Love the layered leaves with the pink flower in the middle. Nature's beauty. In the eye of the camera. Of course the bird in a bowl growing a bush is pretty awesome too. And Love architectural details almost as the best organic expression of human creation.
We have snowdrops popping up everywhere, which is encouraging. As usual I can't convince my camera to behave, so this is borrowed from another.
Theory of Time by DAKU in Panjim, India via Colossal street art section
An installation of words shadowed onto the street along a boulevard expressing time.
the bird in a bowl growing a bush ... classic poetry.
Thank you, that is incredible street art. I will look for more from the artist later.
Love the layered leaves with the pink flower in the middle. Nature's beauty. In the eye of the camera. Of course the bird in a bowl growing a bush is pretty awesome too. And Love architectural details almost as the best organic expression of human creation.
We have snowdrops popping up everywhere, which is encouraging. As usual I can't convince my camera to behave, so this is borrowed from another.
Theory of Time by DAKU in Panjim, India via Colossal street art section
An installation of words shadowed onto the street along a boulevard expressing time.
@Socialprogressive
Beautiful photos SP! I love that Borrego area, it is gorgeous, and so alive in spring when blooming. Used to be very rare to see Bighorn Sheep there. The caterpillars might be White-lined Sphinx Moth.
Very nice set of photos. I really like the shot of the window frame. Simplicity at it's best.
The winter rains have the flowers blooming in the desert right now. Some shots from Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
up
0 users have voted.
—
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
@dystopian
caterpillars are green, with black and yellow spots down the sides. I've hatched some that I found in our yard years ago. So cool!
#2 Beautiful photos SP! I love that Borrego area, it is gorgeous, and so alive in spring when blooming. Used to be very rare to see Bighorn Sheep there. The caterpillars might be White-lined Sphinx Moth.
Almost done. South side still lumpy but everywhere else has pretty much settled.
Think I'm going to hike up and visit the water falls in my profile photo.
Water flows over a trap rock ridge with a horse tail flume of about 85 feet making it largest single drop falls in Connecticut. It is beautiful this time of year early in the morning as it faces east to the rising sun. Water flow is at its peak to so you can usually hear it about 5 minutes in on a 30 minute hike.
I love this spot because it is one of the few places locally that has not likely changed much in the last 5000 years. I also expect it will likely remain as such for at least another 5000, with or without human beings there to enjoy the view.
Springtime is so fresh and radiant. The sound of a distant waterfall. Thank you for bringing that alive in your words and photos. I'd love to be on that path.
Do you know what building the fireplace remnant was from. Can I ask where in CT this is?
Almost done. South side still lumpy but everywhere else has pretty much settled.
Think I'm going to hike up and visit the water falls in my profile photo.
Water flows over a trap rock ridge with a horse tail flume of about 85 feet making it largest single drop falls in Connecticut. It is beautiful this time of year early in the morning as it faces east to the rising sun. Water flow is at its peak to so you can usually hear it about 5 minutes in on a 30 minute hike.
I love this spot because it is one of the few places locally that has not likely changed much in the last 5000 years. I also expect it will likely remain as such for at least another 5000, with or without human beings there to enjoy the view.
Springtime is so fresh and radiant. The sound of a distant waterfall. Thank you for bringing that alive in your words and photos. I'd love to be on that path.
Do you know what building the fireplace remnant was from. Can I ask where in CT this is?
@jobu
find these stone hearths in the most unlikely places while doing deep walks thru the woods. All that's left of a homestead from eons ago is the fire place and chimney. The cabin is gone, as are all but a scattering of random stones which was the foundation. See it with old barns too. Only indication is the silo and an overgrown mound of decaying timbers. Shows crafts were made to stand forever.
Almost done. South side still lumpy but everywhere else has pretty much settled.
Think I'm going to hike up and visit the water falls in my profile photo.
Water flows over a trap rock ridge with a horse tail flume of about 85 feet making it largest single drop falls in Connecticut. It is beautiful this time of year early in the morning as it faces east to the rising sun. Water flow is at its peak to so you can usually hear it about 5 minutes in on a 30 minute hike.
I love this spot because it is one of the few places locally that has not likely changed much in the last 5000 years. I also expect it will likely remain as such for at least another 5000, with or without human beings there to enjoy the view.
to see remnants of past structures that automatically spark the imagination to draw a picture of what was lost. The difference in materials, and their different qualities is also interesting.
#4
find these stone hearths in the most unlikely places while doing deep walks thru the woods. All that's left of a homestead from eons ago is the fire place and chimney. The cabin is gone, as are all but a scattering of random stones which was the foundation. See it with old barns too. Only indication is the silo and an overgrown mound of decaying timbers. Shows crafts were made to stand forever.
