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In February 2023 we had decided to get our rural acreage gravel driveway resurfaced with 3 truckloads of Melinga Quarry brown crushed road-base. In mid-December 2022 the contractor, Innes Earth, had prepared the surface ready for the gravel. At the time though he could not finish the job as the quarry's gravel crusher had broken down with no immediate prospect of repair.
By February 16-17 the plant was back in full swing and the contractor was able to deliver the gravel.
With the road done we turned our mind to the aesthetics of the front entrance and decided to remove the existing front gate and gateposts, having already removed, several months before, all the rural fence posts on that side of the property.
We had also, several months before, collected large rocks from a friends' new housing estate development at Diamond Beach so the opportunity to create new rock gardens either side of the entrance seemed a worthwhile project.
Because we wanted to plant Lord Howe Wedding Lilys (Dietes robinsoniana) in the two gardens, we asked the excavator operator to rip the ground and once this was done, we filled the garden with a sandy loam, planted the Dietes robinsoniana plants and then mulched both gardens with a generous amount of woodchip mulch.
Dietes robinsoniana is an attractive strap like plant that can grow to 1.5metres tall while bearing attractive white flowers.
The species in enigmatic in that it is endemic only to Lord Howe Island and is one of the world's most intriguing and remarkable biogeographic disjunctions, considering its nearest phylogenetic relatives occur in Africa.
Botanists have yet to provide a plausible explanation how Dietes robinsoniana came to co-evolve on Lord Howe Island, given the rest of the genus are so far away and strictly endemic to Africa.
It is of course possible that one day, using DNA and modern methodology, botanists will place Dietes robinsoniana in a genus of its own, separate from the African Dietes.
Gateposts at entrance to Mandrake Park. Established in the late 1990s, the park is named in honor of an activist who helped end illegal advertising and advertising targeting African American children for alcohol and tobacco products.
Gateposts at Kualii, the Charles Montague Cooke, Jr., estate in Manoa Valley, Honolulu, April 2009: The house was built in 1912.
oops - managed to drive 100+ miles safely through snowdrifts, icy roads, freezing fog on mountain passes.. then got home and reversed into my gatepost.
Went to a conference in Hammersmith this morning - with most of my time (six of us in all). Had to get up stupidly early for it, but made it in good time. It was a good conference, but a long day, and I didn't get home until 8pm - after a bit of a walk around the block to make up my hour of walking for the day (trying to be more consistent, on my physio's orders). This recently rained-on gate post caught my eye as I walked past it on the way home - and my camera really picked up how golden it looked with the evening sun shining on it.
Cooked a curry when I got in (with a curry paste Tim had made), and didn't sit down to eat until nearly 9pm. Tim and I both knackered! (He's upped his cycling distance this week, and is now doing 21 miles a day, to and from work - with quite a few detours to make up the distance).
These three avian sculptures are merely the public face of an extensive collection of outdoor three-dimensional bird art. Most of the flightless facsimiles sit in the driveway and backyard; you can start to get a sense of things from this Street View image. The woman who lives here claims that her statues are always being damaged or stolen, while her exasperated nephew says he can't ever get her to throw out anything. I think I may have a lead on your bird thief, ma'am...
Old gatepost and drystone wall at the abandoned Lower Whitley Farm at Crow Edge, near Hepworth, Yorkshire.
A villager in Ano Gerakarion has incorporated a couple of ancient column capitals into his entrance.
This rather odd setup is on a vacant lot at the corner of Washington & Walnut Streets in Hinsdale. I'm sure that the vacant lot once had a fairly good sized house on it (the house in the background may have been the coach house). The gare posts appear to be original, but I'm not sure whether the fireplace is or if for some odd reason it was put here after the house was demolished.
An ornamental gatepost with the WA Baker foundry mark. The War Memorial is enclosed by iron railings by WA Baker of Newport. It honours the dead of WW1 and WW2. On the wall at the rear there are plaques to local miners who died in WW1, and to the servicemen involved in the post war atomic and nuclear tests conducted by the British Government. There is also a tree to commemorate the fallen of the Boer War(s).
Sitting on a gatepost i think this little Robin was willing passers by
to give him some tit bits on a cold snowy day in Keswick
The house owners where I found this are obviously keen on fishing or just like fish. They seem to have a lot of wooden ones attached to the fence and gate.
Thank you for your favourites. :O)
Ectopsocus petersi barkfly (female) found on a gatepost in the Kingmoor South Nature Reserve, Carlisle, 14 October 18.
The National Barkfly Recording Scheme (Britain and Ireland) website includes four Ectopsocus species:
www.brc.ac.uk/schemes/barkfly/key/A1-B-C1.htm
E. axillaris can be immediately eliminated on grounds of colouring (Photo 1), and E. meridionalis has so far only been found in Ireland. So realistically the choice is between E. briggsi and E. petersi - both of which are described as common.
The forewing markings (Photo 2) suggest E. petersi, but according to the RES psocoptera handbook (T R New) "Considerable taxonomic confusion has occurred, particularly amongst species with dark marginal spots at the end of the forewing veins, and careful examination is needed to identify these". Because of this I've not previously submitted any records for Ectopsocidae, despite having found them in most of the sites I regularly visit.
In order to convincingly separate out the two species in question it's necessary for female specimens to examine the subgenital plate - which considering the small size of the insect isn't that easy with my low-powered microscope! Photo 3 gives a ventral view of the lower abdomen cleared overnight in 10% KOH solution. The plate has a pair of apical lobes, and in the case of E. petersi the inner margins of the lobes are parallel, whereas in the case of E. briggsi the margins are noticeably convergent. Although comparison with the reference images included on the NBRS website is not straightforward, it seems to me that the first condition applies, supporting the argument for Ectopsocus petersi.
All photos were taken using the integral camera on my SX10D microscope, Photo 1 at 20x and Photos 2 and 3 and 40x magnification.
Note added 18 October: The Ectopsocus petersi Id was confirmed today by psocoptera expert Keith Fowler on iRecord.