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16" x 14" - Mexican smalti, dinnerware, glass & crystal beads, unglazed porcelain, hand-pulled filati, tinted mortar & grout on a hand built substrate.
Based on my original drawing of Jacquie for Julia Kay's Portrait Party!
The fruit is small, 1-2 in and the green bean-like propagule that emerges from it later can get quite long (7-15 in) before dropping off the tree. The seedling can remain viable for up to a year while floating in the ocean until reaching suitable substrate.
Island Of Madagascar
Off the East Coast of Africa
Berenty Reserve
Now back to some more lemurs. This Verreaux’s sifaka is nestled in some cactus in an ecosystem called the ‘Spiny Forest” in southern Madagascar.
Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi), or the white sifaka, is a medium-sized primate in one of the lemur families, the Indriidae. It lives in Madagascar and can be found in a variety of habitats from rainforest to western Madagascar dry deciduous forests and dry and spiny forests. Like all sifakas, it has a long tail that it uses as a balance when leaping from tree to tree. However, its body is so highly adapted to an arboreal existence, on the ground its only means of locomotion is hopping. The species lives in small troops which forage for food.
The Madagascar spiny forests (also known as the Madagascar spiny thickets) is an ecoregion in the southwest of Madagascar. The vegetation type is found on poor substrates with low, erratic winter rainfall. The ecoregion contains an outstanding proportion of endemic plant species and is part of the Global 200.
Notable inhabitants of the spiny thickets include the spider tortoise (Pyxis arachnoides) and the radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata), the gecko Ebenavia maintimainty, several lemurs including Verreaux's sifaka, Grandidier's mongoose, and eight endemic birds. Wikipedia
As we walked through the Botanic Gardens I saw a bee (not this one) as we passed the knot garden and my mind just came up with this montage on a Shakespearian theme. We are two hours off Friday and hoping your week goes well.
Island Of Madagascar
Off the East Coast of Africa
Berenty Reserve
This lemur was photographed in an area called the spiny forest. Here it is sitting in the middle of some cactus.
Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi), or the white sifaka, is a medium-sized primate in one of the lemur families, the Indriidae. It lives in Madagascar and can be found in a variety of habitats from rainforest to western Madagascar dry deciduous forests and dry and spiny forests.
Its fur is thick and silky and generally white with brown on the sides, top of the head, and on the arms. Like all sifakas, it has a long tail that it uses as a balance when leaping from tree to tree. However, its body is so highly adapted to an arboreal existence, on the ground its only means of locomotion is hopping. The species lives in small troops which forage for food.
The Madagascar spiny forests (also known as the Madagascar spiny thickets) is an ecoregion in the southwest of Madagascar. The vegetation type is found on poor substrates with low, erratic winter rainfall. The ecoregion contains an outstanding proportion of endemic plant species and is part of the Global 200.
Notable inhabitants of the spiny thickets include the spider tortoise (Pyxis arachnoides) and the radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata), the gecko Ebenavia maintimainty, several lemurs including Verreaux's sifaka, Grandidier's mongoose, and eight endemic birds. – Wikipedia
After the Rain, Summer Morning, Rocky Mountain Front Range, Colorado. There are about 17,000 known species of lichens worldwide. They are comprised of fungi (mostly 16 orders of ascomycetes). Bryophytes from algae or cyanobacteria, living among filaments of multiple fungi - living in a symbiotic relationship. They can survive long, dry periods and can resist high and low temperatures.
Types of Lichen Structures:
Squamalose - flat leaf-like, scales
Foliose - flakes on surface, like peeling paint
Crustose - powder-like, leprose
Sea Pens are animals related to corals and anemones. They can retract into the substrate when disturbed. Living on it is a porcelain crab or maybe a squat lobster; not sure which.
Acentronura breviperula, also known as the shortpouch pygmy pipehorse, dwarf pipehorse and northern little pipehorse, is a species of pygmy pipehorse, a member of the family Syngnathidae, the seahorses and pipefishes. It is a small, drab-coloured pipehorse which is very well camouflaged among sandy and silty habitats, although it is usually found on substrates of coral rubble or in areas of sparse algal growth. It has a prehensile tail similar to that of a seahorse but it lacks an angled head and swims with its body held in a horizontal position. (Wikipedia)
Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi Indonesia.
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I would have preferred a more natural substrate for the kestrel to perch on but you take what you get!
Fort Desoto Park, St. Petersburg, FL
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Someone abandoned their motorhome along Interstate 10 in Riverside County. It's become a substrate for street art. This originally had tires and an engine but they're now gone. Even the disc brakes have been picked off of the chassis. Ten years ago, this never happened. Now, it has become common.
My understanding is that towing companies often don't want to touch these vehicles. I think abandoned vehicles, when towed, rack up storage charges. The owner may claim the vehicle and pay towing and storage charges. If the owner does not claim it and vehicle were saleable, the towing company can sell the towed car after acquiring title. If you tow a recent model car and this occurs, it works out well for the tow company. They can't sell these motorhomes because they're garbage. I expect the state, county, or city government would have to pay for disposal. It's parked on a public roadway and no one else would.
...A whole lot of risks — the risks of layoff, the risks of job-stopping illness — lots of risks that we were previously helped to bear by business and government have been shifted to our backs and the backs of our families. I don't think that Americans realize the extent to which that shift has occurred.
— Peter Gosselin
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