subclass	Rosidae
Order	Rosales
Family	Saxifragaceae– Saxifrage family
Genus	Tiarella L.– foamflower
Species	Tiarella cordifolia L.– heartleaf foamflower

Hooked Buttercup (Blisterwort)



Ranunculus recurvatus

Kingdom	Plantae– Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta– Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta– Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta– Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida– Dicotyledons
Subclass	Magnoliidae
Order	Ranunculales
Family	Ranunculaceae– Buttercup family
Genus	Ranunculus L.– buttercup
Species	Ranunculus recurvatus Poir.– blisterwort