I managed to get a few pictures of the place greening up quickly this past week.   They're online over at the 80acres blog.    Couldn't get out to do more because I had page proofs...which always take me longer than they should because I know I don't catch everything the first time through.

Well, we made it, in the 8th month, too.   With a comfortable little margin to make up for errors I might've made.  And another four months to add more species in case I've made even more errors.

Of course we didn't personally put every one of those 800 species on the place.  Many were here to start with.  I can say we've seen an increase in every ( Read more... )

Finally updated the photo gallery on my website  with pictures from the land the last couple of weeks.

http://www.elizabethmoon.com/photogallery.htm

For those whose interest is more, um, taxonomic on the biology end, there are the galleries here at LJ  which are divided that way.

http://pics.livejournal.com/e_moon60/

That one shows all the galleries ( Read more... )

We didn't start out early.  We should've started out early.  Instead, we dawdled about inside, thinking of things to do and starting them, and it was coming on toward noon when we finally got out of the house with the lopping shears for doing trail work and the camera for documenting things.  And the monopod and one liter of water.   And I hadn't ( Read more... )

This may be redundant...since I'm blogging in two places, I sometimes lose track of what I said where (of course, I could go back and read everything...but naaaah.)

But this is a brag on numbers.  The species count on the place is now up to 745, thanks to the addition in the past week of one plant (water plantain), one ode (Fragile Forktail), and ( Read more... )