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Finally my datura seed pod is ripe! It cracked during the night. This plant was grow from seed in the month of march. So it took 7 month from seed to seed.
The Fish Pod is situated in a beautiful garden area with bench seating placed around the garden to enjoy the views. To the right of the garden area is the Orangery Restaurant area where you can enjoy a refreshing beverages and snacks, cakes, etc.
Burghley, one of the largest and grandest houses of the first Elizabethan Age.
Built and mostly designed by William Cecil, Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I, between 1555 and 1587, the main part of the House has 35 major rooms on the ground and first floors. There are more than 80 lesser rooms and numerous halls, corridors, bathrooms and service areas. The lead roof extends to three quarters of an acre, restoration and rebuilding of which began in 1983 and took nearly ten years to complete. Visitor facilities include the Orangery Restaurant, Gift Shop, Gardens of Surprise and beautiful walks around the historic parkland laid out by Capability Brown and still occupied by a herd of fallow deer.
Pod had a successful tour business in Khao Lak, Thailand. He would act as a guide to tourists who wished to experience the natural beauty of the National Parks, whilst his wife would run the agency and take bookings. They had a young son, and Pod’s wife was 5 months pregnant with their second child.
This particular day he left home as usual, the weather was fine, and he was leading a group on an excursion into Khao Sok National Park...........
You can read the rest of Pod's story at my website iamguava.com/pods-story/
Photograph © Guava 2012 all rights reserved
Podemos dar um barco a alguém, podemos colocar esse barco na água e ensinar esse alguém a remar. Mas para que a pessoa reme, é preciso que ela queira remar. — Provérbio Chinês
Plenário do Senado Federal durante sessão deliberativa ordinária. Ordem do dia.
Em discurso, à tribuna, senadora Rose de Freitas (Podemos-ES).
Foto: Marcos Oliveira/Agência Senado
transport perceptual pod
2007
International Contemporary
Furniture Fair
New York City, NY
artist: alberto frias
photos: erik hagan
Drop Pod with it's hatch doors opened, to let out the angels of death.
Part of my Chapter, where about half of the marines are still loyal to Emperor and Imperium, and the other half has fallen to the Ruinous Powers. This basically means my Space Marine and Chaos Space Marines armies are part of the same Chapter, where Space Marines are part of the 3rd Company, and Chaos Space Marines are part of the 6th Company.
Silver pod-style apartments designed by Nicholas Grimshaw, behind the giant Sainsbury's in Camden Town, on the Regent's Canal, just past the roadbridge over Kentish Town Road, the A400. I discovered today (October 4), via an estate agent's window advertising one of the pod houses for sale (leasehold) at the knockdown bargain price of £850,000, that the development's address is Grand Union Walk. Photo taken on September 3, 2012.
For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
For more privacy, guests can work or relax in one of the comfortable media pods, featuring free wireless high-speed Internet access, power outlets for cell phone chargers and laptops, and a flat-screen TV with personal remote control.
Some of the wiring home runs going from the electrical panel in the garage to places far flung within the house
..Double Down Under..Flavia Pennetta of Italy and Gisela Dulko of Argentina celebrate beating Maria Kirilenko of Russia and Victoria Azarenka of Belarus in the women's doubles final at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia. ..Daniel Munoz/REUTERS..005..
SkeletalMess texture applied. I found it here: shadowhousecreations.blogspot.com/2010/03/chaos1.html
Each Pod has independent life supoort as each Pod can be "ejected" from the mothership in case of disaster.
Here, the Pods have not yet been ejected.
Pollination, Germination and Seed Dispersal
Vegetative Reproduction (Cloning)
Evolution -Symbiotic relationship with Monarch Butterfly
This sketch is a rendition of the pods (the empty fruits) that remain on the twisted stems on the stalks of the Common Milkweed (native to North America) that grows in the field next to my home. A common sight now in the fields and roadsides of New England, the pods are representative of the plant’s unique pollination and reproduction process that it does so effectively in order to survive along with an underground vegetative system that develops many cloned shoots from the roots of one plant to make sure it thrives year after year. It also manufactures a toxic milky sap that is the basis of an incredible symbiotic relationship with the monarch butterfly to make sure it returns annually to primarily feed on it and increase pollination results. The reproductive process of the Common Milkweed is a result of a complex evolution as the large umbel flower head at the top of the stalk which blooms in July and August is a composite of many tiny pink flowers, each containing two ovaries. These highly specialized disc flowers have encapsulated stigma and pollen grains so pollination is difficult and is only achieved by attracting as many insects as possible to search for the sweet and fragrant nectar through small slits in the chambers. Although there are many tiny flowers on the globe shaped head, only a very small amount of ovaries are fertilized and develop into huge fruit pods (one seed pod for every 150 flowers). However, the few follicles (fruit) which do grow and split open in the fall, have a multitude of small seeds in each pod (over 200) and each one is attached to a tuft of silken floss that floats like a feather on the wind, making sure the seeds are widely dispersed. When the seed drops to the ground and the conditions are right, it will sprout in the spring into two small leaves (dicot). Interestingly enough, many of the seeds of the milkweed do not germinate which is a reason there have to be so many dispersed. However, when a seed does sprout and take root, it spreads very quickly by forming a network of long, creeping underground stems (rhizomes) that sprout new growth every year. The expansion of shoots from multiple stems creates a colony of new growth from one plant. The individualized shoots are genetically identical clones as they originate from a single seed through vegetative growth. The Common Milkweed is an autotroph that has a symbiotic relationship with many insects to encourage pollination while feeding on the nectar but the most interesting may be the monarch butterfly. The milkweed has a milky (hence the name) sap that contains cardiac glycosides, which is toxic (effects heart function) to most mammals and insects but not the monarch butterfly. It lays eggs on the leaves of the milkweed and the larvae eat the leaves with the milky sap. The glycosides are stored in the their bodies which makes the caterpillar and butterfly toxic to predators. The bright colors and patterns on the butterfly have evolved as a warning sign to predators that they are toxic to eat. The butterfly gets food and water from the milkweed and the milkweed sap protects the butterfly from predators…milkweed is the primary food of the monarch so where there is milkweed, there is the beautiful monarch butterfly to help make sure the milkweed gets pollinated.
Pods on the London Eye, to be upgraded in time for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Bought these message seeds from a souvenir shop in Jioufen, Taiwan. Basically, messages are engraved on the hull of the pod (shaped like a lima bean, and slightly bigger than an almond) and when you plant the seed, the message, which has penetrated to the cotyledon (leaf of the embryo inside the seed) pops up following the unfurling of the leaves.