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Smooth Carrion Flower (Smilax herbacea) is a perennial vine-like plant of thickets and woods. It's green flower emits an odor of rotten flesh, not to attract bees, but instead flies for pollination. Its spring blooms give way to clusters of dark berries in the summer.
The rarest British reptile, Smooth Snakes are found only on the southern heaths, mainly in Hampshire and Dorset. Being non venomous, they use constriction to subdue their prey.
Member of the Cuckoo family. Very common and widespread resident in Trinidad & Tobago (Crotophaga ani).
Interestingly, these birds live in groups of up to 5 breeding pairs and up to 17 individuals. They defend a single territory and lay their eggs in one communal nest. All group members incubate the eggs and care for the young. One member of the group keeps watch on a high perch whilst the others forage. First broods stay with their natal group and help feed the second brood! Like feathered meerkats!!
Pozze di Tegna, Maggia River, Ticino - Switzerland
by Kichinosuke Tanaka (1897-?), included in Tansai Hyakka (Many Lightly Colored Flowers) - Japanese picture book published in 1964
This photo is of the smooth sand after the water retreated. Nice calm shot, but I like the shots of moving water better. My wife on the other hand never likes my photographs of moving water. This is a single exposure.
Technical Specs:
Nikon D5100 (cropped sensor)
Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6
Hoya HD UV filter (for lens protection only)
Lee filter holder (Foundation System)
Lee wide-angle 77mm lens adapter
Lee 0.9 soft grad ND
Single exposure
Manfrotto tripod and ball head
Rubber boots to keep feet dry
Olympus E510 + Sigma 10-20mm
I love the ocean : temperature, sounds, smells, and of course the colours, ... With Black and White you can't see them ...
But personally i think you can see much more.
Threats to Smooth Coneflower include:
•Habitat destruction and degradation
•Collection
•Fire suppression
•Highway right-of-way maintenance
•Urbanization and suburbanization of the species’ range
•Encroachment by exotic species
•Inadequacy of existing protection afforded by State laws
•Small population size
Stephens County, GA
Monday, June 18, 2018
By Dale Suiter,
Endangered Species Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Raleigh, Ecological Services Field Office
Architects: SJB
Featured Products: Austral Masonry’s Solitary Smooth (custom colour)
Photographer: Brett Boardman
ill Doctrine is a hip-hop video blog hosted by Jay Smooth, creator of the hip hop music blog and founder of New York's longest running hip-hop radio show, WBAI's Underground Railroad.
June 4, 2016. Boston, MA.
Pride Day @ Faneuil Hall returns to kick-off Boston Pride Week – which celebrates 46 years, SOLIDARITY THROUGH PRIDE Head down to the West End of the Marketplace and enjoy FREE live entertainment designed for people of all ages.
1pm – “That Girl Band” UNRULY This all female band will rock the stage.
2pm – Connor Street Electro-pop recording artist Connor Street will captivate the crowd with his silky smooth voice and high energy dance moves.
3pm – JOLIVI Los Angeles based international pop singer JOLIVI
4pm- Kamden T Rage will work the crowd with some amazing drag performances.
4:30 Mega DANCE PARTY ON THE PLAZA with DJ Michael Giller.
© 2016 Marilyn Humphries
Riding on newly installed ribbon rail at milepost 6, ethanol empties depart westward on the Waseca sub.
Minnesota City, MN.
3/21/15
Edited Curiosity PR image (panorama created by NASA) of a smooth rock in Gale Crater.
Image source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22211
Original caption: This exposure of finely laminated bedrock on Mars includes tiny crystal-shaped bumps, plus mineral veins with both bright and dark material. This rock target, called "Jura," was imaged by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Jan. 4, 2018, during the 1,925th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars.
The view combines three MAHLI frames covering a postcard-size patch of the rock. Fig. 1 includes a scale bar of 2 centimeters (about 0.8 inch) and a blow-up of a "swallowtail" crystal shape. The combination of simpler "lenticular" crystal shapes with swallowtails and more complex "lark's foot" and star shapes is characteristic of crystals of gypsum, a type of calcium sulfate.
To the right of a prominent swallowtail near the top of the image is one bright mineral vein and another with both bright and dark portions.
This rock is near the southern, uphill edge of "Vera Rubin Ridge" on lower Mount Sharp.
MAHLI was built by Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover.
More information about Curiosity is online at www.nasa.gov/msl and mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Image Addition Date:
2018-02-08