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Dont know its name, but this furry thing was a source of amazement and we were creative in playing using it in many ways during our childhood!..
with tangy noodles soaked in sweet dark sauce. Love the stringy bite you get from the noodles. Oh yeah amazing fat char siew too
Food, friends and fun are the different colors on the palette of life, waiting to paint a beautiful picture of our dreams. To make the picture vibrant we bring you "Cheese Spinach Roll", a crispy blanket swaddling some soft green spinach with a layer of stringy white cheese. Dip it in your favorite condiment and much while the conversation flows.
Caption courtesy : Moon :)
Early one morning this week, while Taylor and I were on our pre-work walkies, she came across a sheet of plastic tissue (the sort that your deli cold meat slices are wrapped in) and before I could grab it, down the hatch it disappeared!
We phoned the vet and were advised to change her diet of 100% dry dog nuts to 50% nuts and 50% tinned puppy food with three spoons of olive oil added. This was to assist mother nature in the re-introduction of the plastic within a couple of days. However if Taylor seemed to be in any distress, we were to get her immediately to the vet.
So she got a small tin of tuna in sunflower oil with a side order of olive oil at lunch time and at her normal feed time in the evening we fed her as per the vet’s instruction.
The following day Brendan stayed with her to supervise activities and 38 hours later, after her evening stroll, he returned home triumphantly holding aloft a stringy piece of plastic tissue. Following number of hand cleanings with disinfectants, he got a high five. Then we all lived happily ever after.
"ROADS across the city were shut off as the Saturday deluge caused flash flooding across Wagga.
The Sturt Highway was cut at Kooringal Road and detours were directed through Eunony Bridge Road. The Olympic Highway was also compromised in a number of locations.
Copland Street in Kooringal became inundated with water to levels reaching almost two metres.
Hammond Avenue became completely flooded near Marshalls Creek and temporary barriers were installed across the highway to close the levee and protect the CBD from the rising Murrumbidgee River.
One lone tent remained at Wilks Park early last night as the camping ground filled with water.
A swollen Lake Albert had water gushing into it from Stringy Bark Creek and at Wagga Airport flights were cancelled due to weather conditions with most resuming on Sunday afternoon.
Squad captain of the Volunteer Rescue Association Tim Lidden said two rescues had taken place in incidents where cars had driven into floodwaters and stalled.
About 7pm last night two adults and three children were trapped in a car on Redbank Road and later about 8.30pm a male was stranded on Roach Road.
Although many posted and manned road closures exist throughout Wagga, there are still many instances of water over roads that require drivers to take extreme care."
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Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Lemon Thread' 3/2022 Sawara k2- (John Mitsch Nursery, OR 1980s) Dwarf Sawara False Cypress, Size at 10 years: 4x3ft., stringy, whip-like, golden yellow foliage, USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Michigan Bloom Month -, In Garden Bed k2 for 4.3 YEARS (Lowes,). Planted in 2017.
American Conifer Society: Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Lemon Thread' is a fairly slow-growing dwarf selection of Sawara cypress that grows in the form of a flattened cushion of a mixture of filamentous and typical foliage. After 10 years of growth, a mature specimen will measure 4 feet (1.3 m) tall and 3 feet (1 m) wide, an annual growth rate of 4 to 5 inches (10 - 12.5 cm).
This cultivar originated as a branch sport found in the mid-1980s on a specimen of Ch. pisifera 'Lutescens' at John Mitsch Nursery, Aurora, Oregon, USA.
'Lemon Thread' is a slow-growing, semi-dwarf, broadly-conical, shrubby variety that will grow to 3-5' over the first 20 years. Noted for its bright yellow thread-like foliage. Foliage attractive in winter. Small cones appear on mature plants. Peeling, reddish-orange bark develops on mature plants. One of 3 died 2020.
