Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡

Thank you ☺️

It was a nice walk.

The clouds were perfect.

Have a had a few. I’m just keeping fingers crossed this all settles down before next year’s bug season. It takes a couple of weeks to train my eyes to spot the bugs, but with this weirdness in my left eye, I’m spotting a lot of bugs that aren’t there 🤨

Have had a few of those. But lessened over the days.

Last night’s evening walk was wild because she had to super dilate my eyes. The moon, all the landscaping lights, street lights were showers of light falling from them.

Guess the only time I’m grateful not to be looking down a microscope 😕

Thank you! It is a relief because there’s just too much going on right now.

She showed me on the photos where the “little black spider webs” were, but said that it would likely relax.

A just past full moon glowing in some orange pinkish clouds with a deep blue sky and a dark horizon.

Sleep is pulling me into its nocturnal embrace. Good night

Good news, concerned friends, the optometrist is sending me to a specialist but she did not see any retinal tears. Only vitreous gunk changing in my eye. So important but not critical.

Okay britpol is none of my business but this attitude fills me with incandescent rage

What a wonderful gift to share nearly two decades with such a good friend. Goodbyes are always so hard, but a love like this will never end.

Can’t tell but I’ve seen dead beavers that look like that. If it’s dead, it will sink and the crayfish and other bottom eaters will feast!

"One option for desert plants experiencing extreme conditions is to bury themselves underground. The schematic below illustrates shoots and roots . This study looks to see if both contract under extreme thermal environments. A children’s “finger trap” toy is mentioned in the article – I want to make sure that everyone is familiar with the reference." Then there is a picture of Fred from Scooby doo with a finger trap and a schematic of a plant shoots and roots compressing

This week my Ecology class read "Root contraction helps protect the “living rock” cactus Ariocarpus fissuratus from lethal high temperatures when growing in rocky soil" bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... . I'm pretty happy with this slide I made to help intro the paper 1/2

Beloved Son’s POV this morning.

Beloved Son, looking into the bowl: omg Marianne 🙄

Me: it’s my little friend ☺️💛

BS: I’m sure it is.

Me: he’s mad because he can’t get out, but he’s going to the pumpkins soon.

Three panel Donny Darko meme between his mother and Donny: Donny: I made a new friend. Mother: Real or bug? Donny: BUG!

Is it me?

Close up of a brown house millipede crawling on a pumpkin

Close up of a brown house millipede crawling on the patio with the sun shining through its legs

Good morning, my little friend 🥰🤎

It’s much nicer for detritivores to live outside. In the pumpkins, warmed by the morning sun.

And once again, for those who have never seen it, this is how a spadefoot toad uses its “spades” to dig backward and bury itself. (Yes, it’s sped up). This was a wild toad in a cow footprint, slowly working its way downward. #toadallytuesday #herps

The rise of the harvest moon is seen adjacent to an old red grain elevator on the Saskatchewan prairie.

When you know a guy who can plan perfect locations to witness the rise of the #HarvestMoon. #astronomy #grainelevator #saskatchewan

It’s been determined it’s from The White Seal.

But I love Rikki-Tikki-Tavi! Mongoose are so cool.

My first inclination was otter but auto-AltText said cat, so I went with cat.

Full moon through an Astrophotography telescope

Obligatory Harvest Moon from this morning

~but on last evening‘s walk, it was gorgeous & glowing, abundantly Autumnal, and felt like Fall

sky photo, moon glowing from behind thick clouds, mostly covered by tree canopy

treeless photo of the moon in the middle of thick clouds above a house roof

moon big

goals tbh

Close-up portrait in profile of a metallic blue-bronze-purple bird with a bright yellow eye and large, pointy downward curved beak. The background is soft focus green leaves against a blue wall.

Common grackle presents a gorgeous profile
#birds 🌿

A preying mantis on the garage door, likely here to evangelize for a robust social safety net.

"Dear sir or madame:"

I have a fabulous undergrad who has a lot of experience with QIIME2 & using R to analyze microbiome data. She is looking for a job starting in January. Would love to learn more bench and field skills (will be getting some in her last 2 months). Open to academic, industry, government jobs in the US.

fs.usda.gov USDA An official website of the United States government Forest Service MENU The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people. For information on recreation site status on National Forest System lands, please visit https://www.fs.usda.gov/visit.

USDA An official website of the United States government Here's how you know v Farmers.gov U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE MENL Due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown, this government website will not be updated during the funding lapse. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people. DISMISS FARMERS. GOV USDA.gov

Search NASS NoticeThe Radical Left Democrats shutdown the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people. Home > AgCensus Census of Agriculture Menu • DATA NOW AVAILABLE The Census of Agriculture is a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. Even small plots of land - whether rural or urban - count if $1,000 or more of such products were raised and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the census year. The Census of Agriculture, taken only once every five years, looks at land use and ownership, operator characteristics, production practices, income and expenditures. For America's farmers and ranchers, the Census of Agriculture is their voice, their future, and their opportunity. Read more frequently asked questions.

I’m wondering if it’s a targeted effort on what they believe are agricultural uses (farmers) based specifically on their message.

The BLM, DOI, NPS, USFWS do not have these offensive, partisan messages.

I hold my nose every time.

A boulder and cobble dam built across a stream at low water, blocking the surface flow of the water.

I say this every year during bull trout spawning season, but please don't build rock dams across streams with migratory fish (especially during a record drought). 🐟🧪

Somehow the world must figure out how to survive the loss of your artistry when you die, so you mind as well help us by stopping now.

An orange, spotted mushroom with a thick cream color stalk and a tiny orange one at the base. They’re growing in a horizontal log with grooved bark.

Is #ShroomScrolling a thing? Like BloomScrolling but with cute little guys like this

#FungiFriends 🌿