Hacking at invasive weeds

This weekend, my husband couldn't stand it any longer. He attacked our "garden," well it used to be a garden, that has been overgrown with Himalayan blackberries. They not only swallowed up the corn and the pumpkins, but the herb garden out front. The vines are now trying to cover our neighbor's shed. But since he's walking the picket line for Boeing right now, I don't think he's noticed.

Apparently, we're not the only one fighting noxious weeds, according to this story in the TNT.

Photo by Russ Carmack of the TNT.

Tunicate Invasion

Now I'm wondering that all those pretty orange drippy things that I showed school kids on the beach last summer, were in fact, invaders.

This story by Susan Gordon at the TNT talks about the invasion of a tunicate species that seems to act like an aquatic version of The Blob.

I'll have to keep a sharp eye out this summer and report this out for someone to sprinkle salad dressing on it (read the story for this to make sense).

Photo from The News Tribune