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The fruit of the Bois D’ Arc tree
The early French explorers of Texas noticed that the native Americans used the wood of this tree for making bows and arrows hence the name. Roughly translated from French it means “tree of the bow”. Bois for bough, arc for bow.
This tree is considered by most folks now as a “trash tree’ because the large green fruit causes a real mess and much “stoop labor” picking them up. The weird green “monkey brains” were known as “Horse Apples”, ” Osage Oranges” or “Hedge Apples” Also being almost impervious to rot and insect damage, the tree will die eventually when it’s quite large but refuses to fall down creating a spooky appearance.
However this tree played many important roles in Texas history. The first paved streets in Dallas were paved with blocks of Bois D’Arc wood. Bank loans to build a house were only issued if you built the house on piers of Bois D’Arc stumps otherwise your house would be eaten by termites.
The fruit is not edible for humans and despite one name horses don’t like it either. They were called hedge apples because when the seeds are planted in a row they form a thorny hedge that were used to contain livestock. These seeds were sold to farmers all over the country for this purpose thus spreding the tree far beyond it’s normal range until the advent of barbed wire replaced it’s use.
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Jazmin$Million is an up and coming Montreal photographer well worth taking a very serious look at.
This is an approved "ViaMoi" using his stage shot of Bad Brains
Models (left to right): Dino (Unchained Girls) & Kelly (Toxic Zombie)
As promised in my last upload, I'm demystifying "brains" for everyone. . . It seems so much more PC to ask to take a picture of someone's brains doesn't it? ;-> The shorts feature the Toxic Zombie logo around front.
I may have went a bit overboard with the adornments on this one, but after cropping (something which I don't do very often other than to change aspect ratios), I had all this lovely negative space to do something with. Maybe I should have just let it be. Let me know what you think!
[ Strobist Info -- AB1600 camera left through 32" x 40" softbox, ABR800 through 45" umbrella camera right. CTR301p triggers. ]
i eat brains: digital foundations project- not completed but i don't know what else i want to do with it, feedback would be great
First stitch I've done, but didn't get a picture of it untill now.
It's the cover of a Bad Brains album :D
So you'll be reading about now that the wires will not be going to Swansea after all. Add that to the list of Thames Valley branches, Bristol and I'd have that sly fiver out again on Oxford too.
The Great Western electrification project has become an utter joke. Wires fizzling out in Newbury, a field near Bath and now somewhere by Canton.
The government's rail expert apparent, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling says that improvements can be made without wires, bi-modes are the way forward, journey time will be unaffected and passengers will notice no transformation from electric to diesel. Really? Oh come on, please. Last train I travelled on with a sodding great truck engine under my feet, a VT Voyager, it was more than apparent at idling, if only by rattling panels and vibration. But at full bore, I can assure you that you'll hear and feel the difference on an IEP, just as you do on any diesel powered unit.
Anyway, that's only a part of it. What of the Swanline services, currently operated by Pacers and Sprinters? No wires, no EMU's. No mention of them.
The whole point of a bi-mode was to allow a core network to be developed for electric power, with diesel capability to allow through services to continue off that core, Carmarthen from Swansea, Weston from Bristol, Cheltenham from Swindon, you get the idea. Well now that concept goes a stage further by chopping the core.
There's a lot of people to blame here. Let's start with the politicians. Conservative, Labour, Plaid, Monster Raving Loony. You're all as bad as each other. Labour can carp all they like about what they would do if they were in power. So why didn't you do it when you were? Remember Prescott's re-nationalisation promise? Exactly. And the WAG? Well, they're making all the right protest-esque noises this morning, but the fact remains that they frankly don't give a toss about anything west of St. Fagans or north of Radyr anyway.
I think this morning's announcement will answer questions of electrification up here in the frozen north for another generation or two. And to my pals on the Midland north of Glendon Junction, I think that answers yours too...
A highly inappropriate 60039 at Cardiff Central on 24 August 2014. Tugly is accurately marking out the point at which electric will become diesel...
