We'll let our little friend here lead out today's post, but he's agreed only to a quick appearance. Okay, now the real story.
Here is Duckweed, Lemna minor, the same "green stuff" from yesterday's post. Today's identification comes to us from Gretchen, whose comment made yesterday saved the day today. Yeah Gretchen! :-)
I tried collecting a sample for later macro shots back at home but after noticing all kinds of little water creatures navigating around in my sample bag, I had no choice but to release all back to their home. Truly, Nuncketest, The Lake of the Red Waters, aptly names this lake.
There are many streams entering the lake. You see, much of the surrounding terrain is wetland. It seems that the wetlands buffer the rain, allowing it to flow into the lake over a period of time. Here is one such stream. I noticed all this green stuff dumping into lake and followed it across the street to a little pond.
First, here's a little movie of the action. I had some trouble hand-holding the camera--shakes and focus but what the heck. I will improve in time. Also, I have included the movie link and hopefully email folks will be able to pick up the movie from the email. Oh, and my apologies to the emailers about the previous post not mailing out--I didn't realize that August has 31 days... there went the schedule! :-)
Here's the little pond across the street from the lake.
And here's the same pond a day later. All clean! So, just what was that stuff? How long had it been around before I discovered it? Did it grow in the water (that's what I think) or did it fall out of the trees?
