Walking the backyard dog fence with Sophie this morning, looking for wind damage from our nor’easter, I saw an oddly shaped blob under and against a dead oak about thirty feet out. Without my glasses it looked like trash, or maybe some white colored leaves, but with strange rib-like protrusions, so I went out and around to investigate it. I felt ( Read more... )

Just a few random blips


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Or Hollypalooza!

Yesterday I found another Holly plant in the yard, this time out back.


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I happened to notice this plant down on the edge of our driveway the other morning.


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We've had lots of mushrooms growing in the yard this year, and other assorted molds and slimes, possibly due to a very wet Winter and an abundance of humid days this Spring and Summer. We also have the subject plants popping through the leaf litter in the Hickory stands out back, plants I usually associate with early Autumn. I always considered ( Read more... )