Misc.

Deleting some photographs from my phone and finding a few miscellaneous delights that never made it to B&B. Poppy fruit above. (Sweet dreams…?)

This stone door of a mausoleum is wearing poorly.

Cutting the shrubs to make room for new plantings along 4th Avenue.

An unripened conker from Bottlebrush Buckeye/Aesculus parviflora.

B&W American Lady/Vanessa virginiensis.

Ant on mushroom.

Portrait of a potato flower.

Slug eating their way through a mushroom stem.

You bring an acorn home this time of year and…

… you stand a good chance of getting acorn weevil larvae emerging.

Banner of General Washizu in Throne of Blood (1957). This is the Macbeth character, played by Toshiro Mifune, in this samurai version of Shakespeare directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa. The Banquo figure, Miki, sports a hare on his banner. Uh-oh, you know which way that’s gonna go…