I'm Parker Bjur and this is my blog. I am currently interested in Native Plants and am working on propagating those local to me. Look at my iNat observat...
Before I started this blog I was getting interested in simple static website hosting and what I would come to learn is what people call the small (smol) web. It’s an unpolished, artsy, creative space. I found neocities which is in essence a static site host, but in spirit a community of creators living inside of this ephemeral world. Falling in love with this community, and trying to contribute in…
I have been spending a fair bit of time over the last few weeks pulling Oxalis pre-caprae or "Bermuda Buttercup" from the Oak Woodlands in Golden Gate Park. Pre-caprae is an invasive in much of the world outside of its native South Africa. It does not produce seeds, rather it grows many small bulbs from which it sprouts the next season after a period of dormancy. We have been getting a bit or rain…
Photographed by Charles Webber - Copyright © 1998 California Academy of Sciences I have collected seed from Scropholaria californica or "California beeplant" from the Oak Woodlands in Golden Gate Park. I am going to attempt to propagate these seeds and then transplant them. I separated the seeds by shaking in a ziplock bag, winnowing, then removing any remaining debris I could with tweezers. The…
Liam and I headed down to Marshal Beach to catch the sunset.
My housemate is a photographer who travels exclusively to chase the sun in incredible places. Liam had just explained to me that in Yosemite the fog is formed when the wet ground saturates the air of the valley with moisture and on a cold night that water coalesces in the air as the solubility decreases and you get a beautiful layer of fog. It had just rained in Yosemite and they were due for a…