RE: Wherein The Druid Feels Stupid
At the first glance at the first image, I thought "POISON IVY"... down home I
Ranged the woods in shorts, many times barefoot and never had any poison
Ivy reactions, there is a vine called "Virginia Creeper" that is easy to mistake
(The creeper is actually quite nice looking and could be used for ground cover)
When I moved up here to Hotlanta, I had never truly encountered P Ivy, HUGE
Hairy vines climbing trees and fences, with berries so it gets spread by boids.
I spent considerable time trying to make the back yard of one place I lived for
About 5 months safe(er) for the landlords grands to go out and play, and still
Never had any adverse reaction.
I've read that one can be immune/non allergic as a child and have that change
As an adult, or the other way round, be allergic then not with age.
I'm glad Emmy isn't Poison Ivy.
Upvoted @phoenixwren Keep up the good work.
Wow, that's lucky that you never had a reaction! I honestly don't see poison ivy around here - though I could just be being inobservant. A quick google implies that it is more common in the southern half of the state, and less so in the north. Denver is right in the middle, so maybe like many things, we're right on the border of natural regions. We're just to the east (by about an hour's drive? Less?) of the continental divide (where the water runs to the Pacific on the west side and to the Atlantic on the east side); my tree books park the east/west divide of plants practically right on the north-south highway that runs through town; the SW desert pretty much officially stops here, we're considered "high desert" being right on the northern border of it; tornadoes almost always hit east of that north-south highway but almost never west of it; wildfires pretty much stay west of it and don't cross east of it. Ahhh, sitting right in the shadow of a big ass mountain range! It's the convergence of everything and simultaneously kinda a buffer zone. LOL