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Noticing the year: 01/13/08
Jan. 14th, 2008 10:15 am
I noticed that despite a week of above-freezing temperatures, Ward's Pond is still covered with ice.
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I noticed that despite a week of above-freezing temperatures, Ward's Pond is still covered with ice.
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Getting a jump on picspam day
Apr. 22nd, 2007 08:21 pmMonday is my usual picspam day, but 1) I've built up a huge backlog 2) I have a ton of stuff to do tomorrow and 3) Alexis has passed out next to me, so she's no fun, so I'll start catching up now. It was so nice today (and the past couple days) that it's almost hard to remember how relentlessly rainy it was earlier this week. It was good for the slimy spring jelly fungi!
This is warty black jelly Exidia glandulosa.
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This is warty black jelly Exidia glandulosa.
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How about an Urban Nature post?
Mar. 28th, 2007 07:30 pmIt's been a long time, but you've all been so kind and helpful! Here is a set of photos from our dogwalk this past Sunday, in Olmsted Park in Boston and Brookline.
I think I'll be collecting Signs of Spring until the third week of June. This week: Skunk Cabbage. These are the flowers, which appear before the foliage.( Read more... )
I think I'll be collecting Signs of Spring until the third week of June. This week: Skunk Cabbage. These are the flowers, which appear before the foliage.( Read more... )
Rainy winter pictures
Jan. 15th, 2007 03:08 pmHere's a set of pictures from the past couple of days. It's been around 40 degrees and lightly raining.
Building under construction in the Longwood Medical Area, across from my house.
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Building under construction in the Longwood Medical Area, across from my house.
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Sudden Cold
Jan. 12th, 2007 08:11 amOur unseasonably warm January weather in the Boston area has given way to regular old skin-crackingly freezing January weather. Because the change was somewhat abrupt, I found some interesting things.
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365 Urban species. #018: Wood Ear
Jan. 18th, 2006 06:47 pm
Wood ear, when found in the city, is most often in parks, on warm windy and wet winter days. The translucent, vaguely ear-shaped mushroom appears on the ends of dead branches, on narrow twigs usually still attached to living trees. It appears year-round, but is more obvious in winter when there are no leaves. When the wind gusts, the dead twigs may fall to the ground, bringing this strange gelatinous fungus to the sidewalk.
Its close relative A. polytricha can be found in hot and sour soup.
As was commented anonymously below, this is not Auricularia auricula but rather Exidia recisa
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While walking the dogs yesterday, we came across this huge oak, toppled over at the bank of Ward's Pond in Olmsted Park in Boston.
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