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Link to additional photos of this plant from 2017, 18, 20, 21, 22:
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#Dwarf, #Conifer, #T2J, #ChamaecyparisPisifera, #Chamaecyparis, #Sawara, # FalseCypress
Mailart 365 - Dumpster collage postcard to New Hampshire. Trashed Geometry textbook page, clip art snakes, stringy napkin overlay, red line tissue overlay, short-hand scrap from Annie's gift envelope, and a rescued chemistry textbook photo on how to use lab equipment.
Some friends were cool enough to throw their friend a surprise BIRTHDAY PARTY on the train last night. While the birthday boy was in the another train car, about 7 of his friends decorated the train car with balloons, confetti and stringy spray. They did this while the train was passing over the Williamsburg Bridge, which takes forever, giving them more than enough time to complete the surprise. This pic is before he got on the train. I guess he was just admiring his work.
Mission began 1872, services in Institute 1880, Congregational church (built 1870) let to Free Presbyterians and Anglicans after 1873, sold 1882 to Anglicans.
“Kingston . . . The Rev. Mr. Hector held service of the Church of England in the School Room on Tuesday evening last, and during the week visited the members of that body residing in the township. I hear, by the appointment of several more lay readers, arrangements have been made so that in future service will be oftener and more regularly conducted.” [Narracoorte Herald 4 Jun 1878]
“Church of England service was held in the evening in the Lacepede Bay Institute.” [Narracoorte Herald 2 Apr 1880]
“Kingston . . . A little excitement is caused by an advertisement that the congregational church, at present rented by the Church of England, is for sale by tender, and I hear that both the Catholic and church of England congregations are about to put in for it.” [Border Watch 26 Apr 1882]
“Sunday the 18th is, I hear, the day fixed for the opening of the new Wesleyan church . . . and on that day also the Rev. Mr. Cowan, incumbent of the English church at Robe, will commence his monthly services in the Church of England here.” [Narracoorte Herald 13 Dec 1887]
“Earthquake . . . Church of England walls cracked, and part ceiling down; not likely to be any service on Sunday.” [Narracoorte Herald 18 May 1897]
“Earthquake . . . The Anglican Church has suffered considerably, £100 worth of damage having been done. The belfry has been smashed, and the walls shattered, and it is a question whether it is worth repairing.” [Register 19 May 1897]
“The letter of your correspondent which appears in the last issue of your valuable paper might possibly give your readers the impression that there is a sad want of loyalty among the Church people of Kingston. That this is not the case is evidenced by the fact that on the Sunday following the death of our late lamented Queen, Holy Trinity Church was suitably draped in black, and the services throughout that day were of a memorial character, and followed implicitly the instructions of the chapter. The Dead March was played at the close of the services, the congregation standing. The church remained draped until the Saturday morning on which the funeral took place, and the church bell was tolled in accordance with custom. . . [signed] Peoples' Warden.” [Narracoorte Herald 26 Feb 1901]
“Holy Trinity Church, Kingston. . . During the year sundry improvements have been made and instead of two side aisles there is now one centre aisle. The altar has been enriched by a handsome cross presented by Miss Lea, of Lake Robe, who also gave a new paten. To Mr. Cook, who has now left the district, the church owes an artistic litany desk. The font has been raised on a pedestal of imitation colored marble and new matting has been procured. Last, but not least, a new organ now adorns the choir, the old one being relegated to the Sunday-school, which is now held in the Oddfellows' Hall.” [Narracoorte Herald 30 May 1905]
“Mr. Pearce has just completed a handsome altar and reredos for Holy Trinity Church, Kingston. It was wholly constructed of Australian oak (stringy bark) in his factory by Mr. C. W. Hall. It was presented to the church, and bears the following inscription:- ‘To the glory of God, and in grateful memory of Eric Darcy Tapfield; killed in action at Amman, 30th March, 1918.’ The altar and reredos is 7ft. high and 6ft. wide, and is beautifully polished. It reflects credit on Mr. Pearce and his workmen.” [Border Watch 30 Oct 1925]
The shed in final stages - cladding is all recycled hardwood and self milled Brown Stringy Bark (Gum Tree). Painted the roof in Colorbond Monument to match the house at a later date.
"Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Golden Mop', 2015, [Sawara False Cypress], kam-ee-SIP -uh-riss pih-SIFF-ur-uh, 3x3 ft Dwarf Conifer, Z4, stringy, whip-like, golden yellow foliage, Bloom Month --, In Bed S2 for 5.4 years
Big box. Golden Mop False Cypress is a mutation of ‘Filifera Aurea’ and a true dwarf, 3 feet in 10 years , with a more intense yellow color. Planted in 2010."
Detail of Tom Roberts famous oil painting Bailed Up which was conceived while he was staying in Inverell in northern NSW . He painted the scene largely ' en plein air ' in plain air . It tells much of the qualities of the local landscape as of its staged drama . Roberts superbly captures the summer heat conditions , which render to stillness the dramatic circumstances of a Cobb & Co hold up . The scene was painted from a purpose-built platform in a stringy bark tree , giving the work its high vantage point . Roberts modelled the the figures on Inverell townspeople including stagecoach driver ' Silent Bob Bates ' who had been held up by local bushranger ' Captain Thunderbolt ' three decades earlier .
Painted in 1895 .
Tom Roberts born in England 1856 arrived in Australia 1869 , England 1903-23 died at Kallista Victoria 1931 .
Art Gallery NSW . Sydney .
Air Canada: Keiseki-style meal.
Narita, Japan to Toronto.
October 2009
The texture of this miso soup is different from what is usually served in North America since there is lots of stringy seaweed in it, in addition to wakame.
Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Sungold' 3/2022 Sawara k2- (Gordon Bentham, Canada 1960s) Dwarf Sawara Cypress, Size at 10 years: 4x4ft., thread like Golden Yellow foliage, USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Michigan Bloom Month -, In Garden Bed k2 for 8.4 YEARS (Lowes,). Planted in 2013.
American Conifer Society: Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Sungold' is a dwarf, mounding selection of Sawara cypress with gold-tipped, thread-like foliage that does not burn in full sun. It is similar to Ch. pisifera 'Filifera Aurea,' but has coarser branching and better sun tolerance. It is also thought to be somewhat hardier than its parent. After 10 years of growth, a mature specimen will measure 3 feet (1 m) tall and 4.5 feet (1.5 m) wide, an annual growth rate of 3 to 4 inches (7.5 - 10 cm).
This cultivar originated as a seedling of 'Filifera Aurea' selected in the mid-1960s by Gordon Bentham, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and introduced to the nursery trade by William Goddard at Floravista Gardens.
Mounding, globose to broadly conical, dwarf evergreen shrub with golden, fine-textured, thread-like foliage on stringy, weeping branches. New growth foliage is bright gold but matures to lime green. Very slow growing, typically reaching only 3-5' tall in 10 years. Planted in 2013. aka Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Filifera Sungold'
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Link to additional photos of this plant from 2015, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22:
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ROWLSTONE
ST PETER. Unbuttressed, late w tower with pyramid roof. But the nave is Norman and has in its s doorway and chancel arch two of the very best and most characteristic pieces of the Herefordshire school of carvers. Both pieces are clearly the work of one man. His obsession was birds, especially cocks. Cocks are e.g. on the capitals of the one order of shafts of the S doorway. The abacus has intertwined trails. In the arch a thick roll moulding and a band of rosettes. But the tympanum is what really matters, a tympanum that helps much to reconstruct the all but lost one of Shobdon, of which Rowlstone is to all intents and purposes a copy. It represents Christ in Glory. The legs are placed in the typically Romanesque way, with knees wide apart and feet together. The folds have the tense, stringy parallel curves of the Herefordshire school. The figure is in a halo, not almond-shaped as usual, but with top and bottom rounded. Four angels hold the halo, and all four are represented flying head downwards. This allows the carver again to display his curved parallels. The composition is highly accomplished. What is against nature is in accordance with stylistic principles. In the capitals of the chancel arch there are again birds. The capitals it are of one piece with the outer adjoining panel of two small figures on each side. On the 1. (N) they are an angel and a bishop, on the r. it is not so easy to recognize them, as they stand upside down. That does not seem quite so accomplished, and the most baffling fact is that the whole stone was not rejected. Such indulgence is attractive; it is instructive too. Many birds once more in the abaci. In the doorway arch a thick roll and an outer band of saltire crosses. Norman windows in nave and chancel.
