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Showing posts with label bird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bird. Show all posts
Saturday, August 01, 2020
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Friday, May 15, 2020
bird dances to ring tones
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Bird dances to ring tones. :-)
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Bird dances to ring tones. :-)
Wow!! Impressive!🎼🔊🔊👍👏🌟🔥🤩❤❤ pic.twitter.com/hwjpiRyih2— FunnymanPage (@FunnymanPage) May 12, 2020
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
Sunday, September 02, 2018
August 26, 2018
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Irish soda bread from Zingerman's Bakehouse.
Tomatoes from the farmers' market.
Day lilies in front of the yoga studio.
Busy pond in West Park.
One adult duck, three young ducks, and a turtle.
This turtle's shell was 6-8" from front to back.
Ironweed and goldenrod in the park.
I am seeing more monarch butterflies this year. Yay! I am also seeing more milkweed here and there, which I believe is a contributing factor. The ironweed near the top of the next image is feeding a monarch.
Monarch (and bumble) on the ironweed.
There is a lot of jewelweed in the park this year.
Jewelweed is a very tender watery plant. Its stems and leaves are at right. The sturdy reddish stem at left belongs to someone else. The flowers are about an inch long.
Lots of goldenrod and ironweed along the southerly path through West Park.
One of my neighbors has a patch of datura. These plants are enthusiastic about self-seeding.
This is another of the very tropical-seeming plants that grows without coddling in southeast Michigan. The buds (including green part and white part) average about 8" long, and the open flowers 6-8" across.
As you see, the flowers unfurl as they begin to bloom. On the 26 there were honeybees working hard to get through those tight folds down into the incipient flowers (no bees in the image).
The datura above are in a lawn extension. This storm-sewer opening must be down hill (it's only a few properties away from the previous. I'm betting a seed from the previous patch floated a few hundred feet and arrived here. It's growing right where there ought to be an opening to the storm sewer, but no one has kept it clean. There is enough dirt here for this plant to grow.
This plant had dozens of almost-ready tomatoes. And then it had none. We hope it is furry four-legged critters who took them, rather than two-legged ones who ought to know better. But we've only seen one or two damaged tomatoes, and no fragments on the ground................... >:-(
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Irish soda bread from Zingerman's Bakehouse.
Tomatoes from the farmers' market.
Day lilies in front of the yoga studio.
Busy pond in West Park.
One adult duck, three young ducks, and a turtle.
This turtle's shell was 6-8" from front to back.
Ironweed and goldenrod in the park.
I am seeing more monarch butterflies this year. Yay! I am also seeing more milkweed here and there, which I believe is a contributing factor. The ironweed near the top of the next image is feeding a monarch.
Monarch (and bumble) on the ironweed.
There is a lot of jewelweed in the park this year.
Jewelweed is a very tender watery plant. Its stems and leaves are at right. The sturdy reddish stem at left belongs to someone else. The flowers are about an inch long.
Lots of goldenrod and ironweed along the southerly path through West Park.
One of my neighbors has a patch of datura. These plants are enthusiastic about self-seeding.
This is another of the very tropical-seeming plants that grows without coddling in southeast Michigan. The buds (including green part and white part) average about 8" long, and the open flowers 6-8" across.
As you see, the flowers unfurl as they begin to bloom. On the 26 there were honeybees working hard to get through those tight folds down into the incipient flowers (no bees in the image).
The datura above are in a lawn extension. This storm-sewer opening must be down hill (it's only a few properties away from the previous. I'm betting a seed from the previous patch floated a few hundred feet and arrived here. It's growing right where there ought to be an opening to the storm sewer, but no one has kept it clean. There is enough dirt here for this plant to grow.
This plant had dozens of almost-ready tomatoes. And then it had none. We hope it is furry four-legged critters who took them, rather than two-legged ones who ought to know better. But we've only seen one or two damaged tomatoes, and no fragments on the ground................... >:-(
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Saturday, September 01, 2018
August 25, 2018
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The beautiful garden at the other end of my old block. Phlox.
