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En glissant sur son pelage très dense, l'eau semble avoir dessiné des pointes bien distinctes sur l'oreille de notre castor très actif alors que sur le côté opposé, est apparue une sorte de corne d'abondance. / Sliding on its very dense fur, the water seems to have drawn distinct spikes on the ear of this very active beaver while on the opposite side, appeared a kind of cornucopia.
Une belle sortie dans les Laurentides dans le coin de Prévost, plusieurs petits étangs formés par des barrages de castors, un ami m'a fais visiter ce beau petit coin avec multitudes de sentiers, en attente du castor, une paruline des ruisseaux se perche sur une bûche (arbre coupé par le castor). Voir photo suivante. Merci !
A beaver out for an early morning swim, on a backcountry pond in Baxter State Park, Maine.
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Morayshire leaves the site of Castor Station behind as it enters the cutting with the Midday Wansford to Peterborough train during the NVR Winter Steam Gala.
Nene Valley railway is a preserved Railway run mainly by volunteers near Peterborough, England. For more information click on www.nvr.org.uk/
This beaver was frequently coming up on the shore to pick some salad greens to take back to the lodge. As long as I didn't move, the beaver did not seem to even see me.
Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
Tonight's Moonrise from the kitchen window :)
Shooting through double glazed windows isn't ideal, but the shot came out alright in the end. The twins joined me for this moonrise as well :D
Found in an abandoned home near Gladwin, Michigan. The calendars in the house showed December 1976. One of the creepiest abandonments to date.
Ricinus communis. Beautiful plant but it can be deadly as the seeds contain the toxin Rican, a poison for which there is no antidote. International Peace Gardens, Salt Lake City, Utah.
The beaver (castor canadensis) was given official status as a symbol of Canada on March 24, 1975. The beaver is the largest rodent in Canada (2nd largest in the world); that said, it is Canada's national animal.
The 2015 $50 silver dollar is 99.99% pure silver and was designed by Canadian wildlife artist Emily Damstra.
Today's story and sketch "by me" you see Swaveen Stabel and his Wife
Genna just as they spot a female "Castorfurballis", a common (Tiki Beaver) on the Planet Lippo, not very common on Earth. Actually there are very few those are only here because they esscaped from the "Tiki Beaver
Artsy Fartsy Creatures" from Lippo traveling artsy fartsy creatures big top circus.
No one will be coming to rescue the escapees, "The Artsy Fartsy Creatures Big Top Circus" Galaxy transporter is somewhere in the Cosmos
after being hijacked by space pirates. But that is a story for another
time, until then taa ta the Rod Blog
Remnant of the wall.
Agrigento's Valley of the Temples, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy.
One of Sicily’s most famous historical attractions is without a doubt the Valley of the Temples, just outside Agrigento.
This splendid archaeological park consists of eight temples (and various other remains) built between about 510 BC and 430 BC: the Temple of Hera, the Temple of Concordia, the Temple of Heracles, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Temple of Castor and Pollux, the Temple of Hephaestos, the Temple of Demeter, and the Temple of Asclepius (the God of Medicine). Apart from this latter, which is to be found on the banks of the Akragas river, all are situated in the same area on rocky crests south of modern day Agrigento (not really in a Valley at all!).
For video, please visit youtu.be/kUWEW6H9nOg
The toxicity of raw castor beans is due to the presence of ricin. If castor beans are chewed and swallowed, the released ricin can cause injury. The lethal dose in adults is considered to be four to eight seeds.
According to the Guinness World Records, this is the world's most poisonous common plant. The beans are extremely dangerous, but there is poison within the leaves, too!
The blossoms, however, are very popular to bees!!!
castor d'Eurasie
Castor fiber
la surprise:
Au retour de la panure à la nuit tombante, j'ai entendu un bruit dans la roselière: c'était un castor qui se délectait de l'écorce d'un bouleau qu'il avait couché.
I got round to doing another post in my Castor Cottage series, taking you to one of the two bathrooms this time.
Here's the last leg of the house I fully decorate back in the day when animals could still talk.
You can find most of the deets on my blog:
Too many clouds this morning, but I did capture this atmospheric shot of Castor Bay at first light. A three minute exposure in very low light.
2nd episode in my series on the work I did in this house. See my blog for the deets: billybeaverhausen.com/2018/11/19/castor-cottage-episode-2/
Working site of the beavers...!!!
Près de ma rivière sauvage.
Un safari photo impressioniste au quotidien concentré essentiellement (ou presque) sur un petit morceau de planète de 55 000 pieds carrés
Une démarche "waldennienne" à la Thoreau
Near my wild river
An impressionnist photo safari concentrated mainly on a daily basis (or almost) on my small piece of planet of 55 000 square feet
A Thoreau "waldennienne" approach
twin white cypress pines (Callitris glaucophylla) flank the track descending from the moockra tower
horseshoe range, moockra, flinders ranges, south australia
The boat Castor
And a funny sory for you all
The boat was designed in 1946, just after the second world war as a mulitifuctional ship.
The Netherlands needed a lot of boats in that time, and all as soon as possible and at the same time please (not much has canged since then)
The Castor was delivered in 1950, building boats cost a lot of time doesn't it? So the royal navy gave her the pennant A810 and the name: Castor.
It was a pilot vessel, which is in dutch: loodsvaartuig, so it is also known as: MLV Castor (Marine Loodsvaartuig Castor)
Hope you're still following the story? And now for the interesting part.
After the second world war everybody was looking with scared eyes towards the U.S.S.R. or the Sovjet Union because mankind was so clever, ….they had invented the nuclear bomb, wasn't that a cool thing?
But one problem, the others (always the others, in this case the U.S.S.R.) had that bomb as well, so the west (let's give it that name to make the contrast clear between the... others and us, lol!) created the NATO. And ofcourse the NATO , of which the Netherlands is a member, needed much war stuff, because of that nasty U.S.S.R.
To make this long story a bit shorter, because of that, the dutch had Castor , at first as a communication vessel, later as an outpost boat. A bit later as an evacuation vessel, and now , if you all please will sit down, grab a handkerchief to whipe the tears from laughter that you will get soon.
And what would the Castor evacuate then?
Well, if the U.S.S.R. (or Russia if you prefer) would make war on us, and drop an atomic bomb or ten , the Castor and six other vessels would evacuate the government and the royal family to South-Africa !
Well , the Castor even has a cute little cannon on board, (it's so huge you can't even see it on my picture because it is on the back side of the ship)
So that evecuation of all those important persons through the nuclear war zone wouldn't be to much of a problem, now would it?
The story may be a bit exaggerated for humor purposes, but completely true and public available on the internet.
Now the Castor is a museum ship, so the story ends well.