(Pevsner: The Buildings of England, Herefordshire)
This is a black-handed spider monkey - which looks rather glum.
I think its because its been isolated, hopefully temporary! Out of camera shot, below and behind are another three of these monkeys, all huddling together, just like "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil"
I thinks it is rather sad as it is left on its own by its others.
Distribution: Southern Mexico and all of Central America. Black-handed spider monkeys are vulnerable because of habitat destruction and hunting. They are particularly sensitive to changes in the environment, and so are indicator species for the health of the ecosystem.
Wild diet: Fruit and leaves, termites, and occasionally bark
Spider monkeys have a distinctive appearance, even in relation to other monkeys. No other primate looks quite like them. Spider monkeys have a prominent face, with whitish rings around the eyes. The rings contrast against a mostly black face. Spider monkeys are highly variable in coloration; some are black with a white or yellowish-white chest, others are mostly yellowish-grey. No matter what color, the fur is usually coarse and stringy over most of the body. Black-handed spider monkeys have black fur around the hands, feet, elbows, and knees, giving this species its common name.
Spider monkeys are almost perfectly designed for life in the trees. They have very long arms, hands, and feet. They have almost no thumb. It is their tail that gives them amazing acrobatic ability.
Spider monkeys sport a tail that seems to have a life of its own. The tail waves around, curls and uncurls, and even grasps branches. But the tail isn't acting on its own---spider monkeys use it like a fifth limb. When jumping around fifty feet above the forest floor, five "hands" are definitely better than four. With their specialized hands and grasping (prehensile) tail, spider monkeys are among the most agile climbers in the forest, moving through the trees with grace and speed. They climb hand over hand, suspended under branches. Five long limbs working together give this monkey a spider-like appearance---hence the name!
The availability of food determines much of spider monkey's social structure and behavior. About 75% of their diet is fruit. During the fruiting seasons, spider monkeys live in groups of up to 20 or so. They defend this area of plenty from other primates, until they've relieved the trees of their fruity bounty. When fruit is scarce and there isn't enough high-quality food to support the larger groups, spider monkeys break up into groups of between two and eight members. At these times they eat mostly leaves; not as nutritious as fruit, but abundantly available. During the next big fruiting season, the larger groups again assemble to feed and live together.
Body length: 15 to 27 inches (38 to 69 centimeters)
Tail length: 23 to 29 inches (58 to 74 centimeters)
Weight: 12 to 15 pounds (5.5 to 6.8 kilograms)
Habitat: Mostly rain forest, but also evergreen, semi-deciduous, and deciduous forest.
Royal Melbourne Zoo, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
got a ute load of stringy to mix with the box josh got last week; this should get the oven going more quickly...
This is the front end of a shiny new Cadillac, in the parking lot of the Norcross, GA Goodwill store.
In the front plate holder is a plate, upon which has been blazoned, no doubt through witchery, an image of a middle-aged white woman hugging the stringy, roided-up, facially disfigured bulk of Carrot Top.
They are standing before a wall or curtain upon which is repeated the logo of the Beau Rivage casino/golf course in Biloxi, MS, which I understand to be a sort of sham "resort" catering to people with money to waste but lacking the taste to go somewhere genuinely refined or the balls to go to Vegas.
