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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-29 at 01:20

Today's dinner-cooking music:

Cannonball Adderly's album Somethin' Else.

Cannonball Adderly, Miles Davis, Hank Jones, Art Blakey, Sam Jones. What's not to love?

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lSTZ6djuLxsJ-GvHQAQRunrQj776X2J6U

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-28 at 12:10

A crooked little mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) and the shadows it casts on the snow.

[#]plants #trees #photography

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-28 at 01:22

Today's dinner-cooking music:

Aretha Franklin

30 Greatest Hits

Among them:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vet6AHmq3_s

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-27 at 12:07

Who leaves these messages for me? At least someone still writes letters.

(It's probably pine bark beetles.)

[#]plants #insects #trees

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-26 at 22:02

It's been above freezing for over 24 hours! I went for a short walk in the woods and saw the first arthropods I've seen in a while: some little midges bobbing up and down in a sunbeam and an wicked little spider who came to dangle from my hat by a thread. Also, some kind turkey left me a nice feather beside the creek. A good day of socializing all around.

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-26 at 12:25

Another mint dragon.

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-23 at 12:14

I just want to note that it's cold as a witch's brass monkey here this morning. It's 6 degrees F! I know that's a balmy summer day for you northerners, but it's pretty darn cold for Virginia.

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-23 at 12:03

Some beech leaves (Fagus grandifolia), sunshine, and a clear blue winter sky.

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-21 at 02:25

Following up on my earlier post about the new-to-me clubmoss, here are some pictures. iNaturalist thinks it's Dendrolycopodium obscurum.

The clubmoss I usually see in our woods is Diphasiastrum digitatum, and I've posted about it before, here:

https://fosstodon.org/@catselbow/113775936679035068

Here are pictures of the new one.

[#]plants #photography

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-20 at 20:18

I went walking in the woods this afternoon and explored a little further than usual, following a creek upstream around a few twisty bends. The creek looks beautiful today. The ice is melting and everything is sparkling in the sun.

I crossed back over the creek and headed home through a part of our neighbor's woods, and I saw a big patch of clubmoss. We have lots of clubmoss in our woods, but this looked different. It turns out to be a whole different species! I might post pictures later.

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-20 at 15:10

Mint in winter, looking like multi-headed ice dragons.

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-19 at 00:42

Today's dinner-cooking music:

Sarah Vaughan's self-titled 1955 album. I've had the LP for decades, played it until I wore it out, then bought a CD version. It's a perfect album in every way.

If you don't believe me, here's April in Paris:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QmeGmPPE4hE

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-18 at 01:03

Earlier tonight while washing my hands I felt a lump of something between my palms. It turned out to be a very wet, soapy, confused stinkbug who probably fell into my hand from the underside of the soap dispenser. I dried him off and set him beside the sink, where he's currently waggling his antennae and contemplating the very clean hand of fate. To my surprise, he didn't stink at me (too shocked?). Anyway, if you need someone to bathe your stinkbugs, apparently I'm your guy.

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-17 at 23:37

Golf club or elf foot? (Really a moss spore capsule.)

[#]moss #mosstodon #photography #plants

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-16 at 23:29

Whose doorstep is this? The hole is about the diameter of a soft drink can. It's in the bank of a small creek. The hole is half-filled with water. Come out so I can see you!

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-12 at 13:05

It's time for another episode of "What tabs do I have open in the Wikipedia app?":

Dirichlet Series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet_series?wprov=sfla1

Carol Lay

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Lay?wprov=sfla1

Nutmeg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutmeg?wprov=sfla1

Goodstein's Theorem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodstein%27s_theorem?wprov=sfla1

R.C. Sherriff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._C._Sherriff?wprov=sfla1

Albert Joseph Pénot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Joseph_P%C3%A9not?wprov=sfla1

Peano Axioms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms?wprov=sfla1

Digable Planets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digable_Planets?wprov=sfla1

Nicotiana tabacum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotiana_tabacum?wprov=sfla1

Trichia decipiens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichia_decipiens?wprov=sfla1

+26 others!

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-12 at 00:36

Today's dinner-cooking music. It's impossible to pick a favorite Joni Mitchell song, but this would certainly make my top ten list. It gives me goosebumps whenever I hear it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOjU3O4gvs

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-11 at 00:04

Today's dinner-cooking #music:

"My I'm Large" by The Bobs

I love these guys so much! Back in the early 90s I heard them on the radio while traveling, then when I got home I found information on a new-fangled thing called the "world wide web" about how to order their CDs. We mailed off a check ("Please find enclosed...") and ordered their first four albums.

We listened to these CDs (and others bought as they came out) continuously through the rest of the 20th century.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lBoHb0EKA18Dd52rUS-pIHAk6ZVcQHKnw

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-10 at 12:08

Turkey tail fungus on a fallen tree.

[#]plants #FungusFriday #trees #photography

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Written by Bryan Wright on 2025-01-09 at 12:13

Abstract with jelly fungus.

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