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With extra time before our flight home, we took a 2 hour Trolley Tour of Honolulu. Well worth it.
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The flower in the image is likely a hot pink ginger, also known as red ginger or Alpinia purpurata.
It is a tropical plant native to the Malay Peninsula and the southwest Pacific islands.
The prominent, brightly colored part that looks like a flower is actually a collection of modified leaves called bracts.
The true flowers are small and white, found at the tips of these bracts.
This plant is popular as an ornamental addition to gardens and is often used for cut flower arrangements due to its long-lasting blooms.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpinia_purpurata
Alpinia purpurata, commonly referred to as red ginger, ostrich plume and pink cone ginger, is a ginger native to Maluku and the southwest Pacific islands. In typical ginger fashion, A. purpurata is a rhizomatous plant, spreading underground in a horizontal growth habit, sending feeder roots downwards into the substrate and sprouting leafy vertical stems from nodes located along the rhizome. As its common name implies, red ginger blooms with showy inflorescences on long, bright magenta- to red-hued bracts; while they appear to be a blossom, bracts are in fact modified leaves that contain the plant's actual flowers. Bracts are a common feature of many botanical genera (such as Euphorbia sp. or the Araceae family), having evolved to protect and resemble the flowers and appeal to pollinators. The actual flower "parts" (pollen, pistil, stamen, etc.) are located inside, often accessed by crawling insects like ants or beetles.
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The Little Egret is a slender white heron distinguished by its black bill, black legs, and bright yellow feet. In breeding season it develops delicate white head plumes. It feeds in shallow water, often stirring the substrate with its feet to flush out small fish, crustaceans, and amphibians. Once a rare visitor to Britain, it is now a widespread and regularly seen species along coasts, estuaries, and wetlands.
Ice patterns through the macro lens, edge of the Frenchman River, about a year ago. I have shot so many ice close ups at this location in recent years that it takes a while to let the images settle. Through the viewfinder, I thought this was good; later, in Photoshop, I thought maybe it was too chaotic, its lines going off in all directions. But a year later, it's still in my "Flickr Uploads" folder, and I kind of like its layers, lines, swirls, and textures.
Simple macro setup: tripod, 105 mm f/2.8 macro lens + 1.7x teleconverter, parallel plane focus technique at f/32 to ensure edge to edge sharpness, cable release with mirror lockup to prevent mirror vibration. Low ISO guarantees no digital noise. The rest is seeing.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2016 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
A parterre is a formal garden constructed on a level substrate, consisting of plant beds, typically in symmetrical patterns, which are separated and connected by paths. The borders of the plant beds may be formed with stone or tightly pruned hedging, and their interiors may be planted with flowers or other plants or filled with mulch or gravel. The paths are constituted with gravel or turf grass.
Pousada Aguapé - Aquidauana, MS, Brazil.
The lizard Tropidurus lagunablanca occurs in Paraguay and Brazil. This little-known species selects microhabitats in trees with thicker trunks and higher substrate temperatures — showing how it actively chooses spots to bask and hide.
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Tropiduridae
Genus: Tropidurus Frost, Etheridge, Janies & Titus, 2001
Species: T. lagunablanca Carvalho, 2016
Binomial name: Tropidurus lagunablanca
The Bar-tailed Godwit is a rather plain, but quite large wader, more or less confined to marine habitats around Britain’s coasts.
Birds arrive from late summer and on into early winter from their arctic breeding grounds, favouring low-lying coasts with a muddy or sandy substrate. Their winter dress is pale greys and browns and they have a long, very slightly upturned bill, which is pink at the base.
The Wetland Bird Survey estimates a wintering population in Britain approaching 30,000 birds with two thirds spending the winter months on The Wash in eastern England. The tideline is the best place to observe Bar-tailed Godwits feeding, and at high tide they gather in tight flocks to roost.
I found it fascinating that these birds have the remarkable ability to flexibly curl the top of their beak. Amazing. :))
Since we saw a Cattle Tyrant, a few more...From Wiki:
The WHMT captures most of its prey at the water's surface. Its next most commonly used foraging substrate is in the air, followed by live leaves. They tend to perch low on small marsh plants (less than 2 meters high) and attack their prey at a distance of 3 to 4 meters from their initial position. They typically target prey that is at or below their height while perched, and they less frequently attack at a high flight angle.[8] Once they catch their prey, they promptly return to their perch, as they are rarely found on the ground.