South door.
. Unbuttressed, late w tower with pyramid roof. But the nave is Norman and has in its s doorway and chancel arch two of the very best and most characteristic pieces of the Herefordshire school of carvers. Both pieces are clearly the work of one man. His obsession was birds, especially cocks. Cocks are e.g. on the capitals of the one order of shafts of the S doorway. The abacus has intertwined trails. In the arch a thick roll moulding and a band of rosettes. But the tympanum is what really matters, a tympanum that helps much to reconstruct the all but lost one of Shobdon, of which Rowlstone is to all intents and purposes a copy. It represents Christ in Glory. The legs are placed in the typically Romanesque way, with knees wide apart and feet together. The folds have the tense, stringy parallel curves of the Herefordshire school. The figure is in a halo, not almond-shaped as usual, but with top and bottom rounded. Four angels hold the halo, and all four are represented flying head downwards. This allows the carver again to display his curved parallels. The composition is highly accomplished. What is against nature is in accordance with stylistic principles. In the capitals of the chancel arch there are again birds. The capitals it are of one piece with the outer adjoining panel of two small figures on each side. On the 1. (N) they are an angel and a bishop, on the r. it is not so easy to recognize them, as they stand upside down. That does not seem quite so accomplished, and the most baffling fact is that the whole stone was not rejected. Such indulgence is attractive; it is instructive too. Many birds once more in the abaci. In the doorway arch a thick roll and an outer band of saltire crosses. Norman windows in nave and chancel.
(Pevsner: The Buildings of England, Herefordshire)
There were only two "strings" that were still actively producing "honeydew"that I could see.
Most of the old strings were tattered and brittle.
I have still not been able to discover what makes them.
Ants do sup the honeydew.
Salps are found most commonly in warm or equatorial seas, where they float randomly, either alone or in long, stringy colonies. There are about 70 species of salps worldwide. Greenpeace is in the Azores with a team of scientists to survey and document deep sea life.
Air Canada: Keiseki-style meal.
Narita, Japan to Toronto.
October 2009
What the miso soup looks like before hot water is added. The thing that looks like a brownie/ crouton is dehydrated red miso paste.
The texture of this miso soup is different from what is usually served in North America since there is lots of stringy seaweed in it, in addition to wakame.
Why go 100g when you can get the 150-250g bulk bags ($6-8 ea)? For those who don't play around. :P
Chili Ginger Hearts (130g. Holy heat. These don't joke around and I love it. Also no more than two at a time. Tastes like burning)
Strawberry Rhubarb (I can't say there's any tartness from the rhubarb, and these are more like generic strawberry "flavoured" candies vs. the Alpine strawberries from the last batch. Also addition of coconut oil really overwhelms the flavour and makes these taste waxy to me. I want strawberry not wax)
Mango Maracuja (a bit like a mango cocktail thanks to the addition of coconut oil. I'm not into coconut flavours much)
Apple Fries (250g. After this, I got the 500g bag ($14 ea). These are INCREDIBLE. Stringy fry like treads of juicy, pliable apple gummies, with a hint of fresh sour tang. Awesome!)
Easter Mystery Bag
(contains 6 small packs for a total of 148g/$8)
Quebec-based gourmet gummies and artisanal candy.
I might have a little problem...
It's true. In any given line, I will probably gravitate towards the redhead first unless there's a damn good reason not to.
Adri's hair came out of the box looking kind of odd. I could have handled stringy if not for these strange frizzy spots at the ends of certain sections. So I dunked her in the hot water/ice water bath and then curled her hair just to see if that would help. It did.
I wish I'd paid more attention to the way I was curling it. The ONLY explanation for the odd lengths in her hair that I can think of (besides monkeys taking over the factory) is that she really was supposed to have curly hair and they just... never curled it.
That said, she's got the most beautiful red hair I've seen in ages.
South door.
