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The first nest has two 2- or 3-day old chicks. The second nest has three chicks, I would guess around a weeks old - still cute but getting quite demanding. The last nest has three large chicks that has the parent wondering what the heck he or she was thinking a few weeks earlier. "6T" looks like he could explode any second.
The strange "gargling" sound that you hear occasionally in the background is a Snowy Egret making some sort of courtship sound.
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen 1893-1918
I remember having to learn this at school.......only now in later years can I appreciate the sadness and beauty of this poem.
"Ubique Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt"
There must have been a thousand or more of these phlox blooming alongside a landscaped ditch. White and brilliant a few weeks ago, their lives, now spent, may suggest the many dead fallen in battle. First the flowering of youth, then its too quick demise.
Wilfred Owen, the English poet who wrote the quoted lines, was one of the fallen of the Great War, as it was known at the time. The war to end all wars we now call World War I, because World War II followed it. Owen was killed on Nov. 4, 1918, a week before the armistice was signed, ending the war.
I need not tell you war continues today, and we still seem to march off to it, at least at its beginning, with enthusiasm and zeal and thoughts of noble sacrifice wrapped in glory. Makes one think that humanity shall never be free of war's scourge.
Perhaps you've noticed more talk and commemorations of WW I since the summer of 2014. That's because 1914 was the year it began. In 1915 at the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans initiated the use of poison gas, the cause of the soldier's suffering in Owen's poem. Owen gives us the suffering in graphic language so that we be realistic about what we're sending young people off to do. War causes suffering, vast suffering, modern warfare especially. It is rarely, if ever, noble.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
—Wilfred Owen (The Latin phrase comes from Horace and translates into English as, "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.")
(for Poetography, Theme 129--Enthusiasm; and Literary Reference in Pictures)
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by A. Richard of 84, Faubourg du Temple, Paris.
Although the card was not posted, someone has used a pencil in order to write "To Mother" on the right side of the divided back, and "Harry" on the left. The card would have been sent via a British Army Field Post Office on the Western Front.
Harry has scratched out the location of the photograph for security reasons.
Visé Paris 280
The reference to 'Visé Paris' followed by a unique reference number means that the image has been inspected by the military authorities in the French capital and deemed not to be a security risk.
'Visé Paris' signifies that the card was published during or soon after the end of the Great War.
The Béthune Mining Company
The Compagnie des Mines de Béthune , sometimes called the Compagnie de Grenay after the name of the concession, was a French coal mining company in the Pas-de-Calais that was established in 1851 and nationalised in 1946.
The company had 11 mines (fosses), each with one or more shafts for the extraction of coal or ventilation. It had a large facility for screening and washing raw coal, and for producing coke and other secondary products.
The Béthune Mining Company in the Great War
During the Great War the front line crossed the mining concession, with the northern part occupied by the Germans, but despite constant shelling, production of coal continued.
The German offensive in the summer of 1914 only invaded the eastern part of the Pas-de-Calais mining region. After the first Battle of the Marne from the 6th. - 10th. September 1914, the "Race to the Sea" established a front line that cut through the mining basin. The Germans were stopped to the east of Vermelles.
The concession was cut in two along a line from Auchy-les-Mines to Liévin, with Mines 4 and 8 occupied by the Germans. The men who had not yet been mobilised were evacuated on the 4th. October 1914 in the face of the German advance, and production was suspended until the 22nd. October 1914.
Mine 4 (Vermelles) was recovered in December 1914, but Mine 8 (Auchy) was not recovered until the German troops withdrew at the end of the war. The British liberated Loos in the Battle of Loos which took place between the 25th. September to the 8th. October 1915. This front was then relatively stable throughout the war.
From October 1914 to the summer of 1918 the Mines de Béthune were continally bombarded by German artillery, which destroyed much of its infrastructure. The surface installations of mines 4, 5 (Loos-en-Gohelle) and 7 (Mazingarbe) were totally destroyed.
All the other mines were damaged by the artillery fire. The rotunda at Loos-en-Gohelle, a circular structure for storing locomotives, was destroyed on the 20th. May 1915.
The occupation of two thirds of the mining basin by the Germans was a disaster to the French, since the basin provided almost 75% of French coal before the Great War. Average daily production fell from 8,000 tons in 1913 to 1,000 tons in 1916.
The concession was cut by trenches that constantly changed as the front advanced and retreated. Only five extraction sites could be kept open, in the communes of Aix-Noulette, Bouvigny-Boyeffles, Bully-les-Mines, Grenay, Mazingarbe, Sains-en-Gohelle and Vermelles. These continued to supply raw coal to the war economy.
Before the war the director Louis Mercier had diversified into the manufacture of coke and tar, but during the war only the production of unprocessed raw coal continued. Operations were made very difficult by the bombardment.
The presence of the front a few kilometers from La Bassée, Loos-en-Gohelle, Lens and Notre-Dame de Lorette put the Mines de Béthune in the front line. All types of infrastructure were destroyed including headframes, buildings, rotundas, power stations and railway lines, with work halted while they were repaired.
In September 1917 the Béthune concession was an area of 13,500 hectares (33,000 acres) dominated by the summits of Haisnes, Grenay, Bouvigny and Beuvry. The east, west and north sides were mine galleries between shafts for extraction and ventilation. A long gallery led to Mine 8 in Auchy in the northeast.
The Germans were concerned about infiltration of the allies via the mines, and therefore destroyed the mine shafts , headframes and pumps. Shaft 8 was blocked by the Germans between the 240 meters (790 ft) level and the lower level.
Below the blockage the French could freely work the coal seams, even under the German side. Pumps were brought back into service below the shafts to drain the sector.
