“Sassy” may best describe the character of this marsh denizen. Seldom seen except when singing from the tops of bulrushes or cattails in spring, Marsh Wrens “gargle, twitter, and chatter” from most sizable fresh or brackish marshes all along the coast. The males are exceptionaly vocal and learn an incredible diversity of song types early in life. Although most active during the daylight hours, Marsh Wrens may also sing at night, especially under the light of the moon.

Some male Marsh Wrens build numerous nests within their territory each year, a necessary complement to their polygymous mating strategy (a behavior more common in the west than the east). One nest houses the female, the eggs, and the young, while the male roosts in another. He also builds several “dummy” nests that stay empty all season. This behavior may have evolved as predator avoidance—a raccoon loses intereest after dismantling an empty nest—or maybe the construction just gives the Marsh Wren something to do with its time.

Marsh Wrens are insectivores, foraging low in the vegetation or on the marsh floor, primarily on insects and spiders.

(Rich Stallcup and Jules Evens)

auf dem blauen Boden in der blauen Spiegel Küche: Schachtel, Braunglasflasche, Beipackzettel, Messbecher: Tonsillol Gurgellösung ratiopharm, Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum Vanillemilch, Kreis: Gurgellösung

Part of: "an apple a day keeps the doctor away - An ENSO (circle, Kreis) a day .... " Aktion Kreis Tagebuch A circle diary - Start of the Project: 1. September // colors: blue orange - Farben: blau orange

Triptych:

DMC-G2 - P1850833 - 2014-10-23

DMC-G2 - P1850835 - 2014-10-23

DMC-G2 - P1850843 - 2014-10-23

The year we turned 50, several of my friends from grade and high school days came from here in Texas, Tennessee, and Kentucky to spend a couple of nights at my house. One, Teresa, recalled that my childhood gift to her and others for birthday sleepovers was a cigar box filled with candy from our country store. She scoured through antique shops to find this and filled it to the rim with candy for me. Brings back memories of a lifetime with really wonderful friends. (Well, mostly wonderful! I once spent the night with Teresa and her mother made me gargle saltwater. I thought that was torture!)

ODC: early memories

As engines gargle and struggle up the grade from Harefield, 8044 and 44202 do their best at keeping speed with 3316, Qube Harefield shuttle to Junee.

This portion was the last to go onto Qube's 3112 to Sydney where the QBX's and CM's would take over.

Unfortunately, according to Douglas Adams (inventor of the PGGB), there are a number of environmental and weapons treaties, as well as laws of physics which prevent the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster from being mixed on Earth.

Tolka River Valley Park (TRVP) Dublin Ireland 07-03-2021

Scientific classification

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum:Chordata

Class:Aves

Order:Pelecaniformes

Family:Ardeidae

Genus:Egretta

Species:E. garzetta

Binomial name

Egretta garzetta

[group] Herons and egrets | [FR] Aigrette garzette | [DE] Seidenreiher | [ES] Garceta Comun | [NL] Kleine Zilverreiger | [IRL] Éigrit bheag

Status: Resident along coasts and rivers throughout Ireland, but still scarce in the Midlands and north-west of the country. Little Egret was considered rare in Ireland until it first started breeding here in 1997. It has since expanded and now occurs in almost every coastal county, as well as at a number of inland sites.

Conservation Concern: Green-listed in Ireland. The European population is considered to be Secure.

Identification: Medium-sized white heron, with long black legs, yellow feet, black bill and blue-grey lores, and two elongated nape-feathers in breeding plumage.

Similar Species: Unmistakable in Ireland. Great White Egret is a rare visitor from Continental Europe, but is twice the size.

Call: Rook-like hoarse 'aaah' on alighting from the ground. At colonies, hoarse hard gargling 'gulla-gulla-gulla…' often heard.

Diet: Takes a wide variety of animals including small fish, frogs, snails and insects and forages across a range of wetland habitats from lakes to flooded grassland. Often forages alone; but maybe encountered in small groups.

Breeding: Clutch: 4-5 eggs (1 brood) Incubation: 21-22 days.Fledging: 40-45 days (Altrical). Age of first breeding: not known. Breeds in lakes, marshes, flooded fields & estuaries.

Wintering: Little Egrets use a variety of wetland habitats, including shallow lakes, riverbanks, lagoons, coastal estuaries and rocky shoreline.

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Just trying to keep the cold out.

Notice its tiny tongue;looks like it is gargling ...melted snow maby?Just keeping the breath cool.

The common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) (also known as the waterhen and as the swamp chicken[2]) is a bird species in the family Rallidae. It is distributed across many parts of the Old World.

The common moorhen lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals and other wetlands. The species is not found in the polar regions or many tropical rainforests. Elsewhere it is likely the most common rail species, except for the Eurasian coot in some regions.

The moorhen is a distinctive species, with dark plumage apart from the white undertail, yellow legs and a red frontal shield. The young are browner and lack the red shield. The frontal shield of the adult has a rounded top and fairly parallel sides; the tailward margin of the red unfeathered area is a smooth waving line. In the related common gallinule of the Americas, the frontal shield has a fairly straight top and is less wide towards the bill, giving a marked indentation to the back margin of the red area.

