3:00 Snapshot, #184
Afternoon nap and movie companions.
The sandbar in Leverett Pond is becoming an island. Thanks to the dry summer, vegetation has spouted on it and will hold it in place for some time. Here's what it looked like back in May:
More dodder.
This fallen beech tree has been swallowed by the forest understory. Here's what it looked like on Thanksgiving 2005:
A robber fly was nice enough to hold still for a portrait.
On this day in 365 Urban Species: Carpetweed and spurge, two plants that seem made for sprouting in sidewalks.