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Hey, Phil, this is to give you just a taste of what you'll see tomorrow : )! Enjoy yourself!
The butterfly display is now open inside the Calgary Zoo Enmax Conservatory. This beautiful, large Blue Morpho is just one of several species of butterfly flying "freely" indoors. It can be very difficult to catch it resting, LOL. On a window ledge was the best I could do this time: )
"Blue Morphos are Neotropical butterflies found mostly in South America as well as Mexico and Central America ... These colors are not a result of pigmentation but are an example of iridescence: the microscopic scales covering the Morpho's wings reflect incident light repeatedly at successive layers, leading to interference effects that depend on both wavelength and angle of incidence/observance. Thus the colors produced vary with viewing angle ... Morpho butterflies are forest dwellers but will venture into sunny clearings to warm themselves ... The Blue Morphos are reared en masse in commercial breeding programmes. The iridescent wings are used in the manufacture of jewellery and as inlay in woodworking ... Significant quantities of live specimens are exported as pupae from several neotropical countries for exhibition in butterfly houses ... The adults live for about two to three weeks." From Wikipedia.
Went on a walk this morning in South Glenmore Park, by the Glenmore Reservoir. There were 500+ Swans on the Reservoir (a mix of Tundra and Trumpeter, plus the rare, solitary Mute Swan which has been hanging out there recently.)
Havent done a self portrait in a while so i decided i might as well do one now that I have a bit of time.
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American Museum of Natural History, New York. This is a sculpture by Malvina Hoffman.
"Malvina Hoffman (1885 -1966), was an American sculptor and author, well known for her life-size bronze sculptures of people. She also worked in plaster and marble...." -- Wikipedia
I really dislike nets on windows, but this downstairs lodger bedroom needs them as the front path across the house is directly outside, most inviting for snoopers!
The decorators had just finished repainting both the empty rooms before my new lodgers arrive for the start of term, and when I re-hung the curtains these morning shadows took my fancy.
Lol at Farringdon Nando's, you can perch out on the windowledge while you eat and watch the people fortunate enough get a seat inside.
Funny story here. A neighbor moved out and left some plants on the windowledge of the stairwell. I started taking care of them. Then, they were slightly neglected. One day, I noticed someone had pasted a picture of a daffodil next to the suffering aloe vera plant. Soon, it began to produce a flower! My florist said it produced the flower because it was drying out too much. You never know if the plant was just inspired by the image of the big daffodil and wanted to emulate it. :)
These little fellers appeared after double glazing panel had been replaced ...
One red with black spots, one 'white' with black spots and one black with red spots ...
Because the tide is high, and it's rising still, and I don't want to see it at my windowsill...
Bottles, empty bottles, on my kitchen windowsill. Put there specially because I like the way the light shines through them. Blinds pulled down for this photo (I am not generally a troglodyte). Green bottle is Becherovka, mmmm...
...and he ate all the food out of the birdfeeder, and then he ate the birdfeeder, and then I tried to take his picture, but he wouldn't fit in the frame because he was as big as an albatross, and then he tried to eat my camera, too!
THE PACKBAWKY ANTHEM
We are the voices that herald the dawn,
Throats stretched to welcome the morning's first yawn.
We are the painters of balconies high,
Whitewashing buildings that puncture the sky.
We are the sweepers that tidy the street;
What we can't carry, we'll gratefully eat.
Like us or lump us, when all's done and said
We'll still be going when you lot are dead.
Hark as we trumpet the daybreak refrain!
Joyful and ardent, come sun or come rain.
Find us in winter, all poised on one foot,
Huddled together, our anthem to flute.
Find us in springtime, askew on the wall,
Drunken on nectar and ready to fall.
Like us or lump us, when all's done and said
We'll still be squawking when you lot are dead.
And should we, all clumsy, bespatter your brow
With feculent whitewash, don't raise a row--
Though slimy and smelly and dodgy to duck,
Our leavings are rumored to bring you good luck.
Oh, join in our chorus, come join in the song!
Thousands of jubilant birds can't be wrong!
Like us or lump us, when all's done and said
We'll still be singing when you lot are dead.
GARBAGE-GOOSE
Behold the portly Garbage Goose
With crumbs and jam bespeck'd--
One end is loud; the other loose,
He garners no respect.
Behold the grubby Garbage Goose
Prospecting in the bin--
Let's kick him in his broad caboose,
So he goes tumbling in!
We had lunch in the Promenade Cafe, in the French district of Winnipeg, just near the end of the Esplanade Riel.
This table had just been vacated by some other lunchers.
We returned that evening for a lovely 4-course dinner with a jazz pianist playing.
Tenuous Link: Neck (of bottle)
This is an example of a very widespread gall that occurs on garden Forsythia shrubs.
My book says that it is probably caused by a bacterium in the genus Corynebacterium, which is widely present in the natural environment.
In order to determine the cause of any bacterial gall it is necessary to do laboratory tests involving the reinoculation of pure cultures of the bacterium into the uninfected host, resulting in reproduction of the galling symptom.
All attempts, in particular at the University of South Wales, have failed so far to produce these galls! How frustrating for the reseachers!
So the cause of it is therefore unknown. Similar growths occur on Rosa species.
Sorry if that't TMI for some of you, but I find it fascinating!
Bacteria cause galls that are of one of 3 sorts, Growths, Tufts, and Nodules: this one is a Tuft.
It measures about 1.5"/35mms. I took the pic on a PVC windowledge so changed the background colour.
24th August 2013.
Two of the three maniac kittens that we found dumped at the roadside on a walk 3 months ago. Tiger, Caribbean Corner Kitten and Ribena (names courtesy of Fin, Nathaniel and Solomon respectively!) officially joined our household last week after being nursed through their early kittenhood by the Cat Protection League.
I don't know why this hotel went bust and was left to fall into its current state. It's in a fine location; maybe the road it sits beside was bypassed by a faster motorway or something.