Tuesday roadkill report

[jhetley]

Four gray squirrels in various stages of flatness, snowshoe rabbit/varying hare, domestic chicken.  I believe the latter was a white leghorn, but variety remains questionable.  I am glad to see the roadkill count picking up -- I was worried about the coyotes running low on natural food, and starting to prey on weak and aged bicyclists.

Got out before the conditions turned even worse -- temperature in the 80s F (28 C) and Air Quality Alert.  This bronchial spasm brought to you by the states of Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey, with support from a cast of millions...

Anyway, conditions that even world-class athletes would find aggravating.

Yarrow is blooming, more varieties of wild roses, some yellow stuff that may be still another vetch (botany gets vague at 15 mph and a viewing distance of 10' or more), and still more of the damned purple loosestrife.  This is the way the world will end, not with a bang but invasive species.

15.26 miles, 1:09:53

Comments

[quilzas.livejournal.com]

Friends who just moved into a new house discovered a pair of hends and a rooster strolling through their yard. Looks like lunch to me!

[nathelmi.livejournal.com]

I'd rather be ended by wildflowers than by being baked into my neighbours as a small shard on a miles-long stretch of blackened, molten glass. (a la nuke)

Do you have any pictures of it? Most of what I recall of loosestrife is a vague association with the time two of my friends set a hillside on fire (some flower called fireweed).

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

(Can't post photos to a "free" account...)

A simple Google turned up gazillions (well, over a 100K) of hits:

http://www.invasiveplants.net/plants/purpleloosestrife.htm