How this one survived growing out of a rock I have no idea.. nor why it's so twisted.
I'd dump a few on you, because trees are art, and I have a ton of mediocre pictures of really groovy trees:
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the post-split segments only fell partway and eventually turned skyward again. Just a guess, but that is not that rare of a tree formation (out here, at any rate).
How this one survived growing out of a rock I have no idea.. nor why it's so twisted.
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Up in the Sierra on 108 just outside Sonora. Up by Donnell (?) lake.
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the post-split segments only fell partway and eventually turned skyward again. Just a guess, but that is not that rare of a tree formation (out here, at any rate).
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Up in the Sierra on 108 just outside Sonora. Up by Donnell (?) lake.
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I'd dump a few on you, because trees are art, and I have a ton of mediocre pictures of really groovy trees:
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made wide enough for cats to sit on. Yes, we are very silly.
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Great pix all! Sorry I can't respond quickly to subject ideas as a rule...
Here are butterflies
Common Buckeye
Queen - same genus as Monarch (Danaus)
Gulf Fritillary
Pipevine Swallowtail - larval foodplant is Pipevine (a grasslike thing) from which the caterpillar acquires distasteful alkaloids (like Monarch cats on Milkweeds) which make the adult distasteful. A half-dozen species of swallowtails have a certain percentage of the population that is dark form females with metallic blue on hindwing that MIMIC the Pipevine to avoid being eaten themselves (Batesian mimicry)
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Great pix all! Sorry I can't respond quickly to subject ideas as a rule...
Here are butterflies
Common Buckeye
Queen - same genus as Monarch (Danaus)
Gulf Fritillary
Pipevine Swallowtail - larval foodplant is Pipevine (a grasslike thing) from which the caterpillar acquires distasteful alkaloids (like Monarch cats on Milkweeds) which make the adult distasteful. A half-dozen species of swallowtails have a certain percentage of the population that is dark form females with metallic blue on hindwing that MIMIC the Pipevine to avoid being eaten themselves (Batesian mimicry)
You are truly a treat, almost as sweet as a kiwifruit. Come to think of it, what I like most about the taste of kiwifruit is it's bitter-sweet flavour.
You are truly a treat, almost as sweet as a kiwifruit. Come to think of it, what I like most about the taste of kiwifruit is it's bitter-sweet flavour.
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All these mixed up signals roaming around the brain. Sheesh. Eyes in the darkroom, hearing taste, smelling salamanders losing tales for dinner in a chowder with salty seaweed. You've successfully stirred perceptions. Thanks, I needed that!
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#9.1.1.1.1 All these mixed up signals roaming around the brain. Sheesh. Eyes in the darkroom, hearing taste, smelling salamanders losing tales for dinner in a chowder with salty seaweed. You've successfully stirred perceptions. Thanks, I needed that!
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If I ate like a bird, and drank like a fish, I'd be having sushi submerged in red wine. Maybe I should give it a try sometime. What does your culinary perception think of that combination?
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Birders have always puzzled over the phrase 'eat like a bird'. It infers that someone just picks and eats a little tiny bit. But birds do this all day, and I mean all day. Most birds eat an incredible percentage of their body weight in a day. If we ate like a bird we would be the 500 lbs. gorilla in the room. A hummingbird eats its own weight EVERY DAY! A four pound hawk will eat two pounds at a sitting. So its funny to birders...
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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Butterflies are always welcome as are all you nature shots. And the descriptions. Thank you. edit
Great pix all! Sorry I can't respond quickly to subject ideas as a rule...
Here are butterflies
Common Buckeye
Queen - same genus as Monarch (Danaus)
Gulf Fritillary
Pipevine Swallowtail - larval foodplant is Pipevine (a grasslike thing) from which the caterpillar acquires distasteful alkaloids (like Monarch cats on Milkweeds) which make the adult distasteful. A half-dozen species of swallowtails have a certain percentage of the population that is dark form females with metallic blue on hindwing that MIMIC the Pipevine to avoid being eaten themselves (Batesian mimicry)
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you have hosted wiwth this Friday's Photography thread. So sad that I can only come lately due to the time zone I am in. Just wanted to express my appreciation of what you are doing.
Now I feel very motivated, after looking at all the old, crooked, dead trees, to plant a new one in our garden. Hmm, I guess it's not the season, will ask our 'garden helper', who is a a car mechanic, turned landscape helper for the elderly, turned elderly sickly peoples' entertainer and all around funny guy, who can make any senior no matter who and when smile again. Almost like you can with the fantastic photos everybody and you post here.
“… will ask our 'garden helper', who is a a car mechanic, turned landscape helper for the elderly, turned elderly sickly peoples' entertainer and all around funny guy, who can make any senior no matter who and when smile again.”
He sounds absolutely divine. Is he also a magician that can be in two places at once?
So what new tree are you thinking of planting?
you have hosted wiwth this Friday's Photography thread. So sad that I can only come lately due to the time zone I am in. Just wanted to express my appreciation of what you are doing.
