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··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorKumamoto Japan on a recent work trip
Nature Watch, Your Flora and Fauna Photos and Stories
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Matty01
·Been on a road trip through Victoria for the last couple of weeks
From Wilson’s Prom, along the great ocean road and now into Portland
From Wilson’s Prom, along the great ocean road and now into Portland
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__ryan__
·You might be surprised by Alcatraz Island
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Hetcins1
·Small skipper butterfly feeding on a thistle .
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pdxleaf
·This is unusual: Cougar climbs Haystack Rock, closing Oregon beach
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SpeedyPhill
·Los Alamos New Mexico from afar during a tour of the "Manhattan" project locations (e.g. Trinity atomic bomb test site, Princeton New Jersey).
Nowadays, the test site north of Jornada del Muerto, can no longer be visited, fenced off as part of the US "White Sands" missile test range
(Photo: MWU) #Oppenheimer
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Nowadays, the test site north of Jornada del Muerto, can no longer be visited, fenced off as part of the US "White Sands" missile test range
(Photo: MWU) #Oppenheimer
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BLOW UP
·Los Alamos New Mexico from afar during a tour of the "Manhattan" project locations (e.g. Trinity atomic bomb test site, Princeton New Jersey).
Nowadays, the test site north of Jornada del Muerto, can no longer be visited, fenced off as part of the US "White Sands" missile test range
(Photo: MWU) #Oppenheimer
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Apparently you could still find green, red and black Trinitite glass there.. Looking forward to seeing the Oppenheimer film, I wonder if Richard Feynman will feature heavily in it.
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Dan S
·This has been big news around town. Two agave plants are flowering, they do this at the end of their multi-decade life cycle. The shoot is about 15 feet tall.
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·This has been big news around town. Two agave plants are flowering, they do this at the end of their multi-decade life cycle. The shoot is about 15 feet tall.
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Dan S
·That is ridiculously huge compared to the agave itself.. The amount of energy it would need to produce that is incredible, I had no idea they get that big relative to the mother plant?? When you say the end of life cycle are you saying they die off after flowering?
Yes, that's what I've read. Apparently the plants will die after this.
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·Yes, that's what I've read. Apparently the plants will die after this.
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Dan S
·We do get some Giant Agave (maybe different subspaces) here growing in the UK, London (microclimate) in particular, but I've never seen them flowering with this sort of ratio; I just found this article about one flowering in Penzance but the scale is very different: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...hed-plant-garden-suddenly-shoots-25-feet.html
It's an amazing phenomenon.
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Dan S
·That is pretty cool. Coincidentally, a few posts up above show similar agave flowers on the slopes of Alcatraz.
That's very cool, and it looks like they stay standing for many years after they die, if you don't cut them down. I bet there are yucca plants also, which do something similar.
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·This is unusual: Cougar climbs Haystack Rock, closing Oregon beach
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Dan S
·Max made some new elk friends on a recent backpacking trip.
We also saw the elusive Colorado state flower (Columbine), many marmots and even a hard-to-spot ptarmigan.
We also saw the elusive Colorado state flower (Columbine), many marmots and even a hard-to-spot ptarmigan.
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wagudc
·I put in a small wildlife pond this year and rescued some tadpoles from a mud puddle that was sure to dry up before the tads had a chance to metamorphosize. One of the tadpoles has become a froglet. You can see he still has a tail nub. You cannot imagine how small he is. That stick he is on in one picture is about an inch in diameter, and the floating plants are duckweed and water-fern which are really tiny. I had to get out the macro lens to get decent images.
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