Whippendell Woods, Watford

The root-end of a fallen tree. I liked the mix of colours and textures, and got pretty muddy trying to get low enough for the angle I wanted!

"Temp/Spare" for August Scavenger Challenge

14. Think of someone (living or dead) whom you admire but have not met in real life. Without using an image of that person as a major prop, create a photograph which relates to them and why you hold them in esteem.

and

20-23 (or 25). Your mission for August is to create a series of FOUR TO SIX (4-6) instructional photographs, a "how-to" explanation of the steps involved in a skill. The subject matter must be covered in a thorough manner so that someone unacquainted with the technique could learn the process from the images.

Graham Kerr is a New Zealander who moved to the States back in the 1980's and had a cooking show that ran for many years that was aimed at reducing the amount of 'fat intake', while boosting 'colour and flavour'.

His technique for cutting onions was inspirational in getting me into cooking !

It really does work - try it :-}

1/ Pull off any already-loose-bits

2/ Holding the root end cut off the other end

3/ stand on cut end and divide in 2

4/ Peel as many layers as required

5/ Holding carefully with finger tips make 'long ways' cuts

6/ Turn onion 90 degrees and make 'side ways' cuts.

The aim is to have pieces as small as a grain of rice (and all fingers intact !!)

All pics 550D on Tripod, cable release and 2 sec delay/self timer, Av f 6.3 and 8.0, all cropped in Avairy and assembled in BigHueLabs yet again !! (What a night !!)

I most often find solitary horn coral loose in clay. If I do find one still embedded in limestone, the point is usually sticking out. This one is unusual in that the point is still embedded and the root end of the coral is sticking out of the rock.

1. Grab an onion (that bit’s crucial).

2. Cut onion in half, root to tip. Peel off the skin and any not-so-nice-looking layers.

3. Place one half cut-side down, and cut off tip. Leave the root end - the end with the roots - intact!

Neil cuts the Boletus, to reveal the stricking blue pigment. We are mystified by the red dot at the root end

No room at all underneath. This guy was flat against the trail! And the portion at the trail point was a bit too tall to readily crawl over. (A lady coming from the other direction managed to crawl over the top at the root end where one could improvise some "stair steps".) But the rest of us were not that athletic. After some study of the situation we devised a route by going up the hill, to the right in the photo, to where the diameter of the log was sufficiently smaller such that we were able to crawl over it. My gloves got soaked in the process and my fingers were cold all the rest of the way to Castle Rock.

Chop some green onions (I used the root end) and cook with 1/4 pound of ground beef over medium heat.

6. Cut the onion width-wise, top to bottom, starting at the tip end.

7. Repeat until you’ve reached the root end. Discard the root and marvel at your even dice!

Root end of downed tree in a Pit River Tributary, CA

This log shows how the trunk of the tree swells out near the base where the roots would have been.

One of Bonnie's pictures. Important to keep the root ends even. It makes a big difference in the storing and a huge difference for processing to come later.

PV on reused blade beams are elevated for clearance of emergency and snow removal vehicles for large area parking lots. Small bridge rollers with hold down are an alternative to ball bearings for one-way movements.

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My copy of an heirloom Christmas Cactus--my Father's Mother to my Mother--has grown pot-bound, so about to travel before dealing with it, I took a few segments, put them in a small funnel in a jelly jar of plant-food water...10 days later they have not only produced roots and grown, but produced new segments. Funnel keeps rooting ends wet and limits evaporation of the medium.

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Near the end of a game of Root.

This is my frog again. This time on the south side of the pond in some moss and under a rock. These are also root ends of water lettuce.

The highlight was how the tree survived the erosion in the canyon by clinging on to the ground by it's root ends.

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Cheesy Tofu and Asparagus

RATING

PREPARATION TIME

5 mins

COOKING TIME

15 mins

AGE GROUP

8 – 10 months

INGREDIENTS

1 cup of medium silken tofu

½ tablespoon of olive oil

1 tablespoon of chopped spring onions (scallions or green onions)

Small pinch of turmeric

8 fresh asparagus spears, cooked

2 tablespoons of fresh parsley, finely chopped

½ cup of grated Cheddar cheese

METHOD

1. Wash the asparagus well, hold each spear with one hand at the root end and one halfway up the stalk, and bend the stalk – this will snap off the ‘woody’ part.

