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Sadly, its name, Passiflora foetida lets the bloom down a bit. "Stinking Passionfruit" doesn't have a great ring to it, at all!
Another interesting fact; those wispy, green fronds, surrounding the flower, grow to eventually encase the fruit in its own cage.
Collage of bush boy in action, walking barefoot, hugging the trees, and making music with sticks from the ground..
pearlz.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/bush-boy/ photo and poem blogged here.
Bush and vegetation
Arnhem Highway Intersection Marrakai Access, Northern Territory, Australia, Feb. 2017
This brown-spotted bush cricket leapt into this position and stayed still while I took a few photos. Even the flash unit didn't chase it off but getting too close resulted in it jumping away.
cathy19, All these photos are by Kate’s brother, John Carder Bush, they are all just so, so beautiful I wanted to share them with other Kate fans, so I do hope you like them.
The debris of various childhoods around her. The inheritance of the toys of her brothers would have been of little use to her. In the fifties the propaganda of the war was still bumping into our imaginations, by the sixties the unusual was becoming more easily obtainable and so much more creative. The wicker basket is left from the days when apples were picked from the orchards and laid out to linger into winter on wooden trays
Bush Blackcap - Sylvia nigricapillus - Кустарниковая славка-монашка
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Sani Pass, Mkhomazi Wilderness area, West of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 02/28/2021
Not a plane but a piece of history.These were the engines that took President George H Bush to his final place of rest after he passed late last year. Caught this this morning in the trainyards in Portland Oregon.
Thought this imposing granite rock could use a little textural assistance. Found in open forest at Jourama Falls in the Paluma Range National Park.
Texture by cliffordsax.
This bush was dying. The neighbors cats have been using the the base of this bush for a litter ox for over a year - half the branches had died and the rest was dropping leaves - so i cut out all the dead branches and cut it back to healthy wood to see if it could be saved. My neighbors will not do anything about the cats and animal control will not come after cats.
Detail from a window by Douglas Strachan in St Mungo's Cathedral, Glasgow.
My sermon for today, reflecting on how we're called to become like a burning bush can be read here.
Covers much more than just the Bush agenda, going back to the first influence of the Neo-cons with the Carter doctrine drawn up by Paul Wolfowitz. Covers all the usual territory about PNAC (Plan for a New American Century) and how that group first expressed themselves by asking Clinton to go to war with Iraq. Much of this story I already knew; what was illuminating were the details and background on the four companies that are major war profiteers and supporters of Bush's global agenda, namely Halliburton, Chevron, Bechtel and Lockheed Martin. Except for Haliburton, the other three are based in Northern California making it a local story for me. I was particularly illuminated by the history of Bechtel and how George Schultz angled to overthrow US policies that would help his company gain business access to the whole world to build nuclear power plants, thus kicking off the global proliferation of nuclear arms.
My father worked for the defense industry (as an engineer) so reading about Lockheed Martin recalled the work he did and the eagerness with which he wanted us to go to the Persian Gulf war so he could field test the heads-up pilot's helmet for which he was able to patent some solution of his that was crucial to making it work. That I was a peace activist did amuse him so especially because he was so confident that war was inevitable.
The author lays out the history of the oil industry both in Northern California and Iraq. Know the history of oil and everything falls into place including who has power in American politics and why we support repressive regimes in the Middle East. She also gives a nice run down of the destructive policies of the World Bank and the "structural adjustment policies" of the IMF that have been the undoing of national economies world wide.
Most fascinating was the story of how the Bush agenda proceeded to erase all of Iraq's existing laws that they didn't like in order to dismantle the socialist infrastructure and force the country to favor the services of multi-national corporations. Changing a countries laws is illegal per the Geneva convention and why everything is such a mess, but no pundit is really going to discuss it in a big picture way because it means discussing how the socialistic government ran things much better for the populace while capitalism is all about looting multi-nationals. We do know bits and pieces like how the Bush agenda fired key workers who were running the country, but I don't remember anyone saying they were replaced with Haliburton and Bechtel scabs from Pakistan. They also fired the Iraqi soldiers and apparently let them go home fully armed. So here we have key people out of work supported by an armed contingent while their foreign replacements are making an expensive mess of the reconstruction, doing things the American way when all the existing fittings and hardware were from France or the Soviet Union. Who would support this nightmare?
I heard a speaker on Iraq talk about how the Iraqis have a saying about the American reconstruction. "To heal the wound you must first pull out the knife."
And despite this story being called the Bush Agenda, it is not a new one. Under Clinton, the economy of Yugoslavia was similarly invaded for the purpose of replacing nationally controlled infrastructure with private enterprise. But she doesn't mention that. I read it in To Kill A Nation. What is new is the extent to which the Bush administration has taken this strategy especially by forcing the signing of "free trade" policies that would make the WTO cream its pants, not only with Iraq but with other middle eastern countries thus forming MEFTA.
It becomes clear through the details, Antonia Juhasz gives, that this is not a war, but a military takeover by American corporations. Particularly telling were the provisions put into place to rewrite Iraqi textbooks. Gives new meaning to the phrase "history is written by the victors". Reading this book convinced me that we should not even say the words "war in Iraq" because that is essentially a euphemism implying that we are defending ourselves from aggressive violent outsiders while protecting innocents. From now on I'm going to call it the American occupation of Iraq, make that the illegal American occupation of Iraq.
This is one of the few non-fiction books I've read whose author is a woman. I'm glad to see that a woman will tackle economics as a world organizing principle. I was beginning to fear that, while women excelled in discussing psychology and social justice, they were resistant when it comes to the importance of economic health. The last woman I read who tackled this territory was Frances Moore Lappe of "Food For A Small Planet" fame. Her book Food First was my first glimpse into the continuation of colonialism through corporate globalization.