[Image description: a half-inch long caterpillar takes a break and enjoys the breeze on the tip of my big toe]
It looks similar to Galgula partita, the Wedgling Moth (at least to me)
- Rosalina, teddy bear / sm red wheels
- Lucina
Guys and Dolls - 👐 (jazz hands)
Defense attorney is technically correct, they didn't conspire against the Democrats on the bus because they thought some different Democrats were on it instead. 
I love how #498 looks like she's going so fast she kicked up cartoon-esque dust clouds
thank you!
Right? We always knew he was a sorry for babies and kids but are incredibly thankful that he's taking it so well. I gave him a jackpot treat session when he gave her space after the first kiss and we've been reinforcing each one since.
And thank you!
That's awesome, I'm glad they're not aggressive reporters!
Thank you so much!
[Image description: our Australian shepherd gently and respectfully sniffs our newborn as I hold her for the introduction]
Sudo has been absolutely wonderful towards her - he'll come give the top of her head a small kiss when she gets fussy and then backs off to let us take care of the cause. I'll try to catch his =/ face the next time I tell him it's his turn to change the diaper
I haven't lived in an HOA but I have some friends that do, does yours have any guidelines or rules about garden edging or borders? One of my buddies was getting heck from his next door snitch until we put some stones around his "weeds" patch and tossed a little mulch down. Once it looked just that tiny bit more formal the complaints died down.
Hey folks! I am at the hospital with my wife waiting for our child to be born and my wife would like memes. Lots of memes. Stupid ones, funny ones, all manner of memes to distract her and produce happy hormones in her brain. Puns and dad jokes are also very welcome
ETA: seriously, thank you everyone! She's gotten some really hearty chuckles out of this and it's definitely helped keep her mood afloat.
ETA2: y'all are the best, li'l Juniper Mayhem joined us after 24 hours of labor and our sanity would have been in tatters if it weren't for all of you 
[Image description: a two panel meme. In the top panel, a person labeled "my customers" asks the question "how do I keep bugs off my plants?" In the bottom panel, a person labeled "me, a native plant nursery owner" says "that's the neat part, you don't"]
[Image description: a very fuzzy, day old yellow duckling warms up in my hand on a chilly morning.]
This little nugget decided to spend a few extra minutes in my hand after we found its mother. The temperature was hovering around 60F which is a little too chilly for a duckling this young.
[Image description: several ducklings inspect my toes for caterpillars, occasionally grabbing the toes instead]
One of them found an inchworm on my foot the other day and now whenever I stop moving they go nuts trying to find more. It's cute until one grabs a toe or the hairs and does a death shake.
[Image description: eight raspberry cuttings showing the stages of root development at their growth tips, with the leftmost cutting showing almost no root and progressing to the rightmost which shows a cluster of roots and upward growing leaves]
I'm giving a talk next month about reproducing plants asexually and am working on images for the slide deck. Figured I may as well share some of the images here too as it might help some folks who are interested in doing this. Questions and feedback are encouraged and appreciated, they'll help to make the presentation even more informative.
[Image description: week old ducklings pile on top of one another, almost managing to be nestled under their watchful mother. One duckling is jumping to reach the top of the bunch.]
There's always at least one in every clutch that seems to prefer being the last one to the party just to be top cuddler.
I harvested a dozen Hungarian Wax peppers this morning and that one (!) plant can now stand under its own weight again. We have a whole slew of tomatoes currently ripening on the vine so hopefully I can make some sauces and salsa this week. We got a food processor recently and I'm dying to try out more modes.
The bees are going crazy in one of our self seeding salad patches. We have four of these now, though two are newer and were planted later to stagger the harvest schedules and provide fresh greens for longer.
Here's a view of the permanent raised bed near the northern boundary of our property. Native Echinacea (purple coneflower) is growing next to a native Rudbeckia (the yellow coneflowers), with black elder, bee balm, and others growing in the background. To the right is the only patch of grass I mow with any regularity, as it's a shared boundary with our neighbor and their kids have been a little too helpful with the mower in the past.
Speaking of seeds, we have a whole bunch of seeds forming on New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus and also my favorite plant) planted all over the place. These plants have a mechanism for seed dispersal that creates pressure behind the seeds as they ripen, which then releases and jettisons the seeds with force. It can be difficult to time seed collection with this kind of adaptation, but luckily a neighbor has some tulle she's looking to offload so I'll be making some small pouches to tie around the seed heads. I collected a ton of seeds from our Russian sages yesterday as well, but those are much easier to time - the flowers will brown and dry, at which point you can gently shake the seeds out into a container.
What's growing on with you all?
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Just don't compare mine to Marth's ...