Beautiful flower Janis. There are a boatload of gorgeous lilies. Tiger Lily, etc. We are in a big freeze here in Texas, a week of hovering around or below freezing, flatlining. Some areas getting ice and snow, I had rain by a degree or two. Mon. and Tues. morns are predicted for single digits! And some dumb hummingbird just showed up here!?! Hope it can handle the cold.
Here is our Rain Lily.
Pictures of Lily
Hope all is well for all! Stay warm and dry!
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Your rain lily is so purely gorgeous. It reminds me of two very different flowers, the gardenia and the trillium. Like the gardenia it looks quite succulent and fragrance-full. Like the trillium, it's shape and configuration of petals. I haven't seen a rain lily ever or a trillium in almost forever. The gardenia's are coming to an end here now.
I've discovered that the pineapple lily is not a lily.
Beautiful flower Janis. There are a boatload of gorgeous lilies. Tiger Lily, etc. We are in a big freeze here in Texas, a week of hovering around or below freezing, flatlining. Some areas getting ice and snow, I had rain by a degree or two. Mon. and Tues. morns are predicted for single digits! And some dumb hummingbird just showed up here!?! Hope it can handle the cold.
@dystopian
I hope things warm up for you soon. Low 60's and a few small rain showers here in San Diego county this morning.
Beautiful flower Janis. There are a boatload of gorgeous lilies. Tiger Lily, etc. We are in a big freeze here in Texas, a week of hovering around or below freezing, flatlining. Some areas getting ice and snow, I had rain by a degree or two. Mon. and Tues. morns are predicted for single digits! And some dumb hummingbird just showed up here!?! Hope it can handle the cold.
Here is our Rain Lily.
Pictures of Lily
Hope all is well for all! Stay warm and dry!
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@dystopian
That Hummingbird will survive if you have the feeders which you can rotate or some way to warm the fluid when it's freezing. Anna's started overwintering in Oregon including Eastern parts maybe twenty years ago. They go into torpor, locked on a branch inside a bramble or Cypress when they sleep after a meal.
Here are some links to short threads of people talking about how they keep their Hummers going. Hummers in Arkansas
We had one get its beak stuck in the feeder hole, then its wing stuck to the wet sugar. When we found it we thought it was dying. Eyes were shrivelled, barely breathing. We thought we'd have to put it out of its misery. But first we carefully washed her and the feeder with warm water and freed her. Got the sugar off, then wrapped her in a warm towel and held her for about 45 minutes. Eventually, she started plumping up and looking around. Finally, we went outside and held her but opened our hands. She flew away! So amazing and rewarding.
Good luck.
Beautiful flower Janis. There are a boatload of gorgeous lilies. Tiger Lily, etc. We are in a big freeze here in Texas, a week of hovering around or below freezing, flatlining. Some areas getting ice and snow, I had rain by a degree or two. Mon. and Tues. morns are predicted for single digits! And some dumb hummingbird just showed up here!?! Hope it can handle the cold.
Here is our Rain Lily.
Pictures of Lily
Hope all is well for all! Stay warm and dry!
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"They [as do Monarchs here with the more recent milder winters] go into torpor, locked on a branch inside a bramble or Cypress when they sleep after a meal."
Nice outcome for you and your sweet bird.
#1 That Hummingbird will survive if you have the feeders which you can rotate or some way to warm the fluid when it's freezing. Anna's started overwintering in Oregon including Eastern parts maybe twenty years ago. They go into torpor, locked on a branch inside a bramble or Cypress when they sleep after a meal.
Here are some links to short threads of people talking about how they keep their Hummers going. Hummers in Arkansas
We had one get its beak stuck in the feeder hole, then its wing stuck to the wet sugar. When we found it we thought it was dying. Eyes were shrivelled, barely breathing. We thought we'd have to put it out of its misery. But first we carefully washed her and the feeder with warm water and freed her. Got the sugar off, then wrapped her in a warm towel and held her for about 45 minutes. Eventually, she started plumping up and looking around. Finally, we went outside and held her but opened our hands. She flew away! So amazing and rewarding.
