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This week I posted also a topview shot of a similar immature fungus 'Chondrostereum purpureum' and after a few days I went back to see how it was developing, but it was gone already.
Luckily there were other immature ones. I choose this one to follow. I must say that I like this beginning appearance very much. ;-)
After a few days this one looks like this.
"Silver leaf is a fungal disease of trees caused by the fungus plant pathogen Chondrostereum purpureum. It attacks most species of the rose family Rosaceae, particularly the genus Prunus. The disease is progressive and often fatal. The common name is taken from the progressive silvering of leaves on affected branches. It is spread by airborne spores landing on freshly exposed sapwood. For this reason cherries and plums are pruned in summer, when spores are least likely to be present and when disease is visible. Silver Leaf can also happen on poming fruits like apples and pears. Plums are especially vulnerable.
In the past the name Stereum purpureum Pers. was widely used for this fungus, but according to modern taxonomy it is only distantly related to Stereum, actually belonging to order Agaricales whereas Stereum is in order Russulales.
After starting as just a crust on the wood, the fruiting structure develops undulating intergrowing brackets up to about 3 cm broad, which have a tough rubbery texture. The edges and fertile lower surfaces show a fairly vivid violet colour while the fungus is growing, and the upper surfaces have a grey aspect (sometimes with zonation) and are covered with whitish hairs. After a week or two the fructification dries out, becomes brittle, and turns a drab brown or beige. Infected wood can be recognized because it is stained a darker tint.
The spores are rounded cylinders approximately 5-8 µm x 3-4 µm in size. The hyphal structure is monomitic with clamp connections.
It is often found on old stumps and dead wood, but can also be a serious parasite of living trees. As well as plum trees it attacks many other broad-leafed species (other Prunus, apple, pear, willow, poplar, maple, hornbeam, plane, oak, elm, lilac, and many others).Occasionally it also infects conifers (fir, spruce, Thuja, ...).Geographically it is roughly speaking just as widespread as its hosts - it is common in woods, orchards and tree plantations in temperate climates.
Chondrostereum purpureum is commercially available as a method of combatting forest "weed" trees such as red alder, aspens and other species.The fungus is applied directly to the weed trees in a nutrient paste which can be stored and handled conveniently. According to a report of the Canadian Pest Management Agency, the use of this control method will only have a limited impact on non-target trees since the fungal spores are ubiquitous anyway and healthy trees are resistant to attack." - WiKi
"De paarse korstzwam (Chondrostereum purpureum), purperkorstzwam of loodglansschimmel is een paddenstoel uit de familie Cyphellaceae. De soort lijkt op een elfenbankje, maar is paars en aan de rand wit gekleurd. De randen zijn golvend en wit donzig behaard. De onderzijde is glad, donkerbruin of bruin-violet tot bruin. De paddenstoel wordt carpophores genoemd en wordt in de herfst gevormd bij een hoge relatieve luchtvochtigheid met veel regen, mist of dauw en een temperatuur van 10 °C. Hieruit ontstaan de basidiosporen, die bij infectie via wonden loodglans veroorzaken. Zo genoemd omdat de bladeren een loodachtige kleur krijgen als de schimmel de boom heeft aangetast.
De purperkorstzwam wordt gevonden als saprofyt op dood hout van allerlei loofbomen en als parasiet op levende bomen en struiken uit de rozenfamilie. Het veroorzaakt op vruchtbomen loodglansziekte, onder andere bij de pruim en kers. De purperkorstzwam komt het gehele jaar voor en is een algemene verschijning.
Het vruchtlichaam heeft een doorsnede van 2-4 cm, is dun en leerachtig. De korsten hebben een opstaande rand. De bovenkant is voorzien van groeven, is viltig en licht grijsachtig geelbruin. De onderkant is lila tot purperkleurig. Later wordt de onderkant meer bruinachtig. Bij een korst zit het hymenium aan de bovenzijde en is aan de violette kleur te herkennen.
