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This determined red-headed woodpecker definitely has a good solid grip on that quaking aspen tree branch. I would not want it to land on my bare arm if it decides to fly my way.
The buds for next year's quaking aspen tree catkins are already forming, and evidently taste terrific since this chickadee is trying to eat them any which way it can.
I am used to seeing the golden yellow leaves on Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), but along the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway in the Clarks Fork Valley the aspen ’s fall folige can be darker, orange to almost red. This is unusual to me but seems rather common in this part of the Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming.
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.”
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.
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
I love the San Juan Mountains when the oaks, willows, aspen and cottonwoods go through their colors. If you zoom in on this shot, you will seen a green aspen clone surrounded by yellow clones.
Beautiful grass whose seed heads rattle and are quite audible in a gentle breeze....lovely when seen in a clump together...
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