Category: fauna

dVerse — Q203 — music for today

Freshwater crabs? Who knew? Thirteen-hundred known species sidle tropic and sub-tropic habitats. Unlike marine crabs, their larval stage passes inside of the egg. They hatch as juveniles, under maternal care. Endemic means risk for them. clicking castanets, pooled among nymph and minnow, oblivious, play Pom Pom Crab image link Merril is today’s host for dVerse’…

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Friday Favorite Feature 40 — fmg

All of the pictures included in today’s post were taken Tuesday on our family gather at fmg. The new FFF banner is a sculpture by artist Jim Dine and is one of my granddaughter’s favorites.  

Doodads — Sunday weekly video and photo

So much to take pics and video of, it’s hard to keep ahead of it. Here’s a mish-mash of the past week. Videos I’ve been uploading to YouTube:   And the final, surprise video.  This is a cool solar-powered flame hot air balloon younger son and his wife bought me last year or the year…

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Doodads — witch hazel, prickly pear, and more

Friday and Saturday were spent mowing, trimming, and hauling bricks to the middle of the yard to build a foundation for the Amish-made lighthouse that has replaced the eroding, ant-infested wishing well my stepfather built for me many moons ago.  When the wood-shingled roof of it fell off last fall, a plan to replace emerged. …

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Spring is wiggling its way…

It was sunny part of yesterday, and at 5:27p.m., it is still light out AND it was sunny all day today.  First are pics taken inside of the African Violet (above) and the rosemary in bloom in the atrium. Next, are a couple of the prickly pear cactus plant.  I believe every one of the…

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Doodads — micro and macro

The pics in this Doodads are from the last week.  On Christmas Day older son and I took a walk around a lake that years ago was a mountainous dune.  Somebody’s palms were greased and one f*cker has been allowed to mine all kinds of sand and polluted the groundwater while processing the sand for…

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