De paarse korstzwam wordt gebruikt voor de bestrijding van de Amerikaanse vogelkers. Op de afgezaagde stobben worden de sporen van de schimmel gesmeerd en zodra de schimmel de wortels bereikt heeft gaat de boom dood." - WiKi
These trees look beautiful as they stand in rows, creating such depth with light and lines.
This beauty if man made. None of these trees are old.
This trail followed used to be a road to a town in the middle of the forest. A little mill town. A forest fire whiped out the town and the trees.
People planted these trees closely in rows.
The trees are real, but they are too perfect, a fake perfect.
completely personal. completely vulnerable.
today has been awful. i just want everything to end. i can't wait to escape.
i haven't taken such honest picture in a long time. if ever. it says so much. to myself. i put my pain into it.
taking pictures has probably never made me feel the way it did today.
271/365.
Maasi Mara, Kenya, Africa
The Southern Ground-Hornbill, which is found in the savannas of eastern Africa, is the largest and heaviest of the hornbills. The primary food of this ground-dwelling bird is arthropods such as grasshoppers, beetles, scorpions and termites. They will also eat larger prey such as snakes, lizards and rats.
The female Southern Ground-Hornbill can be identified by the blue patch on the red throat skin.
The Southern Ground-hornbill is considered vulnerable because of significant declines in areas where they encounter human density, tree felling and use of poisons and pesticides. Conservationists are currently considering the possibility of collecting second-hatched chicks for reintroduction programs.
To have love and be loved we must be open to be vulnerable or we might miss what that love is. The flowers are just standing letting any one that comes by pick them. we might love them in that vase on the table but the flowers gave their life's away that you could love them in a vase. Love is all about giving a way parts of our selfs.
She crashed while watching a movie with me. I love how you can see her innocence and her vulnerability in this photo.
Do you see Vulnerability or Defiance?
Today is officially something different Friday? :-) So something different from me. I would like to do more shots like these but if I'm honest I found "the body" quite hard a subject to shoot. It belongs together with my other image "Victim or Predator". I hope you like it.
And TFI Friday :-)
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Explore #19
"to share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength." - Criss Jami
Model: my daughter
That really is her standing on her toe shoes, I didn't photoshop them, but the antlers..um..well.
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I think this is part of the injury that kept this guy grounded from flying. It really made me realize how specialized these creatures are. One small part of his wing broke and he quickly went from apex predator to vulnerable prey. Nature is rough!
An uncommon species that visits our garden regularly. It is only found on Negros and Panay Islands in forest between 400 and 900m. It is classified as a vulnerable species due to the continued decrease in its habitat.
Valencia, Negros Island, Philippines
18 year old female polar bear, Tatqiq, at San Diego Zoo. Polar Bear Snow Day 2019.
Conservation Status: Vulnerable
“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
Poem:
Cheer up, O grievous snail.
I tap your shell, encouragingly,
not that you will ever know about it.
And I want nothing to do with you, either, sulking toad.
Imagine, at least four times my size and yet so vulnerable.
I could open your belly with my claw.
You glare and bulge, a
watchdog near my pool; you make a loud and hollow noise.
I do not care for such stupidity.
I admire compression, lightness,
and agility, all rare in this loose world.
"To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”
There are a lot of things you won't have any power over in life, many things will happen, and lots of it might make you feel completely lost and vulnerable, kind of like sailing along all alone on a raft through eternity, having to defend yourself against unknown and perhaps known enemies. Just keep in mind... you might feel like you're all alone, but you will always have someone. Even if it is just a tiny goat, it's still someone. And clean feet, nice tea, and a cake... these things will always make any day brighter. Just saying..
This picture is HUGE btw. You can click it twice to zoom in since I have a Pro account. If it looks blurry, just wait and let it load. :)
The bikini: .{PSYCHO:Byts}. Cordelia Summer Gacha - Available @ The Arcade till June 30th! I LOVE this bikini! It comes in several colors, and the texture is just amazing!
