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Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day
It's garden bloggers' bloom day, wherein garden bloggers post pics of whatever's blooming in their gardens on the 15th of each month. I'm not a garden blogger (well, I have a dusty garden blog whose password I've lost), and these aren't all blooms since that skips too much. But a break in today's rain coincided with daughter's naptime, so here you ( Read more... ) -
Social sites meta thinkery
I've been thinking lately about social networking and the various sites I've been part of. I'm feeling disgruntled and mopey about the whole thing. I know, I know, I never post anyway (though in fact I have been posting pretty frequently on Twitter of late). Nonetheless, I'm going to subject you all to my thoughts on the subject.
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Forsythia
The forsythia is blooming (or rather, started blooming on 4 April 2010, which is when I took the picture).
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Phenology
phe·nol·o·gy /fɪˈnɒlədʒi/ [fi-nol-uh-jee]
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the science dealing with the influence of climate on the recurrence of such annual phenomena of animal and plant life as budding and bird migrations.
And according to the US National Phenology Network:
Phenology is the study of recurring plant and animal life cycle stages, or phenophases, such as ( Read more... )
