Gorgeous day and I spent it out in the fields and woods. I heard some quacking off in the distance so I thrashed my way over to the source. A vernal pool filled with Wood Frogs and eggs! I didn't notice until I processed this photo the mass looks like it has two eyeballs looking up :)

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My friend Jo asked if I could take some shots of a very tiny fungus she found. Chlorosplenium chlora at Schooley Mill Park, Howard County, MD

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My friend Jo asked if I could take some shots of a very tiny fungus she found. Chlorosplenium chlora at Schooley Mill Park, Howard County, MD

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A beautiful stand of Cinnamon ferns.....this spider had a sweet hiding spot :)

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"The stalk of the fertile leaf is 3-6" long, light green, terete, slightly succulent, and glabrous. At its apex, there is a glabrous fertile leaf about 3-6" long and about one-half as much across; its structure is bipinnate to pinnate. The leaflets and subleaflets are stalk-like in shape with sessile sporangia (spore-boring structures) along their sides; they are initially light green, but become brown at maturity. Individual sporangia are globoid in shape and 1 mm. across or less; they are initially light green, but become yellow and finally brown when their spores are released. A fertile leaf begins to develop before the sterile leaf has fully unfolded during the late spring. Spores are released from the fertile leaf during the summer. They are distributed by the wind. The root system is fibrous and fleshy. Occasionally, clonal offsets are produced." www.illinoiswildflowers.info/

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