A whole new topic to explore!

About that hairy grass . . .

Hairy grass, with chickweed

This is, again, why I love blogging! Gary Hurd commented on yesterday's post,

An interesting thing about "hairy" grass is that these are structured around phytoliths- opal-like silicates secreted by the grass. Different species have phytoliths with different shapes. We use them in archaeology for environmental reconstructions.

 I didn't know that, and I had to look it up, of course. And those phytoliths are fascinating! It's too late tonight to write, but tomorrow I'll tell you what I found.

Overenthusiastic spam filter

I just realized that my spam filter has been collecting legitimate comments on my posts. I don't know why; it hasn't done this before. I've been checking the spam about once a month, and this is new. If one of your comments has gone missing, I'm sorry; I restored all I could find.

I'll be checking spam daily from now on.

Sorry!

I just found out that Gmail has been sending my blog comments to spam. I don't know how long this has been going on, or how many have been irrevocably deleted. I'm sorry if I missed any of your comments because of this.

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