The common moorhen gives a wide range of gargling calls and will emit loud hisses when threatened. A midsized to large rail, it can range from 30 to 38 cm (12 to 15 in) in length and span 50 to 62 cm (20 to 24 in) across the wings. The body mass of this species can range from 192 to 500 g (6.8 to 17.6 oz).

This image was taken in Antigua in the Caribbean.

This is Bruce Wayne’s first few months as Batman, where he was just dubbed ‘The Bat’ by the press because he wore dark clothes, dark goggles, and some high tech gauntlets he made his cave

Bruce was perched on a gargoyle one night and saw two thieves, entering a science lab, the two thieves unbeknownst to Bruce were Nora and Victor fries. Nora had a shaved head and was wearing a sleeveless white tee. Victor was wearing a light blue tactical vest. Nora fries was Victor’s wife and she had stage four cancer. Victor used to work at the science lab, but was fired for being unstable after his wife was diagnosed he snuck back in with his wife to try to get the research to cure her using liquid nitrogen and slowly freeze away the cancer bits. Bruce snuck in the back by lock picking his way in. He saw the man scuffling to try and grab some research papers but Bruce told him to put them down and he would call the cops. The man suddenly tried to grab the papers and run away but Bruce tackled him. Then he felt the cold barrel of a gun up against his head. It was the wife of the icy haired man, Bruce quickly turned around and kicked her back but she was kicked into the cryogenic tube. Suddenly the tube closed and locked and the woman started screaming asking Bruce to help her out but it was too late. The door was locked and cold icy air started to fill the tube. The man in tears and desperation took the gun that Nora had dropped on the ground when she had been kicked back and took the bottom of it and knocked Bruce out cold. The man tried to shoot the glass, but it would not break the man then went outside to Hotwire a truck, and wheel his wife in the test tube into the truck and drove away, crying in tears.

A few weeks later, Bruce had heard of a group, called the red hood gang that was planning to rob a card factory, and steal the money that all the rich casinos had paid for the playing cards for the gambling rings. Bruce was across the street in a motel, waiting for the gang to show up as soon as they showed up and took the wire cutters to cut the chance of the door. He’s slowly snuck out the window of his room and went down the fire escape and snuck his way in after them. He then slowly tried to pick them off one by one, until one of them noticed He then went up behind the leader, and put him in a headlock, saying he’d snap his neck (a bluff, of course) but the leader elbowed him in the gut, and he lost his grip. The men started frantically to shoot at him. He hid behind one of the vets of chemicals, and took a smoke grenade out of his bag and threw it at the ground by their feet he quickly incapacitated them, until only the leader was left the leader ran up a flight of stairs to the walkway above the vats of chemicals but Bruce appeared on the other side, and the men tend to run, but slipped and fell over the railing. Bruce tried to grab him, but was too late. The man fell into the chemicals, gargling the acidic compound as he slowly drowned.

A few more weeks go by and a riddle is left, directed to him at a crime scene. But the police didn’t like the bat at this point. So he snuck in the crime scene and took a picture of the riddle. He quickly deciphered it but he wanted to try and figure out this criminals endgame before it was too late, so he went to Arkham asylum to interrogate Jonathan Crane a once psychiatrist of Arkham asylum, turned psychotic and used to roam the streets as a sort of fear monger, a witch doctor, a scarecrow of sorts. Crane was the first crime that Bruce had sold when he went by the alias matches Malone, and threw on a pair of fake sideburns and a raggedy old jacket. He asked crane what he thought this Riddler’s intentions were. But crane just laughed at him and told him it’s all about fear he wants to be feared, and respected as someone capable of destroying the bat.

END OF PROLOGUE

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I found these on the ground, in the ‘wild’.

Berries are so autumnal, only very few are edible now, except for the birds and other animals.

A jelly made from them is popular for dressing game.

According to Robert James in 1747, the fruit is excellent for treating the scurvy, and the exudates from the bark is good for the diseases of the spleen.

When dried and powdered the berries have been turned into a type of bread, and in an infusion make an acidulous drink.

A gargle made from the berries is good for a sore throat and inflamed tonsils.

However, it is bitter – very bitter.

Sorbus is a genus of about 100–200 species of trees and shrubs in the rose family Rosaceae. Species of Sorbus are commonly known as white-beam, rowan, service tree and mountain-ash.

This upright, tree is the most compact of the Rowan trees making it ideal for small gardens.

Fluffy, white corymbs of flowers appear in April-May that are popular with bees.

Mid/dark green pinnate foliage turns vibrant shades of orange and red in the autumn which complements the reddish orange berries that hang in heavy clusters and are a treat for the birds.

Popular folklore maintains that a heavy crop of fruit means a hard or difficult winter.

Similarly, in Finland and Sweden, the number of fruit on the trees was used as a predictor of the snow cover during winter.

However, as fruit production for a given summer is related to weather conditions the previous summer, with warm, dry summers increasing the amount of stored sugars available for subsequent flower and fruit production, it has no predictive relationship to the weather of the next winter.

Also Hypericum, found in bouquets.