@QMS@QMS
...and old stone cellars are great discoveries on some of our well preserved local properties all around New Haven County. The Water Company lands in many cases have abandoned roads as well.
We have a great website for geeks like me who love exploring. UCONN MAGIC has historical aerial photos, historical maps, lidar maps, ect.
For example, I know there were a lot of sheep farmers in Colonial Connecticut:
in 1781 more sheep were raised in Connecticut than in any two of the other colonies combined. The wool of Connecticut sheep was prized: "Their wool is better than in other colonies but not so fine or as good as the English."
Supposedly you can look at the Lidar map and see the outlines of stone walls through the new growth forests and determine what type of agricultural activity was going on at a given site.
Very cool when planning a new hike.
#4
find these stone hearths in the most unlikely places while doing deep walks thru the woods. All that's left of a homestead from eons ago is the fire place and chimney. The cabin is gone, as are all but a scattering of random stones which was the foundation. See it with old barns too. Only indication is the silo and an overgrown mound of decaying timbers. Shows crafts were made to stand forever.
#4.2#4.2
...and old stone cellars are great discoveries on some of our well preserved local properties all around New Haven County. The Water Company lands in many cases have abandoned roads as well.
We have a great website for geeks like me who love exploring. UCONN MAGIC has historical aerial photos, historical maps, lidar maps, ect.
For example, I know there were a lot of sheep farmers in Colonial Connecticut:
in 1781 more sheep were raised in Connecticut than in any two of the other colonies combined. The wool of Connecticut sheep was prized: "Their wool is better than in other colonies but not so fine or as good as the English."
Supposedly you can look at the Lidar map and see the outlines of stone walls through the new growth forests and determine what type of agricultural activity was going on at a given site.
@janis b
rimming fields and properties. Local lore indicates the stones were an impediment to the plow. The 'settlers' hired the local indians to help unearth and haul the stones on a sled to the perimeter with mules and ox. Have had fun leveraging the well settled rocks with large pry bars and cantilevered apparatus'. Have a few rock gardens to worship the reason for the body aches. And more keep surfacing!
whether it was at all a mutually satisfying endeavour.
The 'settlers' hired the local indians to help unearth and haul the stones on a sled to the perimeter with mules and ox.
#4.2.2.1
rimming fields and properties. Local lore indicates the stones were an impediment to the plow. The 'settlers' hired the local indians to help unearth and haul the stones on a sled to the perimeter with mules and ox. Have had fun leveraging the well settled rocks with large pry bars and cantilevered apparatus'. Have a few rock gardens to worship the reason for the body aches. And more keep surfacing!
@janis b
Conceive the most aggradational tasks for fellow man and earth, pay the monkeys peanuts and reap the rewards. Perhaps mutually beneficial, but a bit lopsided not in the favour of the indigenous nor nature.
Love yer lily Janis, what a great color - Our water lily here is yellow, and a nocturnal bloomer, so only on darker mornings are some still open later than it gets light. Hey BR, love that fall water shot too...
Here's a few...
This is Blue-eyed Grass, which is a dwarf Iris actually, a favorite.
There were a bunch of these moths on the ground at the P.O. today. I love that pattern.
This is a Rufous-crowned Sparrow.
Common Ground-Dove - male - a cute little sparrow-sized dove.
up
0 users have voted.
—
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
@dystopian@dystopian
Aside from the musically pitched songs of the returning birds in the daylight, the chorus of frogs in the pond out in the woods after dark is an auditory indication of spring's arrival. And the renewed olfactory stimulants. Ahh, life begins anew.
Love yer lily Janis, what a great color - Our water lily here is yellow, and a nocturnal bloomer, so only on darker mornings are some still open later than it gets light. Hey BR, love that fall water shot too...
Here's a few...
This is Blue-eyed Grass, which is a dwarf Iris actually, a favorite.
There were a bunch of these moths on the ground at the P.O. today. I love that pattern.
This is a Rufous-crowned Sparrow.
Common Ground-Dove - male - a cute little sparrow-sized dove.
#5#5
Aside from the musically pitched songs of the returning birds in the daylight, the chorus of frogs in the pond out in the woods after dark is an auditory indication of spring's arrival. And the renewed olfactory stimulants. Ahh, life begins anew.
@QMS
growing up in beach cities in socal I did not know what they were... Now here in south central Texas we have one, Strecker's Chorus Frog, which sounds very similar to the true "Spring Peeper" of the east. The sound of 'it will get warm again', and 'life will begin anew again'.