Barricades were built as early as 1916 along the main axes of the mine complex so it could be defended while allowing ventilation and the passage of men. Mines 3 and 4 in Vermelles were isolated from the rest of the mines by watertight doors.
British soldiers of the 170th. Tunnelling Company established a listening system at the bottom of shaft 8 which picked up sounds of activity in August 1917. In early September there was an underground struggle in which the Germans were forced out of the mine.
Chloropicrin in the Mines
Around midnight of the 25th. - 26th. September 1917, the Germans poured about 8 tons of the suffocating gas chloropicrin into Mine 8. The gas was carried by the ventilation systems, and took just under four hours to travel the 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) to Mine 9 and the shaft of Mine 12.
The men around the base of Shaft 8 died, but those further away escaped via the ladders of Shaft 9. After the gas attack, a thick masonry wall was built in the main haulage gallery to isolate the sectors near shafts 8 and 8bis.
The Germans blew up the casing of Shaft 8 and the heads of Shafts 8 and 8bis. The mines were evacuated by order of the military on the 12th. April 1918, and production resumed only after the final retreat of the enemy forces.
Poison Gas
The Battle of Loos was one of the first major British offensives mounted on the Western Front. It was also the first time that the British used poison gas. On the 25th. September 1915, 140 tons of chlorine, stored in 5,100 cylinders, were released.
However, in places it was blown back into the British lines, leading to some British soldiers being poisoned by their own side's gas.
Friendly Gas - a ghastly variation on the euphemism of Friendly Fire.
'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Below is part of a poem about gas used in warfare by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) which he names 'Dulce et Decorum Est'.
In it he strongly refutes the Roman poet Horace's contention that it is glorious and honourable to die for your country:
"Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime ...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues -
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori".
When crossing a WW1 battlefield in the aftermath of a gas attack, it was not unusual to find soldiers who had shot themselves rather than undergo the agony and terror of a death from chemical suffocation.
Requiescant in Pace.
More on Poison Gas
First introduced on April the 22nd. 1915 by the Germans, the use of poison gas quickly became commonplace by all of the combatants. In the popular imagination, poison gas became one of the defining symbols of the Great War.
All of the European powers had signed the Hague Declaration in 1899, never to use poison gas in artillery shells or other projectiles. Again, the Hague Convention of 1907 forbade the use of poison weapons. But once Germany used gas on the battlefield, all bets were off, and other armies began to use it.
By 1917, one third of all artillery shells contained gas. Not surprisingly, then, about one-third of all casualties in the Allied Expeditionary Forces were from gas.
Poison gas evolved rapidly during the war. That first use in the second battle of Ypres employed tanks of gas half-buried in the earth. When the wind was blowing away from their own lines, Germans opened the valves and allowed the gas to billow towards the French lines. There were 1,000 deaths and 4,000 casualties.
It was used twice more during the same battle, against British and Canadian troops. By the autumn of 1915, all sides were using poison gas, including gas in artillery shells.
Chlorine Gas
Chlorine gas, when it contacts tissue, dissolves in water to form hydrochloric acid. Its primary target is the lung, and death usually results from inhalation injury. Chlorine can also cause severe damage to eyes and exposed mucous membranes.
Phosgene Gas
Phosgene was introduced in late 1915. It was used extensively, frequently combined with chlorine. The British called the combination “White Star”, after the symbol painted on artillery shells filled with it. Phosgene may not show major symptoms for up to 48 hours. It causes pulmonary failure and heart failure, although death is usually from lung failure.
Mustard Gas
Nitrogen mustard was Introduced in July 1917 by the Germans. Mustard gas became known as the 'King of Battle Gases'. It eventually caused more chemical casualties than all the rest put together.
Mustard gas is a vesicant, causing severe blistering of the skin, and attacking the respiratory tract and the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and mouth. It is especially dangerous to the eyes. While most patients recovered their vision, a significant number remained permanently blind.
Lewisite
A number of other gases were developed. The most important of these was Lewisite, which was developed only late in the war. It is also a vesicant, but with more immediate action than mustard gas. It can enter the body through the skin, and do further internal damage.
Treatment of Poison Gas Victims
Treatment was limited to supportive care. About all the medical services could do for chlorine and phosgene gas victims was to put patients on bed rest, and hope that severe symptoms didn’t emerge.
Mustard gas was another story. The casualty had to be stripped, and completely washed. The eyes had to be washed out completely to avoid damage. Although it acted more slowly, mustard also attacked the lungs, especially the lower respiratory tract, causing a refractory kind of pulmonary oedema.
Casualty Statistics
The Allied Expeditionary Force had about 1500 deaths from poison gas, out of 52,000 battlefield deaths. But the total number of gas injuries was estimated at 90,000 to 100,000, or 30% of all casualties.
Overall, there were 1.3 million gas casualties during the war, and about 90,000 deaths. About half of the deaths were among the Russian army, which was notably slow in providing protective gear to its soldiers.
'Gassed last night—gassed the night before,
Gonna get gassed again if we never get gassed any more,
When we’re gassed, we’re as sick as we can be,
'Cause phosgene and mustard gas are much too much for me.
They're warning us, they're warning us,
One respirator for the four of us.
Thank your lucky stars that three of us can run,
So one of us can use it all alone.'
-- line from soldiers' song.
Poison Gas After the Great War
After the Great War, an international agreement – the 1925 Geneva Protocol – was signed, with all nations swearing never to use poison gas. And in fact, it was not used during World War II.
It has been used in lesser subsequent conflicts, notably the Iran-Iraq war. The US, which didn’t formally sign the Protocol until 1975, has maintained stocks of poison gas, but has never used them on the battlefield since World War I.
