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15" x 14" - Italian Smalti, dinnerware, stained & vitreous glass, gold mirror, sea urchin spines & millefiori, on a hand built substrate.
Julia for Julia Kay's Portrait Party!
6 years ago this week I contributed my 1st JKPP portrait, of our wonderful leader, Julia, Out of the Blue".
Here's to continued "Fun @ The Party"!
Happy Sixth Anniversary Julia & JKPP!!!
Substrate: Phellinus tremulae, Populus tremula.
Eesti punase nimestiku liik, ohualdis (VU). LK III.
Uljaste, Ida-Virumaa.
Florida Caverns State Park is a state park of Florida in the United States, part of the Florida State Parks system. It is located in the Florida Panhandle near Marianna. It is the only Florida state park with air-filled caves accessible to the public.
The limestone caves in the park have stalagmites, stalactites, and flowstones formed by the erosion of bedrock. Other formations are above ground, including rivers and springs.
Florida Caverns State Park and the neighboring golf course were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps as part of the New Deal. The park opened in 1942.
The park is notable for its geological features, a protected area of karst topography. This geology hosts an ecosystem with plants and animals that are adapted to the limestone substrates. The caves and waterways have blind crayfish, bats, salamanders, and other species. Native Americans inhabited the area, and it is a site of archaeological interest.
The park allows nature study, exploring, and sightseeing. The 9-hole golf course is open. Other activities and amenities in the park include camping, hiking, boating, horseback riding, and fishing. There is a visitor center with interpretive exhibits and concessions. Rangers conduct several tours daily.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Caverns_State_Park
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10" diameter x 4" deep - Marble, shell, sea urchin spines, stained glass, Mexican smalti, dinnerware, on a hand-built cementitious substrate
experimenting with creating undulating substrates :)
Emerging from the substrate as darkness falls, this large gastropod is carnivorous. Its powerful sensory organs allow it to detect prey from surprising distances both on and below the sand. The shell can grow to a maximum size of about 110mm and the foot extends way beyond this, so overall it is a sizeable animal as gastropods go.
Out today (4/17) looked at some blacktop and found (more typical looking, infertile) P. caesia, so obviously its common on that substrate around here - another example of seeing something once its "on the radar". Initial remarks below example of my mental process.
on pavement (blacktop)
Seattle
photos of more typical - www.lichens.lastdragon.org/Physcia_caesia.html
more photos (seems rarely fertile) - www.waysofenlichenment.net/lichens/Physcia%20caesia
substrates include "asphalt pavements" - Smith, C.W., Aptroot, A., Coppins, B.J., Fletcher, A., Gilbert, O.L., James, P.W. and Wolseley, P.A. (2009) The Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland
"Many records of Physcia phaea have turned out to be either the saxicolous P. alnophila or fertile P. caesia..." -
Soili Stenroos et al. (editors) 2016 Lichens of Finland
initial remarks:
looks like Physcia phaea - seems like an odd place to find it
or maculate P. tenella without cilia possibly?
or P. caesia - laminal soralia? - will post another photo
pro - on rock (although bituminous), upper cortex strongly maculate, lack of cilia, lack of soralia (although see note on image) numerous apothecia some crenulate
con - unusual in city, unusually ? pale, usually tighter and more symmetric
my lichen photos by genus - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/7215762439...
my photos arranged by subject, e.g. mountains - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections
Rhododendron vaseyi is a species of flowering plant in the heath family known by the common name pinkshell azalea.It is endemic to North Carolina in the United States, where it is known only from the southern Appalachians in and near Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
This deciduous shrub may grow up to 5 meters (almost 17 feet) in height. The large flowers are pink and begin to bloom in April. This species was first collected in 1878 by G. R. Vasey, son of botanist George Vasey and named in honor of both father and son.
In the wild, this species grows in acidic moist and wet substrates near bogs and streams. It may occur alongside other types of Rhododendron, such as Rhododendron maximum.
Threats to this plant in the wild include destruction of habitat as land is converted to residential use, and poaching.
Hypholoma is a genus of fungi which are quite well known due to the commonness of sulphur tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare) on stumps in temperate woodlands. Species in this genus are easily recognizable because the dark spores create a distinctive greenish effect on the yellow cap underside. Hypholoma means "mushrooms with threads" because of the thread-like veil that connects the cap to the stem when young and for the bundles of rhizomorphs which radiate outwards from the stem base.
Common name: None
Found: Native forest
Substrate: Wood
Spore: BlackHeight: 50 mm
Width: 30 mm
Season: Autumn
Edible: Poisonous