Have a great day and thanks for viewing, M, (*_*)

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White-necked Jacobin doing an unusual maneuver. I have witnessed this at least on 3 different occasions over the last 3 years by different birds, but always of the same species.

[group] Herons and egrets | [order] CICONIIFORMES | [family] Ardeidae | [latin] Egretta garzetta | [UK] Little Egret | [FR] Aigrette garzette | [DE] Seidenreiher | [ES] Garceta Comun | [NL] Kleine Zilverreiger | [IRL] Éigrit bheag

Status: Resident along coasts and rivers throughout Ireland, but still scarce in the Midlands and north-west of the country. Little Egret was considered rare in Ireland until it first started breeding here in 1997. It has since expanded and now occurs in almost every coastal county, as well as at a number of inland sites.

Conservation Concern: Green-listed in Ireland. The European population is considered to be Secure.

Identification: Medium-sized white heron, with long black legs, yellow feet, black bill and blue-grey lores, and two elongated nape-feathers in breeding plumage.

Similar Species: Unmistakable in Ireland. Great White Egret is a rare visitor from Continental Europe, but is twice the size.

Call: Rook-like hoarse 'aaah' on alighting from the ground. At colonies, hoarse hard gargling 'gulla-gulla-gulla…' often heard.

Diet: Takes a wide variety of animals including small fish, frogs, snails and insects and forages across a range of wetland habitats from lakes to flooded grassland. Often forages alone; but maybe encountered in small groups.

Breeding: Clutch: 4-5 eggs (1 brood) Incubation: 21-22 days.Fledging: 40-45 days (Altrical). Age of first breeding: not known. Breeds in lakes, marshes, flooded fields & estuaries.

Wintering: Little Egrets use a variety of wetland habitats, including shallow lakes, riverbanks, lagoons, coastal estuaries and rocky shoreline.

"Sir! A party advances up the main road from Garhaven. At least a dozen men," the sentry shouts from his perch.

Most of he convoy trudged along uninitiated to the deep Garheim snow drifts. But the sentry could tell the men out front were well accustomed the fresh powder. They inched along until they reached just out side the first check point and started to disperse into a more defensive posture to match those of the Garheim sentinels.

The eldest of the men emerged from a middle the pack, and with a grizzled and worn voice he announced their intentions. "I am Lord Stout of Loreos's East Stowburn. I bring with you glad tidings." A collective sigh came from the Garheim soldiers, they were unsure of what to expect as the men approached. "My compatriot Haydar Khaldoon, and some support from Lendfald are hear to help drive the Queen's men into the icy depths!" The Garheim men cheered as they led the party into the makeshift field camp.

The Black Bird guides joined their countrymen around the fires. The Lenfaldian Scout Snipers charged to the perches and took in the vantage points. The Crimson clad brutes passed around what supplies they could, and the ringleaders called for an immediate strategy meeting

The Garheim commander spoke first, "we were 50 strong, a score of us mounted knights, when we made camp a fortnight ago. Bad weather forced us to seek refuge for the night here at the mausoleum. That's when they first attacked, under the cover of darkness they hit us hard. A Queen's force of like numbers came upon us in the early hours and killed 20 brave men before we even notched an arrow. As quick as them came, they disappeared into the morning mist.

We stayed another night to honor and bury our dead, thinking the Queen's forces had left to rejoin their ranks , instead they attacked again as we broke camp. This time we held and drove them back, but not before they inflicted more casualties.

We sent word to Granhaven and we were ordered to hold this point along road. So we have, we've held up here awaiting supplies and re-reinforcements as man by man we fall to enemy's arrows or the biting cold." A wave of relief came over his face as he looked at Lord Stout, "my Lord, we appreciate every man willing to join us, but you come in too few a number to push those demons back."

Lord Stout turns to Khaldoon uncomfortably and then back to the Garheim commander. "Good sir, we will aid you as best we can, but Khaldoon and I are business men. We came to deliver war supplies and the like, we have done so in Grahnhaven and are looking to move on to Havenhill. We were caught unaware that the main road was closed off by the insurgents. Our guides thought we may be able hold up here for the night as well. We are prepared to move out in the morning. We are willing to leave the Scout Snipers behind, but our business is in Havenhill and we will press on."

The Garheim commander raised his war hammer as to smash the table before him in anger, when suddenly the horns sounded. The Gaheim's sprang to their feet and sprinted to the half hazard palisades. The sentry shouted a gargled "they're here," as an arrow pierced his throat ...

Just another leaky faucet shot =) Not much time to shoot these days.

I thought my favourite med was the crap-in-a-bucket they give you to take over a four-hour period the night before you have your colonoscopy. I was wrong. Benzydamine Hydrochloride beats it hands down. Benzydamine is a gargle that does a real number on the gag reflex. If you thought you didn't have a gag reflex, try this stuff.

On the upside, I've been in bed for pretty much five days now, and I've been catching up on all the daytime TV I've missed over the last few years. Just watched a look-alike show where a goth chick got turned into Céline Dion. Go, Canada!