@Dawn's Meta
Great hummer story! They are fascinating birds. I have worked with hummer banders (which requires an additional permit) and held a lot of them.
We are doing the feeder rotation thing for this bird, Mon. and Tues. mornings are single digits and sub-zero chill factors. Snowing right now. She tanked up well at last light.
thanks again for the tips.
#1 That Hummingbird will survive if you have the feeders which you can rotate or some way to warm the fluid when it's freezing. Anna's started overwintering in Oregon including Eastern parts maybe twenty years ago. They go into torpor, locked on a branch inside a bramble or Cypress when they sleep after a meal.
Here are some links to short threads of people talking about how they keep their Hummers going. Hummers in Arkansas
We had one get its beak stuck in the feeder hole, then its wing stuck to the wet sugar. When we found it we thought it was dying. Eyes were shrivelled, barely breathing. We thought we'd have to put it out of its misery. But first we carefully washed her and the feeder with warm water and freed her. Got the sugar off, then wrapped her in a warm towel and held her for about 45 minutes. Eventually, she started plumping up and looking around. Finally, we went outside and held her but opened our hands. She flew away! So amazing and rewarding.
Good luck.
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a hyacinth... now that you mention it, that flower does have a hyacinth structure to it. So many flowers, and even many birds, are named after something it reminded someone of.
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are often very descriptive. I'm glad you're not a purist archiver.
Unfortunately, this hyacinth variety lacks the intoxicating fragrance of other hyacinths. It has almost no fragrance.
a hyacinth... now that you mention it, that flower does have a hyacinth structure to it. So many flowers, and even many birds, are named after something it reminded someone of.
of what caught your attention. Trying to expand the base here to anyone willing and interested in posting a photo that is of interest to you for whatever meaning it has.
@Socialprogressive
awesome bird photos SP! Outstanding work! Yes that is a Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's type (versus Myrtle with white throat). They were two species and got lumped. I think I have the material for a 'duck butts of North America' paper. There are diving ducks, and then puddle, or dabbling, ducks. The dabblers tip up to feed as your Gadwall. Great pic! The diving ducks are more sea ducks, or, fish/mussel/clam eaters (Scoters, Mergansers, Scaup, etc.). The dabblers often eat more vegetation, except in breeding season. Great pix!
Your Pineapple Lily looks like it would be a good subject for close-up or macro photography.
Cedar Waxwing
I was mooned by Heuy, Dewey, and Louie. 2 male and 1 female Gadwall.
Not sure one this one but I'm leaning Immature Yellow-rumped Worbler.
Female Ring-necked Duck
Double-crested Cormorants
Male Cinnamon Teal
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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Funny shape lemon from the tree oh so pretty that lives across the street, house for sale! Still empty. The tree, she is over sixty years of age I learned from the next door neighbors across same street yesterday. They invited me to help come pick and it was a blast. Stacy got soaked on the first yank of the pole picker, it was so heavy with rain water. LOL
What is inside the glass peanut butter jar is some fresh Sonoma grown banana mango flavored cannabis sativa flower buds, heavily trimmed. The smell is so off the charts, I haven't even smoked any yet. I just unscrew the lid and take a big whiff every couple of days. High on fumes. heh
From the floor this looks like...
A lemon boat floating on a ripple of air jar weed? The flash made it look weird in the middle there I think. Sorry about my crap camera, it's all I have. KODAK "easy-share". heh
Our "virtual" Citrus Fair began yesterday, I sure miss the annual parade. Especially the Humboldt State Marching LumberJacks Band (Kiss Our Axe). I will make lemonade today. And maybe again next year. Mmm hopium.
are definitely a pleasure to the nose. I'm glad you posted the still-life with lemon.
I wondered about your lemon and read this ...
Eureka lemon trees are notorious for producing freakishly shaped lemons – especially along cooler coastal climates (like ours in the Bay Area.)
Personally, I like the occasional oddball that my tree kicks out – and so do my kids. But if more and more of your lemons are turning out like this, you may want to take some action.
What causes this? It’s a little bud mite which sucks the sap from the lemon flower, causing the poor flower to have a deformed ovary.
