Nice photo of the reflections!
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The Laevis Oyster Mushroom. Had someone else ID it to species. I could tell it was an oyster mushroom species but it was the first time I’ve seen this one. The largest one had a cap that went from my fingertips to half way up my forearm. I just took the smallest one which was still big to cook.
These were some pretty purple Hairy Oyster mushrooms.
Flowers of the Florida anise. Not edible.
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Gorgeous!
Those oyster mushroom photos are amazing.
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Wow, those are huge!
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The last one is a new shirt I ordered. I really like it. Combines native plant , ecology and cryptids all at once lol.
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So it’s not a pic but I’m glad it’s getting warmer now. The mornings are still cold in the upper 50s but everyday this week by 10am it’s in the 70s and but noon it’s 76+. Just a few more months until the days lows are upper 70s and the highs are 90s and it’s my favorite weather.
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Someone has to like it. I’m considering my options in northern Canada, as Michigan gets warmer. Summers here and I are becoming incompatible; winters are a nearly non-existent.
How’d the oyster mushroom cook up?
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Currently on holiday in Mauritius celebrating our 12 wedding anniversary and my wife completing her PHD. 
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Beautiful! When you get away, you really get away! I was not familiar with Mauritius so had to look it up. Interesting history, and no doubt a lot of new flora and fauna to see. Who knows, maybe one last dodo bird about.
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If there is, he’ll find it.
Yesterday we drove down to Stanford so my missus could be tested to see if her veins are up to the rigors of a plasma exchange procedure. She is! To make a day of it we arrived early to tour the Gamble garden and the Arizona garden at the university. Only the latter is really a good fit here.
An agave demonstrating what monocarpic actually means: you’re done but your pups and seedlings carry on.
The notoriously slow growing and delicate Boojum tree from Baja.
A diseased Opuntia showing off what makes it all the more appealing to many bipeds.
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Congratulations all around!
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Now I have passed 12500 pictures with the microscope:
(I’m at 13,884 now, but will post 13000 and 13500 in a few weeks when I hit 15000).
My rate of photography has gone down a bit: average of 1.1 photos per hour since getting it, instead of 2.
10500 (Ellobium)
11000 (Bartschella)
11500 (Arcopsis)
12000 (“Skenea”)
12500 (Epitonium)
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Went hiking around northwest Florida today. Enjoying the low 70s and looking forward to the 80s of next week.
Finally found the Chapman oak. Been looking for this oak for a few years now. Though it’s more common a few hours away, it’s only found in the coastal areas of Alabama, Florida and Georgia really. Some have been found in the most southern corner of South Carolina. I’m still wanting to find one in south Alabama. Finally finding it in person will help me better find it in Alabama.
Here is a sand live oak.
This is the Myrtle Oak.
A osprey nest. Though I’ve seen some almost twice that size. But the American bald eagle nests tends to be even 4-5 times bigger and are usually in trees with foliage still. The ospreys seem to prefer dead trees.
A nice false Rosemary. It’s one of the earliest abundantly blooming flowers in winter and early spring. In a few more weeks thousands of them will be blooming and hundreds of thousands of bees will be swarming them.
In a few more months when it’s routinely in the 90s it will be great to hike to this part of the beach. It’s a few miles away from the main sections people go to and it’s also about a 3/4 mile hike to get to it and so it’s usually very relaxing. Sometimes I’ll be here for hours and no another person will hike up. It also helps that Black bears are here and so tourists tend to stay away.
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Here is another reason why this spot is typically not that popular. This is the route leading up to it.
There are numerous dunes climbing 10-20 feet along the way. But the big deal breaker for many is the final slope down, that you must come back up which is around 90 feet and it’s pretty steep. I’ve seen people fall accidentally and roll almost all the way down.
You’ll notice at the bottom is a guy and it shows you just how far down it is. I was about 3/4s of the way up it at that moment.
Here is another shot of someone closer on the easier part. Here I was about 1/2 way down it.
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American cockroach - one of the few super invasive, pest-status roaches that give all the others a bad name…
The Orion constellation. Noticed that it is flipped because I’m viewing it from the southern hemisphere.
A super camouflaged fish. A goby of some kind I think.
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Wow that fish is awesome. Is that a static camouflage or something involving transparency or the sort of thing octopi can do deliberately?
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Great question, I think it is a static camouflage.
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Amazingly good! Did you get that photo. Just excellent and surely difficult.
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Haha thanks. Believe it or not, I took it on my iPhone because the water at low tide is so clear and so shallow. But props go to my wife for spotting the fish.
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