I saw this strange white blorb growing on a stump in my scrap wood/log pile. I wasn't sure if it was a fungus or a slime mold... Turns out it's probably a false puffball - a slime mold cosplaying puffball fungi!
This is a new thing to me... I don't think I've ever found/seen a slime mold before. Usually the wood pile is full of sleeping moths, frogs, fungi and a bazillion tiny invertebrates. So cool to find a new species in there!
Sometimes shadow swarms or other insects/animal life like to hang out in there. mostly shadows though, since the further into the forest she goes, the less animals and bugs there are besides shadows there are.
Why settle for an A plus when you could get an Anarchy plus:
Back in the backyard garden.
Butterweed growing wild under the New Dawn rose:
I mentioned in this post that I was going to try accelerating the break down of some pine tree stumps by covering them with soil & planting wild flowers on them. I promised progress reports.
Behold! Just primary leaves & a lot can go wrong but still cool:
I was glad to see seedlings weren’t just sprouting on top of the stumps but in these side holes as well:
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Seriously disappointed this was the best crayfish photo:
There were scads of these tadpoles but I missed my chance to photo a salamander larva because the little bugger was just too quick:
The greening of the wasteland. I hope The City holds off mowing it for awhile:
I was excited to see a honeybee with a red dot on its head until I got home & discovered that red dot was a mite with the appropriately ominous scientific name of Varroa destructor:
Back at the home garden.
I’m going to try accelerating the break down of these pine tree stumps by covering them with soil & planting wild flowers on them:
I’ll post photos as things progress:
First bumble of 2023:
We lost all our cool season seedlings back when the temperature dropped into the single digits but this plucky kale (It looks like a Red Russian) that no one remembers planting is doing great: