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Chicago Botanic Garden
E Lake Cook Rd
Glencoe, Illinois 60022
(847) 835-5440
Located at 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, Illinois, USA, the Chicago Botanic Garden is a 385-acre (156 ha) living plant museum situated on nine islands featuring 23 display gardens surrounded by lakes, as well as a prairie and woodlands. The Garden is open every day of the year, except December 25th. Admission is free.
The Chicago Botanic Garden is owned by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County and managed by the Chicago Horticultural Society. It opened to the public in 1972 and is home to the Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden, offering a classes in plant science, landscape design and gardening arts. The Center for Teaching and Learning brings information on nature and plants to children, teens and teachers. Horticultural Therapy and Community Gardening provide community outreach and service programs. Through the Institutes of Plant Conservation and Ornamental Plant Research, Garden scientists work on plant conservation, research and environmental initiatives.
The Chicago Botanic Garden is accredited by the American Association of Museums and is a member of the American Public Gardens Association (APGA). In 2006, the Chicago Botanic Garden received the Award for Garden Excellence, given yearly by the APGA and Horticulture magazine to a public garden that exemplifies the highest standards of horticultural practices and has shown a commitment to supporting and demonstrating best gardening practices.
The mission of the Chicago Botanic Garden is to promote the enjoyment, understanding and conservation of plants and the natural world.
Photograph taken by Michael Kappel
People listen to a presentation on the current Coronavirus in the Black Box Theater at East Carolina University. (ECU Photo by Cliff Hollis)
I have never flown in a helicopter before and it’s always been a dream of mine to try it. Then when we were arriving at Mount Cook it was turning out to be an absolutely amazing day with not a single cloud in the sky except for one that was hovering above Mount Cook. It was not cheap to fly but once I saw those clear blue skies and having been absolutely flabbergasted by how beautiful the mountains are here I decided to go for a spin.
I’m so glad that I did it and that I did it on the day I did! We got the most insane views of glaciers not accessible to normal people and I got to experience 35knot winds and -12C up on a mountaintop when we did a snow landing. Best of all on the way back we saw mountain goats that were running up and down the cliffs. First of all these animals lack all sense of fear of heights! They must also have suction cups on their hooves because I saw one that got scared when he was on a cliff and then ran down a vertical slope! If I hadn’t seen it myself I wouldn’t have believed it, absolutely insane!
So if you ever get the chance to fly in a helicopter in New Zealand, take it, it’ll be worth it : )
Camera: Nikon D200, Tamron 17-50
Ps
make sure you check out my photo of Mount Cook minutes before the flight! www.flickr.com/photos/29101611@N05/3567386843/
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detail shot of one of the guard towers surrounding the yard of the old cook county jail. this facility was built in the 1920s.
The Captain James Cook Memorial was built by the Commonwealth Government to commemorate the Bicentenary of Captain James Cook's first sighting of the east coast of Australia.
Australian - H C Sleighs
James Cook 1921-1992.
Australian Owners: H C SLEIGH, Melbourne founded 1895
ON: 153957
LR/IMO/ID:5277256
Year:1921
Name:BELFRI
Type:Cargo ship
Flag:NOR and later Aust.
Launch Date:6.1.21
Date of completion:22.2.21
Owner: Skibs A/S Christen Smith's Rederi, NOR Oslo.
Builder: Moss Vaerft & Dokk, Moss NOR
Link:1825
Yard No:37
V1921 #131
GRT:2,142
LPP:84.0
Beam:13.3
1T-10 knots.
1934 sold to H.C.S. Coasters Pty Ltd., AUS Melbourne, r/n JAMES COOK
1954 sold to Philippine Maritime Shipping Lines Inc., PHL Manila, r/n PHILIPPINE TRADER
1961 sold to Madrigal Shipping Co Inc., PHL Manila. Same name.
1992 deleted from register - existence in doubt.
Details: Mirimar Ship Index and John E. Hoskin, Flotilla Australia.
Photo Credits: The late Allan Green Collection
Country singer/songwriter Elizabeth Cook, accompanied by the iconoclastic songwriter Tim Carroll, visited the KDHX Community Media Studios for a performance and interview that was broadcast live during the show "Back Country".
The Mount Cook lily (Ranunculus lyallii) is one of New Zealand’s most well known alpine plants. Its flowering image has been used on postcards, stamps and even as a logo on the side of aircraft. Nowhere is it more beautiful though than when seen growing in large numbers on a mountain hillside with its beautiful white flowers and large glossy leaves.
Where is it found?
It grows in sub-alpine to alpine herbfields in the South Island mountains from Marlborough to Stewart Island from 700m to 1500m in altitude. It is well adapted to grow in infertile soils and it favours stream banks and damp locations in scrub and grasslands. Due to its ornamental flowers, the Mount Cook lily has also been cultivated. Plenty of water, good drainage and shade in hot areas are required and it is intolerant of high nutrient levels in soil.
It’s called a lily – but is it?
Although its name implies it is a lily and its large green leaves resemble those of one, it is in fact not a lily at all. It belongs to the buttercup family and is sometimes known as the giant buttercup. When it was first discovered by Dr David Lyall in the mid 1800s he collected only leaves so it wasn’t till a decade later that it was identified as a buttercup when Sir Julius von Haast and Dr Andrew Sinclair collected flowering specimens.
A clever plant
The Mount Cook lily, along with others in the buttercup family, (the Ranunculaceae) has developed a very clever mechanism which aids in its survival in the harsh alpine environment. All plants have stomates in their leaves which let water in and out of the leaves and nearly all plants have their stomates on the cooler, shaded underside of the leaf so they are less prone to drying out. But as the Mount Cook lily often grows among rocks which heat up during the day, the underside of its leaves are often warmer and in response it has evolved to have stomates on both surfaces of its leaves. Automatic controls in the leaves will close the lower stomates when the rocks warm up and open the upper ones where it is cooler to prevent the leaves from losing water. At the end of the day when the rocks cool down again, the stomates on the underside reopen, while the upper ones close.
Mount Cook lily facts
*The Mount Cook lily is truly a giant – it is the world’s largest buttercup. It can grow over a metre tall with leaves larger than the size of your hand. Some leaves have been recorded as big as 40cm across.
*The cup-like leaves will often hold water after a rainfall and trampers sometimes stop to slurp a drink from them.
Text from: www.doc.govt.nz/
Dunedin Botanic Gardens
North Dunedin
South Island
New Zealand
This artwork is under a creative commons licence.
Esta obra está bajo una licencia de creative commons
Kristy Lee Cook from last years American Idol performed a short set of songs at the One Up Elevated Lounge in downdown Albuqerque on Monday November 3rd. This was something that was hosted by KRST radio.
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28865/657
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Soft-Cooked Egg
Salsify, hazelnut. ($19)
Nico (Gap Year)
San Francisco, California
(January 23, 2020)
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