Bittersweet is one of the plants that the Forestry Dept does NOT want planted in Maine ... as stated previously, it is VERY invasive to native plants.

Marilyn: Bittersweet is VERY invasive!They love to climb trees! There is plenty of in in So. Maine and it's often often beside the road maybe planted there to help hold the banking. I have never seen it in Aroostook. When Aroostook friends come down to visit in the Fall we usually go scrounging for it so they can take some home. Many people want none of it on their property.
The red berries are plentiful this year...I pick mine in nearby powerline.

On this veteran’s day, let’s remind ourselves of 13 who might have been spared:

Mike Cahill, Major Major L. Eduardo, Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow, Capt. John Gaffaney, Specialist Frederick Greene, Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, Sgt. Amy Krueger, Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, Pfc. Michael Pearson, Captain Russell Seager, Pvt. Francheska Velez, Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, Pfc. Kham Xiong.

Killed by Political Correctness.

These Colors Don't Run

Question? Does Maine have Bittersweet growing wild? I can't remember any from when I was younger, but it can be found here, usually at farm stands and quite expensive. Any people that have it, won't tell where it is growing. Its great for decorating in the Fall.

Another dead tree ... on the Reach Road.

this is a beautiful old street in Maine

daisy, what did you find out about that flowering moss?

An old farmers addage:
Fog in the holler, horses to collar.
Fog on the hill, horses stand still.

Colder than a well diggers a-- in January
Colder than a witches ---
Lower than whale s---
Don't know s--- from Shinola

I could not stand it; I just had to know what was in those turtle eggs, so
cut one open. Egg just never developed ... the wood chips must have been generating too much heat and that prevented them from becoming turtles ...