Senior Marc Panu, working with Prof. Bridget Rogers, is entering the final round of a national undergraduate research competition.
Competitiveness comes naturally to Panu, a three-year walk-on football player.
engineering.vanderbilt.edu/news/2014/che-senior-enters-fi...
These miniature marshmallow brains were readily available to guests. However, due to their gruesomeness, they almost went untouched!
When Max Brooks came in to Forbidden Planet to sign 'World War Z' and The Zombie Survival Guide', I guess there had to be a few zombies wandering around the West End... give him something to demonstrate his skills upon!
01 Pay to Cum
02 Supertouch – Shitfit
03 Banned in DC
04 Regulator
05 Rally Round Jah Throne
06 Big Takeover
07 Riot Squad
08 FVK
09 I and I Survive
10 Right Brigade
11 Joshua’s Song
12 We Come to Unite Dub
Uhh, Interactive Brains makes really horrific cell phone ports like the Vodafone version of Ridge Ra--why the hell am I even talking about this when there's a hot chick here.
The Cottage,St. Mary's Street, Cardiff. A choice of 5 real ales, all of them brewed by Brains. You are free to choose any beer, so long as it's Brains.
kristi drinking "brains".
pour strawberry schnapps into shot glass. then pour irish cream slowly in, so it makes a messy, brainlike lump floating in the liquid. a drop of grenadine makes it more bloody looking. don't sip it, drink it in one big gulp.
Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera)
Another very interesting member of the mulberry family is the osage orange (Maclura pomifera). Native to the midwestern and southeastern United States, this species is also known as the hedge apple because it was planted in thicket-like hedge rows before the advent of barbed wire fences.
The fruit is neither an orange nor an apple, although it approaches the size of those fruits. Like the breadfruit and jackfruit, it is a true multiple fruit composed of numerous separate ovaries, each arising from a separate female flower. In fact, the bumpy surface of the fruit is due to the numerous, tightly-packed ovaries of the female flowers. The black hairs on the surface of the fruit are styles, each arising from a separate ovary.
The wood of osage orange was highly prized by the Osage Indians of Arkansas and Missouri for bows. In fact, osage orange is stronger than oak (Quercus) and as tough as hickory (Carya), and is considered by archers to be one of the finest native North American woods for bows. In Arkansas, in the early 19th century, a good osage bow was worth a horse and a blanket.
A yellow-orange dye is also extracted from the wood and is used as a substitute for fustic and aniline dyes in arts and industry.
Osage-orange or Horse-apple en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage-orange
Maclura pomifera, known as Osage-orange or Horse-apple, is dioeceous plant species, with male and female flowers on different plants. It is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, typically growing to 8-15 m tall. The fruit, a multiple fruit, is roughly spherical, but bumpy, and 7-15 cm in diameter, and it is filled with a sticky white latex sap. In fall, its color turns a bright yellow-green and it has a faint odor similar to that of oranges
Recent research suggests that elemol, one of the major components of oil extracted from fruit of Osage orange, shows promise as a mosquito repellent with similar activity to DEET in contact and residual repellency.
The fruits are sometimes torn apart by squirrels to get at the seeds, but few other native animals make use of it as a food source. This is unusual, as most large fleshy fruits serve the function of seed dispersal, accomplished by their consumption by large animals. One recent hypothesis is that the Osage-orange fruit was eaten by a giant ground sloth that became extinct shortly after the first human settlement of North America.
The Osage-orange is commonly used as a tree row windbreak in prairie states, which gives it one of its colloquial names, "hedge apple". It was one of the primary trees used in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Great Plains Shelterbelt" WPA project, which was launched in 1934 as an ambitious plan to modify weather and prevent soil erosion in the Great Plains states, and by 1942 resulted in the planting of 30,233 shelterbelts containing 220 million trees that stretched for 18,600 miles.
The fruit from this tree is sometimes called "Monkey Brains" due to its resemblance to a small brain.
i think i may be going blind: my focusing is shot.
i love, love, love anatomical diagrams. infact, i love all diagrams.