Category: Live
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The three stooges
Three guineas on our roof. Today, the guineas accidentally learned that they can fly onto the roof and cackle there out of reach of any human intervention.
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Into the woods
Apple blossoms. Malus domestica 
Violets. Viola 
Logs inoculated with Chicken-of-the-Woods spawn. Laetiporus sulphureus 
Frog spawn in the creek. 
Trying not to fall in the creek. 
Footprints in the mud. 
Racoon and deer. 
Bobcat. 
Wild blueberries. Vaccinium angustifolium 
Wild blueberries. Vaccinium angustifolium
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The hunt is on
The score: 0 morels, but a whole lot of other neatness.
Crowsfoot or running cedar. Diphasiastrum digitatum 
Fiddlehead ferns. 
Witches’ butter. Tremella mesenterica 
Witches’ butter. Tremella mesenterica 
Eastern box turtle. Terrapene carolina carolina 
A bit of luck caught my eye. 
Mayapple or American mandrake. Podophyllum peltatum 
Abby found an owl pellet and carried it home in a leaf. 
Time for science! 
Dissection in progress. Those tweezers are going to be sterilized when the kids are done with them. 
Furry!
