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Blowing in a strong breeze today, Hot and humid for the next few days - with a scorcher on Tuesday for most of us in the UK. Keep cool all xxx
More raindrops on quaking grass. I hope I can get back to sharing photos here more frequently and visiting your photostreams regularly too! Thank you for all the kind comments and faves.
Nahum 1:5: “The mountains quake before Him and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at His presence, the world and all who live in it.”
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Quaking aspens (Populus tremuloides) and willows reflect in a shallow pond along the North Fork of the Shoshone River in Shoshone National Forest west of Cody Wyoming.
Created for Hypothetical Awards' "Urban Abstraction Deconstruction" challenge.
For your listening pleasure: Jeff Healey Band.
Briza media grass. Other common and rather cute names for the plant include 'Totter Grass', 'Dithery Dock', 'Wigwams' and 'Toddling Grass'.
The seeds of quaking-grass are an excellent source of food for all kinds of farmland birds, including yellowhammers, linnets, greenfinches and house sparrows.
An old scan of a photo I took in Seattle after the 2001 earthquake.
I worked in Pioneer Square at the time, the oldest part of Seattle, where the buildings are all made of brick. (There was a building ordinance passed after the 1889 fire that burned down the entire area that any new buildings had to be made of brick.) The building I worked in was over 100 years old and I didn't know until after the quake that it had been earthquake-proofed. I thought when we walked outside, all the buildings would be just piles of rubble, so to see just some bricks had caved in and a water main broken wasn't that big of a deal. Although one bunch of bricks fell right on top of someone's truck and smashed it.
This is the Alaskan Way viaduct, runs along Seattle's waterfront, and it isn't earthquake proof. I think it if collapsed, Seattle's entire waterfront would cave in. The sea wall is also not earthquake proof at this point.
One of the most interesting places we explored on our Yellowstone trip was outside the park at Earthquake Lake in Montana. The lake was formed in 1959 when a massive landslide triggered by an earthquake blocked the Madison River. Hundreds of people vacationing along the river were trapped and 28 died. 80 million tons of rock slammed into the canyon in the rockslide. Try to imagine the impact of that! There are still thousands of eerie dead trees sticking out of the water 2/3 of a century after the disaster, and the massive landslide scar is still obvious above the dam. We were there on a windy day, and watched the trees swaying in the wind and waves.
Briza maxima is a species of the grass genus Briza. It is native to Northern Africa, Western Asia and Southern Europe and is cultivated or naturalised in the British Isles, the Azores, Australasia, the western United States, Central and South America, and Hawaii.
This species has a large number of common names, including big quaking grass, great quaking grass, greater quaking-grass, large quaking grass, blowfly grass, rattlesnake grass, shelly grass, rattle grass, and shell grass.
It grows to a height of 60 cm. Their spikelets resemble those of the unrelated species Bromus briziformis. The seeds and leaves are edible.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Looking into a stand of quaking aspens in full autumn color in the heart of the Elk Mountains of western Colorado. The warm afternoon sidelight lit up the whole grove and lent the trees an almost magical glow.
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