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1. Materials used were camera, lightroom, and the playground ropes.
2. I tied to get the back ropes focused while the thick middle rope split the frame.
3. I lined the thick rope up and tried to focus on the thin ropes in the back. The materials relate to the idea because they are symmetrical.
Yellow Birdsnest.
Monotropa hypopitys
Aka, Dutchman's Pipe.
This may not look much, but this is a very rare plant, one I did not think i would see in Kent, let alone snap it.
Similar to the BirdsNest Orchid, int hat it is a parasite, but is a different family.
On the edge of a woodland path in mid-Kent.
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Monotropa hypopitys L., Yellow Bird’s-nest, is the only European species in the family Monotropaceae (Fl. Europaea), although some authors include it within either the Pyrolaceae or the Ericaceae.
Synonym: Hypopitys monotropa Crantz.
It is considered to have two subspecies (Stace 1997), but morphology is not always reliable and only a handful of specimens in the U.K. have had their chromosome number checked to date.
ssp. hypophegea (Wallr.) Holmboe which is glabrous and has a chromosome number 2n = 16 (Stace 2010).
ssp. hypopitys, which has pubescent stamens, carpels and petals; 2n = 48 (Stace 2010).
Monotropa hypopitys is a saprophytic plant with no chlorophyll. Its flowering stems above ground are whitish in colour and up to 30cm tall.
Widespread throughout the British Isles, but increasingly rare towards the north and west. Absent from the Isle of Man, the Scillies, and the Northern and Western Isles. It occurs throughout the Northern Hemisphere, being widespread but thinly scattered in North America, Europe and Asia. In America it is known as Indian Pipe or Pinesap and sometimes listed as a different subspecies: photographs of it on American web sites often show plants with a reddish tinge, which does not seem to occur in British plants
Monotropa contains no chlorophyll, and was until recently thought to be saprophytic (deriving nutrients from decaying leaf litter) but recent research shows that it is actually epiparasitic, using Tricholoma fungi to extract nutrients from living trees in its vicinity (Leake et al. 2004). It is usually found in woods or in scrub. Rumsey (in the New Atlas, op. cit.) describes it as most frequent under Beech and Hazel on calcareous soils, and under pines on more acid substrates. It is sometimes also found in dune slacks, where it is associated with Creeping Willow, Salix repens. It is not listed by Rodwell (1991-2000) as a component of any NVC community. The maps show that in the past it was strongly associated with limestone and chalk soils in the south of England, but that seems a less obvious association in the more recent data. It is a rather transient plant, sometimes appearing in large numbers (hundreds of flowering spikes) at a site, only to disappear within a few years. Sometimes it is found in secondary woodland. It is a lowland plant - the maximum recorded altitude is 395 m, at Buxton, Derbyshire.
Brian Robertson of Thin Lizzy . Playing in a Thin Lizzy Tribute band - Aint Lizzy at the Ritzy Nightclub Nottingham 1994
Grumpy's huge calf was sucking the life out of her on the crappy winter pastures. I didn't want to dry her off so we found her a smaller calf and bought in a lot more feed.
Another freezing cold evening and hoping for a break in the clouds after sunset to view the Comet Panstarrs which is with us all week. Its low on the horizon at the moment and the clouds are already starting to build up. I wait and wait and keep my cold numb fingers crossed.
As if she were a fashion model, Taj is gorgeous and thin. Must be because Taj had terrible nutrition in her first year that her bones are very very thin. She and Kita are about the same size and he weighs at least twice as much. She's so healthy and happy and seems the right weight now. I can always feel her little thin bones when I hold her - but Yikes! to seem them like this!!
Here is the bad spot near the latch. You can weld cracks, but can't weld in the holes since the nearby metal is too thin and would have just blown out. It would be possible to cut the area out and weld in new metal, but with all of the contours would be quite a lot of work. Since the rust itself is gone, and the pan isn't too badly damaged, I decided to go over the area with fiberglass.