America's Next Top Model is on right now. Lots of tears. I hate that silver-gell-haired schmuck (Jay Manuel). He's nasty. I think he must have been beaten up in the schoolyard a lot.

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Here's a question. How many times have Nikki and Victor been married and divorced? This is not a smartass question. I really need to know.

Speaking of Y&R, does anybody remember when, over twenty years ago, Cassandra Rawlings Hall (Nina Arveson) was saved by Paul Williams (Doug Davidson)? She was tied to a chair with a gun propped next to her head. The trigger was operated by an ice cube that would melt, thus releasing the charge and bullet. After Dougie saved her, she walked out the door and was creamed by a truck. I have always been in awe of soap storyline writers. Some of you younger writers out there should pay attention to the work of such genius-mentors.

One of the things I have to watch over and over again is that screaming bitch in the Grey Power ad. What a piece of work she is. Nobody but Canucks will understand what I'm talking about unless they check the link below. This is truly the most annoying commercial I have heard or seen in my life, and it has been playing every five minutes for well over a year now. If you switch channels, it turns up on the channel you switched to. I hope the actress was paid well. I bet she gets tons of hate mail.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdPDmz5vKfY

I would much rather be posting to flickr and reading the history tomes that I favour, but I don't have a crapload of energy, so I'm into this other stuff. If I'm not any better tomorrow, I may post a photo of the latest junk mail I've been reading. It's fascinating, and such a posting may well help future sociologists

I hope to be back up by Friday. If not, it'll be Sunday, since I work Saturday (maybe)

I'd better go now. Who knows, there may be a cool documentary about sea snails on Discovery Channel, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to miss that.

Take care, my friends, Georgie and Gretel want me to cuddle with them. The pups are good little mommies to Karen and me.

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I photographed this Common Gallinule (formerly Common Moorhen) at the Black Point Wildlife Drive section of Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge located immediately north of the NASA Space complex on Florida's Atlantic Coast. The Common Gallinule split from the common moorhen by the American Ornithologists’ Union in July 2011. It lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals, and other wetlands in the Americas. The species is not found in the polar regions or many tropical rainforests. Elsewhere, the common gallinule is likely the most commonly seen rail species in much of North America, except for the American coot in some regions. The gallinule has dark plumage apart from the white undertail, yellow legs and a red frontal 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. They have a length of 12.6-13.8 inches (32-35cm), weigh from 9 to 16.1 ounces (310-456g), and have a wingspan of 21.3 to 24.4 inches (54-62cm). This is a common breeding bird in marsh environments and well-vegetated lakes. Populations in areas where the waters freeze, such as southern Canada and the northern USA, will migrate to more temperate climes. This species will consume a wide variety of vegetable material and small aquatic creatures. It forages beside or in the water, sometimes upending in the water to feed. Its wide feet allow it to hop about on lily pads. It is often secretive, but can become tame in some areas. Despite loss of habitat in parts of its range, the common gallinule remains plentiful and widespread.

Info above was extracted from Wikipedia.

In a rare movement in the workings of South Australia in recent times, the triplet of GL112, GL111 and GL108 crawl through Osborne on route to FACT (Flinders Adelaide Container Terminal) with 4122S Bowmans service.

Edith Piaf I love this, but it always makes me think of gargling TCP.

We did this shoot as the kids (yes the kids) were bored of a sweet factory tour !!

#AB_FAV_IN_AUTUMN_ 🍄🍁🍂

I found these on the ground, in the ‘wild’.

Berries are so autumnal, only very few are edible now, except for the birds and other animals.

A jelly made from them is popular for dressing game.

According to Robert James in 1747, the fruit is excellent for treating the scurvy, and the exudates from the bark is good for the diseases of the spleen.

When dried and powdered the berries have been turned into a type of bread, and in an infusion make an acidulous drink.

A gargle made from the berries is good for a sore throat and inflamed tonsils.

However, it is bitter – very bitter.

Sorbus is a genus of about 100–200 species of trees and shrubs in the rose family Rosaceae. Species of Sorbus are commonly known as white-beam, rowan, service tree and mountain-ash.

This upright, tree is the most compact of the Rowan trees making it ideal for small gardens.

Fluffy, white corymbs of flowers appear in April-May that are popular with bees.

Mid/dark green pinnate foliage turns vibrant shades of orange and red in the autumn which complements the reddish orange berries that hang in heavy clusters and are a treat for the birds.

Popular folklore maintains that a heavy crop of fruit means a hard or difficult winter.

Similarly, in Finland and Sweden, the number of fruit on the trees was used as a predictor of the snow cover during winter.

However, as fruit production for a given summer is related to weather conditions the previous summer, with warm, dry summers increasing the amount of stored sugars available for subsequent flower and fruit production, it has no predictive relationship to the weather of the next winter.

Have a great day and thanks for viewing, M, (*_*)

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Based on the bestselling books by Lorna Gargles, "Space 1956" was a TV series that aimed to educate, infiltrate, regurgitate and hallucinate.

Space 1956 featured a lightly dim-witted family who had crash landed on Mars, after Dad had put the family car in the wrong gear on a slippery night.

