Friday Photography - Rock Painting … or Signs From the Past
Submitted by janis b on Fri, 11/16/2018 - 5:09pm
Enjoy the evening, and peace to all
Mars, sure was close to the moon last night. That must mean something?
p.s. for the naturalists among us, I’m pretty sure the rock is sedimentary breccia, but one of these days I’ll ask a ranger to confirm that. It looks similar to photos I’ve seen of rock formations in Death Valley which are considered sedimentary breccia.
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Thanks for FNP tonight, Janis
What ever type of rock they are, they have some interesting patterns.
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.
Wonderful photos Social, thanks.
The skull sculpture, especially in the context of your setting is fantastic. I also love the last one. It is so cheerful and orderly. It looks like it could be a magazine cover illustration. It’s very inviting.
Thank you, Janis.
I like your description of the last shot. I liked it for the simplicity of the subject.
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.
wonderful peacocks SP
I love peacocks; I believe they're related to pheasants aren't they?
Janis, your last photo makes me wish I were somewhere with a tropical breeze. It's cold and snowy here again.
I don't have anything again, but I saw my red-breasted nuthatch again today; I hadn't seen him/her for a while. I also have about a dozen house finches hanging around. No redpolls yet.
This shit is bananas.
I don’t blame you, Daenerys.
I’m sure I couldn’t be comfortable in such cold conditions again. My body and I have long since acclimated to more semi-tropical conditions.
Seeing the close-up of the peacock’s neck gives me a whole new perspective on the bird. When I first saw it I thought, “a blue turkey?”
Maybe you can hang some light, small flags, and pretend when the wind blows ; ).
Evening, Daenerys, and thank you
Yes, the peacock is a member of the pheasant family.
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 social
Beautiful blue peacocks...
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Thank you, Magiamma.
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.
As always, thanks Janis for hosting
Walking through Green Hill Country, The Shire. Maggot's Farm lies just beyond the hill in the background. Fortunately, Sam's Box Brownie was working well that day:
Mordor on the other hand.....
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Mordor rocks....
Evening Bollox. Lovin' Mordor. Howdy to Fred.
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His Imperial Fredness is somewhat indisposed
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Is that not classic Fred!
And a classic Bollox response!
LoL
That Fred-Ster is something else. He sure grew up fast didn't he? Ah the kids grow so fast these days...
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Yep, he's a big bloke now
Still has the tiniest squeak though.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
You're welcome Bollox.
Looking at your two photos, I think I'd prefer to be in Mordor. Thanks for the photos and smiles. Keep warm.
But the ale in Mordor leaves a lot to be desired
That served at The Golden Perch on the other hand......
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Not being a beer connoisseur,
I had to look that one up ...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/capital-life/7975111/Beer-to-quench...
From what I've heard Wellington is the place to be to enjoy craft beer!
Evening, BR
Nice contrast of moods between the two photos.
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.
Thanks
The Peacock shots......... wow!
Gëzuar!!
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evening all...
Thanks for Friday Photo Thread Janis.
Still very smokey here.
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Thank you magiamma for the photos,
and this weeks Hot Air - and concluding with Lhasa De Sela. She is new to me, and I can’t stop listening to her music.
That top photo sure looks like a carving.
Any idea how old it is?
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Hi The Voice in the Wilderness
http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_74/rsnz_74_01_001090.html
Mid-Eocene age?
Sneaking up on Halfdome
Cool rocks, Janis. It looks like a young Charlie Brown in the last picture.
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Hilarious snoopy...
Indeed. Sneeeeaky little hobbits. Very funny series. Belly laugh. And great photos of half dome.
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Snoopy ; )))
Wonderful series of Half Dome! Do you think anyone can sneak up on it these days? What a nice memory it must be.
It was really amazing to walk up to this scene
Laughter is good for the soul. Especially belly ones. Glad you got a chuckle out of this.
Yep. Great memories of my time there. I went during winter once and I was just one of the few people there. I went cross country skiing in the valley and looking up at the frozen Waterfalls was incredibly beautiful.
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Beautiful pix everyone!
I LOVE your sandstone Janis! Fantastic! Nature's natural beauty is hard to beat.
