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Monarch butterfly populations have experience a dramatic decline in recent years. One of the issues is a decline in the amount of milkweed on the landscape, the only plant eaten by monarch caterpillars, making it fundamental to the future success of this species. In reaction to the decline, the Service is working with partners across the nation to plant more milkweed.
In western North Carolina, the Asheville Field Office has worked with Monarch Rescue, Toe River Valley Partnership, and several other partners, including many school, to plant pollinator gardens. Students at Yancey County’s Mountain Heritage High School recently came out to plant a pollinator garden behind their school.
Credit: Gary Peeples/USFWS
Digging in the Kenyan soil gets harder the deeper that you go. It appears to be almost like a black clay.
Break it up with a bar and scoop it out by hand. Very tedious and time consuming, but she was a trooper.
Here is a bent aluminum driveshaft we dug from a scrap bin at City Auto Salvage. We will make our halfshafts from it.
I know its fallen down
Got my headphones on and I won't hear a sound
No its all broke down
Eyes out on the road but no-one comes along, when you want them to.
Neil Halstead.
With a new level backyard we needed to put in a retaining wall. The first step was building a trench.
Progress in middle of second (partial) day - the end of digging is in sight!
Installing a rain garden at the bungalow. First step: dig out ~9 inches of soil in the ~100 sq ft garden bed. 6 inches of that will be replaced (with compost + soil, then a layer of mulch).
WW1 german infantry wearing steel helmets a field cap (Feldmutze) and one bareheaded in a muddy trench
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War and the War To End All Wars, was a global military conflict which took place primarily in Europe from 1914 to 1918. Over 40 million casualties resulted, including approximately 20 million military and civilian deaths. The conflict had a decisive impact on the history of the 20th century.
The Entente Powers, led by France, Russia, Great Britain, and later Italy (from 1915) and the United States (from 1917), defeated the Central Powers, led by the Austro-Hungarian, German, and Ottoman Empires. Russia withdrew from the war after the revolution in 1917.
The fighting that took place along the Western Front occurred along a system of trenches, breastworks, and fortifications separated by an area known as no man's land. These fortifications stretched 475 miles and defined the war for many. On the Eastern Front, the vast eastern plains and limited rail network prevented a trench warfare stalemate, though the scale of the conflict was just as large as on the Western Front. The Middle Eastern Front and the Italian Front also saw heavy fighting, while hostilities also occurred at sea, and for the first time, in the air.
The war caused the disintegration of four empires: the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman and Russian. Germany lost its colonial empire and states such as Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Yugoslavia gained independence. The cost of waging the war set the stage for the breakup of the British Empire as well and left France devastated for more than a generation.
World War I marked the end of the world order which had existed after the Napoleonic Wars, and was an important factor in the outbreak of World War II
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Following a suggestion by Tommy this orginal picture has been reworked with two added textures and filtered black and white partly as an experiment, for fun and also to compare the differences and general feeling between the two
3 more people dead in Bangkok last night. The situation's only going to get worse before it gets better. God help them all if the yellow shirts go through with their threats to start counterprotesting if the government doesn't bring the red shirts under control.
Beach outing during Easter Weekend. Picture was shot by a friend and then later modified using photoshop for grainyness and sepia.
With a new level backyard we needed to put in a retaining wall. The first step was building a trench.
Trenches were dug for the waddles to be buried 3/4 under ground, trenches were also used for walking the slope as we worked to minimize sliding and erosion damage from working on the slope. Waddles were buried with mulch and a few sprigs left unburied that will leaf next spring. The buried waddles will root and stabilize the hill with time.
Sand castles, phase 1. (Alas the siren sound of the waves overcame them and it never got much past "moat" stage.)
San Diego Zoo - San Diego, California - Anna the Snow Leopard was born at the Memphis Zoo in Memphis, Tennessee on 3/29/03 to Hailey (5/3/95-3/8/14) and Tash (5/30/92-12/15/09). She has lived at the San Diego Zoo since 4/6/06.
As part of the Zoo's Centennial Celebration, the Asian leopards were given special treats, including bloodsicles and carcasses. Anna is seen here enjoying a carcass.
Ein Bagger auf der Großbaustelle Hafencity (Hamburg).
Digging the Hafencity (new part of town at Hamburg, Germany).
We had to play with the rules for this one a bit...the first time we tried it they just knelt in the water for a few minutes picking up as many coins as possible...not very action packed. After that, we made it so they could only carry five coins at a time and had to run back to the ends to drop them off before getting more.