Botany With A Side Of Chaos

So, take a second today to:

- Stretch (if you are able to comfortably do so)

- Drink some water! And if you’ve been sweating and only drinking water, drink something with electrolytes in them!

- Sit down/ lay down in a cozy area and listen to the wildlife around you. Maybe you’ll hear a lot of cicadas, perhaps something else. Maybe even make a game out of what all you can hear.

- Take a little cat nap if you’re in need of one. If you think you’re likely to fall into a full blown sleep and you don’t want to do so, make sure to set an alarm!

The jeweler’s loop!

Mine has 2 different lenses, as well as a small light in it. Which is incredibly helpful! It is also cantankerous because the batteries are non-standard coin batteries. Acursed but beloved jeweler’s loop.

If any of you use one, I would love to see it!

Dicentra cucullaria, known as Dutchman’s breeches

Trillium recurvatum

And an odd Asculus glabra (ohio buckeye). I would venture a guess that there is something strange with the pigment production of this one. Curious to see how it grows!

I unfortunately did not get photos of the trout lilies, but they are certainly out as well!

Below the read more are a couple of bugs. If anyone from the bug side of Tumblr would like to take a chance to ID them, that would be very fun! I am no entomologist, but I at least know the mite is a velvet mite.

I believe I have made my stance clear on here before, but allow me to make it crystal: my siblings are always welcome here. They deserve to be here, and should be here.

And if you think they shouldn’t? If you wish they would simply stop being who they are?

Every once and a while, I get the urge to sculpt again. It hit recently, and I had some clay available to me, so I made a very fun salmon lady.

She sits on my desk for the moment.