#5#5
Aside from the musically pitched songs of the returning birds in the daylight, the chorus of frogs in the pond out in the woods after dark is an auditory indication of spring's arrival. And the renewed olfactory stimulants. Ahh, life begins anew.
up
0 users have voted.
—
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
I never knew or imagined that water lilies were nocturnal. Makes sense, now that I think about it, in more deserty environments.
That's one beautiful moth. What is the P.O.? Doves have made themselves at home where I am in the past few years. I think it's the spotted dove.
Love yer lily Janis, what a great color - Our water lily here is yellow, and a nocturnal bloomer, so only on darker mornings are some still open later than it gets light. Hey BR, love that fall water shot too...
Here's a few...
This is Blue-eyed Grass, which is a dwarf Iris actually, a favorite.
There were a bunch of these moths on the ground at the P.O. today. I love that pattern.
This is a Rufous-crowned Sparrow.
Common Ground-Dove - male - a cute little sparrow-sized dove.
I never knew or imagined that water lilies were nocturnal. Makes sense, now that I think about it, in more deserty environments.
That's one beautiful moth. What is the P.O.? Doves have made themselves at home where I am in the past few years. I think it's the spotted dove.
up
0 users have voted.
—
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Love yer lily Janis, what a great color - Our water lily here is yellow, and a nocturnal bloomer, so only on darker mornings are some still open later than it gets light. Hey BR, love that fall water shot too...
Here's a few...
This is Blue-eyed Grass, which is a dwarf Iris actually, a favorite.
There were a bunch of these moths on the ground at the P.O. today. I love that pattern.
This is a Rufous-crowned Sparrow.
Common Ground-Dove - male - a cute little sparrow-sized dove.
@Bollox Ref@Bollox Ref
I've seen it on Trump's billion dollar caddilyack on the proving grounds in Pontiac, MI. Also, showing up in desert camo canopies, uniforms and 'special' domestic police vehicles. Perhaps we could sue the govt. for copy write infringements on behalf of the moth population?
Spring has officially sprung here. Birds are migrating back; my grackles and red-winged blackbirds are back, as are sandhill cranes, robins, and we saw our first-of-year double-crested cormorants this evening. I think I saw one of the ospreys fly up to the nest that I watched last year the other day as well.
Spring sounds exciting in your corner of the world.
Spring has officially sprung here. Birds are migrating back; my grackles and red-winged blackbirds are back, as are sandhill cranes, robins, and we saw our first-of-year double-crested cormorants this evening. I think I saw one of the ospreys fly up to the nest that I watched last year the other day as well.
Spring has officially sprung here. Birds are migrating back; my grackles and red-winged blackbirds are back, as are sandhill cranes, robins, and we saw our first-of-year double-crested cormorants this evening. I think I saw one of the ospreys fly up to the nest that I watched last year the other day as well.
@janis b
for men, which is just a palm full of grease, with which the greasers tamed their curls. The blacks used to use lye to get straight. Smelly times. I understand there are some experimental chemo drugs out now that turn ones mop white and straight. Not yet approved by the insurance racket, but promising for the fringe neocrown crowd.
#6.2.1.1.1.1.1
for men, which is just a palm full of grease, with which the greasers tamed their curls. The blacks used to use lye to get straight. Smelly times. I understand there are some experimental chemo drugs out now that turn ones mop white and straight. Not yet approved by the insurance racket, but promising for the fringe neocrown crowd.
@janis b
that was not to be here, was left on the clipboard from a reply to Snoop over at the EB. Sheesh, was trying to respond with Jefferson Airplane and It's A Beautiful Day.
Somehow, even your random (in this case unintended) posts still make sense, at least to my mind.
#6.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1
that was not to be here, was left on the clipboard from a reply to Snoop over at the EB. Sheesh, was trying to respond with Jefferson Airplane and It's A Beautiful Day.
Thanks for the pot. No photos tonight for me. Posting late after another busy day, on my phone. Probably a way to upload but don’t have the time to figure it out. Love all y’all’s shots c-niner-niners. And the good humor. Thanks everyone.
up
0 users have voted.
—
Stop Climate Change Silence - Start the Conversation
Thanks for the pot. No photos tonight for me. Posting late after another busy day, on my phone. Probably a way to upload but don’t have the time to figure it out. Love all y’all’s shots c-niner-niners. And the good humor. Thanks everyone.
Comments
Heya Janis
Love the layered leaves with the pink flower in the middle. Nature's beauty. In the eye of the camera. Of course the bird in a bowl growing a bush is pretty awesome too. And Love architectural details almost as the best organic expression of human creation.
