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The population variation of Stipa neomexicana and Stipa comata at this site suggests that the distinguishing features of these species, and perhaps all Hesperostipa species, could represent population variation in open arid vegetation of southwestern USA. Stipa neomexicana is distinguished by lemma awns pilose on all segments, the terminal segment with hairs 1–3 mm long. Stipa comata by lemmas usually evenly white-pubescent, sometimes glabrous immediately above the callus and lower ligules often lacerate. The size of the lemmas is often at 15 mm long or longer and the awns often over 90 cm long. This sort of variation at this site also calls into question the distinction of Stipa curtiseta and Stipa spartea relative to both Stipa comata and Stipa neomexicana.
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I got Pierino from my father in the late 70's.... or early 80's....can't remember. These matchbox-sized mascots were quite popular among kids - and "grown-up kids" too :-)) -
I've kept mine, all these years, in its box inside my bedside table drawer....
He was quite happy to come out and pose for my 105mm Nikkor.
The very first photos I took when I bough that lens...
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It seems to be a major effort!.....
I got Pierino from my father in the late 70's.... or early 80's....can't remember. These matchbox-sized mascots were quite popular among kids - and "grown-up kids" too :-)) -
I've kept mine, all these years, in its box inside my bedside table drawer....
He was quite happy to come out and pose for my 105mm Nikkor.
The very first photos I took when I bough that lens...
Taken for Iron Photographer 17 = 1 - an article of clothing / 2 - something metal / 3 - shot from a high angle
sorry for the blurry image... here's the little pocket for the tooth fairy to leave the cash monies for diego :) blogged
The population variation of Stipa neomexicana and Stipa comata at this site suggests that the distinguishing features of these species, and perhaps all Hesperostipa species, could represent population variation in open arid vegetation of southwestern USA. Stipa neomexicana is distinguished by lemma awns pilose on all segments, the terminal segment with hairs 1–3 mm long. Stipa comata by lemmas usually evenly white-pubescent, sometimes glabrous immediately above the callus and lower ligules often lacerate. The size of the lemmas is often at 15 mm long or longer and the awns often over 90 cm long. This sort of variation at this site also calls into question the distinction of Stipa curtiseta and Stipa spartea relative to both Stipa comata and Stipa neomexicana.
For the Idioms Group
"A stitch in time saves nine - a saying meaning that one can save onself a great deal of work by repairing something, putting something right etc as soon as the fault is noticed, and before it gets worse"
in
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
Soil profile: A representative soil profile of the Quincy series.
Landscape: Quincy soil are on dunes and terraces and are used for livestock grazing and irrigated cropland. Irrigated areas are in potatoes, hay, pasture, small grains, grapes, and tree fruits.
The Quincy series consists of very deep, excessively drained soils formed in sands on dunes and terraces. Slopes are 0 to 65 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 10 inches and the mean annual temperature is about 52 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Mixed, mesic Xeric Torripsamments
The mean annual soil temperature is 50 to 57 degrees F, and the mean summer temperature is 66 to 78 degrees F. These soils are moist in the winter and spring but are dry more than one half of the time the soil temperature exceeds 40 degrees F., about 105 to 130 consecutive days. These soils are dry in all parts between depths of 7 and 20 inches. Hue is 10YR or 2.5Y. Value is 4 to 7 dry, 3 to 5 moist and chroma is 1 to 4 moist or dry. Organic matter in the surface horizon when mixed is less than 1 percent. The 10 to 40 inch particle-size control section ranges from sand to loamy fine sand. Less than 75 percent of the sand is very coarse, coarse, and medium if the clay content is less than 5 percent. If the clay content exceeds 5 percent, more than 75 percent of the sand fraction can be in the very coarse, coarse and medium size classes. The upper 15 inches of these soils is free of lime, except for small particles brought up by insects and animals. The matrix below 15 inches is noncalcareous in some pedons. Reaction in the upper 20 inches is slightly acid to moderately alkaline, and below 20 inches it is neutral to moderately alkaline. Some pedons have unconforming materials, including coarse sand, fine sandy loam, very fine sandy loam, silt loam, very gravelly sand, very gravelly loamy fine sand, at depths below 40 inches.
USE AND VEGETATION: These soils are used for livestock grazing and irrigated cropland. Irrigated areas are in potatoes, hay, pasture, small grains, grapes, and tree fruits. The natural vegetation is needleandthread, thickspike wheatgrass, Indian ricegrass, rabbitbrush, horsebrush, fourwing saltbush, Antelope bitterbrush, and big sagebrush.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Washington MLRA 7, Oregon MLRA 7 and 11, Idaho MLRA 11, and California. The soil is extensive.
For additional information about Idaho soils, please visit:
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/97d01af9d4554b9097cb0a477e04...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/Q/QUINCY.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Opuntia fragilis (Nutt.) Haw. Growing with Sporobolus cryptandrus and Hesperostipa comata (at far right). Note the flattened pads indicating some amount of introgression.