Each week, they faced a conundrum, a moral question, some comedic byplay with various bodily ailments, and of course, were accompanied by their robot, Slobby.

Whilst Slobby was anything but well dressed, the other members of the family, especially the females, were always kitted out in fashionable knitwear.

Here we see a framed fan photo of Jeanie Krill in the episode "Martian Pie", where the family are terrorised by a bloodthirsty creature, but tame it with the aid of some of Mom's Special Space Pastry and a little something from their Martian pumpkin patch, all popped into Slobby's cavernous but surprisingly hot tummy.

The show ran for just seven episodes.

[group] Herons and egrets | [order] CICONIIFORMES | [family] Ardeidae | [latin] Egretta garzetta | [UK] Little Egret | [FR] Aigrette garzette | [DE] Seidenreiher | [ES] Garceta Comun | [NL] Kleine Zilverreiger | [IRL] Éigrit bheag

Status: Resident along coasts and rivers throughout Ireland, but still scarce in the Midlands and north-west of the country. Little Egret was considered rare in Ireland until it first started breeding here in 1997. It has since expanded and now occurs in almost every coastal county, as well as at a number of inland sites.

Conservation Concern: Green-listed in Ireland. The European population is considered to be Secure.

Identification: Medium-sized white heron, with long black legs, yellow feet, black bill and blue-grey lores, and two elongated nape-feathers in breeding plumage.

Similar Species: Unmistakable in Ireland. Great White Egret is a rare visitor from Continental Europe, but is twice the size.

Call: Rook-like hoarse 'aaah' on alighting from the ground. At colonies, hoarse hard gargling 'gulla-gulla-gulla…' often heard.

Diet: Takes a wide variety of animals including small fish, frogs, snails and insects and forages across a range of wetland habitats from lakes to flooded grassland. Often forages alone; but maybe encountered in small groups.

Breeding: Clutch: 4-5 eggs (1 brood) Incubation: 21-22 days.Fledging: 40-45 days (Altrical). Age of first breeding: not known. Breeds in lakes, marshes, flooded fields & estuaries.

Wintering: Little Egrets use a variety of wetland habitats, including shallow lakes, riverbanks, lagoons, coastal estuaries and rocky shoreline.

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300mm F4

The common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) (also known as the swamp chicken is a bird species in the family Rallidae. It is distributed across many parts of the Old World.

The common moorhen lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals and other wetlands. The species is not found in the polar regions or many tropical rainforests. Elsewhere it is likely the most common rail species, except for the Eurasian coot in some regions.

The closely related common gallinule of the New World has been recognized as a separate species by most authorities, starting with the American Ornithologists' Union and the International Ornithological Committee in 2011.

The moorhen is a distinctive species, with dark plumage apart from the white undertail, yellow legs and a red frontal shield. The young are browner and lack the red shield. The frontal shield of the adult has a rounded top and fairly parallel sides; the tailward margin of the red unfeathered area is a smooth waving line. In the related common gallinule of the Americas, the frontal shield has a fairly straight top and is less wide towards the bill, giving a marked indentation to the back margin of the red area.

The common moorhen gives a wide range of gargling calls and will emit loud hisses when threatened. A midsized to large rail, it can range from 30 to 38 cm (12 to 15 in) in length and span 50 to 62 cm (20 to 24 in) across the wings. The body mass of this species can range from 192 to 500 g (6.8 to 17.6 oz).

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Moorhen sighted in Fangu, Corsica (France)

This is a common breeding bird in marsh environments and well-vegetated lakes. Populations in areas where the waters freeze, such as eastern Europe, will migrate to more temperate climes. This species will consume a wide variety of vegetable material and small aquatic creatures. They forage beside or in the water, sometimes walking on lilypads or upending in the water to feed. They are often secretive, but can become tame in some areas. Despite loss of habitat in parts of its range, the common moorhen remains plentiful and widespread.

The birds are territorial during breeding season. The nest is a basket built on the ground in dense vegetation. Laying starts in spring, between mid-March and mid-May in Northern hemisphere temperate regions. About 8 eggs are usually laid per female early in the season; a brood later in the year usually has only 5–8 or fewer eggs. Nests may be re-used by different females. Incubation lasts about three weeks. Both parents incubate and feed the young. These fledge after 40–50 days, become independent usually a few weeks thereafter, and may raise their first brood the next spring. When threatened, the young may cling to the parents' body, after which the adult birds fly away to safety, carrying their offspring with them.

A wildflower in Texas known as the Purple Coneflower is a member of the Sunflower family (Asteraceae). The pink-flowered coneflowers have long been in cultivation and are readily available from most nurseries. They also may be started by root division. The stiff, sharp-pointed chaff which protrudes beyond the disk flowers gives this genus it's name, coming from the Greek word echinos, meaning "hedgehog". The roots contain the drug echinacea and Indians used a decoction (process of extracting the essence of something) as a blood purifier, as a wash for wounds, and as a gargle for sore throat. It is used today in the treatment of septicemia or a life-threatening complication of an infection, i.e. blood poisoning. They look so unusual on the side of the roads when the petals have drooped... they are tall and stately even as they fade away!!! Makes me think of life.. we can't remain young and fresh and beautiful forever but as we age may we do so with grace and gratefulness and still shine!!! Have a blessed Sunday!!! Hugs!!!

