Apple Tree

Apple tree on Oakwood has lots of apples. 

 

Milkweed

Seed pods on milkweed at Kris Ann's house. 

Took from internet. 

It has a cluster of yellow flowers but don't have picture.

 Harvest milkweed seed pods in the late summer and early fall (September to November), waiting until the pods have turned brown and started to split open along their seam, or until a gentle squeeze causes them to pop open. The seeds inside should be dark brown and leathery, not white or creamy, which indicates immaturity. If you squeeze an unopened pod and it doesn't readily pop open, the seeds are not yet ready to be harvested.  

White Top Aster

The Colombian white top aster (Sericocarpus rigidus) is a native perennial plant in the Pacific Northwest, found from Vancouver Island in British Columbia south to Oregon and Washington, particularly west of the Cascade Mountains. This "vulnerable" species features clustered white flowers from July to September in its natural habitat of prairies and open grasslands. Major threats include habitat loss from invasive plants like Scotch broom and reduced natural fire activity, which allows Douglas fir to encroach on its grassland home. 

Not what the WSNPS suggests:

Sericocarpus rigidus

Columbian white-topped aster, Columbian white top aster, rigid white-topped aster.

Taken 10/04/25

Photo David Giblin.

https://burkeherbarium.org/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Sericocarpus+rigidus 

General:

Nearly glabrous perennial from slender, creeping rhizomes, the stem 1-3 dm. tall, usually simple and unbranched up to the inflorescence.

Leaves:

Lowermost leaves reduced and early-deciduous, the largest ones a little above the base, 2.5-3.5 cm. long and 5-9 mm. wide, oblanceolate, sessile; those leaves above numerous and gradually reduced; often scabrous on the midrib beneath, and with stiff, short hairs on the margins.

Flowers:

Heads in a close terminal cluster; involucre 7-9 mm. high, narrow, the bracts imbricate, white and papery below with a light green herbaceous tip; rays usually 2, shorter than the capillary pappus, 1-3 mm. long, white; disk flowers 9-21, pale yellowish, with purple anthers.

Oak Springs Development

Redfin sale of this property.

Bottom picture a few days later.

Bulldozer has been through here. 

Before

Lots of work being done. 

https://ccedwardsconstruction.com/ 

Douglas Squirrel

Douglas squirrel at Kris Ann's 

 

Oak Springs Development

Big Douglas firs coming down. 

What's left on 9/20/25

From the barb wire fence in Preserve. 

Bloom on Mystery Plant

Mystery flower in bloom today.

June 2025

I think this was the plant in May.

More Tree Removal at Oak Springs

Big firs dropped.

From wire fence in Preserve 9/20/25

Entrance and exit to Ovation. 

Oak Springs Tree Removal

Stumps of huge oak cluster.

Trees gone from top of hill. 

Picture taken from Evergreen Heights.

More clearing along this road.

Huge Douglas fir gone.

What will be left when they are done?

Oak Springs Developments 2025

New activity here today and in the past few weeks. 

Huge oak cluster gone 9/16/25!

Tree remover, huge noise 9/16/25.

The road in from Bowthorpe. 

Sale of property at Oak Springs Development.