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mistressofmuses) wrote2024-10-05 09:07 pm
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Miscellaneous pictures: pets, houseplants, park pictures!
Some random pictures from the last week...ish.
...we found another katydid.
She was outside and fluttering around sadly on the ground. This one is a female.
We scooped her up because she seemed sad and in danger, lol. She was slightly bigger than Greenbean, and seemed to be a slightly lighter color, with dark eyes instead of green. The next morning in better light, they were the same color actually, and her eyes were no longer dark. (Experimentation has shown that the eye color seems to be a reaction to light - when they're in the dark for quite a while, their eyes are dark. Lets in more light, like dilated pupils?) Before figuring that out, I took her apparent color-change into account and named her Moodring.
Here is Greenbean at the top and Moodring at the bottom, eating some beans.
Ultimately I got her her own mesh bug cage. One was a little small for both of them, and they didn't seem to get along terribly well. (Not like they fight or anything, but they'd click and posture kind of angrily until one of them would walk away.) So probably not looking at katydid eggs in our future.
The males do the strings of clicks, while the females do single very loud clicks. They are both quite loud for a small apartment, but I still like them.
At the park, I got a really nice picture of a bee:
(And extra bee friends. The asters are much-loved by the bees in the fall.)
A very tiny mushroom.
A slightly bigger mushroom, trampled by Bella.
But look at the gills! Mushrooms are cool.
It's Cy! Rolling!
And Bella, looking majestic.
A bee on an aster!
A grasshopper!
Sadly, I did not spot any of the praying mantises. :(
The spot where the houseplants are the thickest, lol. (This is not all of them.)
[Top row: African violet that I brought back from the brink of death once, small dish of succulents, my Christmas cactus that I also feared was a lost cause, shiny new pothos, shiny new African violet, Alex's other giant African violet, and then my dragonwing begonia which has absolutely exploded there, ha.
Bottom row: Little spider plant, little itty bitty monstera, library plant (a peperomia, grown from my original), a couple little cuttings I stole from an abandoned plant in the apartment lobby seeing if they root, a leaf from one of the African violets that Alex is trying to clone, a different shiny new pothos, a grafted cactus that has far outlived expectations, and another spider plant.]
We went to our local plant nursery to get some planting supplies. I gave in to temptation and bought new houseplants that I did not need.
A variegated spider plant!
I tried to propagate some from a coworker, but never succeeded. :( They either didn't root, or got root rot when I did plant them. I'm hoping this one will do better. So far so good.
(Yes, I know the characters on the fabric in the back are upside down; it's a table runner, so it can only be right-side up on one side.)
An "N Joy" variety pothos.
And a "marble queen" variety pothos. Next to it is Alex's new African violet.
This one is not new, but it's my little baby monstera that I rescued from my office, and I'm happy it's doing so much better now!
And two pictures of mom and Taylor's cat:
She settled in immediately. She has been named Mocha.
She screm for food.
...we found another katydid.
She was outside and fluttering around sadly on the ground. This one is a female.
We scooped her up because she seemed sad and in danger, lol. She was slightly bigger than Greenbean, and seemed to be a slightly lighter color, with dark eyes instead of green. The next morning in better light, they were the same color actually, and her eyes were no longer dark. (Experimentation has shown that the eye color seems to be a reaction to light - when they're in the dark for quite a while, their eyes are dark. Lets in more light, like dilated pupils?) Before figuring that out, I took her apparent color-change into account and named her Moodring.
Here is Greenbean at the top and Moodring at the bottom, eating some beans.
Ultimately I got her her own mesh bug cage. One was a little small for both of them, and they didn't seem to get along terribly well. (Not like they fight or anything, but they'd click and posture kind of angrily until one of them would walk away.) So probably not looking at katydid eggs in our future.
The males do the strings of clicks, while the females do single very loud clicks. They are both quite loud for a small apartment, but I still like them.
At the park, I got a really nice picture of a bee:
(And extra bee friends. The asters are much-loved by the bees in the fall.)
A very tiny mushroom.
A slightly bigger mushroom, trampled by Bella.
But look at the gills! Mushrooms are cool.
It's Cy! Rolling!
And Bella, looking majestic.
A bee on an aster!
A grasshopper!
Sadly, I did not spot any of the praying mantises. :(
The spot where the houseplants are the thickest, lol. (This is not all of them.)
[Top row: African violet that I brought back from the brink of death once, small dish of succulents, my Christmas cactus that I also feared was a lost cause, shiny new pothos, shiny new African violet, Alex's other giant African violet, and then my dragonwing begonia which has absolutely exploded there, ha.
Bottom row: Little spider plant, little itty bitty monstera, library plant (a peperomia, grown from my original), a couple little cuttings I stole from an abandoned plant in the apartment lobby seeing if they root, a leaf from one of the African violets that Alex is trying to clone, a different shiny new pothos, a grafted cactus that has far outlived expectations, and another spider plant.]
We went to our local plant nursery to get some planting supplies. I gave in to temptation and bought new houseplants that I did not need.
A variegated spider plant!
I tried to propagate some from a coworker, but never succeeded. :( They either didn't root, or got root rot when I did plant them. I'm hoping this one will do better. So far so good.
(Yes, I know the characters on the fabric in the back are upside down; it's a table runner, so it can only be right-side up on one side.)
An "N Joy" variety pothos.
And a "marble queen" variety pothos. Next to it is Alex's new African violet.
This one is not new, but it's my little baby monstera that I rescued from my office, and I'm happy it's doing so much better now!
And two pictures of mom and Taylor's cat:
She settled in immediately. She has been named Mocha.
She screm for food.
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Honeybees always delight me.
And Cy had a great time rolling - it is one of his great loves.
Mocha has QUITE the screm.
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That is a really good bee picture!
The plants look very established and cozy.
Puppers!
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I was really happy with the bee picture. (And how many bees there were!)
Hopefully the plants retain their enthusiasm for the new surroundings.
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I find the katydids quite cheerful sounding. A bit loud, but I like it!
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The mushrooms are cool, and love Cy rolling around. Bella always manages to look majestic.
Wow, so many plants! How do you have room for them in your tiny apartment?!! They look lovely, though.
Aww, Mocha is adorable.
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The mushrooms were neat. The little one was shriveled up by the time we left just twenty minutes later.
I'm always happy when Cy is happy doing something! Bella looks far more majestic than she has any right to, considering her personality.
We do not fit the plants into the apartment *well*, haha. They've taken over just about all of the flat surfaces we have. But thank you!
Mocha is so cute. I'm so happy they got her.
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There is one spot on our property where a very fine mushroom grows and it will look amazing in the morning, but our next walk it's already on it's way out.
I hear you on Cy having fun and being happy. Grant is a hot mess, but sometimes he'll go crazy grabbing at clumps of dried (mown) grass and running around with it in his mouth, and yesterday he grabbed at a clumb of tall LIVE grass and just ripped it out of the ground. He was having a ball, even though he looked like a GOOF ball.
Haha, Bella looking more majestic than she has any right to!
The plants look great! I'm sure they make you feel good to see them.
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But fingers crossed for some little katydid nymphs! We'll see if any of them hatch!
I love cool mushrooms! It really is astounding how quickly they flourish and then die back, though. Such a short window.
I love when old dogs get so goofy and happy about things. Cy will do the same kind of thing, where he gets excited and starts flinging himself around like crazy!
The plants definitely make me happy. And I at least like to think it means I'm getting good oxygen in my apartment, haha.
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I'm so glad Mocha's settled in well. ^_^
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And yes, I am so glad Mocha is settled in so well. She's a sweet cat, and just absolutely made herself at home in no time flat!