The prompt in the WordPress ‘save draft’ box asks ‘what’s on your mind?’
Uh, everything. Instead of ranting about the relentless firehose of lying and malice spewing from the White House, here are some photos from the yard and beyond. Something hopefully everyone can appreciate, despite their politics. Forest-bathing helps.
think this is a Ramaria sp., one of the coral fungi.
Ox beetle! (genus Strategus. Thanks BugGuide community!)
the appropriately named ‘she-pea,’ clitoria mariana, aka butterfly pea. Not to be confused with…
Centrosema virginianum, spurred butterfly pea – blooming about 100′ away. this photo is deceptive, though – the outer petals create a rounder shape.
SPIKY! cell phone photo of a green lynx spider on chinquapin fruit / castanea pumila
red-banded hairstreak on summersweet / clethra alnifolia. this plant is covered in pollinators and predators in late summer, and smells fantastic!
juvenile Mississippi kite has discovered the ‘almost-snag.’
whirlabout skipper hanging out on phytolacca americana
101 species 