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Ginkgo biloba (prehistoric tree) Photo: F.D.Richards, SE Michigan, 3/2021 - Ginkgo Maidenhair tree, GINK-oh by-LOE-buh, Size at 10 years: 60x50’, Green Foliage, Insignificant flower, USDA Hardiness Zone 3, In Garden Bed L1 for 9.1 YEARS (MSU). Planted in 2012.
North Carolina State University: Large deciduous tree 50' to 80' in height and 30' to 40' in width; leaves alternate, simple, fan-shaped; seeds (only on female trees) plum-like, yellow-orange, the outer, fleshy pulp foul-smelling when ripe, the inner wall hard, smooth, and cream colored. Grey-brown bark in ridges.
Messy fruit; plant male trees, yellow leaves fall rapidly in fall; drought, heat, air pollution, and moderately salt tolerant; easy to transplant; long-lived. Resistant to damage by deer. Excellent city tree. Popular for bonsai.
Site: Sun; range of soil types except wet soil
Excellent urban tolerant tree for its sculptural shape the quality of light it creates on the street. The streets of New York exemplify the use of the GinkGo as a street tree. Zone 8 and 9 in the Southeast.
Ginkgo biloba is a prehistoric tree, it disappeared from the North American fossil record about 7 million years ago and has since been introduced from a country or countries.
###Graft stock from MSU class on Jan 28, 2012. Graft failed. Tolerates Deer, Clay Soil, Air Pollution. Does not seem Black Walnut sensitive. It is planted next to a mature Blacl Walnut. Biloba derived from the Latin meaning two lobed.
Additional photos of this plant from 2015, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21:
And now for something completely different. How about some major insignificant architectural structures?
South Barrington, IL
This unique early first-century AD frescoed ceiling is located within an insignificant looking Biclinium, or two-benched dining room, cut into the rock in the heart of Little Petra (El Barid).
Known as the Painted Biclinium (No. 849) inside is the only surviving example of Nabatean wall painting.
The ceiling of the alcove at the back of the chamber is painted with a delicate tracery of vines with bunches of grapes hanging from the branches. Inhabiting this leafy and flowered world are a variety of birds, some in flight, others resting on branches, a cherub-like figure of Eros with his bow and arrow, and a flute-playing Pan.
(Damaged caused by Bedouin fires, and 2000 years of weathering)
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Desde la Aiguille du Midi (Chamonix). A primeras horas de la mañana los alpinistas parten por la una de las cresta del macizo del Mont-Blac, con sus proyectos y objetivos, en un entorno cuya grandeza y majestuosidad deja sin respiración.
The torture-death depicted here was known as komariki (little mosquitoes). For even an insignificant misdeed, such as a harsh word to a guard, a prisoner could be stripped naked, hung crucifixion-style to a pine tree, and left to be fed upon by mosquitoes. Within thirty minutes to an hour he would be taken down. By that time, however, he would have lost so much blood that a slow and painful death was almost inevitable. Such executions were carried out beyond the barbed wire, in full view of the other prisoners. In some camps, the victims of komarki were not hung on trees, but were thrown instead into pits.
Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, Chile
(October 25, 2013)
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This suburban road junction at the north end of Barnet High Street, North London, may look insignificant today but at one time this was one of the most important road junctions in the country.
Barnet lies on the old Great North Road from London to Edinburgh, and in the days before railways was an important stop for stagecoaches, with several inns and hotels set up to cater for travellers needs and to allow horses to be changed - especially after the long slog out of London over the Northern Heights.
When the Ministry of Transport developed the system of numbering and classifying main roads in the 1930s, the Great North Road through Barnet became the A1. The main road from London to the North West became the A6, but to get to it travellers from London had first to take the A1 to Barnet - and it was here that the two great roads to the North diverged.
Obviously this was before the era of bypasses, dual-carriageways and motorways, and the building of new roads - particularly the Barnet By-pass - meant these roads were later assigned more lowly numbers. Today this is where the A1081 diverges from the A1000; the A1 follows the by-pass two miles to the west and the A6 now starts in Luton. However a reminder of the past persists; even today the road leading out of Barnet to the North is still named "Great North Road".
