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My last shot of farm-ware was of grain storage, and a sidelined boxcar, but here is another Hicky. There is plenty going to rust around here north of Hygiene, Colorado, including this windmill. I zeroed in on the windmill tail and it identifies itself as "Hicks Farm." It always seemed hicks were plentiful around here. There should be plenty of this winter's ground water ready to pump into this valley in the shadow of Rabbit Mountain, even without using any petroleum distillates. Here is a load character and textures. This is a tighter view of the Hick Farm north of Hygiene and carefully watched over by a crow visually scanning the fields for small critter movements. I left it a crust of bread from my sandwich. Bon appetite!
This mini-valley is loaded with pasture lands and prairie castles. It looks like any corrugation and iron is slowly turning to oxides. I guess that the zinc coating on the corrugation gave it up.
I found a seasonably decent day while awaiting springtime in the Rockies at the end of this March while skies were building over the Rockies west of Longmont near Hygiene. Boy, the Rockies were well snow loaded at the time and here is a view. Plenty of snow in the ski trail on Meeker but right now in late May, the San Juans are at 2% residual snow pack. Maybe I will try more shots here on a premium sky and foliage day in the future. In the meantime, I will upload this edited Hick farm shot.
I've seen many things everywhere along my paths on display in the Rockies. My day stretched out nicely as I travel back and found several hits on rural routes on my way home and some captures I really liked. The day is stretching on. With so many snaps in my directories, pictures are everywhere though there was no possible room to park at Golden Ponds yesterday.
This picture was taken next to Scargill reservoir, Norwood, Yorkshire. There are interesting prefabricated buildings there, now abandoned and falling into decay.
I've cut in hard on the original composition of the shot to get the picture here (which you can kind of tell, and I would have preferred the resolution to have been sharper, but never mind). It was the simplicity of the colours and the composition, the orange rust and green reflected in both the rusty chubb lock and the surrounding wood that attracted me to this edited version.
Rust Fly, (also called Carrot Fly), Psila merdaria.
Length 8 mm.
May to August.
There are two species which are very similar - Psila fimetaria and Psila merdaria. P. fimetaria has the third antennal joint darkened on the outer side at the base of the arista, and the hairs beneath the second antennal joint longer; whereas P. merdaria has the third antennal joint larger but without darkening at the base of the arista on the outer side, and hairs beneath the second antennal joint shorter.
Found in various habitats but often in areas of lush vegetation and amongst the crops that they target when ready to lay eggs.
Larvae live in the roots, bulbs and non-woody stems of plants.
These rusting mice reminded me of the artwork with the boxing hares when I looked at the reflections.
Orange sporangia --
Air-borne spores;
Cedar-apple rust.
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This orange fungus is growing on a red cedar tree, and at this time of the year the fungus releases spores from its orange sporangia (spore cases). The spores are carried by the wind. The spores that happen to land on apple trees will infect their leaves. Soon rust-colored fungal spores from the apple leaves will be released, infecting red cedar trees. That's why this is called Cedar-Apple Rust. The fungal infection alternates from red cedar trees to apple trees.
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Happy May Day!!!
For many people, including me, this is the first day of summer, according to ancient tradition. Some cultures call this day Beltane, but I just call it May Day!!! Happy Summer!!!
3" of railway sleeper spike and hand drill for making holes for the spikes from Northern Territory Australia.
Digging through the archives. Don Valley Brickworks in Toronto. Wide shot. Taken in 2005
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