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pokeweed, Phytolacca americana, grows in my garden......
Freshly cut young leaves and shoots may be cooked and eaten like spinach. They should be boiled twice, and the first water being discarded. In 1969, when astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a popular song on the radio was "Poke Salad Annie." The song depicted a poor southern girl who picked a wild plant called pokeweed for a vegetable. The greens are also called poke salet, and they are sometimes canned and sold in markets.
The plant is beautiful to look at. Nope I haven't had a desire to cook any of the leaves. Even a song was written about this plant..click below
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRF24LY5pvw
Explore 9/3/12 #155
these tiny little shrooms were on a old fallen tree, that has laid on the hillside for more than 25 yrs... covered in mosses and tiny fungus.
My friend Matthew has a beautiful moss / lichen shot this week too!
please do have a look :)
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red poppy. On the Saone River, Macon France. It was right on the edge of the walkway. Yes, I love this photo too :).
Not yet with flower, but beautiful in its own right because of its bright-red anthocyanin pigmentation persumably useful for attracting insects. This was one in a little cluster of sundews shadowed by bright yellow featherbushes on the edge of the Limoenkop Path of the Fernkloof Nature Reserve at Hermanus, South Africa. It's only 1,5 -2,5 cm in diameter, and defined by Fernkloof as Drosera aliciae.
Names are intriguing, of course. Drosera is easy enough: a Greek word having to do with dew; but I wondered who that Aliciae (= Alice) might be. In fact, the plant is called 'Alice sundew' in English.
My search was more complicated than I might have wished, but to make a longer story short enough for flickr: In 1905 the precocious 15-year old Raymond Hamet (1890-1972) published the first description of this sundew in the "Journal de Botanique", giving it its Latin name. In a footnote - appropriately in those days in Latin - he writes that he's named it in honor of Dr Alice Rasse, who had encouraged him to study this 'section' of the sundew family; presumably when he was but fourteen! Apparently the young man had something with Alices, because five years later he named a Kalanchoe (of Madagascar) aliciae after another Alice, namely someone he collaborated with in botanical work later: Alice Leblanc.
Hamet is something of a mysterious botanist. Today - after 1935, when he subtly changed his name - he is known not as R. Hamet but as Raymond-Hamet, botanically written as Raym.-Hamet. He remained fiercely independent his entire life, refusing university tutelage and funding his labs privately. But his memorialist LĆ©o Marion writes (1973): 'Cependant, s'il aimait travailler seul, il Ć©tait loin d'ĆŖtre un misanthrope. Au contraire, il aimait recevoir', and he and his wife were charming hosts whom visitors were loathe to quit.
...God is a Concept by which
we measure our pain
I'll say it again
God is a Concept by which
we measure our pain
I don't believe in magic
I don't believe in I-ching
I don't believe in Bible
I don't believe in Tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in Mantra
I don't believe in Gita
I don't believe in Yoga
I don't believe in Kings
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me...and that reality
The dream is over
What can I say?
the Dream is Over
Yesterday
I was the Dreamweaver
But now I'm reborn
I was the Walrus
But now I'm John
and so dear friends
you'll just have to carry on
The Dream is over...
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A very large delicate blooming tree was outside my room at a hotel during my stay in Monterey. ID:It's a tree mallow, Lavatera maritima
www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantdisplay.asp?plant_...
Can't get enough...I love capturing these little guys...They are comical, ready to pose for you and above all adorable...despite their hairy looks...Have a great week ahead everyone...
Nikon D90 Nikon AF-S VR Micro-NIKKOR 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED Lens + Ringflash + Handheld
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. ~Albert Einstein
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The Itsukushima Shrine at Miyajima is one of the most famous places in Japan.
More information:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsukushima_Shrine
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WB auto. F/9.50. 1/90sec. ISO100.
May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.
~Irish Blessing
Jujuy - Argentina
El contraste de rojos, grises, verdes y azules en las laderas, producidos por la composiciĆ³n de arcilla, magnesio y manganeso, combinado con el silencio inquebrantable, su clima caluroso y escasa vegetaciĆ³n, hacen del lugar un paraĆso de relajaciĆ³n.
Winchester Cathedral at Winchester in Hampshire is one of the largest cathedrals in England, with the longest nave and overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe. It is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Swithun and is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and centre of the Diocese of Winchester. Since March 2006 an admission charge has been required for visitors to enter the cathedral.