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Photos: New Rocks
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ysabetwordsmithToday I planted most of my new rocks! \o/ I'm waiting to sink the pink mica rock until I get a second one to point the other direction along the road, to catch headlights from both ways.
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Photos: Savanna and Prairie Garden
Mar. 12th, 2025 11:52 pmysabetwordsmithContinuing the photo tour of the yard, most of these are from the savanna and prairie garden.
See all of today's photography posts:
Photos: House Yard and South Lot
Photos: Savanna and Prairie Garden
Photos: Back Toward the House
Photos: Garden Shed
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See all of today's photography posts:
Photos: House Yard and South Lot
Photos: Savanna and Prairie Garden
Photos: Back Toward the House
Photos: Garden Shed
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Photos: House Yard and South Lot
Mar. 3rd, 2025 03:08 amysabetwordsmithThese pictures are from Sunday, but it's after midnight so the timestamp will say Monday. See the savanna and house yard.
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full_metal_oxTaken at 5:52 PM EST 22 December 2023, this is something I really should’ve posted a year ago; I’m squeezing it under the wire just as the outgoing Lunar Year expires.
From the parking lot of my neighborhood Publix: the Rabbit prepares to hand the year over to the Dragon.
From the parking lot of my neighborhood Publix: the Rabbit prepares to hand the year over to the Dragon.
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Photos: Midwinter Grove
Jan. 8th, 2025 11:29 pmysabetwordsmithThe sun came out, so now the snow sparkles and much wildlife sign is visible. This set of pictures shows the north end of the house yard, driveway, and Midwinter Grove. Cottontail rabbits like this area, as shown by their tracks. (See also House Yard, Savanna, and Back Toward the House.)
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Photos: Savanna and Prairie Garden
Jan. 6th, 2025 11:32 pmysabetwordsmithHere are more pictures, mostly from the savanna and prairie garden. (See also the House Yard and South Lot, Midwinter Grove, and Heading Back Toward the House.)
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Squirrel Flet and Sunflower Heads
Sep. 30th, 2024 11:40 pmysabetwordsmithBranches have fallen all over the yard from recent storms. Today I started picking up some of them, and noticed that there was a fallen squirrel flet. A squirrel's nest may also be called a drey.
Also today, I started harvesting dry sunflower heads. The small to medium ones I have hung as bird food. Those with big heads or good multiflora form I am putting in the septic garden, hoping they will reseed like the 'Autumn Joy' did last year.
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Also today, I started harvesting dry sunflower heads. The small to medium ones I have hung as bird food. Those with big heads or good multiflora form I am putting in the septic garden, hoping they will reseed like the 'Autumn Joy' did last year.
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An American lady
May. 12th, 2024 11:37 amblackcatofmiseryI love spring, because garden centers open, and that means pollinators. I saw a butterfly going about in a greenhouse and finally tracked it down—taking a picture every couple of seconds, so I looked like a creep, I'm sure—on a hanging planter. I believe it's an American lady (Vanessa virginiensis), judging by the two eyespots and bit of pink.
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Puffball Mushrooms
Oct. 7th, 2023 11:42 pmblackcatofmiseryI just think mushrooms are neat and have others I've found recently that I will eventually share.
Recently, I discovered what I believe are puffballs in my front yard! I've never seen any alive before, so I'm relying on Google. The mystery comes from the brown one. (It is the same mushroom as the first photo, where it is obviously paler.) It didn't used to be brown, but there is a brown umber puffball.
One of the white ones is still white, so it could be a common puffball or a peeling one. Peeling would make sense, if that little bit in my hand (the only bit I found) is from the mushroom and not its own decaying corpse. The bit was near the now-brown puffball, though.
I'm really not sure, though. ¯\_༼ •́ ͜ʖ •̀ ༽_/¯ Any aspiring mycologists have like a list of criteria to determine a species?
Recently, I discovered what I believe are puffballs in my front yard! I've never seen any alive before, so I'm relying on Google. The mystery comes from the brown one. (It is the same mushroom as the first photo, where it is obviously paler.) It didn't used to be brown, but there is a brown umber puffball.
One of the white ones is still white, so it could be a common puffball or a peeling one. Peeling would make sense, if that little bit in my hand (the only bit I found) is from the mushroom and not its own decaying corpse. The bit was near the now-brown puffball, though.
I'm really not sure, though. ¯\_༼ •́ ͜ʖ •̀ ༽_/¯ Any aspiring mycologists have like a list of criteria to determine a species?
A Katydid, aka Bush-cricket
Sep. 24th, 2023 09:51 amblackcatofmisery
My brother was cleaning cars last night and came in the show me something. I immediately assumed a weird big, and I was right!
At first, I didn't see it, but a big ol' green big, about 7cm, was clinging to the center console of our mom's car. My big brother wanted me to remove it. No idea what he'd've done himself, but I got her out, and she didn't want to leave my arm. 💀
I'm glad to know we have these critters, though, because it could maybe explain some noises I've heard outside. I didn't expect her to be so big, though! I'm relatively okay with six legs and less, but the size of this bug had the hairs on my arm standing up. (She also wanted to play parrot on my shoulder. I'm not yet so willing.)
But my brother and I agree that he'll take care of spiders and stingy, stripey things; I'll catch other six-legs-and-less ones.
Fun fact: Katydids are believed to being good fortune! (Not necessarily financial.)
blackcatofmiseryI left the house today. One of my stops was a store with nicer plants than most garden stores I've been to, and there were dozens of various bees. (I wish I'd gotten a photo of the honey bees on the same onion.)
blackcatofmiseryAlthough I am very allergic to bug bites, I will follow neat bugs to try and get decent photos on my phone. Right now, the oregano is in bloom, attracting lots of pollinators (and unsavory types such as hornets and wasps).
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There's a family of groundhogs/woodchucks living under the wooden plank path in my aunt's backyard. Mom has two babies, who are nearly grown. I figure they'll move on once they're ready. They eat the plentiful burdock, so my aunt's not complaining too much. (First thing I did after setting my stuff down was go out to see if I could see them, and the mom had her chin on the plank while lying in a hole made from the planks shifting due to large roots.)
The benefit of groundhogs is ground aeration, if their burrows stay open.
Tiger Lily Season
Aug. 1st, 2018 01:12 pmfelicitygsIt's nearly over, but I did manage to get some photos! These were popping up all over the roadside/next to my run trails the last few weeks.
Edit: the first one is a blackberry lily, thanks ysabetwordsmith~
And this is a tiger lily~~
Edit: the first one is a blackberry lily, thanks ysabetwordsmith~
And this is a tiger lily~~
