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One of my favorite things in the spring and fall is to burn all the brush and stuff collected, drink some beer, and take some pictures. This is burn #1 for fall 2010...
Bryan is a sweet boy. You can see all the scrapes, bumps and bruises of a normal, active 12-year-old boy. He has his struggles, but he also has his virtues as well.
I am proud to have him as my son. He has a unique abilitity to reach out to others. He inherits this, I believe, from his great grandfather Hatch. Both Bryan and Grandpa could befriend almost anyone. I tend to be a little more reserved, so I know he didn't get it from me. I have hopes that he will grow into a man who will one-day be an influence for good. I have no reason to doubt that it will not come to pass.
Jacksons Fencing posts showing the small quantity of darker heartwood. Heartwood doesn't take preservative treatment as well as sapwood.
One of my favorite things in the spring and fall is to burn all the brush and stuff collected, drink some beer, and take some pictures. This is burn #1 for fall 2010...
I love the story in this simple picture. Sitting on top of the former eastern coastline of the Kansas Ocean, on a formation called Trinity Group, formed around 110 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. Due to the high caulk & limestone amounts, most of this area is mostly used as ranchland to grow cattle.
Once grains were cultivated here, but the yields were mediocre and some of the grain mills in the area closed. So it's mostly open spaces, austere to a certain degree, but still full of beauty. I also love the negation of the wide open spaces with the prominent fence post and its barbwire in front, well at least from a picture point of view. And as they say, fences make for good neighbors or at least they keep the cattle from roaming the road.
As singer/songwriter Chris Wall said in the 90s - "I'd Rather Be A Fence Post In Texas, Than The King of Tennessee."
From my blog - niume.com/post/221586
This wooden post is what is usually found surrounding the farm fields. More recently farmers are taking them done as the fields become larger and keeping cattle contained is less important.
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You have to appreciate the humor in this shot, horizontal fenceposts. As this hillside has shifted over the years, this fenceline has lost its purpose of keeping things in, or is that out?
Happy Fence Friday!!
There's something about this fence line that intrigues me. I think that the pattern of the rust is fantastic, as well as the fact that it's been around for about 100 years. Inside the fence is a quaint cemetery with lovely gravestones.
This is the closest I have come to seeing how cotton is picked. There is so much cotton left unused though. Sometimes big piles. I was wishing I knew how to use a spinning wheel (only for the experience) because of the piles of cotton left in the fields and on the plants. The texture is my own. Please view large.
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Here is another example of tall and mature Mexican Fencepost cacti in the Cactus and Succulents Garden.
Drapetisca socialis Money Spider (adult female) found sunbathing on a fencepost in the Kingmoor Sidings Nature Reserve, Carlisle, 29 December 20.
Conditions were very similar here today to the weather experienced on my trip to the Gelt Woods area five days ago when I found my first Drapetisca socialis spider sunbathing on a south-facing fence at the edge of Watch Hill Wood.
So although I was delighted to find a second specimen on a sunlit stretch of fencing opposite the boardwalk as I was heading into the reserve, it wasn't that much of a surprise. Thankfully I managed to obtain a range of macros at various magnifications broadly comparable to those taken last time, and as I got a good view of the palps (Photo 3) it was easily identified as another female. As I was totally confident about the ID, I didn't think I could justify collecting this specimen; however, as I've yet to knock up a "spi-pot", this meant that I wasn't able to get a ventral view to check its epigyne, which probably reduces the chance of ever getting the sighting verified to precisely zero!
For info, it was photographed against a ruler with 0.5mm divisions (Photo 1) and its body length found to be between 3.5 - 4.0mm, ie comparable to the 3.8mm length of the previous specimen, as measured using a calibrated microscope.
Note added 23/12/24: ID verified by iRecord (Dave Blackledge).
One of my favorite things in the spring and fall is to burn all the brush and stuff collected, drink some beer, and take some pictures. This is burn #1 for fall 2010...
Tops of the fence posts showing the slit cut into each post length.
Splitting is a natural feature of timber when it dries out, particularly larger elements. A good quality preservative treatment is therefore essential, and a slit in the posts encourages any splitting to take place on the slit - an aesthetic decision which also demonstrates how good the preservative treatment is.