@hellabarnes
Once and future historian of colonial Latin America, current stay at home dad, cook. just a clod of the common earth Posting RVA-area plant pics on Insta @powerlinebotany, for now
human gf, neanderthal bf
there is a town in England spelled Towcester and pronounced ‘toaster’
Illustration of seven American bison skulls displayed from front view, showcasing variations in horn shape and size. The detailed black and white engraving highlights the curved, textured horns attached to the heavy, broad skulls. Each skull displays unique features such as horn curvature, base texture, and skull robustness, reflecting differences between living and extinct bison species. The arrangement allows comparison of anatomical traits important for species identification. The artwork is labeled "Bison Americanus" and dated 1876, emphasizing its historical and scientific value in studying American bison morphology.
🦬 American bisons, living and extinct.
1876.
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I do like your primroses
I wish dead nettle was exciting.
it’s funny watching people in europe get excited about the return of what are our north american lawn weeds
coarse, pebbly sandstone blocks assembled into a wall
Plaque from the opposite bank of the Appomattox from Point of Rocks.
John Smith saw a 60 foot pinnacle of stone near the mouth of the Appomattox, at a place still called Point of Rocks. It was quarried to build a fence around a civil war cemetery in nearby Hopewell.
I made a silly little pilgrimage today to see the fence.
I learned recently that the falls of the Passaic in Patterson, NJ used to be an flower-bedecked approximation of paradise and now it’s Patterson, NJ
loggerhead shrikes are so cool
eh, I’m toddling around
the boat book is now indexed, Alhamdulillah.
I have been listening to podcasts since 2009 and youtube videos are, in my opinion, not podcasts
I wonder how long this nap is going to paper over the fact that I’m fairly sick
Soviet realist painting of a woman operating a port crane. Our perspective is from behind her so we see the lofty view of the port out the window of the crane’s cab
“From the height of the port crane” Rudolf Baranov, 1974
that distinctly east coast problem where your house is humid but at a temperature that needs neither AC or heat
in mud at the bottom of a lake/ocean, but no big boat stuck, sadly
the thing about a boat book is there are a lot of individual boats they talk about
I feel like I’m doing something wrong, because the step between reading a book and having a finished index is a real rigmarole
i know it doesn’t matter but i just want it on the record i acknowledge that by hitting schools and desalinization plants we are committing unspeakable war crimes and i, personally, think it’s kind of a major bummer
the boat book is now indexed, Alhamdulillah.
really simple syndication, motherfucker
it’s like how the kids call all books novels
they are youtube videos
I have been listening to podcasts since 2009 and youtube videos are, in my opinion, not podcasts
YouTube algorithm cooked with putting this in front of me, ngl youtu.be/m9aroePaO90?...
they should integrate Merlin into iNat imo. it’s in the interest of both organizations
cool depiction of the indigenous people of the Outer Banks
fish crow on iNaturalist
new species of friendo at the house. I live nowhere near water, at least for someone on the east coast.
they never plow those feelings into making sure it still snows in 50 years
a close-up of a small flower whose five egg-shaped petals come to a blunt point. the petals are starkly white but marked with faint pink streaks; at the base of each petal there is a small spot of golden yellow. the ovary in the center of the flower has a pale green tint, with pale pink anthers suspended above on white stamens. behind the blooming flower there is an upright bud fixing to open, plus a few nodding buds encased in green.
this flower's five petals are curved up forming a bowl around the white stamens with pink anthers that stand in the center of the flower. the white petals are streaked purple-pink, with a golden yellow spot at the base of each. a couple buds getting ready to open hang to either side, with a whole clutch of green, younger buds nodding down in between.
the forest floor here has patches of green moss but is mostly coverd with brown fallen tree leaves. some young green leaves and shoots are poking up through the leaves, including long, thin, green or purplish-green springbeauty leaves similar to blades of grass. there are scattered blooming white springbeauty flowers across the scene.
🌼 virginia springbeauty 🌿
Claytonia virginica
#nativeplants #ecoregion71