That same puffball, a couple of days later and a couple of inches bigger.
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Showing posts with label fungus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fungus. Show all posts
Monday, March 05, 2018
Sunday, March 04, 2018
October 16, 2017
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I'm not usually out and about in the morning, but on October 16, 2017, I had a dentist appointment.
Black-eyed Susan.
Oak leaf in the sunshine.
Halloween-themed vignette at the library. Pencils and scrap paper for taking notes.
Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full! :-)
Pink yarrow.
Morning glory.
I think this was a puffball. I remember finding them often, when I was a kid on my way to elementary school. I'm not sure I'd seen one since then, until October 16. This was several inches across.
Crocus. I think this is a regular crocus, not an autumn crocus, despite the fact that it was blooming on October 16.
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I'm not usually out and about in the morning, but on October 16, 2017, I had a dentist appointment.
Black-eyed Susan.
Oak leaf in the sunshine.
Halloween-themed vignette at the library. Pencils and scrap paper for taking notes.
Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full! :-)
Pink yarrow.
Morning glory.
I think this was a puffball. I remember finding them often, when I was a kid on my way to elementary school. I'm not sure I'd seen one since then, until October 16. This was several inches across.
Crocus. I think this is a regular crocus, not an autumn crocus, despite the fact that it was blooming on October 16.
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Friday, March 02, 2018
October 14, 2017
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Bouquet for sale at the food coop on October 14, 2017.
Closer look, with poster-edges filter applied in Photoshop Elements.
Farmers market. Lots of peppers available in mid-October.
Carrots and radishes.
The most photogenic vegetable. Romanesco. (Not sure why the phone camera often botches the color. This is chartreuse.)
Fractals!
Later. Tiny 'shroom. Not anywhere near the stumpful of fungus we've been looking at.
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Bouquet for sale at the food coop on October 14, 2017.
Closer look, with poster-edges filter applied in Photoshop Elements.
Farmers market. Lots of peppers available in mid-October.
Carrots and radishes.
The most photogenic vegetable. Romanesco. (Not sure why the phone camera often botches the color. This is chartreuse.)
Fractals!
Later. Tiny 'shroom. Not anywhere near the stumpful of fungus we've been looking at.
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Friday, February 23, 2018
September 30, 2017
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Some weird fungusy stuff happening, on what's left of a tree.
Closer crop.
Pumpkins at the farmers' market, plain and fancy.
Peppers!
Cauliflower.
Brassicas are photogenic.
Tomatoes and more peppers.
Flowers.
Closer. Zinnias and statice.
Sunflower in the bright morning light.
Mmmm. Breakfast. Carrot cake. I don't drink lattes, but they accidentally made two for our party instead of the one that was ordered, so I drank it rather than throwing it away. It's pretty.
Walking back through the farmers' market on our way home. Aren't these lima beans gorgeous?
Bright light on ornamental grass.
I'm not interested in cars. I'm not interested in paint jobs.
But this is so over the top that I had to take its pic.
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Some weird fungusy stuff happening, on what's left of a tree.
Closer crop.
Pumpkins at the farmers' market, plain and fancy.
Peppers!
Cauliflower.
Brassicas are photogenic.
Tomatoes and more peppers.
Flowers.
Closer. Zinnias and statice.
Sunflower in the bright morning light.
Mmmm. Breakfast. Carrot cake. I don't drink lattes, but they accidentally made two for our party instead of the one that was ordered, so I drank it rather than throwing it away. It's pretty.
Walking back through the farmers' market on our way home. Aren't these lima beans gorgeous?
Bright light on ornamental grass.
I'm not interested in cars. I'm not interested in paint jobs.
But this is so over the top that I had to take its pic.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017
May 2
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"Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up." -- Michael P. Watson
On May 2 I visited my buddy K. She has a beautiful yard. Viburnum.
I love viburnum.....
Crab apple.
Plum.
Crow, with black gloves.
It looked like it might clear up. But it didn't.
Back in Ann Arbor. Walking. Green tree remnant, with fungus. And maple flowers.
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"Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up." -- Michael P. Watson
On May 2 I visited my buddy K. She has a beautiful yard. Viburnum.
I love viburnum.....
Crab apple.
Plum.
Crow, with black gloves.
It looked like it might clear up. But it didn't.
Back in Ann Arbor. Walking. Green tree remnant, with fungus. And maple flowers.
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
May 23 -- natural history museum
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I had more than two hours between lunch and a doctor's appt (to talk about my shoulders).
I decided to visit the University's natural history museum, which is very near Health Service.
It was a gorgeous day.
The paleontology section has new exhibits, and has been rearranged a bit.
I don't know if the plant fossils I noticed on the 23rd are new, but I don't remember seeing them before.
A palm frond, just as big as they are now.
So cool, how much we can tell about how such old plants grew, from the fossils.....
Love all the models in the museum. What a cool job, making them......
Uintatherium.
Taking pics of objects behind glass is always problematic. Standing to the side, avoiding glare, results in crooked images (like the one above).
Luckily, tools provided in Photoshop Elements often enable straightening.... This next image is a straightened version of the above.
Love this trilobite, particularly as it has its appendages.
There are lots of casts in the museum that are ok to touch (unlike the above).
This was very big.....
Deinonychus. I am glad there are no dinos in my neighborhood.
Petrified wood (also ok to touch). It was a gymnosperm.
A maple leaf, looking just like modern ones to me.
Petrified flowers! Who knew?
Then I went upstairs. There is a large group of Michigan birds that were there when I was a kid. It was interesting to me -- many of the birds in the displays are smaller than the ones in my neighborhood. I don't know if this is an artifact of taxidermy, or if the birds are bigger nowadays than they were whenever these specimens were collected......
