The Urban Pantheist, ( urbpan ) has a really great entry today about crows (with some nice pictures from some of his previous lj projects). He also points to a Canadian documentary premiering on the CBC tomorrow night entitled A Murder of Crows . It looks really fascinating and am jealous of the Canadians who get to see it. Corvids have intriguied me for a long time. "A Parliament of Rooks"...

I took a walk by the beach yesterday with my camera and this is some of what I found.  This is for urbpan because I know he'd appreciate it.  This is the husk of something - a horseshoe crab?  These were all over the beach yesterday, which is unusual.  The rest of the seagulls flew away when I came around, but this one must have been hungry, because he (she?) just kept...

Of these three photos, which do you like the best? (for my daily picture project )

Because arjuna_lj had some growing in the house , and because urbpan IDed it which saved me a lot of time on tracking down info.... Peziza domiciliana , the House Cup Mushroom! A rather unusual higher fungus, in that it's perfectly happy to grow large fruiting bodies inside your house. Indeed, householders can be quite surprised to find these these sprouting suddenly...

Because arjuna_lj had some growing in the house , and because urbpan IDed it which saved me a lot of time on tracking down info.... Peziza domiciliana , the House Cup Mushroom! A rather unusual higher fungus, in that it's perfectly happy to grow large fruiting bodies inside your house. Indeed, householders can be quite surprised to find these these sprouting suddenly...

Catalpa Tree Horse Poison Catalpa Tree Horse Poison Cowboy Bob's Questions and Answers - page 253 - Is a catalpa tree ... Is a catalpa tree harmful to a horse? D. J.. Catalpa tree in bloom behind a boy and a Clydesdale foal ANSWER: ... Poisonous or potentially poisonous trees: ... Horse Bean Tree. Horse Radish Kale Kohlrabi Mustard Pak Choi Radish. Horse bean...

Catalpa Tree Horse Poison Catalpa Tree Horse Poison Cowboy Bob's Questions and Answers - page 253 - Is a catalpa tree ... Is a catalpa tree harmful to a horse? D. J.. Catalpa tree in bloom behind a boy and a Clydesdale foal ANSWER: ... Poisonous or potentially poisonous trees: ... Horse Bean Tree. Horse Radish Kale Kohlrabi Mustard Pak Choi Radish. Horse bean...

Via urbpan : Nice vermin PR article on Cracked. Points of interest (to me, anyway): 1. I have kept two of the five critters on the main banner as pets (three if you count the E. coli .), and I spent a good year with mosquitos (albeit dead ones). Now I just need to make friends with some wasps so I can win the vermin bingo. 2. The first mosquito photo is not a mosquito . It's a crane fly...

If you're wondering about the sudden interest in healthy foods, there are two main reasons. First, I've become a vegetarian (at least until I can find a source of cruelty-free meat. Even then, I may give up on beef and pork). I blame this entry for my vegetarianism: http://urbpan.livejournal.com/833099.html (No hard feelings, urbpan .) Also, the idea of Community Supported Agriculture has...

urbpan ran a nature walk this past sunday. here are a few of the pictures i took. hooray the catbirds are back! there's also an art exhibit going on in the park right now (through the end of june). this piece is my favorite.