Great Mullein

Plant ID

Links:

• Great mullein, a.k.a. Verbascum thapsus [Wikipedia]

• Weeds With a Purpose: Great Mullein [Dave’s Garden]

• Seek by iNaturalist plant-identification app [iNaturalist]

• Lamb’s ear, a.k.a. Stachys byzantina [Wikipedia]

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Elsewhere:

• "She makes quite a mess on my floor, but I don't care. She can do whatever she wants." In a Facebook video from FernCroft Wildlife Rescue, Lavender the opossum is seen snacking. (“I don't think there is anything better than the sound of an opossum chewing. LAVENDER joined us for breakfast this morning.”) Via Amy Jean Porter’s wonderful Animal Life newsletter, opossum edition.

• “[N]ew ways to experience something, especially something that already exists, can be the most transformational.” Andy Weissman, in his blog, on newsletters.

• “How do you know that you’re making progress without the validation of others?” Go on… Lawrence Yeo, of the More to That newsletter (formerly a Medium column), on “Pursuing Mastery, Not Status.”

• “I had a dream where there was a food called ‘King’s Hand,’ a hollow hand made of m&m cookie, filled with Greek salad. I could not stop thinking about it. Here is the culmination of a week long effort.” Beautiful pics: Twitter/thatfrood.

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