Patterns for the whale and the bowl of flowers.

"But where are we?" said Ford who was sitting on the spiral staircase, a nicely chilled Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster in his hand.

"Exactly where we were, I think..." said Trillian, as all about them the mirrors showed them an image of the blighted landscape of Magrathea which still scooted along beneath them.

Zaphod leapt out of his seat.

"Then what's happened to the missiles?" he said.

A new and astounding image appeared in the mirrors.

"They would appear," said Ford doubtfully, "to have turned into a bowl of petunias and a very surprised looking whale..."

Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.

And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.

This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.

Ah!.. What's happening? it thought. Er, excuse me, who am I? Hello? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I?

Calm down, get a grip now...oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It's a sort of...yawning, tingling sensation in my...my...well I suppose I'd better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let's call it my stomach.

Good. Ooooh, it's getting quite strong. And hey, what's about this whistling roaring sound going past what I'm suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that...wind! Is that a good name? It'll do...perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I've found out what it's for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What's this thing? This...let's call it a tail -- yeah, tail. Hey! I can can really thrash it about pretty good can't I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn't seem to achieve very much but I'll probably find out what it's for later on. Now -- have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?

No.

Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I'm quite dizzy with anticipation...

Or is it the wind?

There really is a lot of that now isn't it?

And wow! Hey! What's this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like...ow...ound...round...ground! That's it! That's a good name -- ground!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?

And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.

Nice to hear these back in this area this morning.

I first heard these hear several years ago in this area however they were not there last year. Good to have them back.

Love their gargling warbles

UhOh...Street construction at 4th and Bryant Streets struck a water main in the middle of the night. It gushed for hours before they were able to shut the supply off. They tried using this backhoe to temporarily plug the break.

37 second video clip.

Folkloric

• In the Philippines, the bark, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds are used medicinally in the way it is used in other countries.

• Decoction of leaves used as an aromatic bath for fevers, puerperism, and convalescence.

• Fever: Macerate pulp or ripe fruit in water, sweeten to taste, and drink.

• Laxative: Pulp is considered a mild laxative because of the presence of potassium bitartrate. Eat pulp of ripe fruit liberally and follow with plenty of water.

• Asthma: Bark; chop and boil a foot-long piece of bark in 3 glasses of water for 10 minutes. Adults, 1 cup after every meal and at bedtime; children, 1/2 cup 4 times daily; babies, 2 tbsp 4 times daily.

• Decoction of ash: For colic, indigestion; as gargle for sore throats, aphthous sores.

• Ash is considered astringent and tonic; used internally as a digestive. Ash preparation: Fry the bark with common salt in an earthen pot until it turns to powdered white ash; a heaping teaspoon of the ash to half-cup of boiling water; cool and drink for colic and indigestion.

• Poultice or lotion from bark applied to ulcers, boils, and rashes.

• Poultice of leaves to inflammatory swellings of ankles and joints.

• Decoction of leaves as postpartum tea; also used as a wash for indolent ulcers.

• Flowers used for conjunctival inflammation. Internally, as decoction or infusion, for bleeding piles (4 glasses of tea daily).

• Pulp surrounding the seeds is considered cooling and a gentle laxative.

• Gargle of tamarind water used for healing aphthous ulcers and sore throat.

• Tamarind pulp considered preventive and curative for scurvy.

• In Mauritius, the Creoles mix salt with the pulp and use it as a liniment for rheumatism.

• Tamarind infusion considered carminative and digestive, antiscorbutic and antibilious.

• Young leaves used as fomentation for rheumatism and applied to sores and wounds.

• In Malaya decoction of leaves used for fevers.

• The leaves crushed with water and expressed, used for bilious fever and in scalding of urine.

• Poultice of leaves crushed in water used for ankle and joint inflammations to reduce swelling and pain.

• Decoction of leaves used as a wash for indolent ulcers.

• Poultice of flowers used for conjunctival inflammation. Juice expressed from flowers used internally for bleeding piles.

• In rural India where natural spring water yields high amounts of fluoride, a small amount of tamarind fruit is added to a pot of water overnight to be used for drinking. (See fluoride toxicity amelioration) (18)

• Juice of leaves, warmed by dipping a red hot iron, used in dysentery.

• Powdered seeds are given in dysentery; boiled and decocted, used as a poultice for boils.

• In Cambodia, filtered hot juice of leaves used for conjunctivitis.

• In the West Indies, decoction of leaves used jaundice and for worms in children.

• Hindu physicians apply pounded leaves to erysipelas.

• In Mauritius a bark decoction is used for asthma.

• In Madagascar, bark decoction used for asthma and amenorrhea.

• In East Sudan, the bark is considered tonic and febrifuge.

Others

- Dyeing / Mordant: Leaves and flowers useful as mordants in dyeing. Yellow dye from the leaves colors wool red and turns indigo-dyed silk to green. Leaves used in bleaching buri palm to prepare it for hat making. In Java, an ink is obtained by burning the bark. The Hindus Kamaras use the starch in doll painting.