Way back in March, when I hung laundry out on three 80-degree days in a row, I noticed some small gray birds going in and out of a hollow in the neighbors' maple tree. They were sort of sparrow-sized, and gray, and could walk down the trunk of the tree just as this little guy seems to be doing.
I wonder if they were nuthatches, like this one.... (I also wonder if they had eggs, way back then, and if so, what became of the babies, so early in the year.....)
Here is something else I remember from visiting this museum when I was a kid.
This is a large (a yard across?) model of a drop of pond water. All of the critters are made of glass.
Upstairs yet again.
Selenite.
Pegmatite.
Closeup of the prev.
Geode.
Not time for my doc appt yet.
Back on the third floor.
Red-tailed hawk. Look how long its legs are!
Great horned owl.
Much shorter legs than the red-tail!
So interesting -- those huge eyes, with their own bone structure....
Barn owl.
I took pics of some of this kind of fungus, back in 2007. I had no idea what it was called, nor why it might have the shape it had. How cool to see this poster and model, and learn more about the fungus. It is apparently called "bird's nest" fungus. I wonder if whoever named it had ever seen an egg! These are circular and flat. Not like any egg I've ever seen.... But quite like cookies............ These are "bowl of cookies" fungus, I think.
A piece of one of the oldest exposed rocks on earth. They say that this piece of Acasta gneiss is about four billion years old, and comes from one of the earliest known continents formed on this planet. At present the ancient continent is part of northern Canada.
Pretty cool. Wish they'd had a piece out where we could touch it. Touching the piece of moon rock that is available for that purpose in the Air and Space museum in Washington, DC, is one of my must-do Washington experiences!
Still not time for my doc appt. I was ready to sit for a while. There are several places in the museum where a bookshelf is right next to a bench. I sat and read a book about Sue, the largest and most complete tyrannosaurus skeleton ever found (so far!), while I waited.
Eventually it was time, and I went and chatted with the nice doc. He sent me home with several pages of range-of-motion and strengthening exercises for shoulders. Mine don't bother me much, but if I can make them better, it seems like a good idea.
.
I had more than two hours between lunch and a doctor's appt (to talk about my shoulders).
I decided to visit the University's natural history museum, which is very near Health Service.
It was a gorgeous day.
The paleontology section has new exhibits, and has been rearranged a bit.
I don't know if the plant fossils I noticed on the 23rd are new, but I don't remember seeing them before.
A palm frond, just as big as they are now.
So cool, how much we can tell about how such old plants grew, from the fossils.....
Love all the models in the museum. What a cool job, making them......
Uintatherium.
Taking pics of objects behind glass is always problematic. Standing to the side, avoiding glare, results in crooked images (like the one above).
Luckily, tools provided in Photoshop Elements often enable straightening.... This next image is a straightened version of the above.
Love this trilobite, particularly as it has its appendages.
There are lots of casts in the museum that are ok to touch (unlike the above).
This was very big.....
Deinonychus. I am glad there are no dinos in my neighborhood.
Petrified wood (also ok to touch). It was a gymnosperm.
A maple leaf, looking just like modern ones to me.
Petrified flowers! Who knew?
Then I went upstairs. There is a large group of Michigan birds that were there when I was a kid. It was interesting to me -- many of the birds in the displays are smaller than the ones in my neighborhood. I don't know if this is an artifact of taxidermy, or if the birds are bigger nowadays than they were whenever these specimens were collected......
Way back in March, when I hung laundry out on three 80-degree days in a row, I noticed some small gray birds going in and out of a hollow in the neighbors' maple tree. They were sort of sparrow-sized, and gray, and could walk down the trunk of the tree just as this little guy seems to be doing.
I wonder if they were nuthatches, like this one.... (I also wonder if they had eggs, way back then, and if so, what became of the babies, so early in the year.....)
Here is something else I remember from visiting this museum when I was a kid.
This is a large (a yard across?) model of a drop of pond water. All of the critters are made of glass.
Upstairs yet again.
Selenite.
Pegmatite.
Closeup of the prev.
Geode.
Not time for my doc appt yet.
Back on the third floor.
Red-tailed hawk. Look how long its legs are!
Great horned owl.
Much shorter legs than the red-tail!
So interesting -- those huge eyes, with their own bone structure....
Barn owl.
I took pics of some of this kind of fungus, back in 2007. I had no idea what it was called, nor why it might have the shape it had. How cool to see this poster and model, and learn more about the fungus. It is apparently called "bird's nest" fungus. I wonder if whoever named it had ever seen an egg! These are circular and flat. Not like any egg I've ever seen.... But quite like cookies............ These are "bowl of cookies" fungus, I think.
A piece of one of the oldest exposed rocks on earth. They say that this piece of Acasta gneiss is about four billion years old, and comes from one of the earliest known continents formed on this planet. At present the ancient continent is part of northern Canada.
Pretty cool. Wish they'd had a piece out where we could touch it. Touching the piece of moon rock that is available for that purpose in the Air and Space museum in Washington, DC, is one of my must-do Washington experiences!
Still not time for my doc appt. I was ready to sit for a while. There are several places in the museum where a bookshelf is right next to a bench. I sat and read a book about Sue, the largest and most complete tyrannosaurus skeleton ever found (so far!), while I waited.
Eventually it was time, and I went and chatted with the nice doc. He sent me home with several pages of range-of-motion and strengthening exercises for shoulders. Mine don't bother me much, but if I can make them better, it seems like a good idea.
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