Mural at 3rd & Romig St.

Everybody looking at smartphone.  The inaccuracy of this is, it shows everybody standing still but not walking or driving.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/03/tech/smartphone-zombie-apocalypse-comments/

Red-tailed hawk along Wabash Heritage Trail

On the Wabash River Heritage Trail near downtown Lafayette, I noticed this red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) sitting in a bush.  Unusually close by and it didn't fly away.  Then I saw that he had caught a rabbit and wasn't finished with it so he sat there despite my presence.   Picture Dec. 24, 2013.

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Wabash River December 2013

Wabash River at the pedestrian bridge Lafayette, Dec. 18, 2013.  About 4 inches of snow had fallen a few days before.

Wabash River at the pedestrian bridge Lafayette, Dec. 24, 2013.  Heavy rains a few days before had flooded the river.  Here the river had crested the day before at about 15 feet and now slowly receding.

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Poison ivy berries

 Poison ivy berries (Toxicodendron radicans) in winter,

The poison ivy vine is climbing up this cottonwood tree on the Purdue campus.  This would be an easy place to visit if you want to learn what poison ivy looks like.  It is along Northwestern Avenue just a bit south of Cherry Lane.  The cottonwood tree behind it has a trumpet creeper vine on it (Campsis radicans).  Pictures taken Dec. 18, 2013.

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A place for shelf fungus

At the west end of the pedestrian bridge.  The top half of this ornamental pear tree (Pyrus calleryana) was blown over in the November windstorm.  These kind of trees have weak wood and often get damaged by wind and ice.  This will make a good fungus garden if the Park Department will leave it alone.

Photo taken Nov. 28, 2013.

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