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Brassica Cretica (?), Ancestor of Brassica oleracea is a plant species from family Brassicaceae that includes many common cultivars used as vegetables, such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan.

Eat Your Brassicas, Flowers And All https://pioneeringthesimplelife.org/2016/10/21/eat-your-brassicas-flowers-and-all/

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Why "great" american facilities can't provide basic necessities [like public toilet]

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Beginnings

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The ends of the World by Peter Brannen

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America's Roads: Dangerous by Design

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'Why don't kids play outside anymore, like we used to?'

🚨“Traffic-dominated neighbourhoods…along with a lack of parks, green spaces & other accessible high quality natural spaces, have harmed children’s health, and undermined their quality of life.”🚨

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Yareta (Azorella compacta) in Bolivia (elevation of 14,000 ft.).

This may look like a moss, but it isnt! This is a broad-leafed plant in the carrot family, Apiaceae.

These plants can grow to bve over 3000 years old. This large specimen may be over 1000 years old.

photographs by Mark Dwyer

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Horopito or Pseudowintera colorata 'Plum Wine'

(Not obvious to see in that one picture but some leaves on the same shrub are green, other fully pink or with blotch of pink....)

Traditionally, Horopito was used by early New Zealanders as a treatment for cuts, bruises, wounds, chaffing on the skin as well as skin diseases such as ringworm, candida albicans or even for STI's. Although these days, we recommend playing it safe. Horopito was also reportedly used to help with ailments of the gut and pain, earning it the nickname of "Maori Painkiller". (ref )

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Entoloma hochstetteri also known as Werewere Kōkako

Vermilion waxcap ( Hygrocybe miniata)

Kokatahi River - Whitcombe River area, West Coast, Aotearoa

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Cars and Independence

My Patreon

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Great Walk Paparoa National Park, West Coast of the South Island, Aotearoa aka New Zealand

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Great Walk Paparoa National Park, West Coast of the South Island, Aotearoa aka New Zealand

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True Mosses vs Club Mosses

The other night I had a dream of princess pine, the clubmoss that looks like a perfectly formed miniature tree that was shining like a cascading emerald in the snow. Reflecting on the dream I realized that I had not written about Lycophyta, a family of vascular plants that are not mosses but appeared on earth around the same time, 400 million years ago (sources vary).

True mosses are non-vascular plants that have neither roots nor stems but rely on diffusion to receive nutrients directly from the substrate on which they are found (stone, trees, or ground). They belong to the family Bryophyta.

According to Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, scholar, writer, and plant scientist, true mosses were the first green plants to colonize land after lichens.

In contrast, clubmosses (Lycophyta) are vascular plants that have shallow roots and true stems and one of the ways they reproduce is by developing sporophytes. They look like furry candles as they rise out of the top of the plants. Look for the spores or ‘candles’ to appear during the late summer or fall.

Backyard Reflections: The Magic of Club Mosses, by Sara Wright

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so judging by how astonished people are by it every time we explain it to anybody, it seems like my wife and I might really be onto something here

during the pandemic, we invented something we call "astronaut time."

when it's astronaut time, it's like we are two astronauts wearing the big helmets, moving around the station on totally separate tasks. one of us is outside the space station and one of us is inside the space station. our radios do not work and we have no way of communicating with each other. we might see each other through the lil porthole windows, but we ignore each other because we both have different things to do.

"astronaut time" is how we get total privacy when we live in the same apartment. I will pretend you don't exist. You will pretend I don't exist. we have a nonverbal, zero-contact signal for when astronaut time is over (usually "I'll draw a smiley-face on the whiteboard in the kitchen when I'm done"). No talking, stay out of each other's line of sight, we are actively avoiding each other, unless you are currently experiencing a medical emergency goodbye.

it has been. a godsend. imagine living with your partner and being able to close every single tab in your brain related to social interaction. no fear of being interrupted by a "hey, quick question--" or "sorry to bother you, but do you know where the scissors are?" or "did you want something to eat, too?" Once or twice a month, we look at each other lovingly, hold hands, and say "baby I think I need some astronaut time tonight," and the other person goes "okay cool. bye! have a nice night!" and nobody's feelings are hurt and we both go and have a lovely evening completely by ourselves.

like idk it's a small thing but it's made our lives so much nicer, so if you and your partner/roommate are both people who sometimes need total privacy in order to recharge, maybe try it