Newer poison gases, such as the organophosphate nerve agents Sarin, Soman, Tabun, and VX, are much more potent. They cause death from pulmonary oedema and respiratory failure, and are more lethal and more rapidly-acting than the gases used in the Great War.
After waiting for the UP Explorer to cross over on its way back to Sydney, 4577 gets underway again up from Grasstree to the former site of St Heilers with 8049, 4904, 48s34, 48s35, RL305 and RL304 at the helm.
The train had tipped at NAT Carrington the previous night/morning and was heading out to Walgett in the far North West
This was 8049's first appearance in daylight leading
*Really love the snowflake on the right hand side of the screen*
Here I was a couple of weeks ago, gloating in the beautifully warm winter that Poland was experiencing, and the tragedy that was the US snow situation.
Alas, my happiness was not to be.
In a couple of days I'm writing my first exam. Today I've had the immense pleasure of gargling my throat with warm salt water, eating oranges, attempting raw garlic, having a go at very vinegary salads and echinacae in an attempt to cure my sore throat and prevent the flu that I know is just waiting to get a hold of me.
Nevertheless there's no denying that the snow is refreshing. Beautiful.
A beautiful Karma.
The Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) is a bird in the rail family with an almost worldwide distribution outside Australasia as well as desert, many tropical rainforest, and the polar regions. In North America it was previously called the Common Gallinule.
This is a common breeding bird in marshy environments and well-vegetated lakes. It is often secretive, but can become tame in some areas. Populations in areas where the waters freeze, such as southern Canada, the northern USA and eastern Europe, will migrate to more temperate climes.
This is a distinctive species, with dark plumage apart from the white undertail, yellow legs and a red facial shield. The young are browner and lack the red shield. It has a wide range of gargling calls and will emit loud hisses when threatened. Photographed at the Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, FL
Folkloric
- Decoction of leaves of all ages used for diabetes mellitus. Some physicians believe the dried fruit decoction to be better.
- Roots have been used for a variety of stomach ailments. Leaf decoction for diabetes; also use as a diuretic and purgative.
- Decoction of old leaves and dried fruit (dried from one to two weeks), 50 gms to a pint of boiling water, 4 to 6 cups daily has been used for diabetes. Old leaves and ripe fruit are preferred, believed to have greater glucose lowering effect. Young leaves and flowers have a similar effect, though only 70% that of matures leaves and fruits. The wood has no known glucose lowering effect; the bark, a very small amount. A decoction of 20 gms of old leaves or dried fruit in 100 cc of water was found to have the equivalent effect to that of 6 to 7.7 units of insulin.
- In Pahang decoction of bark has been used for the treatment of diarrhea.
- Infusion of bark used for diarrhea.
- The bark, flowers and leaves used to facilitate bowel movements.
- Decoction of fruits or roots gargled for aphthous stomatitis.
- Decoction of leaves and flowers used for fevers and as diuretic.
- Leaf decoction or infusion used for bladder and kidney inflammation, dysuria, and other urinary dysfunctions.
- Seeds considered to have narcotic properties; also employed against aphthae.
source: stuart xchange
Macro Mondays- Wisdom.
So, speaking of "INSIGHT"....
After countless Belgian beers and a few really good cigars, its good to take two aspirin, wash your hair and gargle before bed.
Speaking of hindsight....
My hair still smells like cigars, LOL!
The first Hodge Opera House was built in 1871 by John Hodge, marketing wizard for Merchant’s Gargling Oil. He set about constructing the Opera House at Main and Market Streets. An ornate, four-story, domed tower graced the top of the building with the Opera House on the third floor which could seat up to 1,500 people. Offices occupied the second floor, with shops, restaurants and other businesses at street level. Dubbed “the finest building in the city,” the Hodge Opera House was the pride of Lockport. But the structure lasted less than 10 years. On Wednesday, January 5, 1881, flames were spotted by a patrolling policeman coming out of Staats’ Restaurant in the Opera House. The flames quickly consumed the massive stone building and the five-story factory of the Merchant’s Gargling Oil Company, the next structure down Market Street. By 10 a.m. both of these grand buildings were in ruins. Despite this setback, John Hodge remained undaunted and rebuilt his Opera House before the year ended.
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The Alpaca (Vicugna pacos) is a domesticated species of South American camelid. It resembles a small llama in superficial appearance.
Alpacas are kept in herds that graze on the level heights of the Andes of Ecuador, southern Peru, northern Bolivia, and northern Chile at an altitude of 3,500 m (11,483 ft) to 5,000 m (16,404 ft) above sea-level, throughout the year. [1] Alpacas are considerably smaller than llamas, and unlike llamas, alpacas were not bred to be beasts of burden but were bred specifically for their fiber. Alpaca fiber is used for making knitted and woven items, much as wool is. These items include blankets, sweaters, hats, gloves, scarves, a wide variety of textiles and ponchos in South America, and sweaters, socks, coats and bedding in other parts of the world. The fiber comes in more than 52 natural colors as classified in Peru, 12 as classified in Australia and 16 as classified in the United States. [2] Alpacas and llamas differ in that alpacas have straight ears and llamas have banana-shaped ears. Aside from these differences, llamas are on average 30 to 60 centimeters (1 to 2 ft) taller and proportionally bigger than alpacas.
In the textile industry, "alpaca" primarily refers to the hair of Peruvian alpacas, but more broadly it refers to a style of fabric originally made from alpaca hair but now often made from similar fibers, such as mohair, Icelandic sheep wool, or even high-quality English wool.[citation needed] In trade, distinctions are made between alpacas and the several styles of mohair and luster.
Alpacas have been domesticated for thousands of years. In fact, the Moche people of Northern Peru often used alpaca images in their art.[3] There are no wild alpacas. The closest living species are the wild vicuña, also native to South America, which is believed to be the wild ancestor of the alpaca.[4] Along with camels and llamas, the alpaca are classified as camelids. The alpaca is larger than the vicuña but smaller than the other camelid species.
