Kato

Now for a moment of zen..

Just a perfect little microclimate for moss. .. happy #mossmonday

Bumble bees and Kato.

Is it early for these crocuses?

Missed #mossmonday but wanted to share this nice moss-lined sidewalk. …and Kato, of course.

Mossy branches ..and Kato.

Mossy branches on Japanese maple and other pretty fall trees, leaves, more mosses..

Another moment of zen.

10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here’s Where We Are Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.

Some progress. “10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here’s Where We Are” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Axonal pathfinding of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells forms the optic nerve. Credit to Dr. Matthew Bostock @houartlab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Pensive kato on mossy sidewalk

I see a mossy mix of textures, colors, etc. this is what ChatGPT sees: “.mixed bryophyte and lichen community featuring broom moss (Dicranum scoparium), cypress-leaved plait moss (Hypnum cupressiforme), and a colony of pixie cup lichen (Cladonia chlorophaea complex) with podetia and apothecial cups”

Cutest Boston terrier on the planet. Brindle with freckles over half of his 13 pounds of love inside the house and terror to the neighbors. Smiley face.

No moss today. Just this sweet little muffin.

Adorable 13 pound Boston Terrier standing on a sidewalk covered in small maple leaves

Kato, moss, and gorgeous Japanese maple leaves. The colors this fall have been spectacular!

Soon after David Sleasman became librarian at the Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play in Rochester, New York, he got a phone call about checkers. The caller wanted to donate his father's collection-not of boards or game pieces, but of the literature of checkers. "I'm thinking, 'How much can this be?'" Sleasman remembers. The answer? Twenty-seven storage tubs.

“Back in my day, we didn’t have autism!”

What was going on back in the day:

And we just happened upon this cute mossy bench with an owl petroglyph embedded in it. Happy Friday, everyone!

Happy Friday! This guy’s just starting to get some moss between the toes. Check back in a month or so!

Mossy tree and a Japanese maple

Close up of moss and lichen of different kinds.

Moss Monday a day late.

Smiling Kato ..and mossy parking strip.

Mossy wall with Kato’s buddy, Oliver

Yes, we are!!

…and happy Halloween from kato.

Painting of a Ringed Plover by Mary Battersby. A nice-looking bird standing over a mossy rock, he is black with some white parts, white collar, around the eyes, and belly.

Mary Battersby (fl. 1801–1841) was an Irish artist and naturalist.
The Royal Dublin Society received four volumes of her drawings and a letter. Another two volumes are in the Ulster Museum. A small album is also in the collections of the National Library of Ireland.

Kato and mossy wall

Meditation statue on mossy wall.

#mossmonday Now for your moment of zen.

#mossmonday and the fun Dr. Seuss inspired tubes/horns are a type of lichen. According to ChatGPT “the gray tube-like things are Cladonia cup lichens (pixie cups) — most likely Cladonia fimbriata or a close relative.”

Kato the dog standing next to a moss covered rock wall

Mossy wall with Kato. The rain is finally starting again and the moss is perking up!

Oh those eyes. And that moss!

Those eyes!