Bidens aristosa is a North American species of plants in the sunflower family. Common names include bearded beggarticks, western tickseed, long-bracted beggarticks, tickseed beggarticks, swamp marigold, and Yankee lice. It is native to eastern and central United States and south-central Canada, from Maine south to Florida and west as far as Ontario, Texas, and Nebraska.
This week work continues on my abandoned home from 1888 in historic Petersburg, Virginia a city with over 2,900 blighted and vacant structures, according to the 2020 United States Census.
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Cant quite figure this one out….
The Federal Street School also known as the Giles Buckner Cooke School was built in 1923 and is currently abandoned in Petersburg, Virginia a city with over 2,900 blighted and vacant structures, according to the 2020 United States Census. The City of Petersburg currently is illegally opting for demolition by neglect for this Georgian Revival Styled school which housed one of the oldest public African American school programs in the United States of America. During the postwar period The Petersburg School System was considered the best in the state. The African American Community benefited from this greatly and by 1900 illiteracy rates had fallen dramatically among African Americans in the city.
The first public high school for African Americans in Virginia was founded on Harrison Street,
Major Giles Buckner Cooke was the principal and leader of the African American Education movement in Petersburg founding a series of African American Schools in the city. Major Cooke was a former Officer in the Confederate Army who ensured the African American students of Petersburg were given a classical course of study that included mathematics, algebra, grammar, spelling, english, geography, history, writing and bookkeeping. Giles Cooke was a Reverend at Saint Pauls Espicipal Church where he also held African American Sunday School Classes. This school which was named for him has been allowed to fall apart over the course of the last seven years by the Petersburg City Public Schools and the Local Government. Demolition by neglect seems to be what the city is opting for at this time, a piece of African American History will most likely be lost. The city says they don’t have the funds to repair it, but they just lost almost $300,000 in Community Development Block Grants, as they said they didn’t need the money for anything …. A chunk of the federal and state government funds coming into the city are being allocated to council members apartment projects and hotel projects. It’s a sad day for African American History in Petersburg.
Juglans nigra, the eastern black walnut, is a species of deciduous tree in the walnut family, Juglandaceae, native to eastern North America. It grows mostly in riparian zones, from southern Ontario, west to southeast South Dakota, south to Georgia, northern Florida and southwest to central Texas. Wild trees in the upper Ottawa Valley may be an isolated native population or may have derived from planted trees.
Baccharis halimifolia is a North American species of shrubs in the daisy family. It is native to Nova Scotia, the eastern and southern United States (from Massachusetts south to Florida and west to Texas and Oklahoma), eastern Mexico (Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Quintana Roo), the Bahamas, and Cuba.
Ipomoea lacunosa, the whitestar, white morning-glory or pitted morningglory, is a species that belongs to the Ipomoea genus. In this genus most members are commonly referred to as “morning glories”. The name for the genus, Ipomoea, has root in the Greek words ips and homoios, which translates to worm-like. This is a reference to the plant’s vine-like growth. Lacunosa comes from a Latin word meaning air spaces, correlating with
Stoopid hard for a newb like me, but we got it done!
Laetiporus sulphureus is a species of bracket fungus (fungi that grow on trees) found in Europe and North America. Its common names are crab-of-the-woods, sulphur polypore, sulphur shelf, and chicken-of-the-woods. Its fruit bodies grow as striking golden-yellow shelf-like structures on tree trunks and branches. Old fruitbodies fade to pale beige or pale grey. The undersurface of the fruit body is made up of tubelike pores rather than gills.
Probably the easiest level so far…
Euphorbia corollata is an herbaceous perennial plant in the Euphorbiaceae family that is native to North America. A common name for the species is flowering spurge. It has a milky sap that can cause skin and eye irritation in some people. It grows up to 1 m (3 ft) tall, with smooth stems and light green leaves arranged alternately or in whorls. Leaves are about 10 mm (1/2 in) wide and 75 mm (3 in) long. Each stem terminates in a…
