How big is a Silver Maple samara? It depends upon your point of view. To Tiny they're tiny and no big deal. Possibly something to go for the jugular of (of which to go for the jugular?) when they're stirred up by the wind.
Fun facts about the Brown Snake (Storeria dekayi): It is not uncommon to find several (or many) brown snakes under debris in vacant lots, parks and cemeteries. Earthworms and slugs are their preferred foods; however, they will also take sow bugs, insects, spiders, small fish and small frogs." Tuck found a plump, juicy slug under the very next brick he overturned.
To this tiny Brown Snake (x 2) Acer Saccharinum's winged fruit can be the roof of a springtime cabana. Tuck came upon this little fella between a brick and a hard place — nestled between two loosely stacked bricks, that is — as he was tidying up the woodpile and surrounds behind the house this afternoon. We didn't notice at the time, when all eyes and camera lenses were focused on the totally awesome li'l serpent, but the remains of an arachnid of unknown provenance (lower right) were under there too. We carefully picked the snake up by the tip of its tail and relocated it safely away from the suburban renewal site.
To the samaras themselves, they are The People, elegantly engineered winged wonders yearning to breathe free.
To Google searchers of SpongeBob, who knows? We brought it up because we noticed an unusual number of "hits" via SpongeBob searches in our Site Meter stats this afternoon. Googling, we found that our own venerable post of November 2004, "How to get a zillion hits on your blog," has worked its way to #2 in the images at the top of the search results page. It's also the second image on the "image results for spongebob" page. We take 'em where we get 'em. Like the winged fruits that go whichever way the wind blows, our blog posts are at the mercy of the googlewinds.
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