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QBX006 off 1311 runs out of the QUBE facility, while 8030/8037 propel T282 into Port Botany 20170421
(Updated on March 11, 2025)
While I'm not sure where I was on Puerto Blanco Drive when I took this shot, I know I was well past the point at the Pinkley Peak picnic area where the road becomes a stony, one-way, high-clearance-only track. My best guess is that I was just east of the northern end of the Puerto Blanco Mountains.
Isn't it a shame that deserts are such bare, bleak, and lifeless places? I mean, isn't that what those Dune movies show? Why would a botanist ever one to visit one?
Of course, this photo illustrates that such arid environments—the Sonoran Desert chief among them—often feature amazingly diverse, drought-adapted plant populations.
Here the largest and most eye-catching species are the tubular, pale-green Organ Pipe Cactus (Stenocereus thurberi) and the darker, slender-branched Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens). The latter is splendid indeed when it produces brilliant red flowers at its stem tips after a good rain.
In addition, there are quite a number of other, lower xerophytic (aridity-tolerant) plant varieties growing up through this hillside's desert pavement.
To see the other photos and descriptions in this set, visit my my Integrative Natural History of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument album.
While I can't remember where exactly this photo was taken, I know it shows a section of the main road—presumably Route E65—some distance north of Tripoli.
Here we're at the height of the local flowering season of one the most iconic sights of the Hellenic countryside, the Almond Tree (Prunus dulcis).
A member of the Rose Family (Rosaceae), the genus Prunus is renowned for two outstanding attributes. Its various fruit types range from cherries and plums to apricots and peaches; and the ornamental appeal of its floral displays has inspired many a poet and gardener. But it boasts no more gorgeous bloomer than the Almond.
I said to the almond tree: “speak to me of God.” And the almond tree blossomed.
– NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS, The Fratricides
The other photos and descriptions of this series can be found in my Trees of Greece album.
When seen under magnification, plant stems sliced horizontally have a beautiful lace like pattern. The shapes are formed by the vessels that move water from the roots to the leaves, called xylem and pholem.
Handwoven Thai silk in brilliant orange with extensive threadwork, accented by beads.
30x31", 2009
This is a beach near Port Renfrew, Vancouver Island. I was really disappointed with the fog but it does add a neat effect.
Taken with an Olympus OM2, 24mm Zuiko lens and red filter on Ilford FP4+. Developed using Ilfotec DD-X and scanned with an Epson V550.
Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach, Florida. Mounts Garden is not very "educational" for people like me who are interested but don't know much botany. Very few labels or information otherwise presented so I've posted a lot of unidentified plant pictures from this trip.
Histoire universelle du règne végétal, ou nouveau dictionnaire physique et economique de toutes les plantes qui croissent sur la surface du globe.
Paris :Brunet,1775-1778, [i.e.1773-1778]
Now that I have fixed the Adobe Infrared processing challenge I can begin to play with the files. The 590nm conversion files can be push processed to do incredible things.
Botany Marshes is on the Swanscombe Peninsula; close to this spot are a number of industrial sites on the north bank of the River Thames at Northfleet. Beyond the little 'hill' in the foreground the Channel Tunnel rail link tunnel under the Thames.
More and better info here;
swanscombemarshes.co.uk/the-marshes/ with a lovely video.