@wulphram
I am an organic chemist. Carbon is a whore. You must be over 21 (please!) to watch, or I will block you. I am well over 40 years old. Science rules! This is becoming my new "fuzzy" account. I will have to make a new professional account later...
A large Brittle Star navigates some red urchins on a rocky reef near Santa Barbara CA.
I'm kinda fond of brittle stars and they don't get much press. This is one of the larger more active species. Ophioderma panamense, the Panama Serpent Star. Found on rocky reefs from S. Cal to Ecuador. It has no trouble navigating some red urchins. Lots of tube feet coming out of the urchin below it
A group of about twenty purple and wavy tentacle-like fingers rise from orange fir needles covering the ground. This fungi is named purple spindles for good reason. This group of spindles stands about eight inches tall at its highest.
This weird fungus is Alloclavaria purpurea, better known as purple spindles. They're so tentacley!
📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/8, 1/4, ISO 400
Stack of 5 images
11/9/24
Northern Oregon Coast
#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms
🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄🟫
Luna cat woke me up at 6am with cuddle demands. She had already been fed by that point by B so it was genuinely just attention she wanted. 20 minutes later and she has gone back to sleep already. I haven’t.
Cats.
Photo: Silky plush medium-ish haired, pink-nosed white and black cow cat stands on a patch of grass that hasn’t seen the sun since October. She’s looking off at something interesting and her black tail is straight up and probably testing wind movements.
My news-to-cat pic ratio is way off. Let’s remedy the issue with a pic of the cutest lil hedge watcher you ever did see - soaking up the sudden spring day in the north. #CatSky #CowCat #CatsOfBlueSky #Hedgewatch
When the new cat is relaxed they lay right next to someone and kick their feet in the air.
It's just a lucky guess! :D
(because it's going to get awkward... I'm going to make it awkward...)
Art of lots of different mustelid heads
Happy MarTen longfriends!
#martenday
A black and white cat sitting in a small cardboard box, patiently waiting for snacks
This is how Uni waits for his snacks :3
At the dog park, a man had two Labs, an adult and a puppy. When he wanted to leave, he sent the big one to get the little one and bring him back.
That’s the first time I’ve ever seen a Labrador retriever actually retrieve a Labrador.
Shiny purple chalcedony, also known as grape agate.
A striking botryoidal specimen from Indonesia.
Video: Bobby_nature_minerals
Purrito anyone?
This is the first cat I've had that likes to burrow under things....including my tablecloth and placemats 😆
A monochrome pencil sketch of Coda, an anthropomorphic coyote, as he's freediving. He's wearing a two-piece freediving wetsuit with hood, a weight belt, fins and a mask. His body is facing the viewer, turned very slightly to his left, with his head at the top left of the picture and his fins at the bottom right. Coda's looking to the top right, with some small bubbles close to his face.
Watching @seawoof.bsky.social's freediving video yesterday really inspired me, so here's the coyote himself as he explores the depths.
*nods* Yeah, there's that too... :D
I'd love that job!
The existence of the nautilus implies the existence of an isilus...
Show us the other side! :D
It's an iron phosphate, so iron on bones (calcium phosphate) could make it happen?
A mineral specimen of dark green translucent Vivianite crystal with excellent faces.
Happy #MineralMonday from a particularly exhausted cat!
Today I am showing off another old one of mine, an excellent crystals of Vivianite! It is pleochroic and a phosphate so I am naturally a huge fan!
Photo of a several orange mushrooms growing in a cluster on the white bark of a birch tree. The mushrooms are attached to the tree with the gill side outward and are roundish to somewhat ear-shaped. The centres of the mushrooms contain a small amount of white fuzzy tissue.
Orange Oyster #Mushroom. NWT, Canada. Mushroom is about 10cm, left to right. #fungi #fungifriends
Don't get me started on the fake plant seeds, lol! :D
*grins!* A fun pastime indeed! :D
It's something that needs to be done. Etsy is just FULL of fake listings... *sighs*
Also, that agate bear is great! (and may show some "euhedral crystals" in the openings if I'm not mistaken (my vision is extra crappy because I'm not wearing my glasses today)
*nods* The rainbow quartz is made of crystals that have been coated, so they /are/ still crystals in there, as are the ones in the geodes :D
*backs out of the room while saying the above, as well*
I mean, there are exceptions...
Organic crystals exist. There might be a large percentage of "crystalline" areas in some things made from some polymers... makes them clear and brittle more than cloudy and flexible :D
(plasticizers often just disrupt crystal formation)
I mostly just mean that "crystal" has a specific meaning, like a quartz CRYSTAL is different than quartz that's been cut or is massive ( or cryptocrystaline, etc.)
*nodnods* That's fine, lol!
I also just like pretty things! :D
(We got some GREAT things in the store today... I need to get in there with a camera sometime and get some pictures!)