June 25, 2011, Lower Dimple Dell Regional Park, approx. 4500 ft. elev., Salt Lake County, Utah
A representative soil profile of Great Bend silt loam. This soil is dark to a depth of about 30 centimeters; calcium carbonate is below this depth. (Soil Survey of Spink County, South Dakota; by James B. Millar, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Great Bend series consists of very deep, well drained soils formed in glaciolacustrine sediments on lake plains. Permeability is moderate in the solum and moderate to slow in the underlying material. Slopes range from 0 to 15 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 19 inches, and mean annual air temperature is about 43 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Calcic Hapludolls
Thickness of the mollic epipedon ranges from 7 to 16 inches and extends into the Bw horizon in most pedons. Depth to carbonate ranges from 10 to 32 inches thick. The particle size control section contains a uniform fine sand distribution and less than 15 percent fine sand or coarser.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas cropped to corn, small grains, and alfalfa. Small areas are in native range of blue grama, big bluestem, green needlegrass, western wheatgrass, sideoats grama, needleandthread, little bluestem, porcupinegrass, bearded wheatgrass, sedges, and forbs.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northeastern South Dakota and southeastern North Dakota. The series is of moderate extent.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/south_dakota/S...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/G/GREAT_BEND.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Soil profile: A representative soil profile of the Scobey series near Glasgow MT; the State Soil of Montana.
In 1928, the Scobey series was established in the Milk River Area, located in the northern plains of Montana. The series was named for the northeastern Montana town of Scobey and used to represent dark grayish-brown farming soils. The Scobey soil was designated
the official Montana state soil in 2015.
The Scobey series consists of very deep, well drained soils that formed in till. These soils are on till plains, hills, and moraines. Slopes are 0 to 15 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 12 inches, and the mean annual air temperature is about 43 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, smectitic, frigid Aridic Argiustolls
Soil temperature - 42 to 47 degrees F.
Moisture control section - between 4 and 12 inches; dry in all parts between four-tenths and five-tenths of the cumulative days per year when the soil temperature at a depth of 20 inches is 41 degrees F or higher.
Mollic epipedon thickness - 7 to 16 inches.
Depth to Bk horizon - 10 to 18 inches.
Depth to Bky or By horizon - 30 to 55 inches.
Btk, By, or BC horizons are allowed.
Phases- stony, shaley substratum.
USE AND VEGETATION: Scobey soils are used mainly for dryland crops. Some areas are used as rangeland. Potential native vegetation is mainly bluebunch wheatgrass, western wheatgrass, green needlegrass, and needleandthread.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Scobey soils are extensive in the till plains of northern Montana.
For additional information about this state soil, visit:
www.soils4teachers.org/files/s4t/k12outreach/mt-state-soi...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/S/SCOBEY.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Spent all afternoon cutting patterns, we have 4 of each panel, left side, right side, inside & out. Heavy gauge winter fleece, not water proof, but should keep me warm enough.
The population variation of Stipa neomexicana and Stipa comata at this site suggests that the distinguishing features of these species, and perhaps all Hesperostipa species, could represent population variation in open arid vegetation of southwestern USA. Stipa neomexicana is distinguished by lemma awns pilose on all segments, the terminal segment with hairs 1–3 mm long. Stipa comata by lemmas usually evenly white-pubescent, sometimes glabrous immediately above the callus and lower ligules often lacerate. The size of the lemmas is often at 15 mm long or longer and the awns often over 90 cm long. This sort of variation at this site also calls into question the distinction of Stipa curtiseta and Stipa spartea relative to both Stipa comata and Stipa neomexicana.
The population variation of Stipa neomexicana and Stipa comata at this site suggests that the distinguishing features of these species, and perhaps all Hesperostipa species, could represent population variation in open arid vegetation of southwestern USA. Stipa neomexicana is distinguished by lemma awns pilose on all segments, the terminal segment with hairs 1–3 mm long. Stipa comata by lemmas usually evenly white-pubescent, sometimes glabrous immediately above the callus and lower ligules often lacerate. The size of the lemmas is often at 15 mm long or longer and the awns often over 90 cm long. This sort of variation at this site also calls into question the distinction of Stipa curtiseta and Stipa spartea relative to both Stipa comata and Stipa neomexicana.
I think it was really cool that we figured out, by the end of the trip not only the four types of grass that we were supposed to be collecting, but for each of them was also a type of grass and its seed that we should avoid.
This, I believe is the needle and thread we were supposed to be collecting. You can tell by the long tails off each seed.
The fabric has a tiny touch of gold....but not too much ;0)
And it's number 3 - for March - of 12 projects.
The population variation of Stipa neomexicana and Stipa comata at this site suggests that the distinguishing features of these species, and perhaps all Hesperostipa species, could represent population variation in open arid vegetation of southwestern USA. Stipa neomexicana is distinguished by lemma awns pilose on all segments, the terminal segment with hairs 1–3 mm long. Stipa comata by lemmas usually evenly white-pubescent, sometimes glabrous immediately above the callus and lower ligules often lacerate. The size of the lemmas is often at 15 mm long or longer and the awns often over 90 cm long. This sort of variation at this site also calls into question the distinction of Stipa curtiseta and Stipa spartea relative to both Stipa comata and Stipa neomexicana.