S.P., your Indian Peafowl (males known as Peacock, females Peahen) are awesome, outstanding!
S.D. GREAT Half-dome pix! I probably did a few dozen trips at least through Yosemite, several decades ago in younger days, what a great place and area. B.R. always great pix... Magi I would love to go birding where those pix are, great looking places and habitat.
Will see if I can find some pics ...
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Hi dystopian
For years, I've just thought of it as sandstone. I thought for this POT I better try to identify it scientifically. Especially since I was never sure. Can it be both sandstone and breccia?
I don't know my sandstone that well
Sorry I am sandstone stupid Janis... it does look like Sandstone though...
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
Did you see the raven in the bottom picture
They used to come and talk to me when I lived there...
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I missed the Raven!
Thanks magi for pointing that out! Saw when I double checked. That makes it even better, very cool. Great birds those Ravens... sooooo smart. Smarter than some large voting blocks in the U.S. methinks. I get to see them regularly and several times a year get to see one turn upside-down in flight just for the fun of it, often calling when they do. Which requires quite the level of understanding...
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 saw Charlie Brown
no raven. Funny how we see what we do. I see the cast of Peanuts in the clouds all the time.
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a plug for the AbyMartin video
that Aspie Corner posted. Excellent. Watch it if you have time.
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I've listened to the first 8 minutes, thank you for the link.
I will listen to the rest because it sounds very worthwhile ...
https://youtu.be/XdhIYWb3XVU
I will also start listening this weekend to the audio book,
Love the hidden life of trees
It changed the way I thought about them. Enjoy!
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Female Spinyback Spider
Female Spinyback Spider (Gasteracantha cancriformis). Of course males are about 1/100th the size of females, little tiny things. These females are only about 1/2-5/8" across.
This gives a better idea of the yellow color but was overcast, it is neon. There is a white color form with red spines!
This is a Scoliid wasp eating pollen from a Huisache Daisy. These are about 2", the pale bands on abdomen were way more yellow than showing in the pic.
This is an Opilionid. These are the Harvestmen, aka Daddy Longlegs. Which are not spiders. They just look like them. Note they have an all-in-one body, thorax, head, abdomen is all one piece/unit. Spiders have two body segments, the cephalothorax and the abdomen. Insects three: head, thorax, adbomen. This is a fancy colored type of Opilionid I have not gotten to ID'ing. This one wouldn't stop moving and I didn't get a good shot.
thanks everyone for all the great pix, and everyone for all the great posts all week!
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
Opilionids on the move ; )
Thanks dystopian, and you're welcome. I hope to get a photo of the Skink I saw in the garden the other day. It's beautiful, and in 22 years I've only seen them a handful of times. I hope that means that their condition is improving.
Nice shots
of the little critters, dystopian.
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.
Amazing photos of the spider
Did it make the web or get caught in it? Made it I hope. This circle of life stuff gets sad at times. I would have freed him.
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That is its own web
That is the spinybacks own orb web. One day it was vertical as we often think of them, a couple days later it was perfectly horizontal, parallel to the ground. I have been known to remove spiders from the local butterfly garden here (those big giant Argiope), as well as crab and lynx spiders that just sit on flowers and take butterflies all day here in our little bit of butterfly garden.
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
Nice that you do that, I think.
I am never sure. Part of me always cheers for the butterflies and any other natural life saved. And part of me always wonders whether our human interference actually helps?
Where the Gnomes roam.
Thanks for hosting janis.
Beautiful pictures from all.
It seems that anything would call this picture home. The deer lay in it. The snails, salamanders, snakes, mice and birds, to name a very few, make it home year round. Never a place for the squeemy to look under.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Maybe not under ...
but lying on top of it looks very cushy. Nice to know deer have a comfortable place to sleep and others to live. Thanks Pricknick.
very sculptural
It looks like homes for a lot of things. Thanks.
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I've seen sand dunes before,
but I've never seen hay dunes. Interesting photo, Pricknick.
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.
Whales tails
A friend sent me this shot from Alaska
Thanks for the photo QMS.
How 'bout one of your whale tales? Spending as much time on the water as you have there must be at least one ; ).
