Motley Monday - April 14, 2025

 Once again I've been saving up photos to share.  Today's the day.   Nothing spectacular.

In no particular order, as I didn't pick this order.  Blogger doesn't post the first photo clicked first, second second, etc. in a batch of clicked photos.  I wonder why?  Size?  Just however it feels like that day?

A praying mantis egg case.  This one was not well protected from the winter weather, but it looks fine.  If you've never seen one, they are like that foam insulation, light yet hard.

Redshank moss spore-filled capsules in the morning sun.

left: wild strawberries
right: the gorgeous weed Star of Bethlehem

Persian catmint is my favorite catmint, and one of my favorite plants.

A Tale of Two Trails

It looks as though one snail knew where it was going, and set off "as the crow flies," while the other crawled around in circles!

The pretty lilac rose that was here when I moved in is gone now.  One sucker cane was left, and the entire thing was rotted.  It might have been Sterling Silver.

In better days.

My one tulip patch.  This one looks like offspring of the red and yellow!  It has the red's center and both parents' coloring.

April is National Poetry Writing Month.  The library got in on the fun by offering book pages and markers to create our own blackout poetry, which they then displayed.  I took a random page home.  Oh, dear... I had to take it back and explain that the particular pages (both sides) was completely inappropriate for an all-age library activity, and there was no way they would want the content or language used for poetry on display!  The librarian thanked me, and put a note on it to pass on to the employee who picked the discarded books to use.  Let's just leave it here, the passage was historical fiction about a teen slave giving birth while being hunted down by men and dogs.

I got this stamp on mail the other day!  I looked up flame lilies, and the pollen only looks like this through microscopic imaging. Polarized light displays a spectrum.  That was disappointing, I thought it was natural, and I had to word questions just so to finally get the correct answer online. 

Tomorrow is Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, so I didn't want to show too many blooms today.  I'm actually going to post my contribution later today, and link it tomorrow.  I already have two other posts scheduled for tomorrow, neither linking from elsewhere, so I don't want them below my Bloom Day post.  They are my regular Tuesday Treasures (which, if I do say so myself, is a good one!), and my L in the A to Z.