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Comments welcome. Thank you, Mary
Luckily, we did not get any more precipitation last night. So here goes, a continuation of the Feb 8th outing. Gracie found a treasure! Hard to get a picture as Gracie said it was hers LOL. Holes in the tree look like it would make a good home. This big ole tree looked like it…
Pausing on the Tuesday’s grasslands photos. The ice today wins 🙂 Our temperature ranged from 25 to 29 with a 91% humidity. I did see 3-4 flakes of snow in our woods at 11-ish. The sidewalk had this ice on it early this morning! The field and the neighbor’s haybales were getting ice on them….
Our high today was midnight at 32.5 degrees. We never got above 29 during daylight hours. Really glad we went to the grasslands yesterday. With the mist this morning, we had a bit of ice on our gate. Hopefully that is all we get. Continuing on with yesterday’s grasslands photos. C Cool almost silvery moss….
Do you got all the makings for soup this week? I’m ready! And this will be the last day this week of a reasonable temperature to be out. It was misting when I left the house and had to use wipers. By the time I got to the unit, thankfully the mist had stopped. Gracie…
Today’s theme may stump you or knot. The Wizard of Oz was a pretty frightening movie to me when I was a kid. I always thought the Fighting Trees in the movie were pretty scary. Imagine now if you were in the forest with the following characters that were the pets of the Fighting Trees……
Not only was it calm at 11 am, but it was overcast and gray too. Gracie the anemometer, on the job! No data is valid data! Indiangrass not moving a millimeter. Not often does the bristlegrass stand still for a photo. Giant Ragweed looks frosty but it is not. It is just the hirsute or…
The last part of Tuesday’s grassland hike… Several of these plants were by the creek’s edge. I think it is probably Cursed Crowfoot or Celery-leaved Buttercup (Ranunculus sceleratus) by the shape of its leaves. Wow, the shelf fungus on this downed tree was amazingly crowded. Wasp nest slime mold (Metatrichia vesparia) is tiny, but worth the…
Before I start in with the grasslands, I saw these “zipper” clouds today around noon (that is a name I just made up). The sky was clear by 3 pm. Continuing on with Tuesday’s grasslands outing… Does this remind you of the Plague doctor? We were in the safety zone, right. A heart shape or…
Arkansas Yucca seedpod (Yucca arkansana). Vine twists up the Hackberry tree. Crustose fungus doing its job! Close up. Bedstraw (Galium aparine) has started to pop out. It is an annual. I have read that it was used in bedding. The plant will cling to you with its hairs. I have found several species of caterpillars…
Kansas is the name of an American rock band. In 1977 they release a song called “Dust in the Wind”. The song seems appropriate today I think. At 11:18 am there were still clouds lingering but the wind had already started to gust as Gracie, the anemometer shows. At 1:24 pm the clouds were gone…