$$ Eubacteria

Well, I admit it: I am just not as interested in microscopic organisms as visible ones, and thus am as guilty as anyone of taxonomic chauvinism. I just want to be able to look at stuff and draw it; that’s my excuse. What’s yours?

Couldn’t find any MICROBES so I drew some cashews

But I am working on it. I’m learning and/or relearning lots of fascinating stuff about Eubacteria and Archaea, two of the three domains of life. For one thing, some of them engulfed others of them to create the ancestors of the third domain, the more interesting one that includes everything from algae to avocado to fungi to fish to humans. Eukarya!, as Archimedes remarked, or something like that.

Before I bring this note to a close, I know what you're thinking. Why is the hybrid domain called Eukarya, when “Euchaea” would have made a much better portmanteau of the words Eubacteria and Archaea? It is too bad that we are not in charge.