"Mr Creosote", such an incredible name

"Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me."

It's so predatory...there's a good chance I'll be experiencing this close-up soon

Man you're going to be busy!

Jordan/Ned duo opening for BPB...sick

This thing has such a warm tone

It rains down in Africa 🤷‍♂️

Just to be a dick

Sure thing Jon, figured if I couldn't make it myself at least maybe I could put it in front of a couple people

Hope it was an awesome show!

'round every stone
we're here to hail the turning

the sessile oak
sleeps in the acorn dreaming

The longest night
The longest night
The shortest day

a black winged bird
starry and silently flies

a silver egg
waits on the precipice of dawn

Seriously no worries!

I didn't take it to be aggressively confrontational or anything- all good!

Actually I first learned about it from a little sign by the magnolias at an arboretum local to me, several years ago. So yeah, I was an adult when I learned this but it wasn't exactly last week

It's the fungus. The class of fungus they belong to, in this context at least, are called "white rot" fungus. They are actually competitive and antagonistic toward lignin-degrading bacteria, and the latter tend not to proliferate in the presence of white rot fungus

Interesting. Was this before mushrooms like Turkey Tails evolved which can break down lignans? Fungi are afaik much older than plants

The reason that magnolia flowers are more rigid and less soft compared to other flowers is because magnolia trees belong to one of the earliest lineages of flowering plants, and predate bees. They evolved to be pollinated by beetles, and still are

God damn it

I think one problem is that most of us Gen Xers are old enough to remember Reagan, but not old enough to have been around for Nixon