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Since 2009, Daniel Kerkhoff, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., has been creating his own artist-in-residencies in communities in Ghana, Ecuador, and Vietnam.
Embedding himself in a community, he develops multiple connections through creating art (installations), writing poetic journals, making art with children, curating exhibitions, working with artists, assisting art libraries and community libraries, documenting walks and the community, and just being a part of everyday life.
Along with painting, collage, art installations, photography, and writing, his art practice involves connecting, sharing, and weaving people and places.
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Assisting and creating libraries is part of my art practice.
During my art residencies, I continue to bring books and materials, art work, maps, magazines and journals, CDs, DVDs, and photos to the community centers in Adugyama, Ashanti Region Ghana and Sisid-anejo, Cañar, Ecuador. I also give a variety of art books, journals, and materials to fellow artists and art spaces.
In Accra, Ghana, I bring art books and magazines to The Nubuke Foundation and The Center for Contemporary Art, Ghana. In Cuenca, Ecuador, I'm connected to In-Arte Contemporáneo and bring art magazines and information. In Hanoi, I have provided various art publications and books to Cuci Fine Art, Chay Art, and Chaap Collective.
I bring art publications, art work, and music created by friends and colleagues of mine. I document their work in these different communities, creating another form of connection and awareness.
I consider this a weaving project, a form of sharing that can have many on-going effects. –Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“Playing Catch, Giving and Receiving”
You are invited to play catch with my prints. Two dimensional prints that hang on the wall are transformed into three dimensional balls, a form of sculpture that is also performance and participatory.
Playing catch is a common past time that's relaxing and connecting. It is an act of giving (throwing) and receiving (catching) involving a ball, and, in this case, prints transformed into a ball (sculpture).
Instead of viewing the stationary print on a wall or a sculpture on the floor, it is viewed moving through time and space, dependent on the participants and their actions.
It is visual, transformative, therapeutic, sharing, interactive, and connecting, simple and playful actions of giving and receiving.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”
“Walking the Path, Prints on Prints”
You are invited to walk on my prints, using them as a path.
It’s another way of experiencing art like a stepping stone meditation,
a different awareness may take place on an intentional walk, slower,
deliberate, a winding pathway, your prints touching these prints.
You become, in a way, the performer, the participant, the collaborator,
your soles connecting and becoming a part of these prints, adding steps,
humbling, engaging, liberating, creating another connection.
The title of this series is: "Paper Trail, A4 (All Over the Place)" from "The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)". These prints are collages made from my daily life in Hanoi -- collections of receipts, maps, brochures, business cards, food wrappers and waste.
They are my journal, a record of my consumption and daily activities, stamped with symbols that reflect my connection with Hanoi. They are painted over,
fragments remain revealed, information becomes cloudy, is lost and buried, like memory and history.
I created these collages during my artist-in-residency in Hanoi from
February 6, 2015 to October 26, 2015.
Walking is an important part of my art residencies. I document a familiar route in the community I’m living in by walking slowly, taking photos, and picking up “treasures”.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
Douglas Adams
Are you spending hundreds of hours of effort in SECOND LIFE to make insignificant amounts of money selling virtual clothes, experimenting with changing your gender or species, getting into random conversations with strangers from around the world, or having pseudo-anonymous sex with strangers (and let's not kid ourselves, sex is a huge draw into Real Life as it is in Second Life)? Either if you would define yourself as a complete noob (like I am) or an SL's hardcore enthusiast why don't you consider to TELEPORT yourself to COLORS OF LIFE? Thanks to our friends from WDT we got a flying gallery and a chill out island ruled by an extravagant queen and inhabited by damn funny and smart avatars. Are you getting interested or curious? So why don't you take a look with your own real eyes:) And if you feel lost or uncomfortable just because you are still wearing those lame pair of cheap blue jeans search for ALICE MASTROIANNI, GIGI ROFFO or poke MILA TATHAM, if you'll not find her busy building the "NEW" NEW YORK:)
TELEPORT NOW slurl.com/secondlife/WDT Planet/47/115/54
in the grand scheme of things this tiny drop of water is quite insignificant and when we look at the vastness of the universe man to is like this tiny drop of water.
