Thanks, YN. The pictures in the article are amazing (and wonderfully colored), too. I have seen birds feeding other birds beak to beak, but I assumed they were mothers feeding fledglings. Still, who knows? Nature is full of oddities.
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Thanks, YN. The pictures in the article are amazing (and wonderfully colored), too. I have seen birds feeding other birds beak to beak, but I assumed they were mothers feeding fledglings. Still, who knows? Nature is full of oddities.
They do look yellow, now that you mention it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dreamwoven
Here's the swan coming to get me protecting the babies (cygnets?) in the background. I took a picture and then an alternate route.
http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/...d7f7d1563b.jpg
You have actually caught a very nice picture there. The swan even looks angry.
Thanks! The swan looked even angrier with his wings up and walking straight toward me.
We were at the Chicago Botanic Garden today. Here are three pictures:
This one just has all that orange color shooting out over the path:
http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/...e20Flowers.jpg
Here's a small bird. It had a nice blue shine around its neck, but I wasn't able to capture that:
http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/...nd20Plants.jpg
And here are a bunch of blooms making a delicate but gaudy display:
http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/...0All20Over.jpg
How nice of you to have protected the babies, YN. Did you dangle modifiers as bait. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
I kid, I kid. Great pictures, especially the one of the orange flowers. They look like they are saying: "HEY, HEY! OVER HERE! CHECK US OUT!"
Thanks! I liked that orange one as well with its lack of self-restraint.
Those colours of flowers are really pretty.
I took some photos of a fir tree sprouting new branches a few days ago but crashed my computer when trying to download it to my iPhoto folder, I will try again later today.
I haven't been able to transfer any photos from my computer to the LitNet website, but I have a link to a website of a picture in Washington State which has what I wanted: http://crawford.tardigrade.net/journ...lakepollen.jpg. It shows how fast pines can grow in their early years, the new shoots are almost a doubling of the height of the young tree.
Pine is the natural cover for most of Sweden, and any land without it soon becomes covered with pine shoots. There is also a natural sequence from birch to rowan and then pine. Even with clear-felling this pattern exists as the seeds are in the ground.
I have been putting pictures on Photo Bucket for this site and then cut and paste the links provided there. It also allows me to reduce the size of the picture. I think Flickr would work as well. Maybe Google+. I haven't tried these.
I remember when I was young planting trees for forest companies.
I'm just not very good at computers. I will try that in future. Link from photobucket, thanks,YesNo!
What is this a blossom of, North Star?
Apple blossom from my parents' yard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dreamwoven
I thought it might have been white hawthorn blossom.
Nice close-up on that blossom, North Star. The white petals seem smooth and bubbly.
Thanks. Here are two more:Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/374/18...dcfd65ac_c.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/299/19...1e2416ff_c.jpg
It is amazing how much detail one can get with photographs. One might be able to see the flowers better with a photograph than with the eye. Of course one is restricted to what one is focusing on.
Here's a picture I took to record my weight. The goal is 170 pounds and once I actually saw it at 167 pounds, but I didn't think of trying to get some evidence. Here I'm at 171 pounds.
http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/...te%20There.jpg
Since one would be looking at the photograph with the same eyes used to look at the flower, probably not. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Best time to weigh is first thing in the morning, before breakfast and after, um, jettisoning any ballast. See if that does the trick.
I didn't realise Calidore, like YesNo, is also from Chicago. I still have not uploaded my picture of a young pine tree, though I do have a photobucket account. I'll get round to it eventually. Meanwhile I hope to write a couple of book reviews: it is odd how that sub-forum is so little used! Not one published since my post there in November 2014….
I was hoping to assign that extra pound to the ballast account. When I took the picture I thought the scale read 170 pounds, but upon blowing it up, it was 171. My eyes need a bit of fine tuning as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
I use photobucket because I already had an account there (although I rarely use it for anything but staging photos for this site). I think flickr which is what North Star uses is better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dreamwoven
All the photos from my phone are automatically backed up to my Google account. Overall, I like Google best, but there may be better things out there. I've even converted spreadsheets, documents, calendar and email to Google from Microsoft.
Take off your socks. They might weigh half a pound.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
I suppose I should deduct something for the clothes. That and the ballast might get me to 170. If I took off my socks, I would probably have to clean my feet so they wouldn't gross anyone out. There goes another quarter pound.
Maybe also get a haircut (if applicable).
I probably could use a haircut, but otherwise I tried everyone's advice from the ballast to the socks, but it still looked to me like 170 pounds. Then I flipped the phone 180 degrees thinking the perspective might be off and got this picture:
http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/...0socks%202.jpg
My conclusion is that I should get a digital scale.
Here's a flower that was on the side of the country road we were walking along near Green Bay, Wisconsin. I thought the orange made a nice contrast with the green and black of the forest.
http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/...Lilies%202.jpg
Here's a picture of a tree that someone unearthed, roots and all, and then turned upside down and planted canopy first into the ground. Vines are growing up it and there is grass on the soil around the dead roots raised into the sky.
http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/...20Tree%202.jpg
Great picture, YesNo.
The vines looks to me like Rowan.
Thanks, Dreamwoven. It is a mystery to my anyone would do something like that to a tree, but then we do all sorts of things to trees. It sort of reminds me of a sculpture.
Certainly an intriguing picture...
I went on vacation to another island about three months ago, and here's the beach!
http://i.imgur.com/RTLggZh.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/LMvRxD8.jpg
In the second pic you have caught the water quality beautifully.
Yes, the water in the second one stands out nicely against the buildings and vegetation on the land. Perhaps it is just that I am used to seeing landscapes in the other direction, from the land out to the water.
That is an unusual view of water, North Star, especially what looks like the ripples from a pebble dropped into all that redness.
Good day to be a dog in El Sancho's truck.
http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/a...pslzqzonsn.jpg
Text while driving!? Moi? Never!
Take snapshots and cloud-share them, well sure.
That's one way to get the dogs to pose for a picture. I like the idea of taking pictures using a mirror.
btw, are you tooling along the back roads of your new stomping grounds?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sancho
Nope. I took that pic about a mile from my house in Georgia. We did manage to close on the house in Washington just last week, but we're not really moved in yet. We'll get transitioned over the next few months. It was the first short-sale we'd ever done and there were a buncha more hoops to jump through than with a regular house. It took all summer. At one point I went all Southern on them: "Why Ah say, this heyah short-sale has taken longah than Genral Grant's siege of Vicksburg!"Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
At any rate, right now I'm in the uncomfortable position of paying the mortgage, taxes, insurance, and utilities on two places, which are on opposite sides of the country. Anybody wanna buy house in Georgia?