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I recently was hired out to take some photos for the band Mason from West Palm Beach, FL
They were playing as "Fight in you" but decided to change their name back and start adding their old songs to their setlist (which I was very excited about)
Big ups to Randy Hernz - www.flickr.com/photos/yostuhfoo/ for helping on this shoot!
Check out the band at www.myspace.com/wearemason
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Mason, Texas, TX. Rural, landscape, countryside, nature, tree, iPhone, iPhoneography, Hipstamatic, HipstaPrint, Ȯggl.
At the moment the rescue group I help out have ben inundated with kittens that we have to say no at the moment due to not having enough room or carers. so I hope little Mason finds a home soon.
*This is not one of the tabby brothers but another kitten from another litter.
I purchased my first, solitary, bee hotel in the spring of 2018. It was quickly discovered by Mason and Leafcutter bees and by the end of the first summer, I had almost "full occupancy." The bee hotel was placed on a shelf in the garage for the winter to protect the developing larvae from sub-zero temperatures. The following spring, it was placed back on the front porch in the same location near the garden where the bees forage. Unlike, honey bees, solitary bees only travel a few hundred feet from where they emerge. I added a second bee hotel during the early summer of 2019 and both hotels had nearly "full occupancy" by the end of the summer of 2019 and again in 2020. It has been amazing to observe the female bees go back and forth from the garden collecting pollen, cutting bits of plant material or gathering mud, then returning to the bee hotel to begin the egg laying process. Once they choose a “nesting tube” they crawl to the far end to begin. The female bee places her provisions, pollen with some sticky nectar that she rolls into a ball, then lays a single egg on the top. Next, she seals the egg into a “cell” with mud or leaf material (depending on which species she is) and repeats this process until the tube is filled the whole way to the front. One female solitary bee can lay about 5-15 eggs depending on the length of the tube. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae feed on the provisions, then form cocoons, and don’t emerge until the following spring. Each year, I would bring the bee hotels out from winter storage, but missed their emergence in 2019 and 2020. However, on March 31, 2021, our first really warm day, I happened to look out the kitchen window, which faces the porch and noticed a swarm of small bees flying around the bee hotels, the porch and even resting on the aluminum siding of the house. They were warming themselves in the sun! I was able to determine that these were all Mason Bees because the bees that were emerging were all breaking through the tubes that were sealed with mud. I observed the male Mason bees fly back to the nesting holes to check on whether the female bees were emerging. The males could apparently detect where the females were and would remain on the bee hotel, to attempt mating as soon as a female came out or would even enter the tube to mate before she emerged. At times, several male bees would pile onto the female, fighting to mate with her, often falling to the ground. As each new bee made its way to the opening of a tube, their tiny faces could be seen peering out from the tubes. Each emerging bee would cautiously come to the edge, clean their antennae with their feet, quiver for a moment, then take their first flight! Since the weather has turned cold again and there aren't many flowers yet, the bees are staying inside. On the intermittent warm days, they emerge to work on cleaning out the tubes, as evidenced by bits of dried mud all over the porch, just below the bee hotels!
As of the time of this posting, the Leafcutter Bees have not emerged, as the holes are still sealed with the plant materials used. This photo series was taken over two hours and is only a small portion of the total number taken of the amazing event.
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Red mason bees (Osmia bicornis) are excellent pollinators and are solitary in nature. Females guard their own cells from other Mason bees, but are safe to be around as long as you respect their space. They form mud capsules around their eggs, and pack each cell full of pollen.
With no work in Effingham, CN A408 passes through the town of Mason, Illinois as it rolls on down towards Centralia. Mason was named for Roswell B. Mason, former Chief Engineer of the Illinois Central and the 25th Mayor of Chicago.
On the way to the falls I found these little falls. Masons Falls is not accessible to the bottom, yet! That's for another day when I have more time, equipment and support in the mean time this will have to do...
Male of Megachile (Chalicodoma) parietina.
Technique: It was a cool day (18C) with partly cloudy skies and intermittent light showers -perfect weather to go looking for solitary bees since they'll have a tough time keeping their metabolism up. I got lucky and found this Mason bee semi-dormant in my Lavender.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (over 3x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on the Canon flash mount, E-TTL metering). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. I used an artificial flower to keep the background from being black.
Male of Megachile (Chalicodoma) parietina.
