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just an update
getting ready for the snow, cant wait! with climate change happening, we may all freeze to death, exciting!
Checking on the tomato plants when I spied this unfortunate fellow.
This is a Tobacco Hornworm. A Braconid Wasp has inserted it's it's eggs inside this unfortunate Hookworm. After feeding for 8-10 days on nutrients provided by the still living Hornworm, they burrow out and make these cocoons. After about a week the adult wasp will emerge. At that point the moth larva will die.
How many years has this old tree stood by the creek? Now the water is undercutting its roots, and it's just a matter of time before it falls.
Proverbs 31:8 “Speak out for the one who cannot speak, for the rights of those who are doomed.”
Canada’s euthanasia program is called Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID). They give the “patient” a paralytic; then they give them a drug, which causes their lungs to fill with liquid. Therefore, the patient drowns to death. If the patient does this “medical treatment” by IV, it takes 10-15 minutes for them to drown. If the patient takes the drug orally, it takes between 30 minutes to 24 hours for them to drown.
I first heard of euthanasia when I was in high school. It was touted as a good and compassionate thing. When I heard about it, I immediately thought of the Nazis. I spoke up against it, and I was ridiculed. Indoctrination masked as education: the Nazi’s liked to use propaganda too. Nihilism breeds useful idiots.
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Jeremiah 8:22 “Is there no medicine in Gilead? Are there no doctors there? Why, then, have my people not been healed?”
Nikon F5, Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Koday Tmax 100, orange filter.
Like many of the old abandoned mill buildings in the town I grew up in, this one is in the phases of getting a renovation to become office spaces, studios, and probably apartments. This sapling growing in the window will fall as a casualty of this space reuse.
After shooting this, I was tempted to break in to this old mill (something I did as a teen), find this old window, and unroot the tree and replant it somewhere. It was 90F the day I took this a few weeks ago, and it likely would not have survived. Its days remain numbered.
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This cattle shed and silo has been here for as long as I can remember but its days are numbered as industrial buildings encroach on the site. Utah County, Utah.
I thought I'd found a new and exciting fly species the other day, but doing my research, I discovered that this was probably a very common fly which had an entomophthora muscae infection. E. muscae is a pathogenic fungus causing fatal disease to flies. The stripes are very striking but knowing that they are caused by fungal spores breaking out of the segments in the fly's abdomen. one has to feel great sympathy for the fly.
When we visited this creek a few weeks ago, the water was in such a swift fury that getting near it was a little intimidating. As I knelt on the slick mossy rocks in the stream to get this shot, the force of the water kept inching me toward the falls and impending doom. Not one to deliberately flirt with death, I was relieved to step out onto firm ground once again!
"O, you living in the world of six directions,
accept the gloom and accept the bliss,
for those seeds buried in the ground
will one day grow into fruitful orchards.
Every seed will sprout above the ground
and from that source, fresh stems will grow.
If a few branches wither and dry,
the rest will bear fruit.
What is withered will yield to fire,
and that flame ignites joy in the soul.
What is not this, will become this,
and what is not that, becomes that!"
Rumi
I spent the last night at one of the most beautiful mountain lakes in Switzerland. The weather forecast was perfect, but like it happens very often in the Alps, the micro weather did not care about the forecasts.
When I arrived at 5 pm, the mountains were covered in clouds, but 30min after sunset they suddenly parted and I was hoping for a clear night.
After solving some problems with my gear, I was ready to shoot at astronomical dusk. While capturing the foreground, I finally found some time to watch the sky, but I did not like what I saw. The visibility seemed to be strangely washed and when checking my LCD screen, I new that my shooting session was doomed.
I quickly started my tracker and acquired some sky exposures, but after just 2min, the sky was completely covered with fog and stayed like this all night.
Glad that I at least got away with one image.
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Canon EOS 6D astro modified
Samyang 24mm f1.4
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Foreground
5 x 90s @ ISO1600, f/1.4
Sky
2 x 60s @ ISO1600 f/2, tracked
Mount Doom is a fictional volcano in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. It is located in the northwest of the Black Land of Mordor and close to Barad-dûr. Alternative names, in Tolkien's invented language of Sindarin, include Orodruin and Amon Amarth. Wikipedia
On the left we see Mt Ngauruhoe, then Mt Tongariro, then Lake Taupo, Motutaiko Island in Lake Taupo and Mt Tauhara on the horizon. The Kaimanawa Range to the right and the Mangateoteonui Stream Valley.