Psalm 8
1 O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!
2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?
5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,
7 All sheep and oxen-- Even the beasts of the field,
8 The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth
From South Africa. Insignificant flowers but it has really vibrant foliage all year long. Right about this time it's putting out lots of new growth. Anybody ever propagate this from cuttings?
From the outside the 'mountain' looks insignificant apart from ruined and derelict windmill on its top and the mine head located a little distance from the hill. The landscape is barren except from some unhealthy, grey looking heather and a few thorny shrubs. But the dull exterior hides an interior that is more colourful than any other.
The seemingly insignificant town of Kerma may have been largely left behind by the rest of the world today, but that wasn’t always the case. This is one of the oldest inhabited towns in Africa and a place of immense historical importance. The area around Kerma has been occupied for at least 8000-10,000 years, but the town reached its peak around 1800 BC - 1600 BC when it was capital of the Kingdom of Kush and an important trade centre during Egypt’s Middle Kingdom. It was
at this time that Kerma’s kings built two giant mud-brick temples, known as deffufas; the oldest, and arguably
largest, mud brick buildings on the continent. The western deffufa (pictured) stood about 19m high and stretched 50m long. Nobody is really certain what it was used for but most agree it served a religious purpose. . About 3km away is the smaller, eastern deffufa. This is
thought to have been a royal cemetery. Around the kings tombs archeologists have discovered some 30,000 other graves. Many of the people buried in these graves appear to have been ritually sacrificed in order to accompany their king to the underworld. Encircling the human graves, archeologists have also unearthed around 5000 cattle skulls, which indicates just how important cattle was to the people who once lived here. In addition to the two deffufas there are a number of other historic sites around the town including Duki Gail; a little understood site containing the remains of a huge temple with two metre thick walls.
Ceramic plaque. Grater function is doubtful as insignificant wear on these objects has been observed. Our hypothesis is that these instruments were used for removing fish scales or used for ritual purposes. Red pigment on outer rim. Intact. Measures 9 1/2". Esmeraldas region, Ecuador. 600BC/400AD. Also, this item has been published in Prima Dell America 4000 Anni Di Arte Precolombiana a Cura Di Giuliana Zanetti, p.253.
I'm not really sure what this is from yet. Intuition says maybe some kind of fish. I'm reasonably certain it's a marine creature at the least.
Anyway, it's 5 vertebra worth of something's spine.
Ive been going through a taking photos of the sky phase and this one just stood out so much :)
it was just before this amazing sunset
If you would like to purchase this photo please contact me on Arsh.k.singh@gmail.com
Olympic National Park, Washington
there are many ways in this world that one can feel insignificant in the BIG scheme of things. one of the more pleasureable is to take a trip to the Hoh Rain Forest and stand among the giant trees...the beauty and splendor of nature is almost overwhelming. so much rain the roots don't have to go deep for water (no tap roots). almost like the cypress trees in florida. this makes them susceptible to falling in high winds and pacific storms.
I know what yer thinkin', whyfore did someone shoot that giraffe in the head!? Except, they didn't! Poor Geoffrey here probably had some kind of sinus tumor that grew, and grew, until it busted a hole out the side of his head. I've inquired with experts, and they all assure me that's a very bad thing.
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Since 2009, Daniel Kerkhoff, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., has been creating his own artist-in-residencies in communities in Ghana, Ecuador, and Vietnam.
Embedding himself in a community, he develops multiple connections through creating art (installations), writing poetic journals, making art with children, curating exhibitions, working with artists, assisting art libraries and community libraries, documenting walks and the community, and just being a part of everyday life.
