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Beautiful and fragrant Oregon native.
Please prefer to plant natives in your yards. They are not only beautiful but also have a vital ecological function. They feed the native wildlife that they evolved together with. Biological diversity is declining with a rapid pace, and we must do whatever we can to slow it down. Best way to start might be by planting natives in our yards.
Doug Tallamy's talk on the importance of native plants:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY4aV5hqkxY
Eileen Stark's wonderful book on Pacific Northwest natives:
The Flickr Lounge-Bokeh
Found this lovely Mock Orange bush in Trumansburg, NY. The people who hosted the event for Grassanova had this in his front yard. I had one of these in my front yard when I lived in Canada. The blossoms do smell like oranges.
Photo from the day of the first revival of the Penryn Mock Mayor, or as it used to be known, the Mayor of Mylor. Part of the Penryn 800 celebrations in Cornwall. Organised by the Cornish Culture Association.
This is a Nissan X-Trail. It will be our rental car while in Mexico.
We decided that an SUV would be better cope with the varied road surfaces in Mexico. Some roads here are excellent, some poor, some aren't even sealed.
However, all is not as it seems here.
This X-Trail is most definitely not an off-roader, but a mock-roader. No all wheel drive system, no under body protection, not even an effective traction control system.
However, in the right hands with the right driving techniques 2 wheel drive can get you to some surprising places.
Mocker Swallowtail butterfly at Stratford Butterfly Farm
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Debriefing session led by a group of guest players; Anton Barakhovsky (violin), Aiko Mizushima (violin), Yutaka Hayashi (cello), Heinrich Braun (double bass), Christoph Hartmann (oboe) and Tsutomu Isohata (horn) . We thank all and each of guest players serving as juries and our core members making this mock audition successful learning opportunity!
my first attempt at some pregnancy pictures, my beautiful wife, who is not pregnant, posing for me. I am taking some real pregnancy pictures this weekend for my brother and his wife.
I have had this little mock orange shrub (Phileadelphia lewisii ssp. blizzard) for several years, a gift from my daughter-in-law. It has had a very tough life in my Tok, Alaska location, with very cold, very dry conditions.
This year, like a tiny miracle, it leafed out just a bit, and put forth two lovely, very aromatic flowers. Survival!
I believe this particular shrub is native to western North America, USDA lists it as hardy to -40F (-40C) but it has survived through some -60sF winters.
We don't seem to get colder than -50sF in winter anymore, maybe now this little beauty will thrive.
Record number: MSS 09706
Creator: Heriot, George, 1759-1839
Title: [Drawings from nature: album of watercolours of flora and fauna encountered in the West Indies].
Date: [1779-1780].
Description: Original watercolour drawn directly onto leaf [27]; caption in ink: "Mocking bird".
Extent: 160 x 350 mm.
Rights info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
20110221s90_0501
Over een poosje wordt de Grote Marktstraat opnieuw ingericht. Een aantal jaren geleden totaal ontwricht door de bouw van de beruchte tramtunnel, nu alweer een tijdje geëxperimenteer met een gecombineerd voetgangers/fietsersgebied. Uiteindelijk moet alles mooi en bijzonder worden. Deze zitbank van staal staat hier momenteel als proef hoe hij bevalt. Architecte Lana du Croq
Mock Up Couch in the Grote Marktstraat
9-11-2010
A special test couch was placed in the Grote Marktstraat yesterday. The couch is the first of six such couches, which are expected to be placed in and around the Grote Marktstraat. An official test period is now underway, to see if the first couch can stand up to the elements and public opinion. Next year, the area will undergo improvements to transform the Grote Markt into an shopping boulevard with international allure.
Onder deze link , een onderdeel van EXPATV , ziet u een interview met de architecte Lana du Croq en wordt u tevens een futuristische blik in de toekomst gegund nadat dit hele project voltooid zal zijn. De Grote Markt als immense balzaal.
Het filmpje duurt ongeveer drie en een halve minuut en is zeer de moeite waard.
A mock up for my next screenprint/letterpress project. A planned five color screenprint. The large text is going to be letterpressed in tint base (or perhaps a translucent white).
I really really really hope I can pull this off.
Taken with my old non-CPU 28mm lens from my F2 film camera purchased in 1975. I think the equivalent focal length on my D300s might have been about 42mm. Subject distance from camera is about 32" to 36".
PS - I like this bird if he'd just keep his distance. Being a Northern Mockingbird, it can imitate the sounds of any bird in the neighborhood and late in the evening it sits in a nearby tree and serenades us with some very pretty bird calls. But during the day it's a bully. It chases all the other birds away from the feeder dish and has become Public Enemy #1 in my backyard.