Wet phlox.
Zinnias and pink/purple phlox in the beautiful garden. And a monarch butterfly! On an orange zinnia, near the center of the next image.
Closer crop of the above.
Even closer.
Carefully we ooched around to a different angle, working not to scare the butterfly away........ It is still on that orange zinnia, pretty much in the center of the next image......
I am seeing more monarchs this year, and more milkweed. I hope we can save these guys from the ill effects of humans spraying more and more poison everywhere............... (Hope we can save ourselves from it, too. Spraying poison everywhere just isn't a good idea........... Not, as they say, sustainable............)
More zinnias in the beautiful garden.
Closer.
All the digital cameras I've had have gotten really excited by this sort of magenta color. They oversaturate it, and make details harder to see. Believe it or not, I have taken both the saturation and the brightness down a bit in the next image.
There is a lot going on in the center of a zinnia!
Hibiscus. Even though there are a number of these, here and there in Ann Arbor, they always strike me as "too tropical" for this climate. Some of them actually are hardy and make it through the winter with no protection.
I believe this is impatiens.
I had heard of Wayzgoose, but only in Tacoma, WA. When I saw that there would be one here in Ann Arbor, I was interested.
Wikipedia: A wayzgoose (or wayz-goose, waygoose or wayzegoose) was at one time an entertainment given by a master printer to his workmen each year on or about St Bartholomew's Day (24 August). It marked the traditional end of summer and the start of the season of working by candlelight. Later, the word came to refer to an annual outing and dinner for the staff of a printing works or the printers on a newspaper.
Tacoma, Washington holds an annual Wayzgoose event dubbed a "printer's celebration". This event, which includes a large-scale relief printing project using a steamroller, is designed to get the community interested and involved in the art of printmaking.
I read about the Ann Arbor wayzgoose in library materials. Most of it was at the downtown library. There were also parts at Hollander's (which has letterpress printers, and maybe other kinds of printers?), and at the Art Center. (Do we call them printers? Probably not? I think a "printer" was the person who used the ... printing machine?)
After our usual farmers' market and then breakfast on Saturday, August 25, I walked around and looked at printing and printed products. I was in the basement at Hollander's for the first time. They have a lot of printing machines, I don't know how many different kinds. (Alas, no steamroller printing in A2.)
The library has a lot of different ways to print things. They have letterpress (not sure how many printing machines), they have stamps, they have silk screen. (They also have 3D printers, which I expected to see in use, but did not see. So many toys, so little time.............)
The library was printing cheap tote bags and letting us each have one. They also have a drier (that seemed to be hot but didn't blow) so we could have our freshly-printed bag get dried rather than letting us wander around smearing blue paint on everything............
On the main level at the library there were a lot of small printing businesses set up at tables. A few were doing demos, and I believe all of them brought their work to sell. So many people working in so many different media!
I was glad to see all the different things people were doing.
The library has classes on using the various methods of printing for which the library has tools. I'm torn between wanting to learn how to use allthetools, and thinking I should stay focused on what I already know how to do (and already have the tools and materials to do)..................
I say again -- so many toys, so little time!
I waked home through the park. One duck and two turtles in this next image.
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The beautiful garden at the other end of my old block. Phlox.
Wet phlox.
Zinnias and pink/purple phlox in the beautiful garden. And a monarch butterfly! On an orange zinnia, near the center of the next image.
Closer crop of the above.
Even closer.
Carefully we ooched around to a different angle, working not to scare the butterfly away........ It is still on that orange zinnia, pretty much in the center of the next image......
I am seeing more monarchs this year, and more milkweed. I hope we can save these guys from the ill effects of humans spraying more and more poison everywhere............... (Hope we can save ourselves from it, too. Spraying poison everywhere just isn't a good idea........... Not, as they say, sustainable............)