Of the various camelid species, the alpaca and vicuña are the most valuable fiber-bearing animals: the alpaca because of the quality and quantity of its fiber, and the vicuña because of the softness, fineness and quality of its coat. Alpacas are too small to be used as pack animals. Instead, they were bred exclusively for their fiber and meat
Alpaca meat was once considered a delicacy by Andean inhabitants. A recent resurgence in alpaca meat was curtailed by a recent change to Peruvian law granting the alpaca protected status. Today, it is illegal to slaughter or trade in alpaca meat. Because of the high price commanded by alpaca on the growing North American alpaca market, illegal alpaca smuggling has become a growing problem.[5]
Alpacas and llamas can (and do) successfully cross-breed. The resulting offspring are called huarizo, which are valued for their unique fleece and often have gentle temperaments and are suitable for pets.
Alpacas are social herd animals that live in family groups consisting of a territorial alpha male, females and their young. They are gentle, inquisitive, intelligent and observant. As they are a prey animal, they are cautious and nervous if they feel threatened. They like having their own space and may not like an unfamiliar alpaca or human getting close, especially from behind. They warn the herd about intruders by making sharp, noisy inhalations that sound like a high pitch burro bray. The herd may attack smaller predators with their front feet, and can spit and kick. Due to the soft pads on their feet, the impact of a kick is not as dangerous as that of a hoofed animal, yet it still can give quite a bruise, and the pointed nails can inflict cuts.
[edit] Spitting
Not all alpacas spit, but all are capable of doing so. "Spit" is somewhat euphemistic; occasionally the projectile contains only air and a little saliva but alpacas commonly bring up acidic stomach contents (generally a green grassy mix) and project it onto their chosen target. Spitting is mostly reserved for other alpacas, but an alpaca will occasionally spit at humans that, for example, take away food.
For alpacas, spitting results in what is called "sour mouth." Sour mouth is characterized by a loose-hanging lower lip and a gaping mouth. This is caused by the stomach acids and unpleasant taste of the contents as they pass out of the mouth.
Some alpacas will spit when looked at, others will never spit—their personalities are very individualized and there is no hard and fast rule in terms of social behavior, although there is often a group leader, and a group trailer/runt that is picked on by others.
[edit] Physical contact
Once they know their owners and feel confident around them, alpacas may allow their backs and necks to be touched. They do not like being grabbed. Once socialized well, some alpacas tolerate being stroked or petted anywhere on their bodies, although many do not like their feet, lower legs, and especially their abdomen touched or handled. If an owner needs to catch an alpaca, the neck offers a good handle—holding the neck firmly between the arms is the best way to restrain the animal. Holding the neck from the rear with the animal's head under one's arm is also very effective.
A Bolivian man and his alpaca[edit] Hygiene
To help alpacas control their internal parasites they have a communal dung pile, where they do not graze. Generally, males have much tidier, and fewer dung piles than females who tend to stand in a line and all go at once. One female approaches the dung pile and begins to urinate and/or defecate, and the rest of the herd often follows.
Because of their preference for using a dung pile, some alpacas have been successfully house-trained.[citation needed]
[edit] Sounds
A group of AlpacasIndividuals vary, but Alpacas generally make a humming sound. Hums are often comfort noises, letting the other alpacas know they are present and content. The humming can take on many inflections and meanings, from questioning to a high-pitched, almost desperate, squealing when a mother is separated from her offspring.
Alpacas make a variety of sounds. When they are in danger, they make a high-pitched, shrieking whine. Some breeds are known to make a "wark" noise when excited. Strange dogs—and even cats—can trigger this reaction. To signal friendly and/or submissive behavior, alpacas "cluck," or "click" a sound possibly generated by suction on the soft palate, or possibly in the nasal cavity. This is often accompanied by a flipping up of the tail over the back.
When males fight they also scream, a warbling bird-like cry, presumably intended to terrify the opponent. Fighting determines dominance, and therefore the right to mate the females in the herd, and it is triggered by testosterone. This is why males are often kept in separate paddocks—when two dominant males get together, violent fights often occur. When males must be pastured together, it is wise to trim down the large fang-like teeth used in fights, called "fighting teeth". Although alpacas may try to bite each other, they only have a bottom row of teeth, so damage is usually minimal. When fighting they will often tangle others necks and attempt to push each other around, but they settle down after a week, as they establish dominance.
When alpacas breed, males make a similar noise called an "orgle". This is thought to possibly stimulate ovulation in the female. This can sound like a warbling or gargling noise in
Mud Pots, corner of Davis Rd and Schrimpf Rd. near Calipatria, CA
“Seep Field” of small volcanoes, 3.5 miles from Highway 111 on Schrimpf Rd, which is unpaved and rutted.
This area is on the St Andreas fault and there are power generating stations in the area using geothermal techniques to generate electrical power.
The mud pots are formed in geothermal areas. Carbon dioxide rises to the surface and pushes up water from a shallow aquifer, brining ash or mud up to the surface and forming mini volcanoes. Sulfurous odors waft on the breeze, and hisses, burps, and other rude noises emanate from shallow pools and conical mounds of mud being built.
One can get up close and personal as the mud pots gargle and croak without a sign to mark their presence and without a fence to protect them. The temperature of the mud ranges from warm to almost scalding
Snivelling little tick Neil takes the knee in awe of what appears to be time-tunnel, black-hole pan-galactic-gargle-blaster thingamajig that he hopes can take him to a different scale, in a different time, in a different Little England. For he’s often fantasised about about being on an N gauge model railway, or even better T gauge, though he’s aware that spiders that often live on model railways are the same size irrespective of the scale of the layout.
