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One of the most colorful time of the year. Autumn-Höst in Mårdsjön, Jämtland Sweden.
Forest and views, lingonberries and bliss.
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WSOR hosted a steam special from Janesville, WI to Chicago, IL. This is taken at MP 80.25 on WSOR's Fox Lake sub. The engine is a class act!! Hats off to all the volunteers associated with this!! This engine was built in March 1913 by ALCo, which makes it 104 years old.
We hosted an absolutely wonderful event in our bookshop recently, with storyteller Mara Menzies, who had adapted her own storytelling performance into a novel, Blood and Gold, which draws on her Kenyan and Scottish roots, history and mythology, exploring family, history, colonialism and more through various lenses.
Mara treated us to some of her live storytelling, which was just a delight to experience. Much as I am forever in love with the written word, I'm always aware the roots of the modern books (and plays and films and other media) run back millennia to oral storytelling.
Long, long before even the most ancient stories we have written down, such as Gilgamesh, there were storytellers talking, acting and singing and dancing these tales, each putting their own spin on them. Some would have been professional storytellers like Mara, others just the person in a village or small, wandering tribe, who had the gift and knowledge, and would spin them around a flickering camp fire at night to their small groups.
We have aways told stories, it's part of the spiritual element of our DNA as humans, and it's something that is still wonderful and thrilling and magical to experience, even in an age of instant digital gratification or giant screen entertainment or shelves full of books on every subject.
Mara's book Blood and Gold is published by Birlinn, and you can follow her on Twitter twitter.com/marastoryteller She may be bringing her performance back to the Edinburgh Fringe next year, if she does I highly recommend catching it.
Back together again, friends I've worked with in the past, so many years... Elli Pinion to the far left, VWBPE photographer, (me), in the middle and please if you know who is to my right, share...
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Aristolochia is a large plant genus with over 500 species. Its members are commonly known as birthwort, pipevine or Dutchman's pipe and are widespread and occur in the most diverse climates. The flowers of this Giant Aristolochia are up to one foot in diameter. The flower is filmy and unusual. It is the host plant of the large and beautiful Polydamas Swallowtail butterfly.
Swallowtail caterpillars have a defense mechanism called osmeterium. Osmeterium is a fleshy organ where caterpillars store essential oils from their host plants, also known as terpenes. These oils coat the normally hidden osmeterium which can be everted or pushed out when the caterpillar is threatened.
The osmetierium are usually a bright warning color like red, yellow or orange and, because of the terpenes, they smell quite foul. Having to move swallowtail caterpillars to new host plants also means butterfly growers get their share of terpenes as the caterpillars arch backwards wildly, smearing predators faces and keepers hands alike with these gross smelling oils. Each species has its own unique odor based on what plants the caterpillar has been eating.
Video of caterpillar eating... and eating... and eating!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dryUAicVSEQ
Here is one of it laying eggs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_A-v-9BQlo
And here is a caterpillar transforming into a cocoon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4iWSMxlFFQ&feature=related
Polydamas caterpillar on Aristolochia vine
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, FL
For more, see my set Lubbers, Butterflies and Bees.
The weather has been like "Lonkero weather". It's all grey with very limited sunlight if even any. Dark and gloomy.