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Goat's-Beard
Tragopogon pratensis (common names Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon,[1] meadow salsify, showy goat's-beard or meadow goat's-beard) is a biennial plant in the Asteraceae family, distributed across Europe and North America, commonly growing in fields (hence its name) and on roadsides. It is found in North America from southern Ontario to Massachusetts; most of England; on the eastern and southern edges of Scotland; and central Ireland but not the coastal edges.
It flowers between June and October and its flowers have a diameter of 3–5 cm. The root and buds are edible, and it has a milky latex.
Description
It grows 30 to 100 cm tall.
It differs from viper's-grass (Scorzonera humilis) in that Viper's-grass has short, pale green bracts, whereas in Goat's-beard they are long and pointed.
The lower leaves are 10 to 30 cm long, lanceolate, keeled lengthwise, grey-green, pointed, hairless, with a white midrib. The upper leaves are shorter and more erect. It is the only United Kingdom dandelion type flower with grass like leaves.[2]
The flower heads are 5 cm wide. They only open in the morning sunshine, hence the name 'Jack go to bed at noon'.
The achenes are rough, long beaked pappus radiating outwards interwoven like a spider's web of fine white side hairs (referred to as a "Blowball").[3]
Usage
Young shoots and roots of meadow salsify can be used in diabetic salads.
In Armenia, rural kids make bubble gum from the juice of meadow salsify. For this purpose, when milky juice is released from the torn stems it is collected on the walls of a glass and dried.
Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragopogon_pratensis
A California seagull gathers dry grass in San Francisco Zoo to build a nest.
It looks like he has a big beard from this portrait shot :-)
My youngest son asked me if that was what Santa's beard was made of. In some mixed forests, hair ice forms on rotten wood when a period of rain is followed by a period of ice, but only if the fungus Exidiopsis effusa is present in the forest.
Hair ice on a decaying birch branch, southwest Iceland.
Hair ice, also known as frost beard or ice wool, is a rare ice formation found on dead hardwood colonized by Exidiopsis effusa, a species of wood decay fungus. It only forms in calm weather, after periods of rain, when the air is humid and the temperature just below 0°C (32°F).
a little picture from something i'm working on based on the man with the longest beard in the world, kind of unfinished, but will do for now.
Renaissance Town Hall in Bardejov is a one-storey building of a block character, located on a regular rectangular plan view with a longer side in the north-south direction. It is characterized by high side shields of saddle tile roof and Renaissance oriel window on its east side, accessing the second floor. On the shield of the northern façade there are three carved windows and a town sign. The gable of the southern façade is completed by four windows, a clock and painted coats of arms of the town and Kingdom of Hungary. At the top of the southern gable stands the figure of the legendary knight Roland with a halberd (the work of master Ján of Prešov dated around 1509), a symbolic protector of town privileges. The original stone statue was replaced in 1641 by a wooden one covered with copper sheet. The current statue is a copy and is made entirely of copper sheet. The windows on all facades have the same shapes. Both roof gables are complemented by groups of statues and crockets – the southern gable: a lion, a man with beard, a cat, a monkey, a cloth merchant, the northern gable: a demon, a man with an hourglass, a dragon, a king, a stonemason and a man with a stick. As a monument of supraregional importance, the town hall, together with other monuments of the historic centre in Bardejov, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000.
the light was a whisper, finding its way to his eyes. his gaze held a question, or perhaps a distant memory, directed at something unseen. hands, clasped in a gesture of intimate thought, grounded his presence. a beard, a cap, the subtle glint of an earring – fragments of an inner world, composed in monochrome. in the silence, a profound understanding unfolds.
Penstemon sp. For a perspective on size, the flower on the left has a length of 1.0 inches, while the one on the right has a width of 0.75 inches. I see a face in the right-hand flower: a woman's face--a bearded lady?--with a nose, two eyes, a pair of hair ribbons, a hair bonnet, wide-rimmed lapels, and a thick neck and torso. Interestingly, Penstemon is the largest genus of flowering plants native to North America.
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During my haircut the other day, Madam started to cut off my growing beard and I squawked. This is the compromise. Not bad, I guess, but a little strange because it's a new style for me.