- Fodder: Leaves eaten by cattle and goats. Also, a fodder for silkworms.

- Nectar: Flowers are considered a good source of nectar for honeybees in South India.

- Seeds: Powder from tamarind kernels used in the Indian textile industry in several processes - sizing, finishing cotton, jute and spun viscose.

- Wood: Highly prized for furniture, paneling, wheels, axles, mill gears, planking, mallets, handles, walking sticks, etc. In Mexico, wood is used for boiling purposes and provided an excellent source of charcoal for the manufacture of gunpowder.

- Oil: Seeds yield an amber oil, useful as illuminant and a varnish.

source: stuart xchange

It kinda sounds like a gargle, but with more 'b' and 'p' sounds... sorta like when you take a drink, try to swallow, but choke a bit.... yeah... that's his name...

Please use with permission and full attribution

Folkloric

• In the Philippines, the bark, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds are used medicinally in the way it is used in other countries.

• Decoction of leaves used as an aromatic bath for fevers, puerperism, and convalescence.

• Fever: Macerate pulp or ripe fruit in water, sweeten to taste, and drink.

• Laxative: Pulp is considered a mild laxative because of the presence of potassium bitartrate. Eat pulp of ripe fruit liberally and follow with plenty of water.

• Asthma: Bark; chop and boil a foot-long piece of bark in 3 glasses of water for 10 minutes. Adults, 1 cup after every meal and at bedtime; children, 1/2 cup 4 times daily; babies, 2 tbsps 4 times daily.

• Decoction of ash: For colic, indigestion; as gargle for sore throats, aphthous sores.

• Ash is considered astringent and tonic; used internally as a digestive. Ash preparation: Fry the bark with common salt in an earthen pot until it turns to powdered white ash; a heaping teaspoon of the ash to half-cup of boiling water; cool and drink for colic and indigestion.

• Poultice or lotion from bark applied to ulcers, boils, and rashes.

• Poultice of leaves to inflammatory swellings of ankles and joints.

• Decoction of leaves as postpartum tea; also used as a wash for indolent ulcers.

• Flowers for conjunctival inflammation. Internally, as decoction or infusion, for bleeding piles (4 glasses of tea daily).

• Pulp surrounding the seeds is considered cooling and a gentle laxative.

• Gargle of tamarind water used for healing aphthous ulcers and sore throat.

• Tamarind pulp considered preventive and curative for scurvy.

• In Mauritius, the Creoles mix salt with the pulp and use it as a liniment for rheumatism.

• Tamarind infusion considered carminative and digestive, antiscorbutic and antibilious.

• Young leaves used as fomentation for rheumatism and applied to sores and wounds.

• In Malaya decoction of leaves used for fevers.

• The leaves crushed with water and expressed, used for bilious fever and in scalding of urine.

• Poultice of leaves crushed in water used for ankle and joint inflammations to reduce swelling and pain.

• Decoction of leaves used as a wash for indolent ulcers.

• Poultice of flowers used for conjunctival inflammation. Juice expressed from flowers used internally for bleeding piles.

• Juice of leaves, warmed by dipping a red hot iron, used in dysentery.

• Powdered seeds are given in dysentery; boiled and decocted, used as a poultice for boils.

• In Cambodia, filtered hot juice of leaves used for conjunctivitis.

• In the West Indies, decoction of leaves used jaundice and for worms in children.

• Hindu physicians apply pounded leaves to erysipelas.

• In Mauritius a bark decoction is used for asthma.

• In Madagascar, bark decoction used for asthma and amenorrhea.

• In East Sudan, the bark is considered tonic and febrifuge.

source: stuart xchange

This futuristic bar is the place to be! The rising new artist, Primary, is performing on stage with his boys dancing behind him. There's a hot tub for the VIPs, and a fully stocked bar from ancient French Champaign to Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters. Its sure to be a night to remember!

More pictures coming, just wanted to post this first. Idea spurred by the idea to do something space-age, and the huge 8x16 dark bley tiles I got from the Harry Potter board game set(3862).

Enjoy the crazy happenings at the Wavelength Bar!

See more pictures and commentary at MOCpages

~silentsparrow~ Neko Mask - Tiger RARE and Violet at SaNaRae

Lassitude & Ennui Bernadotte boots in black and grey

Calico Lucine in rainbow and gingers

Apricot Paws Laced-Back dress in colorful

REKT Halloween Tree V2 Orange and Violet

Nothing like a gargle with cool fresh water after a surf session.

Newcastle Surfest, Merewether, Australia.

Folkloric

- Decoction of leaves used for hiccups, asthma, gout, back pain, rheumatism, wounds and sores.

- Young leaves, usually boiled, used to increase the flow of breast milk.

- Pods for intestinal parasitism.

- Leaves and fruit used for constipation.

- Decoction of boiled roots used to wash sores and ulcers.

- Decoction of the bark used for excitement, restlessness.

- In India pounded roots used as poultice for inflammatory swelling. Flowers used for catarrh, with young leaves or young pods.

- In Nicaragua decoction of roots used for dropsy.

