NATURAL PRESERVER
Sage oil was used to preserve meat, which was important before electricity.
(Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants)
FANTASTIC FRAMBOIDS
Pyrite is also known as fool’s gold. Pyrite is iron and sulfur combined, and it sure has fulled many people as gold. If pyrite forms when there is more sulfur than normal, its crystals grow into shapes called framboids. Some might say they look like tiny raspberries!
(My Book of Rocks and Minerals)
SAUSAGE SURPRISE
The Sausage tree produces fruits that look like giant hanging sausages. Each one is actually a huge berry. The flesh is toxic to humans, but animals love them.
(Nature's Treasures)
TARAGON TREASURE
Tarragon is little dragon in latin because the roots look like dragons. The licorice flavor is used in many salad dressings, sauces, and vinegars.
(Herbs A to Z)
PYRITE POWER
Pyrite is the only mineral in the world that can form perfect cubes. It can also form a gleaming circle in the surrounding rock, sometimes called suns, and they are usually only an inch wide.
(My Book of Rocks and Minerals)
TOOTHBRUSH TREE
The flowering dogwood’s branchlets can be pounded at the ends to make a sort of toothbrush. It’s supposed to make your teeth whiter. You won’t find me trying it though!
(The Tree Book)
LAZY RIVER BAR - COME TODAY!
This is the Lazy River Bar, a great bar where you are totally lazy and you don’t order food! The stream carries the food to you! Just wait, and wait, and wait! A perfect place for rainbow trout, which move slower during colder weather, Don’t chase food anymore! Just be lazy! (don’t be lazy…this is only for fish) Come to the Lazy River Bar today!
(Xplor Magazine)