Funny shape lemon from the tree oh so pretty that lives across the street, house for sale! Still empty. The tree, she is over sixty years of age I learned from the next door neighbors across same street yesterday. They invited me to help come pick and it was a blast. Stacy got soaked on the first yank of the pole picker, it was so heavy with rain water. LOL
What is inside the glass peanut butter jar is some fresh Sonoma grown banana mango flavored cannabis sativa flower buds, heavily trimmed. The smell is so off the charts, I haven't even smoked any yet. I just unscrew the lid and take a big whiff every couple of days. High on fumes. heh
From the floor this looks like...
A lemon boat floating on a ripple of air jar weed? The flash made it look weird in the middle there I think. Sorry about my crap camera, it's all I have. KODAK "easy-share". heh
Our "virtual" Citrus Fair began yesterday, I sure miss the annual parade. Especially the Humboldt State Marching LumberJacks Band (Kiss Our Axe). I will make lemonade today. And maybe again next year. Mmm hopium.
@janis b
hi, you know I had big trouble with aphids last year and after reading your link I have a different picture inside my head when that subject thought pops up. Alien mites. We have sucking bugs galore around here, which is why there are pesticides galore too. Because no parts of the 5th largest earth economy can afford to suck.
These sharpshooters are about 12 millimetres (0.5 in) in length. Their color is dark brown to black with black-and-yellow undersides, with yellow eyes, and the upper parts of the head and back are speckled with ivory or yellowish spots. The wings are transparent with reddish veins.[2]
They have piercing, sucking mouthparts and rows of fine spines on their hind legs.
Those little suckers strike fear in the hearts of every grower, California sets traps and eradicates as soon as detected.
Thanks for injecting an improved text inside my thought bubble. I do so often think Cloverdale sucks. Now go bug off, Cloverdale. heh Insects rock.
are definitely a pleasure to the nose. I'm glad you posted the still-life with lemon.
I wondered about your lemon and read this ...
Eureka lemon trees are notorious for producing freakishly shaped lemons – especially along cooler coastal climates (like ours in the Bay Area.)
Personally, I like the occasional oddball that my tree kicks out – and so do my kids. But if more and more of your lemons are turning out like this, you may want to take some action.
What causes this? It’s a little bud mite which sucks the sap from the lemon flower, causing the poor flower to have a deformed ovary.
photos for quite awhile. We use ON1 photo program, and they have no way to publish (that I know of) a photo without all the attributes. So I'm now making a copy within the program and pulling out id info, and keep a folder with Caucus 99 photos.
Here's my contribution:
We never saw these in Oregon, Washington or BC. Here we have Walking Sticks, Mantis and lots more insects than we are used to.
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A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
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The portrait of the mantis is very clear, thank you.
I can appreciate the limitations in communicating from different time zones.
photos for quite awhile. We use ON1 photo program, and they have no way to publish (that I know of) a photo without all the attributes. So I'm now making a copy within the program and pulling out id info, and keep a folder with Caucus 99 photos.
Here's my contribution:
We never saw these in Oregon, Washington or BC. Here we have Walking Sticks, Mantis and lots more insects than we are used to.
I've never experienced Spring in your environs, but I can imagine how exciting it is in it's freshness. We don't have as explicit a change of seasons here.
Looking forward to spring blooms in a month or so.
Here's a reminder of some of our early spring wildflowers (from last year)...
Bluebells
Celadine poppy and rue
Dutchman's britches...
my calendar, so if I remember to check it, then I'll remember to show uop. Heh
Quercus Lobata, Sonoma County
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What a beautiful specimen. I thought it looked like an oak, but didn't know its botanical name. About time I did, thanks.
my calendar, so if I remember to check it, then I'll remember to show uop. Heh
in that area. I'm an oak freak. That particular one is the "Valley Oak" as in the San Joaquin valley. They used to cover the landscape out there and were truly huge, with huge diameter limbs growing nearly parallel to the ground. There are old photos of sizeable numbers of cattle sheltering under a single tree. With the different climate in Sonoma valley, the seem to grow much more upright.
I appreciate your participation, but don't think twice about being late or not arriving at all. You already do so much to support the community with your time and contributions.