. Unbuttressed, late w tower with pyramid roof. But the nave is Norman and has in its s doorway and chancel arch two of the very best and most characteristic pieces of the Herefordshire school of carvers. Both pieces are clearly the work of one man. His obsession was birds, especially cocks. Cocks are e.g. on the capitals of the one order of shafts of the S doorway. The abacus has intertwined trails. In the arch a thick roll moulding and a band of rosettes. But the tympanum is what really matters, a tympanum that helps much to reconstruct the all but lost one of Shobdon, of which Rowlstone is to all intents and purposes a copy. It represents Christ in Glory. The legs are placed in the typically Romanesque way, with knees wide apart and feet together. The folds have the tense, stringy parallel curves of the Herefordshire school. The figure is in a halo, not almond-shaped as usual, but with top and bottom rounded. Four angels hold the halo, and all four are represented flying head downwards. This allows the carver again to display his curved parallels. The composition is highly accomplished. What is against nature is in accordance with stylistic principles. In the capitals of the chancel arch there are again birds. The capitals it are of one piece with the outer adjoining panel of two small figures on each side. On the 1. (N) they are an angel and a bishop, on the r. it is not so easy to recognize them, as they stand upside down. That does not seem quite so accomplished, and the most baffling fact is that the whole stone was not rejected. Such indulgence is attractive; it is instructive too. Many birds once more in the abaci. In the doorway arch a thick roll and an outer band of saltire crosses. Norman windows in nave and chancel.
(Pevsner: The Buildings of England, Herefordshire)
Chamaecyparis pisifera, cultivar Boulevard - Close-up of this slow-growing pine tree with bluish-green foliage that is arranged in flat sprays and red-brown bark that is vertically cracked and has a stringy texture. It is grown for its timber in Japan, where it is used as a material for building palaces, temples, shrines and baths, and making coffins. This is in Putnam County, Carmel,NY.
The Red-winged Blackbirds have arrived at Haddam Meadows! According to the Cornell range map, they live year-round in our area, so in fact they may never have left... But anyway, yesterday I heard many dozens of males singing, "Conk-la-REE!" On the last syllable they puff up their wings to look broad and bulky.
Cornell says:
Habitat: Marsh - Red-winged Blackbirds spend the breeding season in wet places like fresh or saltwater marshes and rice paddies. You may also find them breeding in drier places like sedge meadows, alfalfa fields, and fallow fields. Occasionally, Red-winged Blackbirds nest in wooded areas along waterways. In fall and winter, they congregate in agricultural fields, feedlots, pastures, and grassland.
Food: Insects - Red-winged Blackbirds eat mainly insects in the summer and seeds, including corn and wheat, in the winter. Sometimes they feed by probing at the bases of aquatic plants with their slender bills, prying them open to get at insects hidden inside. In fall and winter they eat weedy seeds such as ragweed and cocklebur as well as native sunflowers and waste grains.
Nest Description: Females build the nests by winding stringy plant material around several close, upright stems and weaving in a platform of coarse, wet vegetation. Around and over this she adds more wet leaves and decayed wood, plastering the inside with mud to make a cup. Finally, she lines the cup with fine, dry grasses. One nest picked apart by a naturalist in the 1930s had been made by weaving together 34 strips of willow bark and 142 cattail leaves, some 2 feet long. When finished the nest is 4 to 7 inches across and 3 to 7 inches deep.
Nest Placement: Shrub - Red-winged Blackbirds build their nests low among vertical shoots of marsh vegetation, shrubs, or trees. Females choose the nest site with some input from the male. Typically, she puts the nest near the ground (or water surface in a marsh), in dense, grass-like vegetation such as cattails, bulrushes, sedges, and Phragmites in wetlands; goldenrod, blackberry, or willow and alder trees in uplands; and wheat, barley, alfalfa, and rice plants.