We have snowdrops popping up everywhere, which is encouraging. As usual I can't convince my camera to behave, so this is borrowed from another.
Theory of Time by DAKU in Panjim, India via Colossal street art section
An installation of words shadowed onto the street along a boulevard expressing time.
Best qms
question everything
I literally had to cover my mouth
to keep from spitting due to laughing!
the bird in a bowl growing a bush ... classic poetry.
Thank you, that is incredible street art. I will look for more from the artist later.
Evening, Janis.
Very nice set of photos. I really like the shot of the window frame. Simplicity at it's best.
The winter rains have the flowers blooming in the desert right now. Some shots from Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Excellent social
Can feel the dry heat reflecting in shot 2. The high desert is good for the bones.
Cheerios. You are a great photographer.
question everything
Fascinating as always Social
Te cactus looks more like two animals, a giraffe holding a koala ; ). Thank you.
Great photos SP!
Beautiful photos SP! I love that Borrego area, it is gorgeous, and so alive in spring when blooming. Used to be very rare to see Bighorn Sheep there. The caterpillars might be White-lined Sphinx Moth.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
white-lined sphinx moth
caterpillars are green, with black and yellow spots down the sides. I've hatched some that I found in our yard years ago. So cool!
This shit is bananas.
Thanks for hosting Janis
The Paw of Power:
And one from last year:
Still waiting for the last pieces of ice to disappear.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
I give up
Perhaps a shot of cat's paw with the claws withdrawn?
Cat's paw knot
~
Cat's paw nail puller
question everything
Fred was asleep
So I took a shot of his paw. He's a large cat with big paws. I can see how a lion could just bat a human away with one blow.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Fred flying?
No, sleeping
One of his hobbies.
I like your shot of the window. Very calming and peaceful.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Well, your photo animated him.
I bet he can't wait for Spring.
Frost heaves
Almost done. South side still lumpy but everywhere else has pretty much settled.
Think I'm going to hike up and visit the water falls in my profile photo.
Water flows over a trap rock ridge with a horse tail flume of about 85 feet making it largest single drop falls in Connecticut. It is beautiful this time of year early in the morning as it faces east to the rising sun. Water flow is at its peak to so you can usually hear it about 5 minutes in on a 30 minute hike.
I love this spot because it is one of the few places locally that has not likely changed much in the last 5000 years. I also expect it will likely remain as such for at least another 5000, with or without human beings there to enjoy the view.
Pass this place on the way in:
Connecticut is unbelievably beautiful.
Springtime is so fresh and radiant. The sound of a distant waterfall. Thank you for bringing that alive in your words and photos. I'd love to be on that path.
Do you know what building the fireplace remnant was from. Can I ask where in CT this is?
Cheshire CT
Roaring Brook Falls is a key property of the Cheshire Land Trust.
It is very well kept by all who visit her.
The chimney is all that remains of an early 20th century hunting cabin.
Thank you for adding context.
Connecticut has been pretty good at conservancy of its land.
I lived practically next door to this CT historic site. Actually, that was thanks to Lieberman.
Nice jobu
find these stone hearths in the most unlikely places while doing deep walks thru the woods. All that's left of a homestead from eons ago is the fire place and chimney. The cabin is gone, as are all but a scattering of random stones which was the foundation. See it with old barns too. Only indication is the silo and an overgrown mound of decaying timbers. Shows crafts were made to stand forever.
question everything
Nice QMS,
to see remnants of past structures that automatically spark the imagination to draw a picture of what was lost. The difference in materials, and their different qualities is also interesting.
Connecticut stone walls
...and old stone cellars are great discoveries on some of our well preserved local properties all around New Haven County. The Water Company lands in many cases have abandoned roads as well.
We have a great website for geeks like me who love exploring. UCONN MAGIC has historical aerial photos, historical maps, lidar maps, ect.
For example, I know there were a lot of sheep farmers in Colonial Connecticut:
Supposedly you can look at the Lidar map and see the outlines of stone walls through the new growth forests and determine what type of agricultural activity was going on at a given site.
Very cool when planning a new hike.
The Weir Preserve has lots of stone walls.
They really are a thing of beauty and craft.
We are surrounded by dry stack stone walls
rimming fields and properties. Local lore indicates the stones were an impediment to the plow. The 'settlers' hired the local indians to help unearth and haul the stones on a sled to the perimeter with mules and ox. Have had fun leveraging the well settled rocks with large pry bars and cantilevered apparatus'. Have a few rock gardens to worship the reason for the body aches. And more keep surfacing!
question everything
This makes me wonder
whether it was at all a mutually satisfying endeavour.