What a beautiful specimen. I thought it looked like an oak, but didn't know its botanical name. About time I did, thanks.
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great pic Janis
Beautiful flower Janis. There are a boatload of gorgeous lilies. Tiger Lily, etc. We are in a big freeze here in Texas, a week of hovering around or below freezing, flatlining. Some areas getting ice and snow, I had rain by a degree or two. Mon. and Tues. morns are predicted for single digits! And some dumb hummingbird just showed up here!?! Hope it can handle the cold.
Here is our Rain Lily.
Pictures of Lily
Hope all is well for all! Stay warm and dry!
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
Hi dystopian
Your rain lily is so purely gorgeous. It reminds me of two very different flowers, the gardenia and the trillium. Like the gardenia it looks quite succulent and fragrance-full. Like the trillium, it's shape and configuration of petals. I haven't seen a rain lily ever or a trillium in almost forever. The gardenia's are coming to an end here now.
I've discovered that the pineapple lily is not a lily.
"It actually has nothing to do with pineapples or lilies because it is a bulb from South Africa and belongs to the hyacinth family."
https://jury.co.nz/2010/01/29/flowering-this-week-eucomis-or-pineapple-l...
You stay warm and well, if not dry ; )
Nice Rain Lily, dystopian.
I hope things warm up for you soon. Low 60's and a few small rain showers here in San Diego county this morning.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
Hi Dystopian, your Rain Lily is spectacular.
That Hummingbird will survive if you have the feeders which you can rotate or some way to warm the fluid when it's freezing. Anna's started overwintering in Oregon including Eastern parts maybe twenty years ago. They go into torpor, locked on a branch inside a bramble or Cypress when they sleep after a meal.
Here are some links to short threads of people talking about how they keep their Hummers going.
Hummers in Arkansas
and
Another column on winter Hummers
BC keeping Hummers alive in winter
We had one get its beak stuck in the feeder hole, then its wing stuck to the wet sugar. When we found it we thought it was dying. Eyes were shrivelled, barely breathing. We thought we'd have to put it out of its misery. But first we carefully washed her and the feeder with warm water and freed her. Got the sugar off, then wrapped her in a warm towel and held her for about 45 minutes. Eventually, she started plumping up and looking around. Finally, we went outside and held her but opened our hands. She flew away! So amazing and rewarding.
Good luck.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
Consider helping by donating using the button in the upper left hand corner. Thank you.
Hi Dawn
"They [as do Monarchs here with the more recent milder winters] go into torpor, locked on a branch inside a bramble or Cypress when they sleep after a meal."
Nice outcome for you and your sweet bird.
thanks DM!
Great hummer story! They are fascinating birds. I have worked with hummer banders (which requires an additional permit) and held a lot of them.
We are doing the feeder rotation thing for this bird, Mon. and Tues. mornings are single digits and sub-zero chill factors. Snowing right now. She tanked up well at last light.
thanks again for the tips.
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
very interesting
a hyacinth... now that you mention it, that flower does have a hyacinth structure to it. So many flowers, and even many birds, are named after something it reminded someone of.
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
The names that reflect a familiar association
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are often very descriptive. I'm glad you're not a purist archiver.
Unfortunately, this hyacinth variety lacks the intoxicating fragrance of other hyacinths. It has almost no fragrance.
Welcome all photographers, and anyone who wants to share a photo
of what caught your attention. Trying to expand the base here to anyone willing and interested in posting a photo that is of interest to you for whatever meaning it has.
Thanks for Friday Photos tonight, Janis.
Your Pineapple Lily looks like it would be a good subject for close-up or macro photography.
Cedar Waxwing
I was mooned by Heuy, Dewey, and Louie. 2 male and 1 female Gadwall.
Not sure one this one but I'm leaning Immature Yellow-rumped Worbler.
