Fern and Mosses
Another sunny day but it wasn’t quite as warm as yesterday. So here we go with more of yesterday’s (Dec. 26th) outing with Briar!
Kathy and Gary were out doing trail maintenance. “We were cutting a mesquite limb that was too low on our nature trail and it was spurting liquid like crazy. By the time I [Kathy] got the camera on it I [she] just barely caught the last of the spurting. It was very liquid[y].” However Kathy reported a second branch on the same tree did not do this. Indeed very interesting! Thanks Kathy for sharing!
We cut a second limb on the same tree but it did not do this.
Accidental Discovery: How a Whiff of an Unusual Chemical Transforms Seedlings Into Super Plants
A naturalist finds hope despite climate change in an era he calls ‘The End of Eden’
A Lighthouse Keeper Hangs Up Her Bonnet
Keep looking!
The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know
How interesting that the mesquite’s sap would ve running with that much pressure this time of year. Sweet story about the retiring lighthouse keeper. NPR just did a story about her too.
Thanks I shall try to remember to look up the story.
I love the lighthouse story too. And thanks Kathy and Mary for sharing the sap thing. Never seen that before. Glad Briar is there to point things out to you.
Briar is a good helper!
Mesquite syrup eh. Moss helper briar!
What great stories by Welz and Sally Snowman at the Lighthouse!
Glad Briar was so helpful finding mosses!
Definitely 👍🏼