Behavior: Male Red-winged Blackbirds spend much of the breeding season sitting on a high perch over their territories and singing their hearts out. Females tend to slink through reeds and grasses collecting food or nest material. Both males and females defend nests from intruders and predators. Red-winged Blackbirds nest in loose groups in part because appropriate marshy habitat is scarce. Typically five or more (up to 15) females have to crowd their nests into any one male’s territory. They typically mate with the territory holder, though many also mate with nearby males. In fall and winter, Red-winged Blackbirds flock with other blackbirds, grackles, cowbirds, and starlings, feeding on open ground and roosting in flocks of thousands or millions of birds. Red-winged Blackbirds are strong, agile fliers.
- www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-winged_Blackbird/lifehistory
I once read that, since their nests are frequently suspended between Cattail reeds above water, baby Red-winged Blackbirds learn to swim before they learn to fly. I'm not sure where I read this though, so I can't cite the source.
" We descended and entered. Within the church, long rows of fluted columns, like huge monuments, divided the building into broad aisles, and on the figured pavement fell many a soft blush from the painted windows above. I knew the church was very large, but I could not fully appreciate its great size until I noticed that the men standing far down by the altar looked like boys, and seemed to glide, rather than walk. We loitered about gazing aloft at the monster windows all aglow with brilliantly colored scenes in the lives of the Saviour and his followers. Some of these pictures are mosaics, and so artistically are their thousand particles of tinted glass or stone put together that the work has all the smoothness and finish of a painting. We counted sixty panes of glass in one window, and each pane was adorned with one of these master achievements of genius and patience.
The guide showed us a coffee-colored piece of sculpture which he said was considered to have come from the hand of Phidias, since it was not possible that any other artist, of any epoch, could have copied nature with such faultless accuracy. The figure was that of a man without a skin; with every vein, artery, muscle, every fiber and tendon and tissue of the human frame represented in minute detail. It looked natural, because somehow it looked as if it were in pain. A skinned man would be likely to look that way unless his attention were occupied with some other matter. It was a hideous thing, and yet there was a fascination about it some where. I am very sorry I saw it, because I shall always see it now. I shall dream of it sometimes. I shall dream that it is resting its corded arms on the bed's head and looking down on me with its dead eyes; I shall dream that it is stretched between the sheets with me and touching me with its exposed muscles and its stringy cold legs." --- Mark Twain
Dinner @ Somboon Restaurant.
The Thais ate a lot of stranger vegetables and "Water Mimosa" (Neptunia oleracea) is definitely one of the them. It's a cultivated aquatic plant. The stringy stems can be very fibrous if you happen to bite into an older piece though the younger ones can be quite crunchy. They go well with spicy condiments and one tends to find them wok stir-fried with chillies and garlic, where the robustness of the combo helped to mask down the slightly raw greenness of the vegetation.
Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Golden Mop' () Photo: F.D.Richards, SE Michigan, 3/2021 - Dwarf Sawara False Cypress, kam-ee-SIP -uh-riss pih-SIFF-ur-uh, Size at 10 years: 3x3’, stringy, whip-like, golden yellow foliage, USDA Hardiness Zone 4, In Garden Bed S2,2c for 10.8 YEARS (Lowes,). Planted in 2010.
Missouri Botanical Garden: 'Golden Mop' is a mounded, slow-growing, dwarf shrub that typically grows to 2-3' tall and as wide over the first 10 years, eventually maturing to as much as 5' tall. This is a filifera-type plant with stringy, whip-like, golden yellow foliage. It retains good yellow color throughout the year. Cultivar name comes from the reportedly similarity of a small shrub to a mop head.
Big box. Golden Mop False Cypress is a mutation of 'Filifera Aurea' and a true dwarf, 3 feet in 10 years , with a more intense yellow color. Planted in 2010. 32x36 inches in 2019.