More zinnias in the beautiful garden.
Closer.
All the digital cameras I've had have gotten really excited by this sort of magenta color. They oversaturate it, and make details harder to see. Believe it or not, I have taken both the saturation and the brightness down a bit in the next image.
There is a lot going on in the center of a zinnia!
Hibiscus. Even though there are a number of these, here and there in Ann Arbor, they always strike me as "too tropical" for this climate. Some of them actually are hardy and make it through the winter with no protection.
I believe this is impatiens.
I had heard of Wayzgoose, but only in Tacoma, WA. When I saw that there would be one here in Ann Arbor, I was interested.
Wikipedia: A wayzgoose (or wayz-goose, waygoose or wayzegoose) was at one time an entertainment given by a master printer to his workmen each year on or about St Bartholomew's Day (24 August). It marked the traditional end of summer and the start of the season of working by candlelight. Later, the word came to refer to an annual outing and dinner for the staff of a printing works or the printers on a newspaper.
Tacoma, Washington holds an annual Wayzgoose event dubbed a "printer's celebration". This event, which includes a large-scale relief printing project using a steamroller, is designed to get the community interested and involved in the art of printmaking.
I read about the Ann Arbor wayzgoose in library materials. Most of it was at the downtown library. There were also parts at Hollander's (which has letterpress printers, and maybe other kinds of printers?), and at the Art Center. (Do we call them printers? Probably not? I think a "printer" was the person who used the ... printing machine?)
After our usual farmers' market and then breakfast on Saturday, August 25, I walked around and looked at printing and printed products. I was in the basement at Hollander's for the first time. They have a lot of printing machines, I don't know how many different kinds. (Alas, no steamroller printing in A2.)
The library has a lot of different ways to print things. They have letterpress (not sure how many printing machines), they have stamps, they have silk screen. (They also have 3D printers, which I expected to see in use, but did not see. So many toys, so little time.............)
The library was printing cheap tote bags and letting us each have one. They also have a drier (that seemed to be hot but didn't blow) so we could have our freshly-printed bag get dried rather than letting us wander around smearing blue paint on everything............
On the main level at the library there were a lot of small printing businesses set up at tables. A few were doing demos, and I believe all of them brought their work to sell. So many people working in so many different media!
I was glad to see all the different things people were doing.
The library has classes on using the various methods of printing for which the library has tools. I'm torn between wanting to learn how to use allthetools, and thinking I should stay focused on what I already know how to do (and already have the tools and materials to do)..................
I say again -- so many toys, so little time!
I waked home through the park. One duck and two turtles in this next image.
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Thursday, August 23, 2018
August 15, 2018: part 2, Petoskey State Park
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Sky over Little Traverse Bay (an arm of Lake Michigan), at Petoskey State Park.
Sight and sound of the Big Water.
Mother Nature's assemblage on the beach. Pretty sure those are (invasive!) zebra mussel shells.
Closer crop of the middle of the left edge. I'm still amazed that a phone camera (with its teeny lens) can do this good a job.
Also amazed at the diversity of rocks that make up this sand...........
Betting that brain-looking thing, lower left, above, is a seed?
Ok, never saw this before........ It was floating around in the water, looking like a piece of cloth.
Pretty darn sure this is a fish skin. !!! It felt like you'd expect the skin on a bucket of paint to feel, if you were to pick it up. Flimsy, slimy, feeling as though it was barely holding itself together....... This was a pretty big fish. This is more than two feet long, even without its head and tail.
Closer look at a part that's near what I presume is the tail (which is at the top of the prev).
Guessing these are the reinforcements that hold up fins. Interesting that they are stuck to the skin, rather than being with the skeleton. Assuming there was a skeleton -- I don't know of any cartilaginous fishes in the great lakes, but that doesn't mean there aren't any............
These sticky-up things were as long as my fingers. And I bet we can tell how big the scales were from the marks on the skin. BIG.