Clive however, is more worried about the crate of moonshine wedged underneath to stop it falling over, whilst wondering how what appears to be a 12 inch to the foot scale lens got to where it is. But then remembers that those 12 inch to the foot people can be as mischievous as those in the land of the Inch High.
Meanwhile as a prank, Andrew in his Barclay locomotive sneaks up hoping that Neil will stand up and look through the lens and see a hugely magnified engine coming his way.
I didn't see any Listerine bottles laying around, but this snapping turtle wanted to show me how fresh his breath was.
This guy actually bit my camera, but didn't do any damage other than getting some mud on the lens.
underground blues
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
...To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born is busy dying
Temptation’s page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover that you’d just be one more
Person crying
So don’t fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It’s alright, Ma, I’m only sighing
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don’t hate nothing at all
Except hatred
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked
An’ though the rules of the road have been lodged
It’s only people’s games that you got to dodge
And it’s alright, Ma, I can make it
Advertising signs they con
You into thinking you’re the one
That can do what’s never been done
That can win what’s never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks they really found you
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to
Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something they invest in
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society’s pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he’s in
But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it’s alright, Ma, if I can’t please him
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn’t talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer’s pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death’s honesty
Won’t fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes must get lonely
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed
Graveyards, false gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough, what else can you show me?
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only
lyrics and guitar :
Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan / known also as a genious /
grabbed the picture of some site.then did some illustrator,and photoshop to the picture.
thats about pretty much it.
This is the link where i grabbed the photo
417.
"Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.
Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.
So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred.
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.
An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.
Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.
Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him.
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.
But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only."
(Bob Dylan - "It's alright, Ma (I'm only bleeding))
Kingdom: Plantae Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Fabales Family: Fabaceae Genus: Tamarindus
Imli or Tamarind (Tamarindus indica), also called Indian Date, is a large, broad-leaved, tropical tree found in Haryana and other parts of India and Asia. The word Tamarind is from Arabic 'tamar-ul-Hind', meaning, "the date palm of India". Apart from Imli, among its other regional names are ambilis, amli, tintiri tintul, titri, and teteli. The tree can grow up to 25 meters with a spread of 12 m, and stays evergreen in regions without a dry season. Tamarind timber consists of hard, dark red heartwood and softer, yellowish sapwood. The leaves consist of 10 to 18 leaflets. The tree produces brown pod-like fruits, which contain pulp and hard-coated seeds. The seeds can be scarified to enhance germination.
Tamarind is a multipurpose plant. Its leaves, flowers, and even seedlings, make a tasty broth. The foliage is good for cattle fodder. It is also used as mulch for tender plants and it composts into good manure. The pulp of the fruit is used as a spice in Asian cuisine. The pulp of a young fruit is very sour, and hence suitable for main dishes, whereas a ripened fruit is sweeter and can be used in desserts, drinks, or as a snack. The pulp, leaves, and the bark also have medical applications. Due to its denseness and durability, tamarind heartwood can be used in making furniture and wood flooring.
Except for extremely cold tracts, Tamarind grows naturally all over Asia upto an altitude of about 500 m. In the Indian sub-continent, it is grown from Burma to Afghanistan – more so in central and southern India. Tamarind is not so demanding about the quality of soil. It, however, does very well in deep sandy loam soil and tolerates limited salinity. This is a highly sun-loving plant of warm open areas. It likes humid tracts. Annual rainfall of around 70-200 cm is ideal for this tree and draught is injurious. Tamarind being useful as a shady plant, a timber species, etc., it is widely cultivated. The stock is raised in nurseries. Tamarind seeds well and every year. The fruit is dispersed widely because of its taste. Wild animals, especially monkeys, are very helpful in this regard. Once the seed reaches the soil, it is germinates very well.
Tamarind has 1-2 cm thick dark-grey bark with longitudinal fissures. The leaves are pinnate compound with 5-10 cm long rachis. Each leaf has 10-20 pairs of opposite leaflets. The texture is sub-coriaceous and appearance glabrescent. The canopy is beautiful, umbrella like and the foliage dense. Tamarind bears reddish brown inflorescence in sub-terminal racemes during May-June. The fruit pods, 5-8 cm long, 2-4 mm thick, appear during August-September and ripen by March- April.
The tamarind fruit, also called Imli, is the best-known part. A preparation from the seed is useful for sizing cotton, woolens and jute fabrics and dying silk. The fruits, flattish, beanlike, irregularly curved and bulged pods, are borne in great abundance along the new branches and usually vary from 2 to 7 in long and from 3/4 to 1 1/4 in (2-3.2 cm) in diameter. Exceptionally large tamarinds have been found on individual trees. The pods may be cinnamon-brown or grayish-brown externally and, at first, are tender-skinned with green, highly acid flesh and soft, whitish, under-developed seeds. As they mature, the pods fill out somewhat and the juicy, acidulous pulp turns brown or reddish-brown. Thereafter, the skin becomes a brittle, easily-cracked shell and the pulp dehydrates naturally to a sticky paste enclosed by a few coarse strands of fiber extending lengthwise from the stalk. The 1 to 12 fully formed seeds are hard, glossy-brown, squarish in form, 1/8 to 1/2 in (1.1-1.25 cm) in diameter, and each is enclosed in a parchment like membrane.
It is highly wind-resistant, with strong, supple branches, gracefully drooping at the ends, and has dark-gray, rough, fissured bark. The mass of bright-green, fine, feathery foliage is composed of pinnate leaves, 3 to 6 in (7.5-15 cm) in length, each having 10 to 20 pairs of oblong leaflets 1/2 to 1 in (1.25-2.5 cm) long and 1/5 to 1/4 in (5-6 mm) wide, which fold at night. The leaves are normally evergreen but may be shed briefly in very dry areas during the hot season. Inconspicuous, inch-wide flowers, borne in small racemes, are 5-petalled (2 reduced to bristles), yellow with orange or red streaks. The flower buds are distinctly pink due to the outer color of the 4 sepals which are shed when the flower opens.
