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In natural light, the color mixing is utterly fantastic-lost in reproduction although as usual the blue takes over much of the purple.
No pencil was used (or harmed) in the making of this watercolor
12 lumache fucsia per ricordare che la velocita' non e' sempre una virtu'.
L'ultima istallazione del gruppo Cracking Art che invita alla lentezza, all'ascolto e all'ecologia si e' spostata in vari punti di Milano prima di partire alla volta di altre citta' straniere
This Day Gecko looks like it is almost fully done regenerating its tail. It is a yellowish color compared to the vivid green of the body. When we were in Kauai , we once saw a green anole bite the tale off of a gecko and it's tail was still wiggling in its mouth as the gecko ran away.
Taken right on our lanai in Kihei, Maui
Old San Juan. H.Irizarry 2010 (c)
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In celebration of Earth Day 2013
In photo: A cut tree that is regrowing though most of the visible leaves are from a creeping vine. Backdrop is Mount Makiling and this view is seen from my hometown in Santo Tomas, Batangas, Philippines.
Running almost 3 hours late, Freightliner 66506 Crewe Regeneration approaches Markinch heading 6K40 09:00 Dundee Central Jn to Millerhill S.S.
I came across this forest that had recently been backburned ready for the hot summer ahead. Nature is amazing in how it allows the trees to regenerate.
Adaptations for survival
Whether mature trees are killed or only have their leaves burnt, fire disturbance lets in light and
creates spaces for new growth. Fires usually occur in late summer, so seeds take advantage of
warm soils and Tasmania’s seasonal pattern of autumn and winter rains, to germinate well and get
a good growth start.
Adaptations for survival in individual eucalypts, especially those of drier forests such as the
peppermints and white gums, relate to features that allow them to live through fire. These include:
• lignotubers - swellings that develop at ground level in young eucalypts
and where food is stored, allowing new growth to sprout if the tree is
damaged. This can be seen even in young seedlings. Lignotubers
contain a mass of hidden buds. When the seedling, sapling or tree
is damaged by fire or grazing, new shoots rapidly grow from the
lignotubers enabling the plant to survive.
• an extensive root system which is made even more efficient by mycorrhizal associations, a
partnership between tree roots and a fungus, which enhances the tree’s absorption of water and
nutrients, especially phosphorus.
• epicormic buds on the tree’s branches and trunk which sprout when
triggered by stress, such as wildfire, which can severely damage the
crown. These buds, in the outer sapwood, are protected from fire
damage by the tree’s bark. They quickly sprout if a eucalypt looses its
crown. The new shoots (epicormic shoots) produce green foliage that
enables the tree to survive.
• Hard woody capsules that protect seeds high in the canopy where heat may be intense but
lasts for a very short time as the oil-rich leaves burn rapidly.
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Macro Monday
4.20.09 • Theme: Mother Earth
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I've always loved H. R. Giger's works both as an artist and visionary. I really felt it was fitting to include this shot for Macro Monday's Mother Earth theme. Even though this photo is a simple toy I think it really sheds some insight on our possible future.
H. R. Giger
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With so many changes in our forestry..
can "global warming" be the source that fuels the next 'global cooling' ??
Ecologist and engineer John D. Hamaker was convinced of it, having studied the current state of the Biosphere and the 25 Glacial and Interglacial cycles of the last 2.5 million years. It led him and co-author Don Weaver to publish The Survival of Civilization to warn the world in 1982 of this danger and to offer fundamental solutions to the complex problems involved in the regeneration of a late-interglacial demineralized soil and biosphere.
John D. Hamaker saw that this Interglacial Soil Demineralization and Retrogressive Vegetational Succession required humanity to reverse the ongoing soil depletion practices of most agriculture and forestry, and to wisely and generously replenish soils worldwide, restoring them to high mineral and fertility levels such as were known to produce the awesome forests and vegetation of the Climatic Optimum sometime 8000 to 5000 years ago.
'Climate Change Cause of Tree Death'
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I traveled this way on my visit to the waterfall on Thompson Creek. This area was subjected to a "controlled burn" a few years ago and now, the forest is regenerating. Forest fires are a natural part of the Boreal forest. In the last century there has been a tendency to suppress forest fires since many of them were started by steam powered locomotives. If there is no forest fire for many decades the accumulated dead fall can result in a catastrophic event.
The current practice is a controlled burn under moist conditions which removes the underbrush without damaging the soil. After a few years, the vegetation is coming back as may be seen by the new grasses, bushed and small pine trees.
From a small series of photographs I captured in the Blue Mountains National Park, Glenbrook.
Zenit 12XP, Fuji Superia 200 (expired, cropped with no other editing)
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