It's the white man way
Conceive the most aggradational tasks for fellow man and earth, pay the monkeys peanuts and reap the rewards. Perhaps mutually beneficial, but a bit lopsided not in the favour of the indigenous nor nature.
question everything
Thanks for all the great stuff all week everyone!
Love yer lily Janis, what a great color - Our water lily here is yellow, and a nocturnal bloomer, so only on darker mornings are some still open later than it gets light. Hey BR, love that fall water shot too...
Here's a few...
This is Blue-eyed Grass, which is a dwarf Iris actually, a favorite.
There were a bunch of these moths on the ground at the P.O. today. I love that pattern.
This is a Rufous-crowned Sparrow.
Common Ground-Dove - male - a cute little sparrow-sized dove.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Spring peepers
Aside from the musically pitched songs of the returning birds in the daylight, the chorus of frogs in the pond out in the woods after dark is an auditory indication of spring's arrival. And the renewed olfactory stimulants. Ahh, life begins anew.
question everything
This is all making me feel incredibly nostalgic.
Thanks to all for sharing Spring.
love those spring peepers
growing up in beach cities in socal I did not know what they were... Now here in south central Texas we have one, Strecker's Chorus Frog, which sounds very similar to the true "Spring Peeper" of the east. The sound of 'it will get warm again', and 'life will begin anew again'.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Evening dystopian
I never knew or imagined that water lilies were nocturnal. Makes sense, now that I think about it, in more deserty environments.
That's one beautiful moth. What is the P.O.? Doves have made themselves at home where I am in the past few years. I think it's the spotted dove.
Janis - the P.O. is the...
Post Office - we actually have one in our little town (a few hundred).
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
That moth
Almost has an ermine cloak....
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
The military has copied this pattern
I've seen it on Trump's billion dollar caddilyack on the proving grounds in Pontiac, MI. Also, showing up in desert camo canopies, uniforms and 'special' domestic police vehicles. Perhaps we could sue the govt. for copy write infringements on behalf of the moth population?
question everything
Evening Janis, everyone
Spring has officially sprung here. Birds are migrating back; my grackles and red-winged blackbirds are back, as are sandhill cranes, robins, and we saw our first-of-year double-crested cormorants this evening. I think I saw one of the ospreys fly up to the nest that I watched last year the other day as well.
A few recent photos...
white-tailed deer
belted kingfisher
pine siskin
This shit is bananas.
That is such a beautiful photo of the deer, Daenerys.
Spring sounds exciting in your corner of the world.
Very much taken
By the King of Fishers. Lovely stuff.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Is it the head of
crownlike hair ; ).
Bluejays and the tufted titmouse
sport the same kind of punk hair-do. Notice they are an aggressive species. Noise, mostly.
question everything
I once saw an Eagle fairly closely from behind.
I commented to my sister, that when I am older and wiser I'd like a similar hairdo.
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1245&bih=621&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=vdOeXJn6...
Friggin' intense
the bird's profile is somewhat intimidating considering the eyes and crooked beak. White hair chopped and slicked back could work?
question everything
I'd have to use some product
to tame the curls into a slicker look.
They used to sell Score
for men, which is just a palm full of grease, with which the greasers tamed their curls. The blacks used to use lye to get straight. Smelly times. I understand there are some experimental chemo drugs out now that turn ones mop white and straight. Not yet approved by the insurance racket, but promising for the fringe neocrown crowd.
question everything
I think I'll pass
on your well informed knowledge ; ).
Good choice
question everything
Typically brilliant Carlin,
I hadn't heard before.
I'm waiting until "I reach the age of reason".
Oops, sorry Janis
that was not to be here, was left on the clipboard from a reply to Snoop over at the EB. Sheesh, was trying to respond with Jefferson Airplane and It's A Beautiful Day.
question everything
Enjoyed the music even more.
Somehow, even your random (in this case unintended) posts still make sense, at least to my mind.
Smart tailcoat
with jaunty waistcoat.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Ha ha ha ha ....
Thanks Bollox.
Evening janis...
Thanks for the pot. No photos tonight for me. Posting late after another busy day, on my phone. Probably a way to upload but don’t have the time to figure it out. Love all y’all’s shots c-niner-niners. And the good humor. Thanks everyone.
Stop Climate Change Silence - Start the Conversation
Hot Air Website, Twitter, Facebook
Hi there magiamma ...
... and thanks for all that you do.
Thanks to QMS for introducing the artist
DAKU, who highlights the temporality of time.
https://www.designboom.com/art/time-changes-everything-daku-start-india-...
https://www.demilked.com/theory-of-time-daku/