Monday, June 10, 2013

Backlog assortment: Missouri fall finds.

Still in Sept., 2012...such bad practice.

egg

An eggshell. I know not what kind of bird. A small one, though.

Young oysters.

young oyster cluster

A particularly luminous clump of young oyster mushrooms.

underside of oysters in hand

Oyster gills. Off-center stem, gills running down stem. Yes, I cut them off the tree—a girl’s got to eat!

leaf-footed bug on windshield

When I got back to the car this leaf-footed bug was on the windshield.






















~~~Note: these images were shot in September! Seed ticks aren't out yet!~~~

Seed ticks are really small, but you can see them…SO awful, so tiny, and often so many…once I looked down and thought there was a smear of mud on my jeans, but it was a solid swath of seed ticks, much worse than pictured here (and it was actually the second nest I'd crashed into, less than ten minutes after the first one--). I got the willies and aborted that hike. Miraculously, none got on me or bit me.

What a terrible way to end a blog post.

3 comments:

  1. That is a terrible way to end a post! Ick!! The Hubby & Kids and I went geocaching this week (mind you, it IS June) and came back with at least 20 deer ticks each. Horrible. I'm still feeling my skin crawl!

    Other than the ticks, I love your posts! I love seeing the things you discover, and better yet is when you can identify them for us! Keep sharing!!

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  2. Nice! Good to see you getting caught up, I hope to see a blog documentation of the mother-load of trumpets you are destined to find. I'm finding it hard to get another blog post going lately, all of your pics are inspiring indeed.

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  3. So many more backlog posts to come...but YOU have found many wonders in your new ecosystem! Post! Post! Post!

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