Cultivation: Nursery-grown trees are usually transplanted during the early rainy season. If kept until the second rainy season, the plants must be cut back and the taproot trimmed. Spacing may be 33 to 65 ft (10-20 m) between trees each way, depending on the fertility of the soil. With sufficient water and regular weeding, the seedlings will reach 2 ft (60 cm) the first year and 4 ft (120 cm) by the second year. In India there are extensive tamarind orchards producing 275,500 tons (250,000 MT) annually. In India, there may be a delay of 10 to 14 years before fruiting. The tree bears abundantly up to an age of 50-60 years or sometimes longer, then productivity declines, though it may live another 150 years.
Harvesting: Tamarinds may be left on the tree for as long as 6 months after maturity so that the moisture content will be reduced to 20% or lower. Fruits for immediate processing are often harvested by pulling the pod away from the stalk which is left with the long, longitudinal fibers attached. In India, harvesters may merely shake the branches to cause mature fruits to fall and they leave the remainder to fall naturally when ripe. Pickers are not allowed to knock the fruits off with poles as this would damage developing leaves and flowers. To keep the fruit intact for marketing fresh, the stalks must be clipped from the branches so as not to damage the shell. A mature tree may annually produce 330 to 500 lbs (150-225 kg) of fruits, of which the pulp may constitute 30 to 55%, the shells and fiber, 11 to 30 %, and the seeds, 33 to 40%.
Preservation: To preserve tamarinds for future use, they may be merely shelled, layered with sugar in boxes or pressed into tight balls and covered with cloth and kept in a cool, dry place. For shipment to processors, tamarinds may be shelled, layered with sugar in barrels and covered with boiling syrup. East Indians shell the fruits and sprinkle them lightly with salt as a preservative. In India, the pulp, with or without seeds and fibers may be mixed with salt (10%), pounded into blocks, wrapped in palm leaf matting, and packed in burlap sacks for marketing. To store for long periods, the blocks of pulp may be first steamed or sun-dried for several days.
Pest control and diseases: One of the major pests of the tamarind tree in India is the Oriental yellow scale, Aonidiella orientalis. Tamarind scale, A. tamarindi, and black, or olive, scale, Saissetia oleae, are also partial to tamarind but of less importance. Butani (1970) lists 8 other scale species that may be found on the tree, the young and adults sucking the sap of buds and flowers and accordingly reducing the crop.
The mealybug, Planococcus lilacinus, is a leading pest of tamarind in India, causing leaf-fall and sometimes shedding of young fruits. Another mealybug, Nipaecoccus viridis, is less of a menace except in South India where it is common on many fruit trees and ornamental plants. Chionaspis acuminata-atricolor and Aspidiotus spp., suck the sap of twigs and branches and the latter also feeds on young fruits. White grubs of Holotrichia insularis may feed on the roots of young seedlings. The nematodes, Xiphinema citri and Longidorus elongatus may affect the roots of older trees. In India, a bacterial leaf-spot may occur. Sooty mold is caused by Meliola tamarindi. Rots attacking the tree include saprot, Xylaria euglossa, brownish saprot, Polyporus calcuttensis, and white rot, Trametes floccosa. The separated pulp has good keeping quality but is subject to various molds in refrigerated storage.
Uses in Cuisine
The food uses of the tamarind are many. The tender, immature, very sour pods are cooked as seasoning with rice, fish and meats in India. The pulp is made into a variety of products. It is an important ingredient in chutneys, curries and sauces, including some brands of Worcestershire and barbecue sauce, and in a special Indian seafood pickle called "tamarind fish". Sugared tamarind pulp is often prepared as a confection. For this purpose, it is desirable to separate the pulp from the seeds without using water. If ripe, fresh, undehydrated tamarinds are available, this may be done by pressing the shelled and de-fibered fruits through a colander while adding powdered sugar to the point where the pulp no longer sticks to the fingers. The seeded pulp is then shaped into balls and coated with powdered sugar.
Formulas for the commercial production of spiced tamarind beverages have been developed by technologists in India. The simplest home method of preparing the ade is to shell the fruits, place 3 or 4 in a bottle of water, let stand for a short time, add a tablespoonful of sugar and shake vigorously. For a richer beverage, a quantity of shelled tamarinds may be covered with a hot sugar syrup and allowed to stand several days (with or without the addition of seasonings such as cloves, cinnamon, allspice, ginger, pepper or lime slices) and finally diluted as desired with ice water and strained.
Young leaves and very young seedlings and flowers are cooked and eaten as greens and in curries in India.
In 1942, two Indian scientists, T. P. Ghose and S. Krishna, announced that the decorticated kernels contained 46 to 48% of a gel-forming substance. Dr. G. R. Savur of the Pectin Manufacturing Company, Bombay, patented a process for the production of a purified product, called "Jellose", "polyose", or "pectin", which has been found superior to fruit pectin in the manufacture of jellies, jams, and marmalades. It can be used in fruit preserving with or without acids and gelatinizes with sugar concentrates even in cold water or milk. It is recommended as a stabilizer in ice cream, mayonnaise and cheese and as an ingredient or agent in a number of pharmaceutical products.
Flowers: The flowers are rated as a good source of nectar for honeybees in South India. The honey is golden-yellow and slightly acid in flavor.