Additional photos of this plant from 2015, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21:
The gangly Double-crested Cormorant is a prehistoric-looking, matte-black fishing bird with yellow-orange facial skin. Though they look like a combination of a goose and a loon, they are relatives of frigatebirds and boobies and are a common sight around fresh and salt water across North America—perhaps attracting the most attention when they stand on docks, rocky islands, and channel markers, their wings spread out to dry. These solid, heavy-boned birds are experts at diving to catch small fish.
Measurements
Both Sexes
Length27.6–35.4 in
70–90 cmWingspan44.9–48.4 in
114–123 cmWeight42.3–88.2 oz
1200–2500 g
Relative Size
The size of a small goose; larger than Neotropic Cormorant, but smaller than Great Cormorant.
Other Names
•Cormoran à aigrettes (French)
•Cormorán Orejudo, Cormorán Bicrestado, Corúa de Mar (Spanish)
Size & Shape
Double-crested Cormorants are large waterbirds with small heads on long, kinked necks. They have thin, strongly hooked bills, roughly the length of the head. Their heavy bodies sit low in the water.
Color Pattern
Adults are brown-black with a small patch of yellow-orange skin on the face. Immatures are browner overall, palest on the neck and breast. In the breeding season, adults develop a small double crest of stringy black or white feathers.
Behavior
Double-crested Cormorants float low on the surface of water and dive to catch small fish. After fishing, they stand on docks, rocks, and tree limbs with wings spread open to dry. In flight, they often travel in V-shaped flocks that shift and reform as the birds alternate bursts of choppy flapping with short glides.
Habitat
Double-crested Cormorants are the most widespread cormorant in North America, and the one most frequently seen in freshwater. They breed on the coast as well as on large inland lakes. They form colonies of stick nests built high in trees on islands or in patches of flooded timber.
Cool Facts
•From a distance, Double-crested Cormorants are dark birds with snaky necks, but up-close they’re quite colorful—with orange-yellow skin on their face and throat, striking aquamarine eyes that sparkle like jewels, and a mouth that is bright blue on the inside.
•The double-crest of the Double-crested Cormorant is only visible on adults during breeding season. The crests are white in cormorants from Alaska, and black in other regions.
•Cormorants often stand in the sun with their wings spread out to dry. They have less preen oil than other birds, so their feathers can get soaked rather than shedding water like a duck’s. Though this seems like a problem for a bird that spends its life in water, wet feathers probably make it easier for cormorants to hunt underwater with agility and speed.
•Double-crested Cormorant nests often are exposed to direct sun. Adults shade the chicks and also bring them water, pouring it from their mouths into those of the chicks.
•In breeding colonies where the nests are placed on the ground, young cormorants leave their nests and congregate into groups with other youngsters (creches). They return to their own nests to be fed.
•Accumulated fecal matter below nests can kill the nest trees. When this happens, the cormorants may move to a new area or they may simply shift to nesting on the ground.
•The Double-crested Cormorant makes a bulky nest of sticks and other materials. It frequently picks up junk, such as rope, deflated balloons, fishnet, and plastic debris to incorporate into the nest. Parts of dead birds are commonly used too.
•Large pebbles are occasionally found in cormorant nests, and the cormorants treat them as eggs.
•The oldest known Double-crested Cormorant was more than 22 years old, banded in Ontario in 1984 and found in Louisiana in 2006.
Nest Description
Both Double-crested Cormorant mates work on the nest, with the male bringing most of the material and the female doing the building. The nest is mostly made of finger-size sticks, with some seaweed and flotsam, and lined with grass. Nests are 1.5 to 3 feet in diameter and 4 to 17 inches high; ground nests tend to be wider than tree nests, but tree nests have deeper interiors. Breeding cormorants readily steal nesting materials from a nearby nest that’s not guarded.
Nest Placement
The male chooses the nest site and then attracts a female. Nests can be on the ground, on rocks or reefs with no vegetation, or atop trees, which may be alive when a cormorant colony first forms but typically die after a few years from the guano build-up. Nests are built in the center of a colony first, then expand outward.
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