I am always struck by the amount of lichen we have around the house and it really popped against the snow. Beautiful stuff, that nature.
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Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Saturday, February 3, 2018
2018-01-19 - Friday - Not much snow
There wasn't much snow left on Friday. It goes away pretty quickly here.
I am always struck by the amount of lichen we have around the house and it really popped against the snow. Beautiful stuff, that nature.
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I am always struck by the amount of lichen we have around the house and it really popped against the snow. Beautiful stuff, that nature.
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Monday, June 30, 2014
2014-06-20 - Friday - Direct hit and fortune
The porch has only been finished for two days and we took a large, messy hit already. I don't know what this bird was eating, but the velocity pushed it right through the screen onto the window. I had to take the window out of the frame to clean it, but it's as good as new.
Nature... it's everywhere.
We went out to eat on Friday night and I got an interesting fortune.
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Nature... it's everywhere.
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| Direct hit. |
We went out to eat on Friday night and I got an interesting fortune.
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| Who will it be? |
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
April 17 - Wednesday catkins
Wednesday the catkins were coming down in like rain. The willow oaks in our front yard produce enough catkins to completely cover the house and yard every year. Like many natural processes the tree's reproductive season is very short and very intense. The catkins emerge and unload their pollen onto the wind. Before you know it they're done and fall off the trees, piling up everywhere.
Nature spends amazing amounts of energy to accomplish one task. The process of creating all those catkins, spreading the pollen, and then dropping them only takes a few days but the payoff must be worth it or evolution would have changed the process by now.
Another example of nature's excess is the cicada. This year the 17 year brood will be emerging once again. Think of it: These creatures spend 17 years underground, emerge, shed their skin to become their adult form, and live for one or two days to mate, then die. The astounding thing is that they spend all those years underground storing up enough energy to change to their adult form. That form is one of the largest, heaviest, flying insects in our area. Not only do they have to have enough stored energy to fly, but also to mate ensuring the next generation.
After the catkins are gone we will be piling up shed cicada shells and a few days after that, dead cicadas.
Nature is messy.
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Nature spends amazing amounts of energy to accomplish one task. The process of creating all those catkins, spreading the pollen, and then dropping them only takes a few days but the payoff must be worth it or evolution would have changed the process by now.
Another example of nature's excess is the cicada. This year the 17 year brood will be emerging once again. Think of it: These creatures spend 17 years underground, emerge, shed their skin to become their adult form, and live for one or two days to mate, then die. The astounding thing is that they spend all those years underground storing up enough energy to change to their adult form. That form is one of the largest, heaviest, flying insects in our area. Not only do they have to have enough stored energy to fly, but also to mate ensuring the next generation.
After the catkins are gone we will be piling up shed cicada shells and a few days after that, dead cicadas.
Nature is messy.
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