Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Fairy pools

Moore Turner Garden


Science! Carpenter Ants

I wonder if that log is entirely hollow. Catpenter ants chew galleries in dead, damp wood.




I watched them for several minutes. Unlike termites, carpenter ants don't eat wood.




They throw teeny tiny pieces of wood out, but they eat other insects or aphid honeydew.




This is just their day job-carpenter ants mostly forage at night.




I imagine a tiny conveyor belt bringing sawdust up and little ants in red tee-shirts.


Edwidge Woldson Park 

Saturday, August 5, 2017

Bonus: holy smoke

Billows of smoke from hundreds of miles away




The sun was creepy one day




And the next it had disappeared by 7:30pm- this is about 7




You could only see a couple of blocks down Sprague 




The South Hill from the 195




The moon was the creepiest, tho