Press L and then F11 for a large view
Victoria Butterfly Gardens, Victoria, BC
Yesterday we visited the Victoria Butterfly Gardens...see www.butterflygardens.com/ .We spent a good 2-3 hours there seeing and photographing many of the Butterfly species present. It was a great visit, the facility is first class and a highly recommended place to see.
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Well, I survived my surgery.
Yay!
I got to the hospital on time & got checked in/taken to pre-op almost immediately. Of course I had to do the required pregnancy test.1
Eventually, a nurse2 came in to set-up an IV—she only stuck me once, thus allowing her to join my unofficial Hall of Fame—while my nurse3 reviewed my medical history, medications, allergies, and the results of the unnecessary pregnancy test.4 I praised Candi for her achievement and tried to interact with Danielle. I was more calm and relaxed once the IV56 was set up. Danielle said the change in my demeanor after the IV was very noticeable.7 She wasn’t really thrilled, at first, with my mom saying that she was there to mock me while my IV got set up, but my mom explained why she does that.8 But she didn’t need to.
One big fear down, a couple more to go.
The antibiotic they used was clindamycin. It’s amazing how my old acne medicine is one of the few antibiotics my atopy-prone body has not declared war on. I guess it’s because it’s not really used that often. Danielle said that typically they’ll give Keflex9 and, if the person is allergic, they’ll use penicillin.10 Or the other way around? Having a Keflex allergy while having a penicillin allergy isn’t exactly normal, despite their being related. It probably happened in me because of genetics11 and because my first antibiotic allergy was Ceclor, which is related to both Keflex & penicillin somehow. Anyway, Danielle made sure I was not allergic to clindamycin before they officially hooked it up.
When the anesthesiologist came in, he insinuated that I wasn’t allergic to the medicines I listed. That changed as I explained the reactions. Each person who reviewed my list, including him, did not understand why I listed my orange juice allergy12 under the section for food allergies. Hmm. I wonder why a person would list a food allergy as a food allergy.
Maybe because:
Oranges and other fruits contain proteins that are chemically similar to pollen; eating these can cause itching and irritation of the mouth in certain people, many of whom also happen to be allergic to pollen… (via Newsweek)
That article points out that orange juice allergies can be worse for asthmatics because of our already inflamed airways. There are also some who believe that orange juice allergies can be a result of salicylate (aspirin-relatives) allergies/sensitivities.13 Basically, this orange juice allergy stuff is serious as fuck.
But I digress…again.
Before taking me to the OR, I was given a dose or so of Versed, aka midazolam.14 In some people,15 there is an unexpected reaction16 and medical professionals can go into denial mode over it because it is pretty much the opposite of what the drug is meant for.
Eventually, I was rolled off to the OR. Special latex precautions were taken, which was expected, and was the reason my surgery took place at the hospital instead of an outpatient surgery facility. I think I was the last surgery on the schedule and there may have been a good reason. The anesthesiology team consisted of the anesthesiologists ans 2 nurse anesthetists—the 3 were monitoring me for allergic/adverse reactions. Seriously. The patient board in the OR also mentioned I had multiple allergy issues.17
Eventually, the sleepy-time doc gave me the propofol and I zonked out. My parents said the surgery took five minutes and that my orthopedist, who I saw one time today…before the surgery, said my meniscus and fat pad were fine, but that the debris in my patella was made of bone flakes and that I definitely have arthritis. He also said I need to start exercising and trying to lose weight. I got pissed when he said that because this particular doctor always dismisses that I do exercise. I told him with a previous injury that I was injured while exercising. I told him this issue became noticeable while exercising.
As for trying to lose weight?
I’ve lost around 27% of the weight I wanted to lose. I’ve lost 32% of what I need to lose to reach a healthy weight. I would have lost more if my knee hadn’t been fucked up since Spring. Being fat doesn’t mean I should be dismissed like this.
Pretending like all of this is due to weight and weight alone is also bullshit.18 I’m having a hard time believing that the meniscus and fat pad1920 are totally okay, given the symptoms. I just think he’s used this to tell me that he thinks poorly of me for my weight. And that’s pathetic and superficial crap. If he’d ever bothered to listen to me, he could have come to that conclusion on his own.
After surgery, I started talking like crazy21 to the nurses in the recovery section, including Danielle, who was literally keeping watch over me afterward. She got so busy talking to me that she almost forgot to give me a dose of Fentanyl.22 And she almost forgot once again with my Demerol dose. At first, I wondered if she wanted to give me the pain relief injections because she thought it would shut me up. It just made me worse. It wasn’t long before I was getting discharged; we did have to wait for a drug-induced23 vertigo spell to pass.
