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Which wasn't very.

A weed is a plant growing out of place. The plant with the blue flowers is Ajuga reptans and was meant to be in the flower bed on the north side of our house, but it leaped the boarder and has headed across the lawn leaving not a trace of the plant where it was planted. Dandelions can be very pretty until they go to seed. The ant seemed to like it. My wife wants me to get rid of the weeds but I want to put a ring of rocks around them and claim that I meant it to look like it does. I am against using lawn herbicides because of the association with Parkinson's disease.

Last Wednesday, April 4, I used a pair of forceps and procured a glob of the slime mold from the apple chamber to make a subculture in a petri plate with wet chemistry filter paper and oatmeal. It moved around a bit but today, April 7, I discovered that it streamed onto the glass rim and formed three clusters of fruiting bodies. The cluster of fruiting bodies in this photo measured 4mm from left to right.

See photo of plasmodium of this slime mold species here: www.flickr.com/photos/50334717@N00/6799374524/ and here: www.flickr.com/photos/50334717@N00/6942570903/

Fallen but not forgotten.

This is how the mayapples looked in Funks Grove yesterday.