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The meme (from jaunthie):

1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.


When I was doing more hiking (I have got to do more again - I mean, yeah, no real mountains around here, and while I find interesting edibles all the time I almost never bring them home because of Cleveland's industrial past...) especially in old growth forests I would often run across interesting pieces of worn wood, or nurse trees that fell apart, while their baby trees grew up, leaving strange and beautiful roots structures. But at the time I only had a lousy phone cam. This is one. Not sure if it was from one of my solitary hikes or not, anymore. (Most were, but this might have been one Kendrick was along for.)

I usually try to have my default icon be a picture of me. This is mostly because I still kind of hate to have pictures taken, but I'm trying to get over it. This was a picture of me in a cheong-sam (which is now way too big, and I should find a new owner for) standing in front of a wall hanging, that, as it turned out, ended up kind of framing me. So I kept it.

This is a ribbon projection of triose phosphate isomerase, an enzyme involved in glycolysis. (Particularly, after you've split fructose 1,6 bisphosphote in to glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate and dihydroxyacetone phosphate, this is the enzyme that turns dihydroxyacetone phosphate into another glyceraldehyde 3 phsophate.) Originally this was my icon for working in the Daggett lab. I also use it generally as one of my science icons, especially for things more on the biochem side.

This is a picture of an Aplysia californica I whipped up a bit over a year ago for the lab wiki. (In a few minutes, but hey.) We needed a specific icon for the public lab pages. Kendrick had a rather abstract image he'd made of a slug with its head down, going about it's sluggy business, so that's the private pages icon. My hungry, head wavey slug is the public icon. It's mostly used on posts about my research, or the lab, and sometimes science more generally.

Mushroom cap! This is my second (lost and mourned) hatterdashery linen cap full of Pluteus cervinus, aka "Deer mushrooms". The picture dates from when I was living on the barge, and I'd just led a foray through the arboretum and the interlaken ravine. Later I ate those mushrooms for dinner. (Yes, I'll eat mushrooms from some parts of Seattle. Hey, Seattle doesn't have a history of rivers catching fire.) Microscopically, P. cervinus has the cutest little pleurosystidia in the entire world - they have long necks, and then two little horns at the tips. (Okay, inocybes, which have crystals on their cystidia, some of them, can be almost as cute. But - two little horns!)

I really need to replace this hat. They are perfect warm weather hiking hats, and also perfect for stuffing full of mushrooms you find while hiking. (This happens a lot. And while biking. Heck, I've been known to make people pull over because I saw boletes fruiting in a field near the road...)