Hogweed

hogweed

Hogweed is now in full flower alongside the car park at Newmillerdam.
When I first got into botany, hogweed and cow parsley were in the Umbelliferae along with their garden relatives, carrot, celery and parsley. The preferred family name today is Apiaceae, after Apium, the name that Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder used for celery-like plants.

scanning my artwork
Scanning from my sketchbook: I tried the built in ‘Restore colors’ filter in my scanner program, Vue Scan. The filter makes the background of the page white, which is what I’m after, but it makes the greens too vivid, adding yellow.

WordPress tells me that today I’ve posted 365 days in a row, and suggests that I should keep up the good work.

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