Seeds: The powder made from tamarind kernels has been adopted by the Indian textile industry as 300% more efficient and more economical than cornstarch for sizing and finishing cotton, jute and spun viscose, as well as having other technical advantages. It is commonly used for dressing homemade blankets. Other industrial uses include employment in color printing of textiles, paper sizing, leather treating, the manufacture of a structural plastic, a glue for wood, a stabilizer in bricks, a binder in sawdust briquettes, and a thickener in some explosives. It is exported to Japan, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Tamarind seeds yield an amber oil useful as an illuminant and as a varnish especially preferred for painting dolls and idols. The oil is said to be palatable and of culinary quality. The tannin-rich seedcoat (testa) is under investigation as having some utility as an adhesive for plywoods and in dyeing and tanning, though it is of inferior quality and gives a red hue to leather.
Wood: Tamarind wood, weighing about 20-25 kg per cubic foot, is somewhat hard to work. It is also not very durable in outdoor structures exposed to weather. The sapwood of the tamarind tree is pale-yellow. The heartwood is rather small, dark purplish-brown, very hard, heavy, strong, durable and insect-resistant. It bends well and takes a good polish and, while hard to work, it is highly prized for furniture, panelling, wheels, axles, gears for mills, ploughs, planking for sides of boats, wells, mallets, knife and tool handles, rice pounders, mortars and pestles. It has at times been sold as "Madeira mahogany". Wide boards are rare, despite the trunk dimensions of old trees, since they tend to become hollow-centered. The wood is valued for fuel, especially for brick kilns, for it gives off an intense heat, and it also yields a charcoal for the manufacture of gun-powder.
Twigs and barks: Tamarind twigs are sometimes used as "chewsticks" and the bark of the tree as a masticatory, alone or in place of lime with betelnut. The bark contains up to 7% tannin and is often employed in tanning hides and in dyeing, and is burned to make an ink. Bark from young trees yields a low-quality fiber used for twine and string. Galls on the young branches are used in tanning.
Lac: The tamarind tree is a host for the lac insect, Kerria lacca, that deposits a resin on the twigs. The lac may be harvested and sold as stick-lac for the production of lacquers and varnish. If it is not seen as a useful byproduct, tamarind growers trim off the resinous twigs and discard them.
Medicinal uses of Tamarind are many and it is used extensively in the Indian system of medicine, Ayurveda. Tamarind preparations are universally recognized as refrigerants in fevers and as laxatives and carminatives. Alone, or in combination with lime juice, honey, milk, dates, spices or camphor, the pulp is considered effective as a digestive, even for elephants, and as a remedy for biliousness and bile disorders, and as an antiscorbutic. In native practice, the pulp is applied on inflammations, is used in a gargle for sore throat and, mixed with salt, as a liniment for rheumatism. It is, further, administered to alleviate sunstroke, Datura poisoning, and alcoholic intoxication.
Tamarind leaves and flowers, dried or boiled, are used as poultices for swollen joints, sprains and boils. Lotions and extracts made from them are used in treating conjunctivitis, as antiseptics, as vermifuges, treatments for dysentery, jaundice, erysipelas and hemorrhoids and various other ailments. The fruit shells are burned and reduced to an alkaline ash which enters into medicinal formulas. The bark of the tree is regarded as an effective astringent, tonic and febrifuge. Fried with salt and pulverized to an ash, it is given as a remedy for indigestion and colic. A decoction is used in cases of gingivitis and asthma and eye inflammations; and lotions and poultices made from the bark are applied on open sores and caterpillar rashes. The powdered seeds are made into a paste for drawing boils and, with or without cumin seeds and palm sugar, are prescribed for chronic diarrhea and dysentery. The seedcoat, too, is astringent, and it, also, is specified for the latter disorders. An infusion of the roots is believed to have curative value in chest complaints and is an ingredient in prescriptions for leprosy.
Courtesy: www.haryana-online.com/flora/imli.htm
photo: SANJIB GANGULY
This plant, RUBUS FRUCTICOSUS, is known for its fruit flavored sweet black.
The plant grows in the form of bushes leafy green or slightly towards brown.
Rose bushes from 50 to 150 cm above the ground.
Blackberries grow preferentially laying on the ground, crawling.
After blooming in June-July, fruits consist of many black berries are harvested joined occur in August and September.
Blackberries-natural treatments
The leaves are used medicinally and blackberry fruits.
Herbs contain essential oils, tannins substances and vitamins.
Plant fruits are tasty and very indicated for the treatment of anemia states, in laryngitis and pharyngitis.
Blackberry A tea (infusion) which has a strong constipating effects (diarrhea).
The tea used for gargling, combat inflammatory conditions of the oral cavity.
For tea use MUR roots and leaves that are harvested in early spring.
The leaves dry in the shade and stored in cloth bag.
Tea is good to treat kidney disease, promotes diuresis.
Depurator effect (clean blood) cure many skin diseases ... read more ...
Folkloric
· In the Philippines, decoction of dried roots used as emmenagogue.
· Few seeds, masticated and eaten, said to be a good stomachic.
· Skin pruritus, scabies: use pounded fresh material (quantity sufficient combine with kerosene applied over the afflicted area.)
· Concentrated decoction may also be used as external wash over afflicted area.
· Decoction of leaves used for washing cuts and sores; also used for the treatment of cholera.
· Decoction of leaves used as pectoral and antiscabious.
· Poultice of pounded leaves or bruised leaves applied to wounds and boils; also, inflamed joints.
· Juice of leaves used for facial acne, gum-boils, sores and wounds.
· Sap of leaves, mixed with salt, used for clearing vision.
· Plant used for ear and skin infections.
· Leaves used for poulticing herpes and rheumatism.
· Decoction of leaves and flowers used as gargle for sore throats and tonsillitis.
· Flowers in small doses are emmenagogue; in large doses, abortive.