Female Ring-necked Duck
Double-crested Cormorants
Male Cinnamon Teal
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
great pics SP!
awesome bird photos SP! Outstanding work! Yes that is a Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's type (versus Myrtle with white throat). They were two species and got lumped. I think I have the material for a 'duck butts of North America' paper. There are diving ducks, and then puddle, or dabbling, ducks. The dabblers tip up to feed as your Gadwall. Great pic! The diving ducks are more sea ducks, or, fish/mussel/clam eaters (Scoters, Mergansers, Scaup, etc.). The dabblers often eat more vegetation, except in breeding season. Great pix!
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
What gorgeous photos!
Up tails all!
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/ducks-ditty
Hi Social, and thanks for your photos
Warblers automatically capture my heart.
The little Grey Warbler has been enjoyably visible here lately. They're hardly bigger than a Hummingbird, of which we have none.
Banana mango peanut butter and lemon
Funny shape lemon from the tree oh so pretty that lives across the street, house for sale! Still empty. The tree, she is over sixty years of age I learned from the next door neighbors across same street yesterday. They invited me to help come pick and it was a blast. Stacy got soaked on the first yank of the pole picker, it was so heavy with rain water. LOL
What is inside the glass peanut butter jar is some fresh Sonoma grown banana mango flavored cannabis sativa flower buds, heavily trimmed. The smell is so off the charts, I haven't even smoked any yet. I just unscrew the lid and take a big whiff every couple of days. High on fumes. heh
From the floor this looks like...
A lemon boat floating on a ripple of air jar weed? The flash made it look weird in the middle there I think. Sorry about my crap camera, it's all I have. KODAK "easy-share". heh
Our "virtual" Citrus Fair began yesterday, I sure miss the annual parade. Especially the Humboldt State Marching LumberJacks Band (Kiss Our Axe). I will make lemonade today. And maybe again next year. Mmm hopium.
Peace and Love
The fragrance of some marijuana buds
are definitely a pleasure to the nose. I'm glad you posted the still-life with lemon.
I wondered about your lemon and read this ...
Cloverdale sucks
hi, you know I had big trouble with aphids last year and after reading your link I have a different picture inside my head when that subject thought pops up. Alien mites. We have sucking bugs galore around here, which is why there are pesticides galore too. Because no parts of the 5th largest earth economy can afford to suck.
Glassy-winged sharpshooter
Those little suckers strike fear in the hearts of every grower, California sets traps and eradicates as soon as detected.
Thanks for injecting an improved text inside my thought bubble. I do so often think Cloverdale sucks. Now go bug off, Cloverdale. heh Insects rock.
Peace and Love
Janis, I've been trying to catch up with you and Friday Night
photos for quite awhile. We use ON1 photo program, and they have no way to publish (that I know of) a photo without all the attributes. So I'm now making a copy within the program and pulling out id info, and keep a folder with Caucus 99 photos.
Here's my contribution:
We never saw these in Oregon, Washington or BC. Here we have Walking Sticks, Mantis and lots more insects than we are used to.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
Consider helping by donating using the button in the upper left hand corner. Thank you.
Sounds like you found a good solution Dawn
The portrait of the mantis is very clear, thank you.
I can appreciate the limitations in communicating from different time zones.
late to the party...
Looking forward to spring blooms in a month or so.
Here's a reminder of some of our early spring wildflowers (from last year)...
Bluebells
Celadine poppy and rue
Dutchman's britches...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Hi Lookout, and thanks
I've never experienced Spring in your environs, but I can imagine how exciting it is in it's freshness. We don't have as explicit a change of seasons here.
Hi Janis - always late to the party, but I've added this to
my calendar, so if I remember to check it, then I'll remember to show uop. Heh
Quercus Lobata, Sonoma County
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hi el
I appreciate your participation, but don't think twice about being late or not arriving at all. You already do so much to support the community with your time and contributions.
What a beautiful specimen. I thought it looked like an oak, but didn't know its botanical name. About time I did, thanks.
I like the fractal nature of that one, and a few others
in that area. I'm an oak freak. That particular one is the "Valley Oak" as in the San Joaquin valley. They used to cover the landscape out there and were truly huge, with huge diameter limbs growing nearly parallel to the ground. There are old photos of sizeable numbers of cattle sheltering under a single tree. With the different climate in Sonoma valley, the seem to grow much more upright.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --