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Post by amygdule on Aug 16, 2021 23:19:21 GMT -5
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Post by mohs on Aug 16, 2021 23:35:45 GMT -5
intriguing dule looks like an ancient fossilized sting ray you boot resting on glass ?
cool from a different perspective heart shape
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Post by amygdule on Aug 16, 2021 23:47:18 GMT -5
Walking across Quartz, Iron and Olivine sand
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 17, 2021 6:01:52 GMT -5
mohs needs a telephoto.
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Post by jamesp on Aug 17, 2021 6:10:57 GMT -5
Cool beans miket. Haven't seen a Horned lizard in a long time. Apparently they feed on ants, ants supply formic acid they need as a nutrient if memory serves.
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Post by RickB on Aug 17, 2021 15:42:56 GMT -5
Was looking through my old photos and have to share this sunset sunrise at Edisto Beach SC from a few years back. Sand dunes and sea oats.
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Post by mohs on Aug 17, 2021 15:46:20 GMT -5
is that image looking east rick ?
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Post by RickB on Aug 17, 2021 16:36:48 GMT -5
mohs Looked at the other photos with it and looks like facing east - sunrise.
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Post by amygdule on Aug 17, 2021 16:50:02 GMT -5
Sunrise pics from the West Coast
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Post by miket on Aug 17, 2021 16:52:28 GMT -5
A thornless, podless honey locust tree that's in our yard, I love this tree. In the 22 or so years that we've lived in our house it's never produced pods- until this year. Apparently if conditions are just right (soil, weather, hormonal changes in the tree) it will produce a few perfect flowers and bear fruit. We don't want the pods all over the yard, it will be interesting to see what happens next year...
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Post by mohs on Aug 17, 2021 17:22:18 GMT -5
really nice photo Mike ! nice blue sky majestic tree looks like a nice day
I waiting for the haze in Phoenix to blow away to get those nice blue sky backgrounds
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Post by miket on Aug 17, 2021 17:54:49 GMT -5
really nice photo Mike ! nice blue sky majestic tree looks like a nice day I waiting for the haze in Phoenix to blow away to get those nice blue sky backgrounds Thanks Ed Lots of smoke in this area, must have gotten lucky last night- I think the wind blew it away for a moment!
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Post by jasoninsd on Aug 17, 2021 18:59:41 GMT -5
really nice photo Mike ! nice blue sky majestic tree looks like a nice day I waiting for the haze in Phoenix to blow away to get those nice blue sky backgrounds Thanks Ed Lots of smoke in this area, must have gotten lucky last night- I think the wind blew it away for a moment! I was just scrolling and saw the pic of the tree and wondered how the heck you guys had "blue" sky! Ours has been "brown" all day long for about a week now! LOL
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Post by jamesp on Aug 18, 2021 0:23:20 GMT -5
reflections lichens beauty beast(robber fly
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 18, 2021 10:17:07 GMT -5
jamesp those pictures are fabulous! Calendar worthy.
Love the butterfly. Who's eating who on that last picture?
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Post by mohs on Aug 18, 2021 10:26:45 GMT -5
lime dragon lichen boo blue butter aerial refueling very !!
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Post by jamesp on Aug 18, 2021 10:51:01 GMT -5
jamesp those pictures are fabulous! Calendar worthy. Love the butterfly. Who's eating who on that last picture?
Thanks, but that Panasonic can be blamed for those photos. An unusually large robber fly apparently fast and strong enough to catch and grip a paper hornet. This must be the undesirable type of robber fly that feeds on the beneficials like wasps, bees, mud dobbers, hornets and dragonflies. Most are smaller and feed on pest insects. They have a painful bite. I do find them in the belly of the carnivorous plants, apparently he is not invincible Robin !
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Post by jamesp on Aug 18, 2021 11:02:26 GMT -5
lime dragon lichen boo blue butter aerial refueling very !! I was thinking about our moss discussion Ed. Not sure why this bamboo gets lichens, it is shaded and growing along a creek... The refueler is licking the sweet elixir off of the carnivorous plant entrance. Said elixir attracts insects and renders them intoxicated as if peyote. Bees and butterflies continually licking the elixers, some get too inebriated and fall into the vat of acid below only to be slowly dissolved alive. Things of nightmares...
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Post by mohs on Aug 18, 2021 11:22:21 GMT -5
Right on James
plant alkaloids and insect predator/Pollinators is complex symbiosis
interesting read I’m currently perusing is
“This Is Your Mind On Plants" by Michael Pollan
Opium Caffeine Mescaline
Worth a perusal
Yep got it that I only zoom Not a telephoto rig & Lichen might be a better description on those Super rocks Thanks!
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Post by mohs on Aug 18, 2021 12:09:38 GMT -5
Oyeah Stop the Car roadside rocks usually it pretty busy & I had only time to Canon Elf highly morphed striated hard To be so lucky to be on that chain gang Very calming indeed This is verde granitoid I’m especially fond of must have experienced local contact pressure/igneous zone Half & half
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