After a trip down to the coast, I biked to school this evening to check out our class vegetable bed. Titian tomatoes split from rain, and the pepperocini weigh heavy on stalks.
Displaced Pairing
The small dendritic heap’s former home was a sandy path winding through pirate, French Huguenot, and Confederate soldier graves in the Oak Grove Cemetery.
In our classroom, kids can’t resist the urge to touch and squeeze succulent leaves. Now and then I’ll get a worried glance from a curious student who accidentally bumped leaf from stem, but the experience becomes favorably memorable when they discover a displaced life slowly taking root from a harmless accident.
Click here for more posts featuring Spanish moss and other peculiar epiphytes.
Oxalis Sips
Hold on.
Premature Cornus florida
Lamb’s Ear Drips
Mr. Grey
Mr.’s been around the way, and adopted us about a year ago. The sage’s influence spans blocks, and calls the planter above (once occupied by catnip) home base.
Horse on the Porch
Sarracenia Smiles
After last spring’s paintbrush pollination, shiny ebony seeds dropped in sphagnum become traps poised to ensnare what the pitchers above can’t.
Classroom Carnivore Blossom
Click here to see last year’s blooms.
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot…”
Canary Clusterfungus
Piedmont Primordial Soup
Green and Orange Moss
Anonymous Sage Advice
Goats Occupy King’s Defunct Amusement
Sandy Soil in the Coastal Plain
Cotton Cover Crop
Room With a View
Who speaks for these trees?
Barbed Log and (Brown) Green Anole