The glasses and the sandals are also from that gacha, and usually you would wear the sandals obviously, but I chose to rez them instead, since it made better sense for this picture! The gacha also comes with a hat! All these things come in the same colors the bikini does!
The horns: .{PSYCHO:Byts}. Hecatix Horns - Available @ CYBER Fair by Access, till June 25th! These horns come with several color options in the HUD!
DRD - San Mora - Survival Raft
DRD - Trick - Umbrella - Dripping blood
DRD - GG - Special Tea - One of many, many group gifts available! Bloody amazing tea, I'd say...
Oh, and DRD's Annual Summer Sale ends June 18th, so HURRY! Btw, DRD will be at this years SL Birthday Shop & Hop! First time EVER, and they will be on the FROSTED region, so swing by!
The cliffs in the background: -Hisa- Rocky Heights - There's several different ones in the package, and you can resize them to your heart's content!
Jinx: Ickle Goaty McScaryface SE Animesh Friend - I got this as a gift at the Shop & Hop at Halloween. Now the annual SL Birthday Shop & Hop is JUST about to open, so jump over and check it out! It's the biggest ever!
My ears: [CX] Withered Bezerker Ears - I know, I have had these in several pics, but I just LOVE them!
DOUX - Cece Hairstyle
Mug - Murder Gacha - #6 Killer Black Gloves (Bento)
Sari-Sari - Stabbed Cake - bloody delicious, wouldn't you agree?
~PP~ Splattered Blood - Body and Face Applier - Omega
Boudoir - Bloody Splatter on Floor with Poses
The body in the water: !*WS*! Eaten Female Corpse
My body: Maitreya Lara
My head: GENUS Project - Genus Head - Classic Face
The extra, close-up pics:
GTFO JUST TRYING TO BE NAKED IN THE WOODS CAN'T I GET SOME PRIVACY GEEZ.
So glad these thorny asshole bushes finally came in handy.
A group of us non-lafg2013ers decided to embark on a giant collaboration; the first concept we’re attempting is our greatest fear.
At first I wanted to do something light-hearted about my fear of flies or injections or corn (it’s like a million little rotted teeth on a stick…) but I realized that’s part of my actual big huge mega-fear, vulnerability. Not the physical kind--I don’t doubt my ability or willingness to kick some ass in a pinch--but the emotional sort. And don't get me wrong, strong emotional defenses like humor are important, but I think mine are a little much. Long story shortish I was bullied a cray ton in middle school until I just kind of made a little suit of feels armor for myself and I’ve never really figured out how to strip it in the presence of most people. I swear I go through the same argument with the little voice in my head every single time I interact with anyone; if I let my guard down the other person is free to judge and reject the secret parts of myself that make me a unique human in the clusterfuck of all the other billions.
But then I’m all ‘why do I feel so compelled to let others define my worth’ and then I’m all ’social acceptance is pretty important to the survival of things with brains bro’ but then I’m all ‘I mean that’s a good excuse but literally millions of other people have learned to get past that, what makes me special’ and then I wallow, typically. I mean, basically it’s fear of pain which is practically etched into our skulls from birth, so I know I'm not alone in this, but at the same time just aghajakfgl.
And I know I could have it so much worse. I could be afraid of starvation or disease or my own parents. But in the relative scope of my general insignificance my fear of emotional vulnerability is the thing that keeps me up at night so. Welcome to the most personal photo I’ve ever done, y’all.
And you know. The most publicly naked one.
*******If anyone else out there shares my fear there’s an awesome TED talk on the subject by Brené Brown. Even if you don't, just watch it. It's even funny so none of you have an excuse.
Here's to a more fearless 2013 for everybody :)
A jumble of personal and cultural thoughts through photoshop.
A combination of 41 Images and around 84 hours of work.
