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Today's Dephemerember prompt is Apothecary label and quirky cat or dog.

So we have a cat making stuff fall from a shelf, of course!

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Moonover Marsh-themed Dephemerember Day 2

Today's prompt is Altered playing card and antique keys

I only used the shape of the playing card, as the card design would not fit my comic's universe. I used it to make a section of the front door of my healer/botanist character.

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This year, I'm participating for the third time in Dephemerember, a prompt-based December junk journaling challenge .

I decided to make the journal themed after my comic Moonover Marsh, mostly because I wanted bright colours and a lot of textiles and fibers. My main character being a fabric merchant, it made sense to me. 

Here is the journal cover. I've started working on it, and will post what I made in the next few days.

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I'm back :)

No lichen pictures today because I've not classified my spring/summer batch yet. It's coming.

In the meantime, I've started working again on my comic Moonover Marsh, after many months. I have a comic-adjacent project coming in December which required me to draw a scene coming in a later chapter.

This is the group of friends of my main characters' parents, about 5 years before he was born. In this key scene, they are tailoring the first ever set of feminine clothes for the transgender teen of the group.

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Why on earth are isopod scoops sold in craft stores??

(Note: this technique works very well for me, to pick them up safely, but I can't be sure it will work for everyone).

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Pictures 1-4: Cypripedium calceolus, Côte-d'Or, France. June 3, 2024.

Picture 5: For comparison, Cypripedium parviflorum var. makasin, South of Saskatoon, SK, Canada. June 17, 2022.

Yesterday I went north to the Côte-d'Or department to see this rare orchid in a specific protected area. Due to this orchid's endangered status, the area is mostly not accessible, but a few plants are growing near the allowed path, just ready for pictures. A situation similar to that of the related species C. parviflorum which I photographed 2 years ago in Saskatchewan, Canada. A single individual was growing outside a fenced protected area.

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Dactylorhiza fuchsii, Saône-et-Loire, France. May 28, 2024. 

Note: I'm not 100% sure it is D. fuchsii, it could also be the closely related D. maculata, as the labella's shape and ornamentation of the specimens I photographed fall somewhere between what's typical for these two species; however the habitat (edge of a forest) seems to be more typical of D. fuchsii.

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Ophrys fuciflora, Saône-et-Loire, France. May 26, 2024.

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Anacamptis pyramidalis, Saône-et-Loire, France. May 26, 2024.

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Anacamptis morio. Saône-et-Loire, France. April 22

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Neotinea ustulata, Saône-et-Loire, France. April 22, 2024.

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Orchis purpurea, Saône-et-Loire, France. April 22, 2024.

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Orchis anthropophora (Man orchid)

Another species I have growing naturally in my garden.

Pictures 1 and 2 from a local conservation area. Saône-et-Loire, France. April 22, 2024.

Pictures 3 and 4 from my garden (April 22 and April 20). Picture 4 is of a flower i accidentally cut when gardening, and put in a vase inside. It's interesting to see how the conditions inside the house (warmer, no wind, less sunlight), impacted the colour of the flower.

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Himantoglossum hircinum (Lizard orchid) 

Saône -et-Loire, France. April 22, 2024.

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Orchis mascula

Saône-et-Loire, France. April 20, 2024

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Lasallia pustulata

Nièvre, France. April 19, 2024.

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Pilophorus acicularis (devil's matchstick)

Comox Valley, BC, Canada. March 31, 2024.