Technique: It was a cool day (18C) with partly cloudy skies and intermittent light showers -perfect weather to go looking for solitary bees since they'll have a tough time keeping their metabolism up. I got lucky and found this Mason bee semi-dormant in my Lavender.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 3x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on the Canon flash mount, E-TTL metering). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. I used an artificial flower to keep the background from being black. I n post I used Topaz Labs Sharpen AI, Denoise AI, and Clarity.
Fuji X-E1, Fuji 18mm lens. Mason's Yard is the location of The Scotch of St. James club, where Yoko Ono and John Lennon partied after (or before - it's unclear) they met at the Indica Gallery.
Mason, 2005-2021, was the last living of a four kitten litter. 50mm, 1.4, Olympus G. Zuiko, Auto-S manual focus lens.
The memorial's landscape architect was Faye B. Harwell and the sculptor was Wendy M. Ross. The sculpture is one third larger than life.
Mason, Texas, TX. Rural, landscape, countryside, nature, tree, iPhone, iPhoneography, Hipstamatic, HipstaPrint, Ȯggl.
This is Baby Mason. He was born about a month early so his lungs were "wet" so he has the feeding tubes in and is in NICU. Other than this is healthy and should be fine and be able to go home in the next week.
Saw this cool bee house at Calvin Ecosystem Preserve.
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After landing on the beach at Mason Bay, we headed to a track which led us by Duck Creek to Mason Bay Hut.
If you are a vintage organ lover, weep. It's still in fairly good condition considering its age, but it is gradually falling to bits. And all around the floor and on the organ itself is evidence of the trapped birds that somehow flew in, but were never able to leave again. As I said yesterday, a horror show inside.
Mason & Hamlin were an American piano and organ maker in the 19th century. They were based in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Interestingly enough, they were founded in 1854, a year before this chapel was built.
The first male Red Mason bee of the year in our garden on the bee hotel. The Red Mason Bees are solitary bees that live in aggregations, but each bee is working for itself. They use holes such as hollow plant stems, or holes in walls and wood to lay their eggs. Each female bee provisions the cavity with pollen, and when she has collected enough she will lay an egg and seal the nest chamber. Mason Bees seal the entrance with mud. When the egg hatches, the tiny 1.5mm larvae eats the stored pollen. The larvae pupate in the late summer and overwinter as fully developed adults, wrapped up in a protective cocoon. Red Mason Bees have a single flight period, from spring usually coinciding with the flowering of Apple Blossom. The male Red Mason bees emerge first and tend to wait in the area waiting for the females to emerge. The females tend to emerge anywhere between several days to two weeks after the first male.
These emerged a few days ago, but they disappeared when the weather took a turn for the worse. Today was really nice and warm and got up to 62F. The bees were out again! There are several sub-species of mason bees, not all of them are the shiny green you usually see in photos.. They don't have hives, but instead nest in holes...either those made for them in "bee houses" that humans provide, or holes found in nature. Each female bee makes her own nest, and lays and cares for her own eggs.
Mason Verger as he appears in Season 3 of Hannibal. The wheel chair is my design, though I used Dylan's idea for the katannas as arm rests. THis was painted by me.
Went up to Mason Lake and Bandera Mountain this Sunday. It was really foggy and black and white-esque even without a b&w conversion.
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Clematis James Mason has large white blooms with a distinctive centre boss of stamens that have white and maroon anthers. A hint of yellow can be seen in the centre bar of the petals. Blooms appear from late spring to late summer. Suitable with other trained plants that do not require annual pruning.Large white flowers with deep red or brown anthers. Named after the late British actor who loved white flowers.
Group:Early large-flowered group
Approximate height: 0.5 - 3.0 metres
Flowering period: May Jun Sep
Aspect:Any aspect
Pruning:Light prune (Group 2)
Raised by:Barry Fretwell
Country of origin:United Kingdom
Parentage: 'Marie Boisselot' x 'Lincoln Star'
Flower diameter: (10-) 15-20cm
Tepals: 6-8; blunt, overlapping, apiculate, margin crimped and wavy, deeply grooved along centre
Leaves: simple or ternate
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The George Mason Memorial is a memorial to Founding Father George Mason, the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights that inspired the United States Bill of Rights. The Memorial is located in West Potomac Park within Washington, D.C. at 24 E Basin Drive SW, which is a part of the Tidal Basin. Authorized in 1990, with a groundbreaking in 2000 and dedication in 2002, the memorial includes a sculpture of Mason, a pool, trellis, circular hedges, and numerous inscriptions. It was the first memorial in the Tidal Basin area to be dedicated to someone who was not a former President of the United States .