Done as part of a series of combined images for my graduate exhibition.
Another look.
Onychorhynchus swainsoni - a vulnerable species. Very difficult to see - easier when they are nesting. A forest species, and its nest is always close to small rapids of clear waters. This one was photographed t at Trilha dos Tucanos - Tapiraí - SP.
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I shot this the day before the big quake and the resulting tsunami hit Japan. I'm not sure if I will ever look at the ocean the same way again. In some ways this shot reminds me of the world as I remember it on September 10th, 2001. Everything suddenly shifted from the comfort of the mundane to the horror of the unimaginable. I think the world changed on 3/11/2011 just as it did on 9/11/2001.
I rarely photograph eagles sitting on the ground. One big advantage of perching high up in a tree is that it gives them a position of strength to view possible prey as well as keep an eye open for enemies.
This one appears a bit vulnerable as he surveys the terrain around him and is hoping it is safe to walk over a few yards to some roadside kill by a busy road.
"To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength." Criss Jami
at Happy, Alaska.
Flashback Friday.
ca. mid-late 1980s.
Mush was not really our dog, but he did live with us off and on for a while. We met while Chance was still a puppy and Mush's person at the time was my cabinmate. We shared a dry cabin, no phone, no electric and about a tenth of a mile off the one lane, pothole filled, dead end dirt road. Judy had rescued him from a remote town, Kotzebue, above the Arctic Circle. People often talk about rescuing dogs, but Mush and Judy’s story is unique and a very literal rescue.
Judy was living in “Kotz” doing, if I’m not mistaken, graduate work. I’m sure she had seen Mush before, but one day while he was harnessed and in team, she heard yelling; his owner pulled a gun and was about to shoot him dead. Evidently Mush was a fighter and was not receptive to being told what to do by this person. This method of training, shooting a dog in harness while his teammates look on was meant as a lesson to the other dogs that they better behave. Truly misguided and cruel – “training” through fear and intimidation. But things were different in the bush and some people could not afford to keep a dog that not only did not perform, but also harmed other dogs in the team.
Judy intervened, “don’t shoot that dog!” And the person reluctantly acquiesced, warned her about his behavior, and said, “get him the hell out of here.” (or something to that effect).
Judy returned to Fairbanks for University studies (where we met and became roommates), of course she loved that dog with all her heart, with all her being, and he no doubt loved her as well, realizing maybe not that she saved his life, but that she got him away from a bad person.
It was said that Mush was ½ wolf. I usually take such claims with a grain of salt, but with Mush I believed it. Huskies can be very aloof, and arguably most or all of them can be traced to some wolf heritage, but Mush was the most aloof dog that I have ever experienced. Also, he did not like men, any wonder. But he tolerated me and eventually we became as close as he would allow. Later Lenore came around and she fell for him and he preferred to live with her in her little cabin. He provided her security and comfort. But I jumped ahead a bit.
Judy and Mush moved in when Chance was still a young pup, he was not aggressive with the rambunctious puppy, but as a matter of training and demonstrating who was boss, he would sit with seemingly all his weight (he was big) on Chance the pup. Chance learned. In his time with me Mush was a strong freight dog, helping haul firewood locally and supplies out to my remote cabin site. I even named a stretch of trail after him, “Mush’s Misery,” as it was a long uphill slog and he would put his head down, lean into his harness and march ahead without complaint.
Later Mush disappeared and some weeks or months later I was surprised to see him at a friends cabin. This was not near where Lenore or I had lived. The friend was surprised that I knew him, as surprised as I was to find him living with her. She said he just appeared on her porch one day and stayed, as if he lived there. She was involved in a separation and felt alone and vulnerable too in that place. She was convinced that Mush sensed this, and intentionally appeared to protect her and provide comfort. They had not met before. I didn’t really feel like it was my choice, so he stayed. Eventually he disappeared from her too, and that’s all we know.