Wikipedia: Murraya is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae. It is distributed in Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. The center of diversity is in southern China and Southeast Asia.

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My favorite plant.

73 degrees Fahrenheit equals 22.778 Celsius. Google is my friend.

A beautiful autumn day here in northwestern Illinois. Mostly blue sky. 73 degrees. Green grass, happy squirrels, and the leaves on my big fat tree are turning red. Leaves are falling from my other 2 trees. My numerous wonderful plants are dying but they still look nice. I saw a spider web. The spider was having lunch.

What is a toadstool? I looked it up.

Toadstool is an unscientific label that is sometimes applied to certain types of mushrooms. It usually refers to colorful and poisonous or inedible mushrooms.

There is a heaven and I'm living in it.

I live in a beautiful farm town in northwestern Illinois. Everyone is nice. I never lock my doors. Huge trees are everywhere. My beautiful wonderful house is surrounded by beautiful trees and plants. The price of living here is so cheap it's almost free.

The paradise where I live in northwestern Illinois

Every spring, without me doing anything, in 5 places in my yard, numerous beautiful plants start growing out of the ground. The people who lived here before created a paradise. They really knew what they were doing because these are the most beautiful plants I have ever seen.

For this spring I created 2 small habitats in the yard for birds and other creatures. I'm waiting for Amazon to deliver bird food which I would put outside my favorite window (which is by my apple desktop computer) and watch birds get fat.

Christian fucktards think they will have a magical 2nd life in a magical heaven somewhere in the universe. The paradise called "Earth" is not good enough for them.

They can have their moronic ridiculous fantasy. I prefer reality. Reality is much more interesting than religious bullshit, and reality has the advantage of being real.

My favorite plant

I never met a honey bee I didn't like.

I found this at Jerry Coyne's website: Readers’ wildlife photos

“A honey bee and my runner beans.”

"This cannot be, under any circumstances, be described as wildlife but I hope that you like the photo."

My favorite plant.

Plant: "a living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll."

The most wonderful backyard in the universe.

In my yard I found a beautiful snake. It was black with white dots on its back. What were the white dots for? Was it a sexual selection thing? Or was it a natural selection thing that helped camouflage it?

Also in my backyard I have seen rabbits, birds, squirrels, white flowers, red flowers, purple flowers, the world's smallest ants, a very fat but small tree, and lots of very large and very green plants. I did nothing for all this stuff to happen. I just had to wait until spring to see it.

Just now I saw a very tiny and very delicate insect on the other side of one of my windows. It had very tiny wings and it was beautiful. Just to be sure it could fly I tapped my finger against the window and it flew away. I asked it to come back but it didn't want to. Then I saw several of the same creatures flying near my window.

What's very interesting is I share an ancestor with all these insects and plants and the other creatures. It's amazing what 4 billion years and natural selection can create.

America's Christian morons think all these creatures were magically created out of nothing. I can't imagine anything more boring. Our Christian fucktards don't know what they're missing.

"The religious imagination is paltry and petty compared to the awesome reality."
-- PZ Myers, Univerity of Minnesota biologist

The universe is not always trying to kill us.

BBC News

A super bloom of wild poppies has appeared near Lake Elsinore, in California, following weeks of heavy rain.

Hillsides in the area, to the southeast of Los Angeles, are covered in swathes of the orange and gold wildflowers.

The bloom is in stark contrast to last year's devastating wildfires, when thousands of local residents were evacuated. Recent storms saw further evacuations in the area.

Visitors have been taking advantage of the spectacular natural phenomenon to take floral-themed selfies.

Mutualism is the way two organisms of different species exist in a relationship in which each individual benefits from the activity of the other. This one of my favorite examples, a bird cleaning the teeth of a crocodile.

Wikipedia - Mutualism

Hummingbird hawkmoth drinking from Dianthus. Pollination is a classic example of mutualism.

A flowering cannabis plant - beautiful and colorful

A flowering cannabis plant