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In Garden & house
I make a bad pic
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#8
 22-Jul-2007 01:17 AM (01:17) |
 A bit like announcing the Pope is a Catholic, but I've made a bad pic this time, but my excuse is that it was bloody hard to get any pic at all. The pic you see at left is a cut-out from that photo; you can see the whole photo here, somewhat downsized.
It's of one of the shrews that live in my garden; they're extremely hard to photograph, being only out in the evening, and this was the only photo out of many where I photograp
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In Garden & house
De-Hitler-ising a flame tree
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#6
26-Jun-2007 12:42 AM (00:42) |
 I have a flame tree, an Illawarra Flame tree (Brachychiton acerifolius, also called a Kurrajong, not to be confused with the African Flame Tree or several other trees also called flame trees). When I brought it back from Australia, IIRC 4 years ago, it wasn't even six inches high; now it is taller than me. You can see an adult photo of a Brachychiton acerifolius at
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In Garden & house
I actually make a good photo
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#5
19-Jun-2007 08:18 PM (20:18) |
 I actually made a good photo, by pure accident. Normally I do fiddle around with settings, and I do try at least to photo not too badly, but usually it's just barely competent, so it's big news when I actually make a good photo. Anyway, it was a photo of my new lingonberries, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, also called cowberries, partridgeberries, mountain cranberries or foxberries (and Pralina Beeren in German). They wer
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In Garden & house
Nature is just so Freudian
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#2
10-Jun-2007 02:27 AM (02:27) |
 Nature is just so Freudian sometimes, isn't it? The lefthand pic is a photo I made of a burgeoning blossom of a Flanders poppy, a.k.a. a corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas. Nature of course did flowers as a sexual overture to bees and other insects, the vegetable equivalent of really coming out of the closet, I suppose, but if you look at some of the forms that Nature does with flowers, you just have to wonder just how fa
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