So this post includes pictures from yesterday's walk at the lake... not very many, since a thunderstorm showed up, and pictures from today's walk in the woods around my house. Honey was a bit concerned about me wandering around the woods, since we currently have a rather alarmingly outgoing black bear in the area who likes to sit in his parents' ( Read more... )

Finals week for school... not terribly worried. I don't usually get worked up over tests. I probably should get MORE worked up over tests, considering I haven't done as well on some of the quizzes as I would have liked... oh, well ( Read more... )

This is a 1985 Russian version of "The Hobbit". Looks to be a bit low-budget, to say the least. Someone on YouTube has gone and broken it up into six parts and added "helpful" subtitles for us, although the person doing the subtitles obviously doesn't speak any more actual Russian than I do. ANYWAY ( Read more... )

So, in my last nature post, I had a mystery, and it was this:

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School is school and I love the subject matter... it's just that this program is too good to have people in it like Rainbow Unicorn Fart Girl for me to laugh at and/or bang my head against the wall over. If you want, I'll tell you about the final paper I wrote for my one class about the Sin Nombre hantavirus. If you don't want, I won't. I think it' ( Read more... )

Some flowers today! And other things. And I actually managed to successfully identify things, which makes me happy. And although the plants that will soon cover the entire shoreline of the lake are just getting started, I can see them preparing. And my ospreys are back, in the same nest and perched in the same tree ( Read more... )

In our compressed and constantly frost-threatened spring, we have reached the awkward teenage point. The childhood is full of delicate, short-blooming little flowers in a race against time, and once the adulthood of summer arrives the slower-growing plants that mature will fill the now-empty fields and roadsides and lake shores with tall, long- ( Read more... )

And it was beautiful! The unseasonably hot weather broke last night and today was delightfully spring-like... and of course tomorrow night we're back down into possible heavy FROST. Ugh. That will do some damage to some of the plants I've been keeping an eye on to see what they turn into ( Read more... )

Honey is puzzled and amused with today's experiment. Today's experiment was to determine properly whether I am allergic to poison ivy (and by extension poison oak and poison sumac, all of which contain the same active ingredient). I know I've been in contact with it before, while painting houses or playing in the woods, but I've never had the rash ( Read more... )

Today ended up being nicer than I expected it to be... the sun came out even though the wind was chilly... so I stopped on the way home to take a walk on the other trail (the one that isn't by the lake). This is the trail along the creek where I always find all the red trilliums, and I figured it was much too early for them yet, but I might at ( Read more... )