another round of seed catalogs

Columnar apple trees remain creepy and wrong.

By some crossing of the wires I have been identified as a likely buyer of bulbs in wholesale quantities. I am, I admit, intrigued by the idea of buying 1000 camas bulbs, $155.75 (plus shipping). In the same way as buying 50 pounds of Dow Corning 3179 Dilatant Compound, you know.

Maybe I'll try planting chard for overwintering.

tuatara parietal eye

http://www.animalcorner.co.uk/reptiles/rep_tuatara.html

The tuatara has a third eye on the top of its head called the 'parietal eye'. It has its own lens, cornea, retina with rod-like structures and degenerated nerve connection to the brain, suggesting it evolved from a real eye. The parietal eye is only visible in hatchlings, which have a translucent patch at the top centre of the skull.

Tip from mantisshrimp.