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snippets, 5-28-2021

She galloped into history, then oblivion (NY Times)

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dusky hooded owlet caterpillar on a cow-itch vine

assassin bug (good to have around but do not let them bite you)

Cora and a rain lily

a very big feral pig

snippets, 5-23-2021

Bringing the circus back to life (The Guardian). Beautiful photo essay.

garden notes, mmxxi-v-xxiii

yup, all the way in

 

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japanese hawkweed, a graceful, delicate thing

this one is growing from a rock

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this is not the fawn from the ranch

I startled this one in a meadow on the way home

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afternoon thunderstorms turned into a pretty evening

still some rumbling going on

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the fawn was gamboling about today

(just down the hill from the round pen so cora was watching)

the bird is a scarlet tanager - i see them once or twice a year

they're shy but they're hard to miss when they're out

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A thunderstorm unleashed a sudden wall of water

as I stood watching from the porch

and this little fledgling sparrow fluttered over my head

to land on the asparagus fern behind me.

(It got so dark the porch light turned itself on.)

 

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the bird in the first picture is an American Redstart,

a bird I never knew of till today

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the bug in the third picture is a squash vine borer

it's a moth that lays its eggs on the vine 

and when the larvae hatch they bore into the vine and destroy it from within

there's a katydid hiding in both prickly pear blossoms in the bottom picture

i like katydids

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