It is hard to believe that there are tiny organs in there.
A tiny brain and two tiny eyes.
Tiny feet and legs.
Life can be tiny but is always precious.
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Tiny
Cute Button
This darling little button looks good enough to eat.
Not a good idea though.
It’s an Amanita muscaria, Fly Agaric mushroom button.
In the past, it was mixed with milk to drug houseflies.
Don’t count on our North American species to produce visions.
Eating this will produce sweating and dilirium.
Eye candy only. It’s poisonous.
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Garden TuTu
There is a pink tutu dancing in my garden.
Be not afraid. I am not gardening in tulle.
It’s my Pink Muhly Grass, Muhlenbergia capillaris.
The wind is blowing and it is putting on a show.
The sun makes it sparkle.
Just when most perennials are headed off stage, here comes ‘Miss Muhly’ dancing in her pink tutu.
What a great show in the garden. Bravo!
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Cool Dahlias
Dahlias need four things to thrive.
First, they need rich soil. I enrich mine with homemade compost and mushroom compost.
Second, they need a lot of water to grow. Mine are at the bottom of a hill with a berm.
Third, they must be supported. I have been negligent in this so excuse the messy stake job.
The fourth thing that MUST happen is cool weather. Dahlias struggle until it cools down.
Then they show off with giant, heavy blooms.
These are my three favorites, Thomas A Edison, Snow Country and Firepot.
I love the cool weather, also. I have wilted and withered all summer. Hooray fall!
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Two Brackets
During my wanderings, two brackets were discovered.
One up a tree
and one on an old stump.
Both on wood, one wood living
the other dead.
The white on was high up in a tree.
The brown one was low to the ground hidden by weeds.
The white one looked new, clean and pristine.
The brown bracket looked old, dirty, and weather worn.
One seemed heavenly,
the other earthly.
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A Bad Fit
Sometimes we end up in the wrong place.
A place where we do not fit.
A place that won’t allow us to grow.
When this happens, it’s best to realize it earlier rather than later.
Sometimes this “place” is a job or a town or a relationship.
Others see that your circumstances are not a good fit, but you stick it out.
Until the obvious cannot be ignored.
Do you know this tomato?
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Hiding at Home
Sometimes I have trouble leaving my yard.
There are people out there… and germs.
I am safe here.
I’d rather stay home and hang out with my friends.
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Alligator Flag
Sometimes I wonder about the origins of common names for plants.
This is an aquatic plant Thalia dealbata. It grows about three feet tall in a pot in our small pond.
One of it’s nicknames is Powdery Alligator Flag.
I envision an alligator trying to sneak through the marsh without being detected.
The alligator brushing by these stalks as it snakes by and making the flowers wave like a flag.
There are no alligators in our little pond, but a tiny green frog seems to like the Thalia dealbata leaves.
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Night time with a Vine
I went out and sat under the climbing okra vine last night waiting for the moths.
The ants have the day shift. The moths have the night shift.
These flowers glow as the sun goes down, beacons for its pollinators.
Moths come to the blooms.
The female blooms produce a long pod.
These can get over a foot long.
The seeds look like watermelon seeds .
The fruit tastes like okra.
It’s large pods can be dried to make luffa sponges, thus its name Luffa acutangula.
What an interesting, multi-purpose plant.
Flower grows food, too.
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