Wednesday Open Thread: Desert Bloom 2019
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 04/17/2019 - 5:00am
t's Day 107 of the Year 2019 CE (Gregorian), meaning that it's April 17, 2019 (Gregorian), or 13.0.6.7.8 by the long count
Flowers
t's Day 107 of the Year 2019 CE (Gregorian), meaning that it's April 17, 2019 (Gregorian), or 13.0.6.7.8 by the long count
The Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 04/07/2019 - 7:49amBloomin' Idiots
It's an orgy! Flowers are spreading their pollen far and wide. Perhaps plants go insane like breeding animals...thoughtlessly spending their energies in hopes that their pollen will land on a fertile stigma....caught in a sexual frenzy. To paraphrase Jimi, it's a yellow haze gonna kiss the sky. Flowers are attractive (for the most part), at least to some pollinators. Many pollinators are insects and they are disappearing, you know. In the cycle of life there is a time to create seed by blooming. Later in life, at maturity, is the time to sow seed. In recent years I've come to the conclusion that as a species, we never matured beyond the selfish infant stage (which might explain why we are such bloomin' idiots)...but evolution happens and there are pockets of growth and progress. Are the choices we have illusory, or can we direct our own development? What choice does the flower have?
Some Summer Flowers: Street Prophets Sunday All Day Brunch
Submitted by michelewln on Sun, 08/14/2016 - 8:18amWelcome to Sunday Brunch. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. I finally felt good enough to take my smaller camera out and take some pictures of the beautiful flowers we have growing around this apartment complex. I must say I have never lived in a more beautiful landscaped place then here. Of course I sort of forgot to check the weather report first figuring that early in the morning was going to be okay.
Beauty and Fear Part One: Street Prophets Thursday Coffee Hour
Submitted by michelewln on Thu, 06/30/2016 - 11:56amWelcome of Thursday Coffee Hour. I try and present things to look at that are a break from all politics all the time. I am fortunate in the fact that this year I live is a beautiful apartment complex with people in the front office who actually want us and understand disability needs. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and lets us know what is new with you.
2016 Desert Trip Report
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 06/06/2016 - 2:17pm"Desert Trip Report" is something of a misnomer, but not entirely. Most years we go to the desert and most such trips include some of the same locales and general activities. For many years now, our return has been largely via the coast. We had some hopes for a better than usual bloom this year, even though we were late related to the celebrated Death Valley Super-Bloom, but, frankly, we've seen better, more than once.