Thanks for hosting Janis
The scariest encounter I had sailing solo thru the Stellwagen Bank, North of P'town, Cape Cod. Heard a loud CRASH, turned around to see a huge humpback breaching. I guess it was being territorial and was trying to chase me away. It breached again about 100 yards off. Yikes! It was much larger than my little yacht, and I could only make about 7 knots. So I asked very nicely if she would let me be on my way. A truly majestic beast when beheld up close.
Wow QMS!
The amazingly sublime and almost terrifying beauty you’ve seen. Thank you for that story, to keep in my vicarious memory bank.
Just watched this
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Yikes
Shiver me timbers!
memorable experience q...
glad your here to tell us. Down in Baha they kayak with them when they are traveling south...
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Hey Magi
Sometimes I talk to trees. When the soul is open, I do believe I can hear them somewhere in my bones. It's a different language, very broad, almost beyond understanding.
talking to trees....
q, There is this old growth redwood that I have mentioned that I hug on my walks up in the Pogonip. Over many months. I listen. Slowly I have felt a very low, slow vibration coming back. Wolhleben says trees live in a different time scale than we do. And it is much s l o w e r. How to say this - I am now sensing a very low vibration as I stand next to the tree, heart to heart. I have a lot more to sense I think. Perseverance furthers. Plants know a lot. Wohleben says they talk via chems at the tips of their roots that are transmitted by the web of whateveritis that is in the ground under them. Fungus of some type. Just like our dendrites do. And parts of our brains. lol.
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Yeah, that makes sense
I feel it more strongly when barefoot in the summer, standing above the roots. Hard to describe the sensation, but definitely have the vibration when I look up into the branches. The vibe is very large, seems I've only perceived a small spectrum, but enchanting nonetheless. thx
Once while canoeing through the Everglades as a duet,
an alligator surfaced alongside the canoe. We did some silent talking to it, and then some serious paddling.
You're lucky it didn't talk back!
Whale songs...
https://archive.org/details/HumpbackWhalesSongsSoundsVocalizations
Thank you for the Humpback Whale’s sounds.
Such varied and direct communication. Like birdsong, only different, it must be deeply touching.
Manhattan Rocks
Evening Janis! Hope all is well with you.
Wonderful pictures of some very interesting rock formations. There are so many different variations with their own unique characteristics.
When I was in college, I had to take a science class that had a lab. I didn't want to take something difficult like biology, so I opted for what I thought was going to be very boring. Geology 101. Turned out to be one of my favorite classes.
On a field trip to Central Park, our professor showed us the mica schist piercing through the landscape, pointing out the striations across those formations where the ice age glaciers had left their mark.
And here's a fun fact: if the island of Manhattan had not been sitting on a bedrock of mica schist, builders would never have been able to build so many skyscrapers.
Who knew a bunch of rocks could be so integral to the existence of the iconic Manhattan skyline, eh?
Thanks for hosting tonight.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Thanks zoe, for that foundation
and fun fact! You'd think I'd know that ; ).
All is well, thanks. I wish the same for you.
We can't know everything!
Smiles
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Of course not,
naturally. But too bad ; ).
Hahaha
But then no one would like you because you'd be a know it all!
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Never did want to be a know it all,
but I can't deny my curiosity ; ). Thanks for the fun zoe.
you are geniuses with the camera, all, what I recognize
in them is that we don't have any wilderness left in Germany. Everything is plastered, forested and commercially corporatetively agricultured, at least the parts I see. I haven't seen yet the former East German parts of the country.
So, I think you need to be happy for what you sill have in wilderness in your home turfs.
Thanks for this recurring Friday Evening series. Good for the soul, the eyes and the mental health.
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Hi mimi!
How’s your day shaping up? Hopefully, it will be splendid in some way.
Richtig, we need to show thanks and praise for the wilderness that’s still exists. I can imagine, if you had the opportunity, you could find some of that in East Germany, still.
Be well and thankful.
Couldn't resist ...
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Goodnight and sweet dreams all.
Aww, so sweet of you to not resist,
my night was shaping up a little weird. I felt like sleepless in Seattle ... woke up and have some scary thoughts about wars, loosing my loved one and more. So, when I end up in your photo postings it is a relief.
Now it's already early morning where I am at.
Be well.
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