I'm not sure what this is, but I think it is a fish bone. It smelled very fishy. But what sort of bone, I have no clue. It's not exactly small!
We saw thousands of shells. This is the only one I noticed that was not made by a mussel (guessing those thousands of shells are invasive zebra mussel shells).
I don't know what this teensy snail-ish guy is, nor whether it belongs here or not.
Another of Mother Nature's assemblages. Someone on my Instagram account identified this as a sphinx moth. What cool markings.
We picked up smooth beach stones, feathers, a few shells, and a LOT of trash. Sigh.
I believe this is a ring-billed gull, sitting on a beach that is totally solid with human marks.
Because I can't get too much of the Big Water.........
We had dinner in Petoskey, and then went to East Park again.
Sunset over Lake Michigan.
I think this is snowberry. We saw a sparrow-size brown and black bird taking the berries. Interesting that this shrub seems to be blooming and fruiting all at once. This must be a good source of food, over a long-ish period of time, for whoever likes it.
I wonder what happens to the levels of the great lakes when ocean levels go up.
All of that construction on the shore just left of the sun is brand-new rich-people condofungus. Wondering what happens to all of that when the water level rises............
The sun got redder and redder as it went down.
Closer crop of the above. I have cropped this, but have not done anything that affects the color. This color is just as the (phone) camera and I remember it.
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Sky over Little Traverse Bay (an arm of Lake Michigan), at Petoskey State Park.
Sight and sound of the Big Water.
Mother Nature's assemblage on the beach. Pretty sure those are (invasive!) zebra mussel shells.
Closer crop of the middle of the left edge. I'm still amazed that a phone camera (with its teeny lens) can do this good a job.
Also amazed at the diversity of rocks that make up this sand...........
Betting that brain-looking thing, lower left, above, is a seed?
Ok, never saw this before........ It was floating around in the water, looking like a piece of cloth.
Pretty darn sure this is a fish skin. !!! It felt like you'd expect the skin on a bucket of paint to feel, if you were to pick it up. Flimsy, slimy, feeling as though it was barely holding itself together....... This was a pretty big fish. This is more than two feet long, even without its head and tail.
Closer look at a part that's near what I presume is the tail (which is at the top of the prev).
Guessing these are the reinforcements that hold up fins. Interesting that they are stuck to the skin, rather than being with the skeleton. Assuming there was a skeleton -- I don't know of any cartilaginous fishes in the great lakes, but that doesn't mean there aren't any............
These sticky-up things were as long as my fingers. And I bet we can tell how big the scales were from the marks on the skin. BIG.
I'm not sure what this is, but I think it is a fish bone. It smelled very fishy. But what sort of bone, I have no clue. It's not exactly small!
We saw thousands of shells. This is the only one I noticed that was not made by a mussel (guessing those thousands of shells are invasive zebra mussel shells).
I don't know what this teensy snail-ish guy is, nor whether it belongs here or not.
Another of Mother Nature's assemblages. Someone on my Instagram account identified this as a sphinx moth. What cool markings.
We picked up smooth beach stones, feathers, a few shells, and a LOT of trash. Sigh.
I believe this is a ring-billed gull, sitting on a beach that is totally solid with human marks.
Because I can't get too much of the Big Water.........
We had dinner in Petoskey, and then went to East Park again.
Sunset over Lake Michigan.
I think this is snowberry. We saw a sparrow-size brown and black bird taking the berries. Interesting that this shrub seems to be blooming and fruiting all at once. This must be a good source of food, over a long-ish period of time, for whoever likes it.
I wonder what happens to the levels of the great lakes when ocean levels go up.
All of that construction on the shore just left of the sun is brand-new rich-people condofungus. Wondering what happens to all of that when the water level rises............
The sun got redder and redder as it went down.
Closer crop of the above. I have cropped this, but have not done anything that affects the color. This color is just as the (phone) camera and I remember it.
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