Now I feel very motivated, after looking at all the old, crooked, dead trees, to plant a new one in our garden. Hmm, I guess it's not the season, will ask our 'garden helper', who is a a car mechanic, turned landscape helper for the elderly, turned elderly sickly peoples' entertainer and all around funny guy, who can make any senior no matter who and when smile again. Almost like you can with the fantastic photos everybody and you post here.
“… will ask our 'garden helper', who is a a car mechanic, turned landscape helper for the elderly, turned elderly sickly peoples' entertainer and all around funny guy, who can make any senior no matter who and when smile again.”
He sounds absolutely divine. Is he also a magician that can be in two places at once?
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Groovy indeed
Very nice and it's good to have you stopping by.
How this one survived growing out of a rock I have no idea.. nor why it's so twisted.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Looks like it maybe suffered a couple of lightning strikes, and
the post-split segments only fell partway and eventually turned skyward again. Just a guess, but that is not that rare of a tree formation (out here, at any rate).
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 --
It's from your neck of the woods
Up in the Sierra on 108 just outside Sonora. Up by Donnell (?) lake.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Love that area, top of the "dardenelles", very interesting
geography and the only place in CA where I've ever seen a rattlesnake.
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 --
wonderful trees!
beautiful pics! Great shots!
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
A couple more (because why not)
Lake bubbles:
Frederick Barbarossa:
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
I'm glad for Fred and Purfleet
you have such inviting windowsills.
We actually had windowsills
made wide enough for cats to sit on. Yes, we are very silly.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Seriously ; ?
That's great!
How funny
Nope. Your cats aren't spoiled or anything.
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~Hannah Arendt
no, not silly at all, one thing I missed most in
US houses were real brick walls and window sills. They are essential to me.
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Thanks all for the great pix and posts!
Great pix all! Sorry I can't respond quickly to subject ideas as a rule...
Here are butterflies
Common Buckeye
Queen - same genus as Monarch (Danaus)
Gulf Fritillary
Pipevine Swallowtail - larval foodplant is Pipevine (a grasslike thing) from which the caterpillar acquires distasteful alkaloids (like Monarch cats on Milkweeds) which make the adult distasteful. A half-dozen species of swallowtails have a certain percentage of the population that is dark form females with metallic blue on hindwing that MIMIC the Pipevine to avoid being eaten themselves (Batesian mimicry)
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
No defined rules or subject matter here ; )
Thanks for the beautiful diversity.
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Voice as sweet as a kiwi fruit
beautiful precision
question everything
Glad you appreciated it!
You are truly a treat, almost as sweet as a kiwifruit. Come to think of it, what I like most about the taste of kiwifruit is it's bitter-sweet flavour.
Actually, the bitter part
is really more citrusy.
Yeah, thats what my ears were tasting too!
All these mixed up signals roaming around the brain. Sheesh. Eyes in the darkroom, hearing taste, smelling salamanders losing tales for dinner in a chowder with salty seaweed. You've successfully stirred perceptions. Thanks, I needed that!
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question everything
You are as much of a trip as you are a treat!
Enjoy your chow!
Eat like a bird and drink like a fish
That's my motto. Guess I'm a mixed breed
question everything
That doesn't make any sense.
If I ate like a bird, and drank like a fish, I'd be having sushi submerged in red wine. Maybe I should give it a try sometime. What does your culinary perception think of that combination?
eat like a bird - weigh 500 lbs.
Birders have always puzzled over the phrase 'eat like a bird'. It infers that someone just picks and eats a little tiny bit. But birds do this all day, and I mean all day. Most birds eat an incredible percentage of their body weight in a day. If we ate like a bird we would be the 500 lbs. gorilla in the room. A hummingbird eats its own weight EVERY DAY! A four pound hawk will eat two pounds at a sitting. So its funny to birders...
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...
Butterflies are always welcome as are all you nature shots. And the descriptions. Thank you. edit
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Hi janis, what a wonderful healing therapy session
you have hosted wiwth this Friday's Photography thread. So sad that I can only come lately due to the time zone I am in. Just wanted to express my appreciation of what you are doing.
Now I feel very motivated, after looking at all the old, crooked, dead trees, to plant a new one in our garden. Hmm, I guess it's not the season, will ask our 'garden helper', who is a a car mechanic, turned landscape helper for the elderly, turned elderly sickly peoples' entertainer and all around funny guy, who can make any senior no matter who and when smile again. Almost like you can with the fantastic photos everybody and you post here.
Good Morning from the other side of the world.
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Ooooh mimi,
You never fail to make me laugh ...
“… will ask our 'garden helper', who is a a car mechanic, turned landscape helper for the elderly, turned elderly sickly peoples' entertainer and all around funny guy, who can make any senior no matter who and when smile again.”
He sounds absolutely divine. Is he also a magician that can be in two places at once?
So what new tree are you thinking of planting?
I will send him over to you, he is getting too
helpful and - oh well, never mind ... my sister needs him...
I want to plant a William Christ pear tree. Some day...
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I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but I think
I get the hint.
I looked up your pear. The more common name is Bartlett. It's had an interesting history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_pear
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