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For indoor accommodations, I’d say it’s the worst.
7 months agoA good meal can brighten up an otherwise dismal day, and at least you beat the rain to town!
The worst place we ever stayed had a hand lettered sign by the sink saying, "If you puke, clean it up". This was in Unity, OR. We raced a storm to town and kept telling ourselves it didn't matter how bad the room was, at least we were inside. Fifteen years later, Unity still tops our list of bad stays. Where is this on your list?
Looks like Bloody dock (Rumex sanguineus) to me.
7 months agoMost fungi are too variable for me to attempt an ID.
Which reminds me of a friend back in Germany who tried to teach me a bit about mushroom hunting... A GI asked: "Herr Bohn, what mushrooms can you eat?" to which he replied: "Oh you can eat all mushrooms... ... ... Some only once."
:-)
It really helps to have internet search sites... This seems to match beefsteak plant... New to me.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/119136/browse_photos
There are also yellow ones and white ones and white with blue streaks along the bike paths here in the Dayton, OH area.
7 months agoLooks like probably butterweed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packera_glabella
Yup! Good call.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifolium_pratense
Way better reason to go on a bike tour than all the people who tell me they want to hike the Appalachian Trial like Ben did to lose weight...I don't think they appreciate what it takes!
7 months agoThat was a great couple of days of skiing, ice beard and all!
7 months agoBen says it's his least favorite kind of truck lol
7 months agoSpeedwell. Perhaps Persian speedwell... Very possibly a different species of speedwell since there are about half a dozen in the area.
http://www.southeasternflora.com/view_flora.php?plantid=243
Looks like photos of large yellow vetch... Funny, all photos are white!
http://www.southeasternflora.com/view_flora.php?plantid=352
We try not to walk through ant hills in sandals.
7 months ago
It does look similar, but looking up its range in the US, it is extremely unlikely.
7 months agohttps://burkeherbarium.org/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Rumex%20sanguineus