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Enjoy the birds. Take care of the planet. Be kind to yourself. Happy Earth Day!

Paper Birds — Paper birds by students at Carlin Springs Elementary School

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April 22, 2016March 23, 2020 Liz Macklin

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Finally -- sweater weather in Virginia and a beautiful day for a walk outdoors. We strolled on a paved walkway accessible for baby carriages, if you don't mind the hills. The winding paths always surprise me with views of the Korean bell and surrounding pagodas, native trees and exotic flowers. Meadowlark Gardens in Fairfax County -- part of Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority. For information on native plants in the Potomac Valley Collection at the park, look under "Gardens" at https://www.novaparks.com/parks/meadowlark-botanical-gardens

While pulling weeds, I almost ran into this yellow garden spider, Argiope aurantia, that had caught a cicada in its web. With its legs spread, the spider was almost the size of my thumb!

A labor of love -- restoring even our most vulnerable native plants. Take a trip with me, surrounded by the

Yesterday I wandered through Lubber Run Park, searching for something that master naturalist trainees might draw in nature journals. What's this? I can count on INaturalist to offer a suggestion: Stereum lobatum a member of Higher Basidiomycetes Subphylum Agaricomycotina. Since my knowledge of fungi is less than basic, a quick internet search showed that there are several species of Stereum and they can live together on the same host.

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