on florida beaches, sand dollars are not that hard to find, especially after storms
but every time i find them i am more thrilled than had i found a crisp new dollar bill
these lovelies are from the gulf coast of florida and are called keyhole sand dollars
north captiva island, florida
p.s. the sand dollar is really a burrowing sea urchin
“after taking his dog for a walk one day in the early 1940s, george de mestral, a swiss inventor, became curious about the seeds of the burdock plant that had attached themselves to his clothes and to the dog’s fur. under a microscope, he looked closely at the hook-and-loop system that the seeds use to hitchhike on passing animals aiding seed dispersal, and he realised that the same approach could be used to join other things together. the result was velcro.“
i love this story because STILL blog is the result of may daily walks with my puggle Jack.
burdock
saint paul, minnesota
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such a wonderful story, thank you
once again feeling that
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i love seeing these frosted with snow at this time of year
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beautiful! such a lovely sentiment too.
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i never tire of seeing the bold blue jays. yes, they tend to bully the other birds off the feeder. but their bright blue plumage is such a treat in winter.
they don’t seem to easily give up their feathers either. for i find very few of them. or perhaps it is because everyone else is picking them up and taking them home too.
saint paul, minnesota
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i absolutely love this photo. it is gorgeous. i once heard that if you see a blue jay when pregnant it means you are having a boy. both times i was pregnant i saw blue jays the day i found out – had three boys! (two were twins).
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my husband and I picked these dramatic berries on a walk along the mississippi river, just before he left for a winter camping trip, he proceeded to spend 3 nights in a tent in the snow, wearing long underwear that had been contaminated by the lovely, cream colored berries that turned out, in the end, to be poison ivy. steve’s lividly-welted and inflamed torso is the only STILL blog related casualty that we know of so far.
along the banks of the mississippi river, saint paul, minnesota
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Beautiful berries and artfully arranged photo, but as a poison ivy sufferer, your husband has my sympathy!
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I knew about the white berries being poison ivy because a friend had a similar experience – thought they would make a lovely fall arrangement (and they did!) and learned soon after – the hard way – that they were really poison ivy vines. Caladryl really helps dry up the rash, the pink kind, not the clear. It’s miserable!
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i think this looks a lot like the sedimentary rock maps we studied in middle school
perhaps a map of the great lakes region after the glaciers of the ice age had passed over
actually, it is the exterior layers of a paper wasp nest
the layers are made from saliva mixed with wood pulp, aka paper
i love the color palette of these particular wasps
saint paul, minnesota
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love your analogy
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Your photos are wonderful , I love them all !
♥Catharina♥
Thank You Catharina!
Mary Jo
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