Familial Gifts

• ✔ Mom- eyeshadow palette^^, cameo pendant
• ✔ Dad- hat^^
• ✔ Becca- eyeshadow palette^^, cameo earrings^^
• Kris- entire pie
• ✔ Karen-pears^^
• Kate,D,B,F- bath thing^^, Thomas, Percy, blanket
• Fred- gift certificate
• ✔ GmaS GpaB- pears^^
• AT,UR,S,M,C- cookies, tatted earrings^^, blanket
• UC&J- cookies
• L&E- cookies
• Jacob- cookies
• Aaron&Mrs- cookies, sampler^^
• ✔ GmaP&J- pears^^
• Lorraine- something
• AK&J,C,B- cookies, Humboldt jam/honey
• AL&D,I,P,B- cookies

• given to embellishment
• fond of purple
• takes shoes on and off when thinking
• tiny feet
• socks usually striped
• prefers skirts
• thick hair
• green brown gold green again eyes
• quick to smile, slow to cry
• talks quietly when most serious
• shouts when it seems both necessary and appropriate
• attracts cats
• fascinated by fishes
• enthusiastic about the little and growing
• curious, and curiouser still
• on time
• dimples, and beauty marks left small and high, right low and larger
• scarves, sweaters, mittens, whenever plau...

• Librarian
• Famous writer
• Opera singer
• Ballerina
• Fairy speaker
• Tree climber
• Pirate queen
• Astronaut
• Surfer
• Veterinarian
• Princess
• ✔ Beautiful
• ✔ College student
• ✔ In love

I hadn't really decided clearly, but I saw no reason why I shouldn't do them all at some point.

• Cortanarious purpurascens That whole species complex, cobwebby veils, vivid colors, distinct conifer loving species.
• Lepiota They make me feel like mushroom season is starting. They are the crocus of mushroom season and just as ubiquitous.
• Mycena Tend to grow in troops, 16 lineages with bioluminescence. Tiny beautiful mushrooms
• Nolanea Diminutive Entolomataceae, and how.
• Omphalina Associates with lichens! Only genus that does, beautiful things.
• Omphalotus The Western Jack O' Lantern especially.

• early dark
• also early light
• rain falls cold, grey
• geese overhead
• tired people, but not unhappy
• ribbons
• waterproof coats over thick sweaters
• smells of cinnamon, ginger, baking defiant and warm
• pine, fir, and cedar
• nativity scenes with extension cords
• songs everyone knows
• busy, so busy

• The Woodpigeons
• Cemeteries
• ✔ Porcelin Raft
• ✔ Lavender Diamond
• ✔ The Decemberists
• Echo and the Bunnymen
• ✔ ish More and more classical, ask at Berliners where to begin

• warm
• misleadingly slow seeming
• green and yellow and red
• birds building nests
• cats seeking kittens
• oceans call
• rain sweet
• nights long, but slow to arrive
• days slow, but quick to pass
• irises cousins
• roses
• jasmine
• leafy leafy trees

• Equisetum hyemale scouring rush

Emerging singly as a hollow stem with embedded silicates. At nodes single whorl of small, bract like leaves. Apical strobilus of sexual structures. Non Branching.

• E. telmateia horsetail

Much as above, but branching, and often a bit thinner.

• Selaginella spike moss

Not a moss, having a dainty lignified stem with spirally inserted small awl shaped leaves and small root/rootlike structures on the ventral side of that stem. Embedded strobili at squared of apices contain cone like nooks for micro and mega spore production.

• ✔ Baby hat
• Button up gloves
• Cozy blanket
• ✔ Felted purse with rose motif
• ✔ Felted slippers
• Green shawl
• Lacey edged hat
• Leg warmers in merino maybe
• Red cardigan
• Socks, many
• ✔ Triple set of striped scarves

• Super Geek, a la Super Freak
• Build Me Up Ranunculus
• Love Grows Where My Rosmarinus officinalis Goes
• You Are the Malus of My Oculars, That's a Good Thing
• Rosa rubra

Mostly these start out as puns, which I then want to expand on

• geese returning
• daffodils are early, but snowdrops are first
• Alium beats all
• apple moss in spore
• mornings getting brighter
• grape hyacinth, all over the place
• robins showing off
• cats, in fights
• rain unpredictable
• Morchella and the elven saddles
• Eager kind of time

• maples bleed first
• smells of fire wood
• misty mornings
• fog creeps, or rolls
• nights inching long
• mornings sleepy
• geese
• ocean murmurs, until it roars
• rain cool and soft
• Vitus gold,

on the green Sequoia

• rose black tea
• new matched tea cups (2)
• pajama pants
• fountain pen refills
• wind chime
• bit of lace
• macarons, lavender

• Frulania has heart shaped under-leaves that are as transparent and fragile looking as glass, but survive in the gutter nest to my house
• Lunularia has a name that sounds vaguely like a silvery moon princess, but is currently out competing many other species like her
• Pellia really believes it is a plant, even without leaves or stems to speak of
• All the leafy liverworts captivate me to a time expensive degree
• The simple thalloid liverworts, remind me how things can be simple and complete
• The complex thalloid liverworts, remind me that simplicity is a matter of opinion

• Candied flowers
• Cucumber sandwiches
• Figs with honey
• Fresh blueberries
• Lemon tarts with strawberries
• Lime tarts with whipped cream
• Raspberry filled white cake with white chocolate icing
• Scones with cream and jam
• Shortbread, especially Earl Grey shortbread
• Sliced pears
• Tea soaked egg salad sandwiches
• Toast with butter
• Toast with cinnamon sugar
• Toast with ginger syrup
• Toast with mango chutney
• Watercress heavy salad