WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?

12/08/2016 On the strip of grass between our parked car and the highway.

12/08/2016 One among a small orchard. Please imagine a gathering of 39 more similar trees, creating a cloud of golden leaves above silver trunks.

Wonder why this tug is headed north on the Potomac this morning. Hope to see it heading south. “We need artists who are afraid of something other than their own failure…” per Shozan Jack Haubner, a Zen Buddhist priest, in today’s NYT. What are you afraid of?

 

 

WHO EVER HEARD OF MOLLUSKS CROSSING THE ROAD IN DECEMBER?!

It may be a leopard or great  grey slug. If so, it is native to Europe. It’s supposed to be longer but maybe the cold weather affects its length. If you look closely, you can see a bit of it’s slime trail.

Mollusk: an invertebrate of a large phylum that includes snails, slugs, mussels, and octopuses. They have a soft, unsegmented body and live in aquatic or damp habitats, and most kinds have an external calcareous shell.