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The dark eye stripe does not change, but the body color and dark markings can quickly change from dark to light, and the body color itself can also change, typically from brown to green or vice versa or a combination of both, in response to environmental conditions.
A study of Hyla (Pseuacris) regilla in Washington concluded that "H. regilla has control over and can change its hue, chroma, and lightness during time periods on the order of minutes." ..."...we support the idea that physiological color change has evolved as a mechanism to allow rapid background matching as a tree frog moves from one location to another."
(James C. Stegen et al. The control of color change in the Pacific tree frog, Hyla regilla. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2004, Vol. 82, No. 6)
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Stories&Co Romper from July Luxe box
REiGN Stacy wedge July Luxe box
Part of a pod of hundreds, seen late afternoon in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico (near Isla Monserrate). Appears to be the long-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus capensis).
I love the bright festive colors of the VW bug beside the colorful Cafe. Perfect compliment to the cafe colors! I got a quick shot of this scene as we drove down the street in Fort Lauderdale.
Photo taken From the Passenger Seat
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Schools of Cortez Rainbow Wrasse and the wonderland of marine life off the southern Baja coast - Sea of Cortez, San José del Cabo, B.C.S., Mexico
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This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image takes us just south of the US border, to the region of Baja California in northwest Mexico. Its capital city, Mexicali, is visible top left of the image.
This false colour image contains three separate images overlaid on top of each other. Captured on 30 April, 12 May and 17 June, the different colours represent changes that occurred on the ground.
The Colorado River, which forms the border between Baja California and Sonora, can be seen cutting through the rich and colourful patchwork of agricultural land at the top right of the image, before it fans out and splits into multiple streams. Flowing for over 2300 km, the Colorado River rises in the central Rocky Mountains in Colorado, flows through the Grand Canyon before crossing the Mexican border and emptying into the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez.
The Colorado River delta once covered a large area of land and, owing to its nutrients carried downstream, supported a large population of plant and bird life. However today, water that flows is trapped by dams and is used for residential use, electricity generation as well as crop irrigation for the nearby Imperial Valley and Mexicali Valley. The reduction in flow by dams and diversions traps the majority of the river’s sediments before they reach the Gulf of California, impacting water quality.
Copernicus Sentinel-1 is a two-satellite mission, each carrying a radar instrument that can see through clouds and rain. As a constellation of two satellites orbiting 180° apart, the mission can repeat observations every six days, which is also useful for monitoring evolving situations.
This image is also featured on the Earth from Space video programme.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Sport (2.5 liter / 4 cyl)
Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia
The Subaru Baja is an all-wheel-drive, four passenger, four-door utility manufactured from 2002 to 2006 by Subaru and marketed for model years 2003 to 2006. The Baja combines the handling and passenger carrying characteristics of a traditional passenger car with the open-bed versatility, and to a lesser degree, load capacity of a pickup truck.
The unibody design borrowed heavily from the existing mechanicals, platform and sheet metal of the Subaru Legacy/Outback wagon. Production began on July 18, 2002 as a 2003 model at the Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. factory in Lafayette, Indiana.
The Baja nameplate derives from Mexico's noted peninsula of the same name — home to the Baja 1000 off-road race.
30,000 were marketed over four and a half years.
This is a Rolleiflex camera photo on Kodacolor film of my small trailerable swing keel sailboat, Paloma, upon our arrival at the Baja Peninsula after sailing across the Sea of Cortez from the mainloand of Mexico in 1977. This was our first successful attempt to make the crossing after a failed effort two years earlier. I describe these adventures in my book, Sailing the Sea of Cortez, Voyages of Discovery. The book is published by Apple with many photos and is downloadable from the Apple iTunes bookstore. The scene upon our arrival at Baja was full of contrasts with dazzlingly brilliant white sand beaches, turquoise green water and deep blue sky.
Calliandra californica
Species of legume
Calliandra californica, the Baja fairy duster, is an evergreen, woody shrub, native to Baja California, Mexico. In Spanish, the plant is also known vernacularly as tabardillo, zapotillo[2] or chuparosa.[3] The flowers, which appear in early summer, have clusters of red stamens. The shrub is usually 0.6–1.8 metres (2 ft 0 in – 5 ft 11 in) in height and has bipinnate leaves. The leaves have been described as "fern-like."[4] Leaves close at night time.[5]
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Calliandra californica is cold tolerant to temperatures of 22 °F (−6 °C),[5] though its roots will tolerate temperatures as low as 5 °F (−15 °C).[6] It grows best in full sun.[5] C. californica is very drought tolerant, needing only 10 inches (250 mm) of water every year.[6] However, additional watering will encourage C. californica to bloom through summer and again in the fall.[6]
Propagation of C. californica is done through "acid scarification" or vegetative cutting.[5] Seed pods from this plant look like "snow peas" and when ripe, they explode.[4] The pods are flat and about 2 inches (51 mm) long.[6] After ejecting seeds, the curled open pods remain attached to the plant for some time.[7]
Calliandra californica attracts both bees and hummingbirds.[5]
Along with many other legumes and leadworts (Plumbago),[8] it is a host plant for the Marine Blue caterpillar (Leptotes marina).[9]
In landscaping, it is suggested that C. californica is used in borders or foreground plantings, as an island accent or even in containers.[6]
Everyday Baja street scene from almost exactly two years ago.
Time really flies, these Ikarus buses are long gone by now.