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It was cold and frosty this morning and this Redshank was trying to keep warm until the tide went out again.
Many of the RGBs were down on floating reeds and stems from last year's growth. I took the opportunity to photograph this one in an opening close to the edge. He gave me a trill.
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To be honest, tipsy, tired and sexually frustrated...❤❤
Trying not to make it obvious that I'm struggling to keep it tucked away and flat...🙈❤
A quick glance might convince you this tree is long-dead. That is how many people tend to see bristlecones -- just a lot of dead wood. (Not being totally immune to this tendency, I keep a very informal mental tally of just how dead a bristlecone can appear while actually thriving. Maybe I’ll put together a Top 10 sometime.)
There certainly is a lot of dead wood here. Probably more than five thousand years worth. But a bristlecone, theoretically immortal, is tough to kill and this tree is not dead. It is downsized -- puttering along in a sort of deep-time version of semi-retirement.
On the backside, out of the wind, are two strips of living bark (one on each side) -- strip bark -- each supporting a luxuriant plume of needles and vibrant, fertile cones. Think vine and arbor -- a millennium or two ago, maybe many such vines. Long before that, a whole tree.
Few trees can do this -- shutting-down sector by sector through time as conditions dictate. It is a capability that allows for perfect morphological adaptation to millenniums of wind, and ice, and erosion, and fluctuating micro and macro climates. The tree is living, in effect, within its long term means. All that dead wood, like the wrinkles of a weathered face, is just history...Just.
The oldest known Great Basin bristlecone pine (in the White Mountains of California) is almost 5070 years old by ring count -- the recently confirmed oldest living individual tree in the world. I like to think this sophisticated lady has a hundred years on that. But we’ll never know for sure because the heartwood is completely gone, the history erased -- a result of rot from the higher precipitation levels in the Snake Range of Nevada as compared to the much drier climate of the White Mountains in the immediate rain shadow of California’s High Sierra.
The tree "Prometheus" was the lone, relatively sound, exception in all of the Snake Range -- largely intact, single-trunk, six-feet in diameter, almost one-hundred forty growth rings per inch, almost five millenniums-old when discovered; oldest known living individual organism in the world. Which, of course, is how it came to be felled fifty-three years ago in the guise of science.
Heart rot would not normally be thought of as having survival value, but for an ancient bristlecone in an era of chainsaw science, that would certainly seem to be the case.
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(For those with a sharp eye: Yes, that is an extremely rare pine hen in the right foreground...probably hatching a clutch of cones. Shhh...she thinks you can’t see her.)
I took this on the beach just in front of or villa. I didn't take my tripod on holiday with me so i just had to push my camera into the pebbles lol.
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Shot with Canon EOS 40D + Sigma 18-125mm
You think they mean it? It's a public tennis court, and it's open on the other side. I guess one must enter the court through the correct gate!!! Maybe I'll pick the lock and sneak in. Think I'll be arrested?
Burac Keep first started as a single gate and color scheme idea but has grown into a small Castle/Keep.
Honestly, I don’t like the finished MOC that much, it was also very difficult to capture on photo.
It has been rebuild 10 times and I would rebuild it again 10 times but after a few months I call it a day.
it was quite dark in the woods, but i really wanted to capture this… i lit it with the little muyshondt aeon that i keep on my keychain, not really a great photo light, but i'm so happy with how this turned out…!
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I found this on the ground next to what we call "The Shit Ponds". I pry shot those holes in it as a kid.
Just a rather sinister looking gate leading to god knows where that I found while trespassing on a beach....decided not to investigate on this occasion, but will definitely go back for a look!
I watched these white-tail deer for a while. I gathered that the small one is the offspring of the doe. He is a young buck (you can see the nubs where antlers will one day be) and I think he kept hoping to stay close to Mom who is pregnant and appears ready to give birth soon. She seems to be trying to send him off to fend for himself. Of course, I can understand how being pregnant in the Texas heat of July would make a lady very grumpy. Montell, Uvalde County, Texas in July 2021
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Today marks a one, full year anniversary with my fantastic boyfriend, and best friend. :)
b&w, still can never decide; www.flickr.com/photos/acrosstariddledskies/6537967365/in/...