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Macro Mondays - Snack
Happy Macro Monday everyone.
As it's not a high day or a holiday, there aren't any naughty snacks in the house, so some walnuts and an apple will have to do :))
Smile on Saturday#Shells
Last night we had a football evening full of excitement, and in order to reduce the tension since we were rooting for different national teams, we decided to use that time and crack nuts while watching TV. The action was successful because we didn't get nervous so mush and at the end we had 2 kg of cleaned walnuts.
HSoS!
If you offer various types of nuts to the squirrels at Monrepos, they will go for the walnuts first. Walnuts in shell are carried away and buried somewhere for later use whereas unshelled walnuts are eaten right away.
Back in August I found some walnuts on the ground beneath a walnut tree. I've let them mature in the garage and after removing the green pulpy outer layer, I cracked one open today to see what was inside. Surprise surprise, a walnut!!
Sorry, another squirrel image, and there will be more as due to the ugly weather it's difficult to take new photos. The truth is, though, that I would probably return to the squirrels rather quicky if the weather got better and take even more photos. Visiting Monrepos and watching the squirrels is among the few things I enjoy about the cold season.
RCPE MMNAU rolls west on the former C&NW "Alco Line" outside of Walnut Grove, Minnesota behind a trio of former IC&E 6400s.
A lone mallard watches over a shady stretch of Walnut Creek, in Walnut Creek Civic Park, Walnut Creek, California.
We have a fair number of native black walnut trees here and they seem to have wildly different size crops from one year to the next. I don't remember this particular tree having any nuts before this year when it had a lot. I cracked one open and the nuts are surrounded by thick, black husk material that stained my hands. The nuts are edible for humans and the durable wood is highly prized. Anyway, this is a new one for my prairie seeds set.
More species info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juglans_nigra#Wood
Smile on Saturday - Shells
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We drove to the Hope Valley in California to see the fall colors in the Sierra Nevada mountains. On the way we passed by a walnut tree farm near Lockeford, where we noticed a lot of dust in the trees. We stopped, it was a good photo opportunity! It turned out that the walnuts just were getting harvested. One machine drove along the nicely arranged trees to shake them one by one to make the nuts fall to the ground, another machine arranged the fallen nuts and debris in the middle between tree rows, and a third machine scooped it up. All that created a lot of dust, to the delight of us three photographers.
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