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July 3rd is national Eat Your Beans Day - a “live healthy” holiday. This day celebrates the bean vegetable in all sizes, shapes, and colors. My healthy version of huevos rancheros includes black beans, poached eggs, roasted peppers, tomatoes, and (less healthy but irresistible) cheddar cheese, all on a lovely tortilla.
Fun facts about beans:
•There are over 40,000 varieties of beans
•China is the top worldwide producer of green beans
•Beans have been part of the human diet for thousands of years, probably dating back to when Man first walked upright.
•The world’s largest bean pods can grow up to 5 feet long.
•The USDA recommends adults eat three cups of beans a week.
•Beans from thousands of years ago, are genetically very close to the beans we eat today.
•6 to 11 percent of a cooked bean’s weight is protein.
•If you eat beans regularly, you will have less flatulence from them.
•Dry beans are better for you than canned because they contain less sodium. Frozen beans have less sodium, too.
•You can freeze cooked beans for up to six months. Before reheating thaw them in the refrigerator overnight.
•Rich in antioxidants, beans lower the risk of cancer.
•In Nicaragua, newlyweds are given a bowl of beans for good luck.
•Beans can be made into burgers, cakes, drinks, pies, fudge, muffins, jewelry, bean-bag chairs, toys, and musical instruments.
for lack of sufficient information, i will simply describe this plant as a bean flower. i saw this while doing a street photoshoot and found the blooms irresistible to capture. the plant produces a bean like pod. the closest plant it resembles is a lima bean plant or Phaseolus lunatus but needs more verification
When I was in Chicagos Millenium Park with the already famous Cloud Gate (The Bean) close by I remembered a description in a book (Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers - The Ultimate Workshop by Jeff Schewe and Martin Evening) about how to create an aerial fisheye lens effect and thought why not give it a try. Well I did some things right and some things wrong (only using 8 shots for a 360˚ pano is one of the bad things and not having your tripod available is another) but with a few extra hours in post processing and reducing the resolution I believe it looks quite okay for a first try.
I found a nice tutorial afterwards which describes quite well how these "polar panoramas" can be created at Dirk's Photo Blog (note step 3: "The rest is just a little digital darkroom work")
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Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60 X30 softbox camera left. Reflector camera right. Triggered by Cybersync.
Macro of small scale chef figures with miniature jar and real coffee beans.
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While the outside of the Chicago Bean reflects the skyline and surrounding plaza, the inside gives a kaleidoscopic image of all the people milling about beneath. At first glance, this reminded me of a giant MRI scan of the body.
Bean Rock Lighthouse is the only surviving wave washed wooden cottage type lighthouse in New Zealand. Bean Rock stands on a group of rocks opposite North Head at the entrance to Waitemata harbour, Auckland.
Construction begun on the Bean Rock lighthouse in 1870 and was completed in 8 months. The design was an open framework with a cottage on top.
On 24 July, 1871, after a cost of £3000, the lighthouse with its kerosene light of 350 candlepower was lit.
The keeper lived in three rooms in the cottage structure. A living area including kitchen, a bedroom and the ‘long drop’ toilet to the sea below.
In 1912 it installed its first automatic acetylene light at Bean Rock and the lighthouse became the first watched light to lose it's resident keeper. At the same time it was changed to a flashing light to stand out from the lights of the city. The light revolved by the pressure it generated as it burned; an automatic sun valve turned the gas flow on and off.
Plans in the 1970's to replace the lighthouse with a concrete structure was meet with local opposition but by the 1980's the Auckland Harbour Board and Historic Places Trust were seriously worried about the lighthouse as it needed extensive repairs. In 1985 the cottage structure was removed by crane from the pilings and moved ashore for renovation. At the same time the rotted kauri piles were replaced with Australian hardwood jarrah and sunk in a new concrete foundation.
During the renovation, they found 20 coats of paint on one section of the lighthouse, showing how well the keepers had done their job. The lighthouse was also repainted white, it's original colour after being painted yellow since 1956. Five months later the cottage was craned back onto the new pilings and bolted down.
Solar panels now provide the power for the lighthouse and it has an automatic fog horn.
under the bean, a different view of it. although I was sleepy, I had fun clicking the bean :~)
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embaixo do feijão, uma visão diferente dele. apesar de estar sonolenta me diverti clicando lá!
Whyterose Yao traîne encore à Innsmouth, en tenue d'heroic-fantasy
La coiffure originelle était nettement mieux, mais je ne l'ai plus retrouvée dans mon (trop grand) inventaire.
Whyterose Yao is hanging out at Innsmouth, again
She wears an heroic-fantasy outfit. Alas, the right hair was lost somewhere in the inventory
As usual I have no idea why doing this sprang to mind just thought of beans flying off of my toast....so there you have it :-))
The completed 500-piece jigsaw puzzle "Beans duJour," artwork by western artist Larry Fanning, produced by Ceaco.
took home this little one from Dollism - Dear Mine Picasso Bean!
I also bought some Oscar eyes, pretty sparkly things n_n
I altered the default faceup - added some small eyelash and brow lines, and painted the nose into a heart!
As a much needed storm approached the area we went to Bean Hollow beach in hopes of capturing a great sunset. There was not much color but the cloud formations were very interesting.
... the newest girl to hit the Manor, takes a stroll in the tall grass. I decided to name her "Bean" (obvious reasons). I had to get her out for a quick snap because I just think she is sooooooo darling. I believe she is a bit of a frankenblythe ...a parted together girl. Her human hair scalp is by Sammydoe, and some of the carving was done by MellyKay(?). But, her present personality is all the wonderful work of qdpatootie, Lisa. She just had to come live here and I am so happy we could work out a trade ;) Thank you Lisa!!
and,
Welcome dear little "Bean!"
(Ok really, I am not looking for any more girls, but they keep finding me!)
Drying for sowing next year.
Something good about saving seed for next year. ....Looking ahead with a degree of purpose and optimism ....feels very positive.
The runner beans did well this year but now I have lots of "missed" ones that have gone way past the edible stage so am harvesting the seeds and letting them dry slowly inside. I also have a load drying in pods in the green house. In previous years I have done this and had very good germination rates (>80%) so i am upping the scale a little this year and plan to grow more runners than previously as I find they freeze well. There is seed from a mix of varieties here.
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