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this year's park weatherboards, submitted for your approval

five hundred such-and-such thousand and some odd minutes / how long's a year, remind me again

did NOT appreciate the sour look the lead researcher shot me when he found out i'd used our time portal to send my past self ideas for tweets. SO sorry that some of us aren't trying to alter the timestream so our estranged wives never left! i just think "i saw baddy proctor" would have hit in 2015!!

Mites can live in all kinds of different environments. But these ones have chosen to live in the wet, cozy interior of a seal's nasal passage. 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2019/07/hala...

okay that's it. photos done. the image is now obsolete.

Red-tail takes flight

Ants searching after every scrap of meat on this mud dauber wasp corpse

Male snowy tree crickets (Oecanthus fultoni)--if you've ever heard that you can determine the temperature based on the speed a cricket chirps, this is the specific species of cricket they were talking about. The female looks similar but with smaller, less tennis-rackety wings.

caught trawling... someone tell her that this is an ecologically dubious method of fishing....

Jacquard loom at the Shelburne Museum

The Champlain Thrust Fault--Cambrian dolomite overriding Ordovician shale--exposed at Lone Point just north of Burlington

A "mackerel sky" of small, well-ordered cirrocumulus clouds revealing atmospheric waves high in the troposphere

UNSTOPPABLE. IMPLACABLE. IRRESISTABLE. THE GAIT OF CERTAIN VICTORY/

Give Up? You Will Never Guess On Which Plant We Found This Goldenrod Crab Spider!!

House sparrow (Passer domesticus var. infrastructuramunicipalis)

This was supposed to be a long-exposure photo of lightning but I was juuust too late on the shutter BUT the anglers on the otherside of the spit of rock took this moment to swing their superbright lamp around silhouetting me getting annoyed instead. Can YOU find the firefly path in this photo?

The Gray Treefrog and Its Fashions

Rigging from recreation Revolutionary-era gunboat

Lenticular clouds leeward of the Adirondacks

The ant-mimic spider Myrmarachne formicaria, introduced to the Northeast in the late twenty-teens. Note how the forelimbs are typically raised when at rest, imitative of insect antennae.

Kelvin-Helmholtz waves over Snake Mountain

Dew on a tiny spider-web in a raccoon footprint iridesces in the sun

the teensiest orb-weaver

if dead roadside tree has a million fans, then i am one of them. if dead roadside tree has ten fans, then i am one of them. if dead roadside tree has only one fan then that is me. if dead roadside tree has no fans, then that means they all left + i got lonely so I flew to the new dead roadside tree

visitors from the continent