- Roots have been used as abortifacient. In India, bark is used as abortifacient.

- Decoction of root-bark used as fomentation to relieve spasms; also, for calculous affections.

- Gum, mixed with sesamum oil, used for relief of earaches. Same, also reported as abortifacient.

- In Java, gum used for intestinal complaints.

- Roots chewed and applied to snake bites.

- Decoction of roots is considered antiscorbutic; also used in delirious patients.

- Juice of roots is used for otalgia.

- Bark used as rubefacient remedy.

- Decoction of roots is use as gargle for hoarseness and sore throat.

- Leaves used as purgative.

- Chewing of leaves used in gonorrhea to increase urine flow.

- Fresh roots used as stimulant and diuretic.

- Seeds for hypertension, gout, asthma, hiccups, and as a diuretic.

- Rheumatic complaints: Decoction of seeds; or, powdered roasted seeds applied to affected area.

- Juice of the root with milk used for asthma, hiccups, gout, lumbago.

- Poultice of leaves applied for glandular swelling.

- Pounded fresh leaves mixed with coconut oil applied to wounds and cuts.

- The flowers boiled with soy milk thought to have aphrodisiac quality.

- Root is rubefacient and plaster applied externally as counterirritant.

- In Egypt, powder from dried seeds has been used as a handwash.

- In West Bengal, India, roots taken by women, esp prostitutes, for permanent contraception (Studies have shown total inactivation or suppression of the reproductive system).

- In African savannah, used in the treatment of rheumatic and articular pains.

source: stuart xchange

In the glory days of the AltaMont gathering--before the Izaak Walton Inn became expensive and gentrified--night shots were an evening ritual observed after dinner and before retiring to the basement bar to gargle a few adult beverages.

After a helper crew went off duty one of several BN engineers in attendance would park the power in an appropriate spot and we would blast several dozen old fashioned flashbulbs over the next hour or so.

This was seat of the pants night shooting, although over the years you had a pretty good idea what your exposure should be. No looking at the screen on the back of your camera. You had to get it right.

Part of the fun was opening those yellow boxes a week or two later and seeing that you had indeed nailed it.

Sadly, the days of AltaMont at the IWI are gone along with the yellow boxes and the green SD40's...

Mouth-washing, diesel-gargling, carbon-brushed, breath-reeking, blackened-jugs, tumbling, in slow-idle, chomping-at-the-bit, like so many horses waiting, waiting to team their brawn; to push forward behind their flag-bearer waving a faded-to-lead, black and white ‘stead red, white and blue against a backdrop of gritty armour yellow, grey-dulled by repeated internal and external heatings while just beyond the soot-stained flutes, flange-squeal, slack-action, multi-modal-merica, tables-stacked, doubled-up, express-charging federal’s banner blurs.

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I am wearing my towel as a turban, which is how usually I dry my hair. I raise my Pangalactic Gargle Baster and salute the incredibly funny and talented Douglas Adams for gifting the world with The HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently's Detective Agency, Last Chance to See and the best Tom Baker Doctor Who episode ever.

May 2012 Scavenger Challenge #25) BONUS! (not required) If you are a lover of Douglas Adams' "Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy" and related works, be sure you have your towel! Towel photos should be posted to the pool on May 25, International Towel Day.

PS When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to wear the towels flat our heads, mimicking long hair, like the heroines in the Chinese sword-fighting movies. We would have plastic swords and jump and fly around, like girl Jedi knights.

Taken with iPhone 4S.

Close inspection of the Quisqualis indica, also known as the Chinese honeysuckle, Rangoon Creeper, and Combretum indicum is a vine with red flower clusters and is found in Asia. It is found in many other parts of the world either as a cultivated ornamental or run wild. Other names for the plant include Quiscual (in Spanish), Niyog-niyogan (in Filipino), Madhu Malti or Madhumalti (in Hindi), Akar Dani (in Malay) and Radha Manoharam (in Telugu). The genus translates into Latin for "What is that?".

The Rangoon Creeper is a ligneous vine that can reach from 2.5 meters to up to 8 meters. The leaves are elliptical with an acuminate tip and a rounded base. They grow from 7 to 15 centimeters and their arrangement is opposite. The flowers are fragrant and tubular and their color varies from white to pink to red. The 30 to 35 mm long fruit is ellipsoidal and has five prominent wings. The fruit tastes like almonds when mature. The niyog-niyogan is usually dispersed by water.

Rangoon Creeper is found in thickets or secondary forests of the Philippines, India and Malaysia. It has since been cultivated and naturalized in tropical areas.

The plant is used as an herbal medicine. Decoctions of the root, seed or fruit can be used as antihelmintic to expel parasitic worms or for alleviating diarrhea. Fruit decoction can also be used for gargling. The fruits are also used to combat nephritis. Leaves can be used to relieve pain caused by fever. The roots are used to treat rheumatism.

The seeds of this and related species, Q. fructus and Q. chinensis, contain the chemical quisqualic acid, which is an agonist for the AMPA receptor, a kind of glutamate receptor in the brain. The chemical is linked to excitotoxicity (cell death). (Source: Wikipedia)

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