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apple moon

9/13/2019

 
garlic harvest
sunflowers
full moon
apple moonliight

smooth blue

11/30/2016

 
Downy woodpecker, white rabbits, and smooth blue aster (Symphyotrichum laeve).
Symphyotrichum laeve
wildflower seeds

thrilithi

8/30/2015

 
blue jays. flickers. great horned owl. hairy woodpecker. ravens. robins. hawks aplenty, 1 wingèd stoop. crows. a hornworm.* butterflies. bees.
downy woodpecker
downy woodpecker
2 coyotes. a skunk. rabbits, 1 juvenile. 2 fawns.
a ladybug in flight. wild raspberries. a tall sunflower grove.
conifer seeds
conifer seeds
beets and chard.** little green apples, a few turning red. radish seed pods.

fir seed sworls. whirls. and flocks of birds. a full white moon. and so many mushrooms.


*Whoa, sphinx moths can have up to a 14" proboscis.
**Amaranthaceae - spinach, beet, sugarbeet, chard, quinoa, 'pigweed family'

blossoms

5/5/2015

 
quite a pop to the eye.
pale yellow butterflies since dandelions or apr 9.
bumblebees. beetles.
blossoms

yum, greens

5/15/2014

 
chives. some 3 dandelion flowers. it was a pine siskin, not a yellow sparrow, and there was a red-winged blackbird in cattails. skunk, deer, frogs, grouse.
chives
dandelion salad
spring dandelion-potato salad. cut hot cooked potatoes into washed fresh greens (the heat will slightly wilt and debitter). add oil, mint, caraway seed, chives, salt and pepper to taste. neat-o. checking edible flowers: lilacs, dandelions, elder on Pinterest.
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dandelion: Asteraceae (genus: Taraxacum). edible in its entirety.
dried roots, for dandelion root coffee.

gulls

3/31/2013

 
Californias, they're back. About a week now. (sound)
Picture
ice, shards
shard ice
how d'ya like that. hibiscus in bloom is in the Malvaceae family, like hollyhock.

the fly

2/12/2013

 
whoa. what a big melt. the daisies have new shoots. (and here i've been indoors picking fallen palm flowers from the rug, with tweezers.) it's like. it's like...
early spring daisies
it's like half grass, half snow.  w/chunks of ice. very unusually ... early!  so, gave water, threw leaves, covered with snow. (not the fly)
ice, garden
Arecaceae (palm)     |   Asteraceae (daisies)
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