Beautiful day Sept 17th
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Don’t think I have ever notice a katydid (Orchelimum) of this color before.
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Ornate Box Turtle eating a grasshopper. Yum!
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I always take a top shot to compare to old photos of mine to see if it has been here at my house before. I last saw this one on Sept 24, 2016.
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Can’t get enough of the mushrooms!
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False Boneset (Brickellia eupatorioides) is blooming
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Tadpoles
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Really big brown puffball! About 4 inches across.
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This slime mold just getting started.
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The red liquid on top is it digesting
I watched a show on PBS Nova last night “The Secret Life of Slime Mold“. If you have time it was really interesting.
Keep looking!