[ID: Ten photographs. The first five show an open field covered in trampled snow, with a deep blue sky overhead, and the sun peeking out from behind a thin wall of clouds, sending a lense flare across the screen. Far in the distance are trees, and there are some close up in the right foreground as well.
The sixth picture shows a photo of a forest, with snow on the ground, and naked tree trunks, with a blue sky not far behind them. A black walnut tree is in the right foreground, with grey, furrowed bark.
The last four photos feature a wineberry plant, which has bright red stems that are covered in hair-like, bright red thorns.
The first two pictures show a skinnier stem, with a white hand behind it for scale, with the second picture zoomed in closer to show more detail. The stem is about as round as the pinkie on the hand.
The last two pictures show a much thicker stem closer to the ground, with the first picture very dark and not showing much detail, making the stem appear black, and the second with the white hand behind it, brighter and easier to see. Snow is on the ground in all of them.
99 North Forney Avenue, Hanover Pennsylvania, February 5th 2021.
Wineberry is invasive in North America, though the berries are edible, since it’s a relative of (native) raspberries. I’m going to try to kill this plant and replace it with a native black raspberry plant. At the very least I’ll cut any flowers off so it can’t fruit and spread more through seeds.
There’s also definitely black walnut trees here, some sort of honeysuckle, invasive clematis, maybe a pawpaw, and some wild grapes.
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