Both female and male marsh tyrants participate in feeding their juveniles. The main differences are that the female marsh tyrant hunts at greater distances and makes more frequent visits to the young compared to the male. Moreover, the female is more active in maintaining a sanitary environment for the nestlings.
Example of an older, asbestos plaster wall system on wood lath. While these plaster materials may look like any typical plaster, that's partly the point of this photo: asbestos-containing plaster might be present in any ordinary-looking plaster material; whether the plaster is troweled-on or spray-applied onto wood or metal lath, on gypsum wallboard panels, onto concrete or applied to any type of substrate. In this particular example, asbestos was found within the thicker, plaster base layer.
For a more conclusive determination about whether or not plaster contains asbestos (or any type of suspect material for that matter), multiple bulk samples of the material, including all layers of a "system", are to be properly collected by a trained, certified, and accredited ("licensed") asbestos inspector, and then tested via specialized, laboratory microscopy method(s) to determine asbestos presence or absence and its respective percentage therein. The testing can be relatively inexpensive, ranging on average between $6-to-$30 USD (or more) per sample, per layer, often depending upon required turn-around time
Another point of interest regarding the plaster system in the above example is that there are actually three layers of plaster: the bottom ("render") thick base-layer; the thin ("floating" or "setting") skim-layer, and a textured finishing layer. Each type of plaster layer, (base-coat, skim-coat, textured surfacing, etc.) has been known to contain asbestos.
The coarse, base plaster in this instance, sometimes referred to as "brown-coat" or "scratch-coat", in addition to asbestos, also contains small aggregate and animal hair fibers (likely bovine, equine, porcine, caprine, or cervine). These constituents are more visible in the inset image.
Although not in this particular case, sometimes the white, finish layer or "skim-coat" may contain asbestos. Or, even the textured finish, stucco-style spackling may contain asbestos as well.
Particular attention to different types of plasters, possibly applied in different building areas, such as: mechanical rooms, boiler rooms, fan rooms, auditoriums, stages, arenas, churches/temples (or other places of worship), cafeterias, theaters, air plenums, utility areas, electrical rooms/vaults, workshops, stairwells, corridors, decorative applications, lobbies, elevator shafts, radiator shielding, instrumental-music band/choir rooms, library/media centers, etc.; are all unique functional spaces that should be especially considered when evaluating the potential for differing types of homogenous area plaster applications.
Further yet, ceiling plaster may contain asbestos and wall plaster may not, despite being in the same functional space and having similar appearance/texture.
Of further importance in distinguishing different types of plasters that may exist in a building is knowing the renovation history of the structure, and also if additions were constructed or patching was installed that contain plaster(s) applied at later date(s). Each plaster from differing dates of construction or patches should be assessed separately.
There are also examples of asbestos inspection surveys in multi-floor buildings where asbestos (> 1% content) was found in wall/ceiling plasters on certain floors, but not others (trace to < 1%).
Keep in mind that if ACM (>1%) is identified in one layer of a plaster application, then the entire plaster "system" is treated as an ACM.
Additionally, don't forget about potential lead or cadmium-based paint or respirable silica dust exposure issues when dealing with older painted plaster materials during demolition or renovation activities.
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Desert trumpet, Eriogonum inflatum, is a desert perennial that grows up to a meter in height in hostile landscapes in the desert southwest. It is a striking plant, for its stems have swollen sections that were first thought to be galls created by insects. But now we know that the swellings are reservoirs of carbon dioxide, but the utility of these reservoirs is not yet fully understood. Tiny flowers are born by slender stems, so the plants lend an airy yellow glow to sites with dark substrates, as here.
The uplifted sections in the background mark the eastern boundary of the San Rafael Reef and Capitol Reef National Park, Utah.
My previous post shows how these wildflowers can enliven a landscape.
Walking through the enormous fern forests was a refreshing experience in Mt. Field National Park, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Tasmania is home to “Australia’s largest temperate rainforests”. There is a diverse range of ferns present within these forests, which vary in form, size, substrate preference and habit. [Source: Wikipedia]