by the way thenewgreen, I liked the article as well. As for your question, "What have you noticed of late?" -- birds, the sun, sunrises, and the way some impatiens and geraniums have bi-coloured petals.from scratch
I keep a giant periodic table chart above the stove in the kitchen -- have I mentioned this somewhere? When people ask me why is there a periodic table in the kitchen, I mumble something about wanting to remember the ingredients.
My daughter and I have taken to naming the squirrels that play beneath our bird feeders. It's amazing how much more I notice now that I have a little one pointing and asking. She's been in to "Tinkerbell" of late. We have a large tree in our front yard with a big heart shaped knot with a hole in the center of it. I told her that this is where Tinkerbell lives. She's pretty fascinated with that tree now ;-) I enjoyed this piece too, it reminded me of my good friend Olive Watson's piece on Urban Beachcombing. I think you'd enjoy that read too and I think you and Olive would get along very well. Beautiful geranium and a very clever placement of the periodic table!
Some of those colorations are engineered by introducing viruses to the plants. My mother used to be a plant-virologist and so explained it to me as a kid. I don't really remember much about it than that, but it is cool. Hmm. Can you buy Big Bangs in bulk?