birdfeeder, snow

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Yesterday I took down the birdfeeder to add a squirrel cage so we could start using it again. It had turned into a terrarium (picture), with leftover sunflower seeds sprouting in the bottom. And wasps had built a small nest inside, excellently sheltered and protected -- empty now, but when I cleaned it all out I found white grubs creeping in the seed-gunk, so the animal kingdom was still represented. And for a third kingdom, the growth of wiry blackish threads I think was Nostoc (flagelliforme-looking), cyanobacteria.

I built a chicken-wire cage around the birdfeeder, filled it, and hung it back up. Early results are that none of our birds are filtrable through chicken wire.

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It snowed four feet an inch or two last night.


Pictures from the Arboretum

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think composition is important, but only because it doesn't stand out. It is balanced, which is enough. I think I like it because my first thoughts were _interesting!_, then _what it it?_ and all the little details you try and look into to figure it out. And while you're doing that, it's nice to look at.

I like the tree one for a much different reason. It looks so prehistoric. It looks like a child's science book. You could imagine a line drawing of a standard human for scale, and a mastadon in the background, and little labels describing all the trees and things.