· In Mexico, decoction of roots or any plant part used for asthma.
· In Liberia, considered and used as "erysipelas" plant.
· In India, juice of leaves used for treating sores and insect bites.
· Leaf juice given to infants for cough.
· In Costa Rica, leaves are crushed and used as resolvent for abscesses and furuncles.
· In Indo-China, decoction of leaves used for urticaria.
· In Nigeria, used for fevers and ulcers.
· Sino-Annamites used the plant for beri-beri.
· In West Africa, used for vomiting, amenorrhea, high blood pressure; sap applied to gumboils, clean up ulcers and for eye infections.
· In Sierra Leone , decoction of leaves used for washing new-born babies.
· In Senegal, leaf powder used for dermatitis, eczema, impetigo in children.
· In Indonesia, leaf decoction is used for thrush; poultices used for herpes and rheumatism.
· In Thailand, traditionally used for wound healing.
· In Taiwan, a folk remedy for sore throat and lung diseases.
source: stuart xchange
The looks are starting to grow on me, though it does look a little wide, must be those 2 V8 engines.
And yes, it is a staggering piece of engineering, but i was expecting it to sound, i don't know, like the Norse God of Thunder gargling nails, and it doesn't. The sound of it doesn't send a shiver down your spine like a Ferrari V8 or even an Aston.
Ma grande Livia est heureuse : le printemps est là et du coup elle vit dans le jardin. En plus ce matin elle a vu les premières vaches sorties. Quel bonheur, Livia aime les vaches et a un vocabulaire (des gargarismes) spécialement destiné aux vaches ;-)
My big Livia is happy, spring is there and so she spends all her time in the garden. And this morning the first cows were out and she was so happy. Livia loves cows and has a special vocabulary (gargling) for cows ;-)
Livia n'est pas un border collie
Livia is not a border collie
The planet Fallia is best known for its marshes which, according to the instructions on how to make a proper Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, are quite dangerous. You should allow four litres of Fallian marsh gas to bubble through the drink "in memory of all those happy Hikers who have died of pleasure in the Marshes of Fallia." It can therefore be assumed that these gases are highly intoxicating, possibly even hallucinogenic. The famous five are obviously enjoying the hazy views under the silver moonlight.
Today, I get my teeth cleaned.
All that tartar and plaque: "b-bye!"
I'll get flossed by a lady professional--
The secret desire of every guy.
They'll be picked and polished until they glow in the sun.
With that 'I've just had my teeth cleaned' shine.
Of course, then, I'll be questioned by everyone,
If these teeth are really mine.
In the old days, y'know, they used dead animal teeth:
Elephant tusks and rhinoceros horn,
To replace people's teeth-- and of course it wasn't cheap.
But this was way before I was born.
At the very end, I'll get my mouth expertly washed,
With some mint-flavored halitosis-hiding rinse.
Of course when I wake up tomorrow,
I'll have to keep gargling and chewing
Those life-saving, bad-breath-disguising mints.
B. Kite -- 3/28/2023
Mud Pots, corner of Davis Rd and Schrimpf Rd. near Calipatria, CA
“Seep Field” of small volcanoes, 3.5 miles from Highway 111 on Schrimpf Rd, which is unpaved and rutted.
This area is on the St Andreas fault and there are power generating stations in the area using geothermal techniques to generate electrical power.
The mud pots are formed in geothermal areas. Carbon dioxide rises to the surface and pushes up water from a shallow aquifer, brining ash or mud up to the surface and forming mini volcanoes. Sulfurous odors waft on the breeze, and hisses, burps, and other rude noises emanate from shallow pools and conical mounds of mud being built.
One can get up close and personal as the mud pots gargle and croak without a sign to mark their presence and without a fence to protect them. The temperature of the mud ranges from warm to almost scalding
KAIJU!
Top shelf: Ultraman Nexus Pedoleon n Kutoura, Taraban, Nosferu, Chaos Parastan Substance, and Ikarus no 27.
2nd Shelf: Mikulas 2006 no 3, Kanegon Lucky Gold ed, Gesura, Aboras, Gun-Q, WOO!
3rd Shelf: Sadora, Kamen Rider Garagaranda (gargle much?), Jamila, Eleking No3 Max (blue ed!), Zagon (no spots or shading), Mukadendar no 50 1994, and Garamon.
colored leaves when they are young, turning green posteriorly. It is a very slow growing tree which prefers moist, lightly acidic soils for best growth. It is widely adaptable, however, and grows satisfactorily even on alkaline beach-sand type soils, so long as they tended and irrigated. Its flowers are white and grow directly from its trunk in a cauliflorous habit. Naturally the tree may flower and fruit only once or twice a year, but when continuously irrigated it flowers frequently, and fresh fruit can be available year round in tropical regions.
The jabuticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora (Mart.) O.Berg. [Myrtaceae]) is a small tree native to the Minas Gerais region near Rio de Janeiro in southern Brazil grown for the purple, grape-like fruits it produces. Traditionally, an astringent decoction of the sun-dried skins has been used as a treatment for hemoptysis, asthma, diarrhea, and gargled for chronic inflammation of the tonsils. The fruit is 3-4 cm in diameter with one to four large seeds, borne directly on the main trunks and branches of the plant, lending a distinctive appearance to the fruiting tree. It has a thick, purple, astringent skin that covers a sweet, white, or rosy pink gelatinous flesh. Common in Brazilian markets, jaboticabas are largely eaten fresh; their popularity has been likened to that of grapes in the US. Fresh fruit may begin to ferment 3 to 4 days after harvest, so they are often used to make jams, tarts, strong wines, and liqueurs.
Several potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory anti-cancer compounds have been isolated from the fruit.[1]