2. Chop the spears into small pieces and cook in a steamer over plenty of water, or boil them gently in a small saucepan with just enough water to cover, for about 10 minutes, until soft.

3. Squeeze the tofu piece by piece over the sink, to remove about half the liquid – then put the tofu aside in a small bowl.

4. Heat the olive oil gently in a medium-sized frying pan over medium/low heat then put in the spring onions and stir/fry for about 1 minute – do not allow to burn.

5. Add the tofu and sprinkle the turmeric over it, then cook – stirring constantly – until golden brown all over.

6. Mix in the cheese, asparagus and parsley and continue cooking gently until the cheese melts, then mash everything well with a fork. (For babies who are able to chew soft lumps).

7. For a smoother texture use a stick blender.

Viewed from the root end of the tree...

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Ideally; a root canal filling should follow root curvatures and reach up to the root end(apex).

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Garlic from the yard. Easiest thing ever: in the fall, plant cloves of garlic (unpeeled, root end down) a few inches deep, mulch with straw, and pull them up in spring or let them grow until fall. I used good fresh garlic I got at the Super H Mart, the Korean superstore, and I'm now in the process of pickling them Korean-style. Oh: before I planted the garlic, I soaked the cloves for half an hour in water mixed with some shredded seaweed, but I doubt if that's necessary. I've also read that you can plant them in early spring and pull them up a few months later, so I'm going to try that now.

Iridaceae

Two sprouted corms of a glad hybrid. Note how the roots are coming from the root end and the stem is growing from the top, unlike Ferraria crispa. These corms were also in dark storage with no particular side up. Corm on the left is about 3/4 inch wide- both are blooming size...

I took the trunk of a small tree that fell and made it beautiful. By turning the dead tree into a bright sunflower give the tree life again. the flower looks like a burst of sun rays, Without the sun there can be no life. The stem of the flower is the dead tree which I made a homemade natural glue out of corn starch glued red leaves too, covering most of the base of the trunk. There is also a line of green clovers that goes up the trunk contrasting the red leaves, I jammed a couple of old fallen lemons into the root end of the dead tree to make it look like the center pollen of the flower. Taking the leftover stems from the clovers I fanned them out across the bottom of the trunk/stem to portray grass. the artwork sits on a slop where the pedestrians and cars can see it as they pass.

Korea Traditional Root-end Tile with a human-face design

Scavenger Challenge - 2. Make a photo of something upside-down (main part of the shot must be rightside-up).

a tree has fallen in the river leaving its root-ends bare to the world and making a great upside-down reflection in the clear water

I took the trunk of a small tree that fell and made it beautiful. By turning the dead tree into a bright sunflower give the tree life again. the flower looks like a burst of sun rays, Without the sun there can be no life. The stem of the flower is the dead tree which I made a homemade natural glue out of corn starch glued red leaves too, covering most of the base of the trunk. There is also a line of green clovers that goes up the trunk contrasting the red leaves, I jammed a couple of old fallen lemons into the root end of the dead tree to make it look like the center pollen of the flower. Taking the leftover stems from the clovers I fanned them out across the bottom of the trunk/stem to portray grass. the artwork sits on a slop where the pedestrians and cars can see it as they pass.

Cymbopogon ciatrus.

Lemon grass is a long thick grass with leaves at the top and a solid portion several inches long at the root end.

The ripped root ends of the Bartram's Garden cucumbertree here lift into the air taller than a man.

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This is the root end of a fallen tree in Pebble Beach. The colors here are enhanced a little - but ONLY a little - and otherwise untouched

At lower left is our white Cattleya orchid "Aloha," one of the two orchids we got at Akatsuka Orchids in Hawaii in 2023. She has outgrown her original pot as you can see, but has three new pseudobulb growths and lots of root growth (see green tips at root ends). Earlier today I repotted our two newest orchids (top center). The first is a "Paph" orchid that Cheryl gave to me for my birthday. The second is a Miltassia that I won as a door prize at the monthly meeting of the Batavia Orchid Society. They were easy to repot, and didn't really require it yet, but I wanted them in larger pots to avoid drying out too much in-between watering.