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That's quite a fancy fungus!

The only stinkhorn I've photographed is Mutinus elegans, I believe - the elegant stinkhorn or devil’s dipstick, headless stinkhorn, dog stinkhorn ... #Fungi #SpringGroveCemetery 20/5/23 <05/20/23>
Red cylindrical fungus with brownish-olive slime around it
October 31, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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A magical spot with a sycamore and a bald cypress together ... #SpringGroveCemetery
Collage of five different angles of the same two trees in a pond - sycamore growing around bald cypress
October 10, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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Peninsula of Turtles 🐢 #SpringGroveCemetery
Land spit with turtles ringed around it - a cloudy day
August 21, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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Keeping busy today, gas for the car to use my “points” (saved .50 cents a gallon,) Put air in the tires, drove to the cemetery to put flags on the Ancestor’s graves, walked around the Arboretum and snapped a few pics, went to lunch got a salad and pizza.
Ginko tree at #SpringGroveCemetery in its fall colors of glorious yellow on a fall day, a cloudy sky with some hopeful patches of bright blue showing through.
November 4, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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Yellowwood ... white flower panicles ... twisty brown seed pods #SpringGroveCemetery
Slightly drooping cluster of white flowers and blue sky peeking in background Slender twisty brown seed pods hanging under green leaves
August 6, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Stone foot bridge & its stones #SpringGroveCemetery in Cincinnati - yes, there are more than 4 photographs 📸
August 4, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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Centuries old white oak #SpringGroveCemetery #Cincinnati
Collage of three photographs of an ancient white oak
July 31, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Red-tailed Hawk 🪶 #SpringGroveCemetery
Brown hawk with rusty red tail, sitting on stone cemetery monument and looking down
July 24, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Tiny eyes shone up at me and I couldn't believe it - a wee little bullfrog looking up.
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Tiny speckled bullfrog wuth orange eyes - sitting in mud by grasses Side view of tiny bullfrog
July 13, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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Pileated Woodpecker! She was on a tree trunk, still as can be - looking asleep! Then she carefully looked around without moving away. #SpringGroveCemetery
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A large woodpecker with face against the tree trunk, maybe even with her beak in a hole that I could not see. She was so quiet and still! A large red crested woodpecker with black back and wingd - she's looking at the trunk and it seemed as of she was listening A large woodpecker with red crest and black back feathers - she'd looking up A large red crested woodpecker with black body feathers - her eye is toward me
July 13, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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A warm and drizzly Thursday at #SpringGroveCemetery - swans, ducks, and herons hiding, I guess - lichen on a magnolia tree plus various ages of blooms on the same tree - Magnoliaceae is part of one of the earliest flowering & seed producing plant families - beetles were its pollinators! 🌿
Grayish-green lichen patch kn a magnolia branch Magnolia blossom with a bug near central carpels Seeds forming and browning magnolia blossom Magnolia blossom turning dark brown in its process of seed forming
June 26, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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Common Grackle in the cypressy end of the pond #SpringGroveCemetery 🪶
Algae and branch tangle with dark bird with iridescent head
June 26, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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It was warm, and we were in drizzle for five minutes and then just feel soggy, a few more rain spatters etc. - this seemed to be a semi-sploot - lots of gray squirrels around #SpringGroveCemetery #Sqrlpix
Gray squirrel on a a large gravestone - tail curled over a sploot
June 26, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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Summer green (2019) #SpringGroveCemetery
Soft green curtain of leaves, leaning tree, cypress knees and reflections
June 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Hungarian Oak (aka Italian Oak) - Quercus frainetto ... those leaves are fabulous #SpringGroveCemetery
Looking up through fancy oak leaves into blue sky Several ornate oak leaves and a blue sky
May 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Finally! I saw a 2026 Great Blue Heron ... it has been cool for several days and the heron was looking all over for lunch #SpringGroveCemetery 🪶 🌿
Great Blue Heron walking away in the grass Great Blue Heron stretching out a long leg walking to another pond
May 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Views of the stone foot bridge #SpringGroveCemetery
Portion of stone foot bridge arch with tree reflections in water underneath it Distance view of stone foot bridge Spring time trees and stone foot bridge The top of a stone foot bridge crossing water
May 3, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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The previously egg laying turtle mama trundled over the grass, toward one of the ponds in the cemetery ... she walked back and forth on the stone ledge ... finally stopping at the perfect spot (by her definition) to slide into the pond ... 🐢 #SpringGroveCemetery
Pond slider walking on the grass toward a pond Pond slider walking on a stone ledge Pond slider deciding where to slide into the pond
April 29, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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Stone foot bridge #SpringGroveCemetery
Green trees and pond with stone foot bridge
April 25, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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A sycamore and cypress tree ... together #SpringGroveCemetery
Early Spring, sycamore tree with cypress growing between roots Summer, sycamore tree with cypress growing between roots Fish eye lens photograph of a sycamore tree with cypress growing between roots Winter, sycamore tree with cypress growing between roots
April 16, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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Lichens on an old mausoleum #SpringGroveCemetery
Stone building side with various lichens finding niches
April 15, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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Stone foot bridge #SpringGroveCemetery
An arch of a stone foot bridge with reflections
April 14, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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Eastern Phoebe nests - 2024 end of season & 2025 near beginning of season - tucked away on mausoleum ledges - the classic nests are built of mud, leaves and moss mixed with grass, stems and even fur #SpringGroveCemetery 🪶
Eastern Phoebe classic nest of mud, leaves and moss mixed with grass, stems and even fur Eastern Phoebe classic nest of mud, leaves and moss mixed with grass, stems and even fur
April 1, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Stone foot bridge in green Summer - through softly blurred cypress branches #SpringGroveCemetery
A few cypress branches softly blurred in foreground - a stone foot bridge against green trees, reflecting
March 26, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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Monarch butterflies from September 2025 ...
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Orange and black butterfly - wings spread - on pink zinnia Orange and black butterfly on dark pink zinnia Orange and black butterfly on pink zinnia
March 25, 2026 at 12:42 AM