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Slime Mold Ahoy!

With all the wet weather we’ve been getting some slime molds (mycomycetes) coming up in the bark mulch outside work. Here is one almost mature. Commonly called the bubble gum slime mold (well as common as any slime mold) it is a Lycogala. It’s spores will be a lovely lavender color when mature.

Jun 30th

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Hope Chest Tale

My grandmother (also a Genevieve) was married in 1939 and received a beautiful Lane cedar chest. It was always at the foot of the bed and as children we sat, stubbed our toes, and jumped off it onto the bed. When it was time to move Grandma from her own house to assisted living, some of her things were moved to other family members’ houses and much of it was tossed. For years I forgot about...

Jun 10th

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Intent finally realized

I’ve been meaning to start up a blog for a while now. Months is an underestimate. I’ve been bogged down on where to start, and then when I would decide “today is the day” I would realize there is a lot of decisions going into starting a blog if you want it to be just right. I missed talking about the Clara Cummings walk this year, and planting all the containers on the...

Jun 7th