THE UNRETICULATED MAN

No one in their right mind would want to see my groin. Even under the best of circumstances, but post-operation good heavens no. So it's probably a good thing that I am not involved with anyone, and not a member of a sauna club. I took a look down there today. Bald, black, and blue. Actually the bruising is more green, yellow, and purple. Please do not imagine this. Wipe your mind clean.

There was also horrid widespread bruising there six years ago after the coronary stent was put in. Which was intellectually interesting. A medical necessity made me freakish for two to three weeks, while improving my life immensely. This angioplasty should do likewise.
In the meantime I'm rather 'prickly' about that.
I was shaved before the incision.

Don't look. I'm hideous.


I'm always fascinated by the colours of nature. As you would probably expect after seeing the illustrations on this blog. Recently they've been landscapes and scenery, what the internet assures me are rather like en plein air painting. Despite not being outdoors but mentally interpreting being outdoors while sitting in the computer room at the back end of my apartment. Sometimes with sunlight streaming in through the blinds.
On the west-facing rump of Nob Hill.

My computer, always comforting, today yielded precisely the hues I did not want to see.
By the way, where they cut me appears to have healed nicely.
Thank you for absolutely not asking.

Lamproderma scintillans is a type of slime mold in the family Lamprodermataceae. Having a knobbled shiny appearance, many members of the genus lamproderma are purply- blueish, with greenish washed tints, often shiny and on a microscopic level almost metallic looking, like miniscule space alien landing craft.


AFTER WORD

The most recently discovered member of the group, Lamproderma vietnamense, is both fuzzy and shiny, with what look like both clusters and globby bits on the outer surface.
It has reticulate (having a net-like surface) spores.

I had fun illustrating lamproderma.
It reminded me of something.



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