It was a lovely sunny day here in the Land of Gilroy. So nice that I decided to synthesize some vitamin D. It may be February, but there are definately touches of springtime in the air.
My first picture is of Nessie, a large ceramic sculpture I made many years ago, with the shadows cast by Love in the Mist seed pods (appropriate for the month eh?).
Spring is often marked by Dandelions. I hope they'll last til April!
I love how they look when the sun shines through the petals :)
There were some clouds left over from last nights rain. One parked itself here for a time. I feel like this is my Sistine chapel shot :B
Lichen that presently grows along our set of walnut trees. As you can probably guess, these trees aren't doing too well, but they are covered with some great lookin' lichen! You can tell that the fungus half (lichen = algae + fungus) is some sort of Ascomycota or cup fungus :3
I find the second picture interesting. It shows the yellow/orange lichen and a second color set of white/burgundy. I don't know if the white/burgundy is just straight fungus or the lichen after it has died, or some other such thing, but it's cool.
I found this guy crawling in between our solar powered lights and the Alyssum. It's a Hemipteran of some sort with red eyes o=
Recently PG&E came and cut down the Eucalyptus trees we had growing under the power lines (who thought that was a good idea?). As you can see, the wood is a nice orange-red color. As you can also see by the width of the inner rings, these trees grow really fast. They're basically giant weeds. Once you got 'em, good luck getting rid of them D:
Eucalyptus fun fact: Firefighters often refer to Eucalyptus as "Gasoline Trees" because the high oil content of bark and leaves burn so readily, yay :D
Ninja Chickens! Some of our young black Minorca and red New Hampshire chickens tried to sneak up on me. Later, everyone followed me to the back gate. Silly chickens!
Your humble narrator :B
Oh, pretty pictures! :B
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