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On the beach at the mouth of the river Wansbeck, next to the Sandy Bay Holiday Park campsite. North East England
My motorhome travels - ralph-dot-motorhoming.blogspot.com/2012/01/past-trips-uk-...
[syn. Caesalpinia kavaiensis]
Uhiuhi
Fabaceae
Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands
IUCN: Critically Endangered
Oʻahu (Cultivated), Oʻahu form
Uhiuhi are such rare dry forest trees that they should be grown more for cultural importance and as a beautiful landscape tree.
Tree
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Here's a propagation technique that I've found to be very effective for uhiuhi and other native Hawaiian plants with weak root systems. Anyone that has tried to plant out uhiuhi from pot to a final site, knows that much of the soil falls away when you remove the plant, leaving you with near bare roots.
So, first sow, rather densely, an annual grass species in a one or two gallon black pot. Allow the annual grass die back. You can also cease watering when you feel it has a root mass. Sow one uhiuhi seed, in center if possible. The dense grass root mass is the support needed for uhiuhi roots and to be planted to a site in tact. The soil does not fall away or disturb the uhiuhi roots when removed. Another similar method that I've recently read about is to plant uhiuhi in a pot with an already established native plant with a root mass. Since uhiuhi are not suited for pot culture because roots tend to coil, plant out as a young sapling to a sunny site.
I've done this over the past few years with several uhiuhi and it works every time. A Caution: Do not over water as the root mass which tends to retains the water.
Early Hawaiians used the hard wood for digging tools (ʻōʻō), war clubs and daggers, prepping boards for kapa (lāʻau kahi wauke), kapa beaters, kalo (taro) cutters, spears for heʻe (octopus), fishing implements (lāʻau melomelo or lāʻau mākālei), and shark hooks (makau manō) fitted with bone points.
This strong wood was also used in house (hale) construction for posts, rafters and purlins.
The bark and young leaves pounded with other plants were pounded, squeezed and liquid taken to purify the blood.
Etymology
The current generic name is Mezoneuron is from the Greek meizon, greater, and neuron, nerve, referring to the winged pod.
The specific epithet kavaiense is in reference to the island of Kauaʻi.
A student cleans up outside of Boulevard House, a partnership between People’s Community Services, The University of Michigan School of Social Work and El Museo del Norte. Boulevard House is a place-based residential space for campus-community collaborative work in southwest Detroit.
Photographer- Kevin Thomas
An image that blended a black and white conversion with color using 'darker color' mode. The whiteness on skin is a heavy layer of sunscreen...
Larry digs us out of the massive snow storm. We had a huge blizzard with an accumulation of 11 inches of snow. Larry is digging out!
I saw this old gent in the Kings Road. There was an intensity in his gaze that was quite unnerving. Was he thinking of the future, or of the past, I wonder?
I shot two frames with the little GR. The first frame was grossly overexposed for some reason, and by the time I got to the second, the moment had passed. Fortunately, with the help of the highlights slider in Lightroom, I was able to breath a little life into the first frame.
Kings Road
Asian girl (2-4) playing on the beach, digging sand.
Baler, Aurora
2012
Submitted for consideration to Getty Images Flickr Collection.
Have a great day everyone!
Ooops! The city plowed my neighbor's driveway shut - literally! What you see here is a pile of compacted snow, dumped right smack into the approach of my neighbor's driveway.
It's a good thing I'd cleared my drive earlier or I'd probably had a worse mess to deal with. As it was, my apron was 1/2 filled in to height of the shovel, but it was loose and movable. Val's driveway, on the other hand, was 4 feet high and so compressed I could stand on it (and I'm no lightweight)!
If I have the energy, I'll clear Val's apron after I get mine done, but a lot of times, I haven't got that energy until I've had time to rest. I knocked on Val's door last night to tell her, but there was no answer, so I'm not even sure she knows the city plowed her in!
The guy who plows us out never showed up, so I shoveled my side, and shoveled out apron twice, but Val never got plowed (same guy). It didn't matter with this mess as he'd never gotten through that pile with his pickup truck pusher blade anyway.
I called DPW and reported the problem. And told them, "Yes, I understand, the crews are tired, working too long and that this was probably an innocent mistake, but would they please fix it as soon as possible. Thank you." The answering service said they'd let someone know. When I looked out at 10 or 11 pm, the driveway was clear; I never saw or heard them. (And the pile to the left was TWICE as high as the pile to the left of my apron!)
Kudos to the city crews for showing up and fixing this as quick as they did!
It's an on-going problem - we deal with this every winter - due to the driveways sitting at the end of North Street where the plows like to U-turn, dumping excessive snow into our driveways. (You can just make out the curving trail for snow from the U-turn at lower right of this photo.)
Working on the new garden bed. I can't wait until this is lush with elderberries, joe pye weed, echinacea, liatris and other native beneficial species.
As usual wearing all the old things from the closet:
old second hand jeans - super comfy
old clearance shoes - note to self, but a new pair, these are so not comfortable any more
old clearance fleece - it's like a cat, has nine lives
and of course the most wonderful garden gloves from www.Ethelgloves.com which probably cost more than everything else :)
Oh yes, and the ever present hat: sloggers, love it so much I ordered 3 backups
"Tanni Ille" - no water. People occupying villages on the east coast of sri lanka, face great difficulties in getting water. After Tsunami destroyed the coast, people moved inland to seek refugee there. Whole villages gather to dig wells, unfortunately many times they're unsuccessful and their women have to walk, every day, to bring water from other villages where people are fortunate enough to have it. taken somewhere in 2005
digging of land for making of multipurpose disaster shelter in a village is Cuddalore district of Tamilnadu
This is the other side of the fjord, where Urnes stavirke located. Here, we dug out a 55 meter-long house from the Iron Age. The house was located where one can see that the surfaces is flat and the soil is slightly darker. All holes are postholes we have excavated.
In the summer I borrow the jobs TamronSP AF10-24mm F / 3,5-4,5 lens.
Three volunteers in green dig out potatoes of a garden.
On a foggy, chilly Saturday, volunteers gathered at Yaquina Head to pick up trash, harvest potatoes, and clear grass from sensitive habitat for National Public Lands Day!
Stacia Bartrom
didnt bring my camera to the beach today..but hey with my iphone i can do a bit of the trick ;D...Joel's digging his own mountain...or hole lol..
Duitsland, Borkum
Germany, Borkum
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The bee in the flower on the left disappeared completely for a couple of seconds in the pollen before popping out and moving on to another.
Seen in Saguaro National park; the cactus is a hedgehog.
What matter makes my spade for tears or mirth,
Letting down two clay pipes into the earth?
The one I smoked, the other a soldier
Of Blenheim, Ramillies, and Malplaquet
Perhaps. The dead man's immortality
Lies represented lightly with my own,
A yard or two nearer the living air
Than bones of ancients who, amazed to see
Almighty God erect the mastodon,
Once laughed, or wept, in this same light of day.