Today I saw perchance the coolest flower I've ever seen in my life: a giant mutant siamese-twin black-eyed susan. I wish I had a picture of it to show you, but here's one in words (so it'll probably take a few thousand): There's lots of black-eyed susans on the island I work on, as it's apparently a native grass/plant that they like to have their in the recreated high marsh. Anyway, so we were walking along today and happened to be talking about the black-eyed susans, when I see one that looked more like a medium-sized sunflower. Lo and behold, it's actually a giant mutant siamese twin, or something like that. The stem was like a wide ribbon, about 1 1/4" wide and flat, with a rib on either side (like 2 stems stretched apart). At the top of the stem, it looked like 2 flower heads fused face to face, with their stamens super-enlarged (it almost looked like lips or a venus fly trap) and their small anthers circling them, with the peduncle (if that's what it's called? I forget) on the back of each half. It was crazy-looking.
What else this week...I've been getting bombarded by mosquitos and dive-bombed by common terns (they drop & fly about 1 foot above my head, because we have to walk close to their nests). I have mosquito bites all over my arms and neck (hey, just like my tan lines!), but I guess at least the mosquitos are well-fed.
Oh yeah, and I have an awesome Indiana Jones-ish hat now. It makes me enjoy every day just a little bit more because I get to wear it to work every day. Even my shadow makes me smile in the midst of the mosquitos and sand and all :-).
Cool things I saw this week:
- Mutant flower
- Divebombing terns
- tenacious mosquitoes
- the faces of high school students on a tour when I tagged one of the turtles they were releasing with a 12-guage needle
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just saying hi :)
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