Along with painting, collage, art installations, photography, and writing, his art practice involves connecting, sharing, and weaving people and places.
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Assisting and creating libraries is part of my art practice.
During my art residencies, I continue to bring books and materials, art work, maps, magazines and journals, CDs, DVDs, and photos to the community centers in Adugyama, Ashanti Region Ghana and Sisid-anejo, Cañar, Ecuador. I also give a variety of art books, journals, and materials to fellow artists and art spaces.
In Accra, Ghana, I bring art books and magazines to The Nubuke Foundation and The Center for Contemporary Art, Ghana. In Cuenca, Ecuador, I'm connected to In-Arte Contemporáneo and bring art magazines and information. In Hanoi, I have provided various art publications and books to Cuci Fine Art, Chay Art, and Chaap Collective.
I bring art publications, art work, and music created by friends and colleagues of mine. I document their work in these different communities, creating another form of connection and awareness.
I consider this a weaving project, a form of sharing that can have many on-going effects. –Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“Playing Catch, Giving and Receiving”
You are invited to play catch with my prints. Two dimensional prints that hang on the wall are transformed into three dimensional balls, a form of sculpture that is also performance and participatory.
Playing catch is a common past time that's relaxing and connecting. It is an act of giving (throwing) and receiving (catching) involving a ball, and, in this case, prints transformed into a ball (sculpture).
Instead of viewing the stationary print on a wall or a sculpture on the floor, it is viewed moving through time and space, dependent on the participants and their actions.
It is visual, transformative, therapeutic, sharing, interactive, and connecting, simple and playful actions of giving and receiving.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”
“Walking the Path, Prints on Prints”
You are invited to walk on my prints, using them as a path.
It’s another way of experiencing art like a stepping stone meditation,
a different awareness may take place on an intentional walk, slower,
deliberate, a winding pathway, your prints touching these prints.
You become, in a way, the performer, the participant, the collaborator,
your soles connecting and becoming a part of these prints, adding steps,
humbling, engaging, liberating, creating another connection.
The title of this series is: "Paper Trail, A4 (All Over the Place)" from "The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)". These prints are collages made from my daily life in Hanoi -- collections of receipts, maps, brochures, business cards, food wrappers and waste.
They are my journal, a record of my consumption and daily activities, stamped with symbols that reflect my connection with Hanoi. They are painted over,
fragments remain revealed, information becomes cloudy, is lost and buried, like memory and history.
I created these collages during my artist-in-residency in Hanoi from
February 6, 2015 to October 26, 2015.
Walking is an important part of my art residencies. I document a familiar route in the community I’m living in by walking slowly, taking photos, and picking up “treasures”.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
it may seem simple, insignificant, or even trivial... but today I finally made the switch! A step in a new direction. The beginning of a new era. A walk in faith, towards new horizons, the Promised Land...
I've used my pink purse for quite some time now... and frankly, I love it. But it's time for one of those radical changes. An outward sign of an inner shift. Most girls might translate that into a sassy haircut. However, one [of the many] thing[s] I got out of the [abandoned] relationship is a love of my hair... an awareness of it's beauty... and frankly, I'm going to sport it, in all it's glory!
This lovely creation was made for me by miss Tracy Prybyla (in an exchange of creativity, I made her a hat & swirly scarf set long ago), but I didn't get it into my hands until more recently. Now, I have been holding onto it for a bit, waiting for the right moment to make the switch.
I officially started the HoodRiver end of the new employee processes... so my new job is in motion.
Today was the 27th. Muy importante for me... pressing forward in my own love for that day/number, is something I have to do.
And, Oddly enough, I actually got this from Tracy just as my eyes were being opened to all that was about to occur *shudders*
On a happier note: the pretty flower is from Miss Elizabeth. I stopped by to see here after worship practice (another awesome happenstance/providential-thang: I wore my ChrisTomlin tee, and they introduced one of my fave songs from the album at practice!) and she picked one for me, and one for [the other] Elizabeth (by proxy, she was on the phone!)
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