My 2008 Sasquatch! Music Festival poster.
Final colors turned out a tad more on the greenish side, but this is the alter ego.
Snuggle up with these soft Russian Nesting Plush Dolls. Each doll is made with designer fabrics. Each has a linen face with hand-painted features (inks are non-toxic, of course!).
11" tall, 3" thick, 7" at the widest
She is safe for little ones; no buttons or dealies to fall off and choke on. These dolls are not just for children and are perfectly suitable for adults! ;)
She is filled with hypo-allergenic fiber fill. Use her as a doll, decorative purposes or small pillow.
Handmade in the U.S.A. I try to use only American made materials when possible.
The population variation of Stipa neomexicana and Stipa comata at this site suggests that the distinguishing features of these species, and perhaps all Hesperostipa species, could represent population variation in open arid vegetation of southwestern USA. Stipa neomexicana is distinguished by lemma awns pilose on all segments, the terminal segment with hairs 1–3 mm long. Stipa comata by lemmas usually evenly white-pubescent, sometimes glabrous immediately above the callus and lower ligules often lacerate. The size of the lemmas is often at 15 mm long or longer and the awns often over 90 cm long. This sort of variation at this site also calls into question the distinction of Stipa curtiseta and Stipa spartea relative to both Stipa comata and Stipa neomexicana.
Soil profile: A representative soil profile of the Quincy series in Idaho.
The Quincy series consists of very deep, excessively drained soils formed in sands on dunes and terraces. Slopes are 0 to 65 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 10 inches and the mean annual temperature is about 52 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Mixed, mesic Xeric Torripsamments
The mean annual soil temperature is 50 to 57 degrees F, and the mean summer temperature is 66 to 78 degrees F. These soils are moist in the winter and spring but are dry more than one half of the time the soil temperature exceeds 40 degrees F., about 105 to 130 consecutive days. These soils are dry in all parts between depths of 7 and 20 inches. Hue is 10YR or 2.5Y. Value is 4 to 7 dry, 3 to 5 moist and chroma is 1 to 4 moist or dry. Organic matter in the surface horizon when mixed is less than 1 percent. The 10 to 40 inch particle-size control section ranges from sand to loamy fine sand. Less than 75 percent of the sand is very coarse, coarse, and medium if the clay content is less than 5 percent. If the clay content exceeds 5 percent, more than 75 percent of the sand fraction can be in the very coarse, coarse and medium size classes. The upper 15 inches of these soils is free of lime, except for small particles brought up by insects and animals. The matrix below 15 inches is noncalcareous in some pedons. Reaction in the upper 20 inches is slightly acid to moderately alkaline, and below 20 inches it is neutral to moderately alkaline. Some pedons have unconforming materials, including coarse sand, fine sandy loam, very fine sandy loam, silt loam, very gravelly sand, very gravelly loamy fine sand, at depths below 40 inches.
USE AND VEGETATION: These soils are used for livestock grazing and irrigated cropland. Irrigated areas are in potatoes, hay, pasture, small grains, grapes, and tree fruits. The natural vegetation is needleandthread, thickspike wheatgrass, Indian ricegrass, rabbitbrush, horsebrush, fourwing saltbush, Antelope bitterbrush, and big sagebrush.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Washington MLRA 7, Oregon MLRA 7 and 11, Idaho MLRA 11, and California. The soil is extensive.
For additional information about Idaho soils, please visit:
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/97d01af9d4554b9097cb0a477e04...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/Q/QUINCY.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
I swear this Gi is like 3 sizes too big, but after a lot of sewing and needle pricks to the fingers it sort of kind of fits.
Photographed at TNCs Winship Ranch. Per Grasshoppers of the Western United States (idtools.org/id/grasshoppers/factsheet.php?name=13193):
The striped sand grasshopper, Melanoplus foedus, ranges widely in western North America, nearly coextensive with the range of Melanoplus packardii which it closely resembles. The habitats of these two species within their common geographic ranges differ remarkably. The striped sand grasshopper inhabits vegetated areas of sandy soils while the Packard grasshopper inhabits vegetated areas of loamy soils. Both species feed principally on forbs and both conduct most activities on the preponderant bare ground of their habitats.
A distinctive community of native plants grows in sandy soils. In addition to the widely distributed and tolerant grasses blue grama, western wheatgrass, and needleandthread, two species of tall grass are prominent, prairie sandreed and sand bluestem and one midgrass, sand dropseed. Of the many forbs, western ragweed, several species of sunflower, and several species of scurfpea are commonly present.
Though there are few entries in BugGuide for this species, it occurs across much of the US and s. Canada w. of the Mississippi