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Seventh day. Someone brought some antique bottles for our small "Pharmacy Museum". Took some pics then as I wanted to see the white tombstones by night, I went back to the Sainte-Foy Cemetery. I saw some ghosts. I was not afraid!
This guy, Mitt, traveling light caught up with me on the summit. We descended together and met his friend who had stayed behind.
Halo Around the Sun with Medusa at Great Adventure Fright Fest... someone actually saw this as a peace sign... thought that was pretty cool...
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These are micro (macro) photographs of the deep interiors of my roses.
If you ever wanted to know what was going on underneath all of those beautiful petals, now you know.
The colors, as bright and saturated as they appear, are authentic, and the textures are natural; nothing has been added or altered in post-processing.
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More micro (macro) shots of the interior of my roses in my new set, "The Rose Universe:"
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157630018454977/
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Someone commented earlier about children and cardboard boxes. Well this is the card board box that the green cuby house came in and it kept these kids occupied all afternoon. The only thing that wore out were the adults pulling it around the yard.
"Gleam and resonate, just like the gate
Around the holy kingdom
With words like, 'Lost and found' and 'Don't look down'
and 'Someone save temptation'"
~ Iron and Wine, The Trapeze Swinger
@ il cielo, may 2008. yikes. totally surreal. bring it on. somehow, we missed stephanie powers, which was terribly disappointing, but a loni anderson sighting just somehow sets everything right.
Meerkats (Suricata suricatta) inhabit portions of South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, extending from the south west arid biotic zone and eastward into neighboring southern savanna and grassland areas.These areas include the majority of the southern tip of Africa up to about 17 degrees South latitude.
They inhabit the most open and arid country of any mongoose species. They are found in areas of savannah and open plains and their distribution depends on soil type, with firm to hard soils being common living grounds.
Females typically breed at about 24 months of age. The breeding season is extended in meerkats when conditions are favorable. In addition, females exhibit no synchrony of estrous, mating, or birth. Therefore, the pack can produce young throughout the year. In the wild, however, births occur most often during the rainy, warmer part of the year from August through March. Breeding may stop during times of drought.
Young are weaned between 49 and 63 days of age. Meerkats become sexually mature around 1 year of age. As in all mammals, the mother provides the offspring with milk. Young mothers carry their young by picking them up any which-way, whereas older, experienced mothers always carry young by the nape of the neck. The father meerkat may take an active role in parental care by guarding the young. Because of the highly social nature of meerkats, nonbreeding individuals are often part of the pack. These nonbreeders act as helpers, guarding and provisioning the young.
In captivity, Meerkats have been known to live for over 12 years. Lifespan in the wild may be from 5 to 15 years.
Meerkats are highly social and live in packs consisting of up to 3 familial groups. There can be up to 30 individuals in a pack. Each individual family group includes a breeding pair and their offspring. Within packs, animals are usually friendly, but among packs, serious fights can erupt.
Meerkats exhibit sentinel behavior where one member of the group poses as a look out, watching for predators and other danger. The sentinel sounds alarm by giving a distinct bark. If a parent sounds alarm, its offspring run to and huddle around their mother.
Sentinel rotation occurs throughout the day among different members of the pack and is announced vocally. During foraging, prey are located by smell. Older individuals often share food with juveniles. Adult male meerkats typically emigrate from the pack in which they were born and attempt to join or take over another pack. Females are usually philopatric. Nonbreeding members of the pack often act as babysitters for nursing females. This allows ample opportunity for these females to forage, thus maintaining a sufficient milk supply for the offspring. Babysitting continues until the young are able to forage with the pack.
Meerkats are basically diurnal. They are only active when the sun is present and warms the surface of their burrows. When the weather is overcast or raining, S. suricata does not emerge from its underground retreat. Similarly, during midday, if temperatures are too high, meerkats will return to the burrow to cool off.
They are mainly insectivorous, but will take small vertebrates, eggs, and plant matter. They forage regularly for these food items, digging in soil and grass and overturning rocks. Their animal diet consists of 82% insects, 7% arachnids, 3% centipedes, 3% millipedes, 2% reptiles, and 2% birds. Captive meerkats will prey readily upon small mammals.
Predators include various avian and mammalian carnivores, such as hawks and eagles (particularly the Martial Eagle) and jackals. S. suricatta shows a variety of anti-predator behaviors. These behaviors include alarm calling, maintaining an alert stance by propping the body into an upright position, running for cover, defensive threats, mobbing an enemy, self defense, and covering the young. In defensive threats and mobbing, meerkats appear larger than they actually are.