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ODC2. In the house.
Black/White Wednesday. Liquid.
Killing two birds with one stone.
In my kitchen today for both challgenes, as you can see the water dropping from the tap into the sink.
Not too much to say about this image, but I do prefer it in B/W!
So HBW/W!
Math GCSE tomorrow, eeeek.
Leycesteria formosa, the pheasant berry,[1] is a deciduous shrub in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to the Himalayas and southwestern China. It is considered a noxious invasive species in Australia, New Zealand, the neighbouring islands of Micronesia, and some other places.[2][3][4]
In the Himalayas, the shrub is frequently used in the traditional medicine of the various countries and peoples encompassed within the region.
Names
The genus name Leycesteria was coined by Nathaniel Wallich (one time director of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta) in honour of his friend William Leycester, Chief justice and noted amateur horticulturist, in Bengal in about 1820;[5] while the Latin specific name formosa (feminine form of formosus) signifies 'beautiful' or 'handsome' (literally: 'shapely')[6][7] – in reference to the curious, pendent inflorescences with their richly wine-coloured bracts. There is a popular misconception, however, that the specific name derives from the place name 'Formosa', which is an abbreviation of the original Portuguese name for the island of Taiwan: Ilha Formosa "beautiful island".[8] Portuguese is a romance language (i.e. derived from Latin) and the adjective formosa has passed into it unchanged in spelling and meaning from the original Latin. Leycesteria formosa is so named in recognition of its beauty, not in acknowledgment of an origin on the island now known as Taiwan.[9][10] The Latin specific names of certain plants, given to indicate that they were native to Taiwan at a time when it was known as Formosa take such forms as formosae, formosana and formosensis, not the Latin adjective/Portuguese adjective-used-as-a-proper-noun formosa.[11]
Other common names include Himalayan honeysuckle, pheasant-eye, Elisha's tears, flowering nutmeg, spiderwort, Cape fuchsia, whistle stick, Himalaya nutmeg, granny's curls,[12]partridge berry,[13] chocolate berry,[14] shrimp plant/flower[15][16] and treacle tree/berry[17] It is also recorded as Symphoricarpos rivularis Suksdorf.[18] Contrary to the impression given by the respective common names, the plant is completely unrelated either to the nutmeg tree or to the fuchsia. Further contrary to the name "Cape fuchsia", it is not native to South Africa – the name being especially inappropriate, given that the family Caprifoliaceae as a whole is absent from Sub-Saharan Africa.[19]
Wallich was Danish by birth and perhaps could hardly be expected to forsee that within fifty years or so the name of the worthy Justice [Leycester(ia)] would be corrupted into 'Elisha's tears' – which yet seems strangely to suit the plant, with its pendent white flowers and its persistent bracts which darken to a sombre blood red as the season advances.
Garden Shrubs and their Histories
Alice M. Coats[20]
It is apparent from the above that the common name Elisha's tears falls into the same category (of jocular corruptions of the scientific names of plants into common names more congenial to rural British taste) as Aunt Eliza (for Antholyza)[21][22] and Sally-my-handsome for Mesembryanthemum.[23] It is also testament to a greater familiarity with the names of biblical figures – such as the Old Testament prophets – on the part of Britons of the nineteenth century, when compared to their counterparts in the twenty-first.[24]
Affiliation within Caprifoliaceae
The results of the genetic testing undertaken by Zhang et al. have revealed that Leycesteria is most closely related to the genera Triosteum (common name – "horse gentians"; Chinese: 莛子藨属; tíng zi biāo shǔ) and Heptacodium (Chinese common name: 七子花; qī zi huā; lit. "seven son flower"). Of these, only Triosteum has fruits that are berries, the fruits of Heptacodium being dry capsules.[25] These three genera belong to the subfamily Caprifolioideae of the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae, the other two genera in the subfamily being Lonicera, the (true) honeysuckles and Symphoricarpos, the snowberries.[26]
Description
It is found to be a hardy evergreen, requiring a considerable degree of moisture, and a situation slightly sheltered and shaded, though the colour of its bracts would be most probably be heightened by exposure to solar light. Propagation is effected by cuttings or layers.
Joseph Paxton
Paxton's Magazine of Botany Volume VI (1839) [27]
A deciduous, sometimes evergreen, half-woody, shrub-like plant (intermediate between a shrub and a herbaceous perennial) with young stems that are soft, hollow and upright in various shades of green, salmon pink, maroon and purple, 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in)[28] in height, which may only last for 2–5 years before collapsing and being replaced by new stems from the roots. Mature specimens, however, may have short, truly woody trunks clothed in rough, grey bark at the base. The leaves are opposite, dark green and usually cordate 6–18 cm (2.4–7.1 in) long and 4–9 cm (1.6–3.5 in) broad, with an entire, wavy or even deeply lobed margin and often an extended drip tip (commonly an adaptation to a wet climate). The flowers (bee-pollinated[29]) are produced on 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) long pendulous racemes; each flower is small, white, pale pink or rarely deep purplish pink, subtended by a purplish-pink bract, terminating – like the leaves – in a drip tip. The fruit is a berry, hard and deep pink when unripe, and fragile, soft (easily burst) and a deep purple-brown when ripe and measuring 1 cm in diameter.[30] The berries are eaten avidly by birds, which disperse the seeds in their droppings.[31]
The berries are unpleasantly bitter when unripe, but, once soft and deep purple-brown in colour, are edible and sweet, having a mild flavour reminiscent of toffee or caramel. Being a recent introduction to Europe, the plant lacks any traditional uses there. Wikipedia
Where to buy
www.urbanjungle.uk.com/product/pheasant-berry-golden-shru...
A rigged-up tray to catch drips.
I spotted this in a restroom on the Disneyland Hotel grounds, near The Lost Bar. A reflection of Disney's financial woes? :P
Contact information:
website:http://www.machinepacker.com/tea-bag-packing/drip-coffee-bag-packing-machine.html
Email:sherry@machinehall.com
Update....Tear Drips Series 1 is now in North America! Unfortunately, we're having a bit of a hard time determining exactly when the figures will make it from their current location (Vancouver) to Chicago, so we can't set a hard release date just yet...but it will be soon! Thanks for your understanding!
Shot for Macro Mondays. Theme: Drips, Drops and Splashes.
Blogged at christmasnotebook.com/2009/12/08/macro-mondays-4/.
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Jack the Dripper has a volatile personality and struggles with bouts of alcoholism. In an attempt to fight his alcoholism, Jack once underwent Jungian psychotherapy with Dr. Joseph Henderson. Dr Henderson made the misguided decision to engage Jack through painting and art.
"I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise it is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the paint covers me well".
A little drippy texture for your Photoshopping pleasure -- this a very "stretched" image of water stains on the side of a bridge. I've got another image of the same drips, but with them running along the short axis of the image here.
Uploaded for free use under the terms of a Creative Commons license. If you use this texture in subsequent works, please link back to this image's Flickr page, and put a thumbnail of your creation in the comments here (so everybody else can see what you've done with it). Thanks!
Dripping blackcurrent squash into milk. Photoshopped. Made of 2 different images.
Dropped various different things into milk in different containers including coins, pebbles, drips from a spoon and malk lid, pasta and blackcurrant squash.
I was trying to take pictures of bubbles, but these came out much nicer! I have a couple more in my stream.