Snow and Violets

So just as a reminder, folks. If you don't know what it is, don't put it in your fucking mouth!

YOU GODDAMN STUPID MOTHERFUCKER

From top: The tiny white flowers of a partridgeberry (Mitchella repens) vine; mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), just now reaching peak bloom in the local mountains; yellow star grass (Hypoxis hirsuta), also known as common goldstar, which loves rocky nooks along sandy river banks; tassle-rue (Trautvetteria caroliniensis), also known as Carolina bugbane and false bugbane, a buttercup with lovely, but poisonous, palmately-divided foliage; smooth azalea, a knockout rhododendron sporting pink-tinged white flowers with red stamens and lush, dark-green foliage; the brilliant red fruit of common ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius); seedbox (Ludwigia alternifolia), a wetlands-loving plant with distinctive, cube-like seeds; and finally, another trail rescue: a very attractive and docile eastern milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum), which happens to be a personal favorite of mine from the snake-hunting days of my youth, many centuries ago.

for some reason my cat always acts surprised and sniffs me when i pet him even if he's literally sat on me

he spent the weekend before shooting learning how

He had far too much fun with this episode and it shows.

And also for George Takei running through the Starship Enterprise with a sword and cackling sinisterly