I also had the lovely experience of a different nurse doing a bad job of removing my IV. She was trying to take the tape off without tearing my skin. I would be grateful for that effort except that, while doing that, she ended up removing the catheter24 rather violently. It started bleeding. A lot. As I mentioned earlier on Instagram, removing an IV so violently is not only painful and dangerous to people with conditions like Ehlers-Danlos or any other chronic health issues, it is painful and dangerous for able-bodied, healthy folks, too. And if you factor in the time it takes to stop the bleeding, taking it out that way costs you more time. Be careful with IVs.
Soooo…
As you have probably figured out, the IV bleeding finally stopped & it didn’t kill me. Yay!
Anyway, it’s been several hours since I got home. I’m still pretty wired and may be so for several days to come.
I chose to avoid going to the bathroom upon waking to make sure I could take the test. If I hadn’t, they might have refused to do the surgery. They almost refused my endoscopy-colonoscopy procedures a few years ago because I didn’t have enough urine to take the test. Part of that lack of pee was from the dehydration that resulted from prep. ↩
Candi ↩
Danielle ↩
Danielle apologized for that multiple times, especially since she knew I was taking hormonal birth control. It’s funny how the nurses who wanted dehydrated, virginal me to take the pregnancy test a few years ago for my endoscopy-colonoscopy combo didn’t apologize for demanding the test. The one who did when I had my D&C and hysteroscopy did. ↩
Candi gave me lidocaine to ease some pain, which isn’t the greatest to use in Ehlers-Danlos patients. ↩
The IV itaelf was quite painful. ↩
She understood what it was like to be a hard stick. The last time she had an IV, it took ten times. I almost asked her if she was some long-lost cousin. ↩
I’ve repeatedly mentioned the hard stick issue. I used to, as a small child, get blood work done a lot and had IVs started, and there were always vein issues—including when, as a preschooler, I had blood work done using a vein in my foot. I also was admitted to the hospital for asthma issues and the nurses setting up my IV wouldn’t let my mom come in while they did it. I kicked and screamed and cried and they just were mocking and not compassionate. I remember that as one of the few truly dissociative moments I’ve ever experienced. As a result, I was terrified of needles until I was a teenager. My mom—who I get my bad veins from, so she’s got an idea of how terrifying and painful vein stuff can be—could keep me calm by telling jokes. The calmer I was, the easier it was to hit the veins. It’s amazing how that works. ↩
My latest antibiotic allergy. ↩
It was my fourth antibiotic allergy. ↩
Thanks, Nana & Mama. They had allergies to antibiotics, pain killers, and anesthetics, too. ↩
I vomit, have uncontrollable stomach pains, and have asthma flare ups whenever I ingest it. This even happens when it’s an ingredient in a dish. I have to check ingredient lists closely for it & caffeine, or related products. ↩
Guess what over the counter pain medication Nana has an anaphylactic reaction to when she takes it?! Even in the form of cream for arthritic joints. ↩
Midazolam is a benzodiazepine that is used in lethal injections to calm the convicted individual so they don’t panic as they are exposed to other drugs that stop their hearts or suppress their breathing. ↩
Children, some death row inmates who were executed in the recent past, and me… ↩
They don’t fall asleep or stay asleep; hyperactivity & its short-term sedative effect is actually well-documented. ↩
There were also my bright protocol bracelets. ↩
Yes, my weight contributes. That’s part of why I was trying to exercise. ↩
He’s never acknowledged that the MRI wasn’t the “nothing is wrong here” situation he has suggested. Maybe he doesn’t realize I’ve seen the results. ↩
It was swollen enough yesterday that there was a lump right over it. ↩
I think if I ever imbibed, I would be a chatty drunk. More specifically, a chatty, giggly drunk. Alas, I shall never know, unless you count my drunk-like state when dehydrated and my intoxicated state on anesthetics and pain killers. , booze, I think we could have had some fun, bur jt apparently wasn’t meant to be. ↩
She told me I’d already had two other doses of it. ↩
There were quite a few meds in my system. ↩
The tubing that goes under the skin & into the vein that connects it to the IV. ↩
Related Posts:
Bad Blood (Vessels) June 22, 2015
Anaphylaxis and You April 17, 2015
Get A Location on That July 4, 2015
“Unspecified” Knee Pain October 2, 2015
Something Stitch-ed This Way Comes December 2, 2015
This Northern Mocking bird was a big ball of feathers on this (+14 deg.) morning. The was also a nice crisp North wind.
Mystic River,
Southeastern Connecticut
short instructions for this model:
1. start to fold román díaz' mocking bird
2. at step 57 notice that there's something strange about the model so far
3. check back with the diagram and find that you haven't paid attention in step 38 and folded it wrongly
4. groan inwardly and tell yourself passionately "****! ****! ****!"; then crush the partial mocking bird carefully but with full dedication into this ball shape; there are no exact reference points for this step, you have to follow your imagination here