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Post by vegasjames on Jun 20, 2024 7:36:23 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Jun 20, 2024 7:48:31 GMT -5
Beauties jamesp - never get enough of seeing so many - your plants are always beautiful Patty
Uh, someone new is on the carnivorous plant scene(including nepenthes by seeds grrr) that grows beauties, I think she lives in the Fl panhandle. They say most US native species(13 of 16) of hymenocallis are native to Florida Patty. Most exist within 100 miles of Tallahassee. Deciphering their differences is a serious challenge even for a pro botanist. There is at least one dwarf that only gets only 8 inches tall. There is a shoal hymenocallis in rivers of Alabama. One can be found within 30 miles south of Atlanta, it grows in dryer ground and robust. www.epicgardening.com/spider-lily/This spider lily was apparently dumped on this dry hillside about 8 years ago. It's deep green color is bleached out. I will dig it up and move it to wetter conditions. Darn thing has seedlings all around it. I do know I found this species on a Flint River floodplain about 30 miles south of Atlanta.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 20, 2024 7:55:14 GMT -5
Those must be some rugged horses vegasjames. I walked up on/surprised a stallion in thick brush guarding his 5-6 ladies by accident at the Rio Grande. His ears were pinned back hard and it appeared he was ready to eliminate me. Most of those cobbles on the ground are agates/jaspers/woods but they are coated with a heavy alkaline(?) coating from lake water making ID impossible. This dude:
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Post by liveoak on Jun 20, 2024 10:25:01 GMT -5
They say most US native species(13 of 16) of hymenocallis are native to Florida Patty. Most exist within 100 miles of Tallahassee. Deciphering their differences is a serious challenge even for a pro botanist. There is at least one dwarf that only gets only 8 inches tall. There is a shoal hymenocallis in rivers of Alabama. One can be found within 30 miles south of Atlanta, it grows in dryer ground and robust. www.epicgardening.com/spider-lily/This spider lily was apparently dumped on this dry hillside about 8 years ago. It's deep green color is bleached out. I will dig it up and move it to wetter conditions. Darn thing has seedlings all around it. I do know I found this species on a Flint River floodplain about 30 miles south of Atlanta. Interesting Jim, I didn't know there were different varities of spider lilies.
This time of year you see them blooming on the rivers.
St Mark's River last week - they do like it wet.
Patty
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Post by Pat on Jun 20, 2024 23:10:30 GMT -5
Very impressive! That will be so nice!
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Post by khara on Jun 20, 2024 23:11:18 GMT -5
Tommy Looks great! When you’re all done, feel free to come on up to my house. I’ve got plenty of similar projects!
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Post by RickB on Jun 21, 2024 20:45:45 GMT -5
Daisy, five months old and playing around in the back yard. Should have brushed the little heathen's ears.
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Post by rockjunquie on Jun 22, 2024 8:49:59 GMT -5
Daisy, five months old and playing around in the back yard. Should have brushed the little heathen's ears. "Little"? She's getting BIG!
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Post by ThomasT on Jun 22, 2024 9:51:08 GMT -5
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Post by rockjunquie on Jun 22, 2024 11:01:09 GMT -5
My daughter has been on cloud 9. She finally had her whole property lined with privacy fence!! So, I sent her some of those fence art. One was a sun and then 2 sets of owls.
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Post by rockjunquie on Jun 22, 2024 11:02:51 GMT -5
jamesp and vegasjames Those horses look so much more healthy than I imagined them being. They are beautiful!
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Post by jamesp on Jun 22, 2024 11:32:38 GMT -5
jamesp and vegasjames Those horses look so much more healthy than I imagined them being. They are beautiful! They would run long distances at a very rapid speed in 3 foot deep water as if the water was not there Tela. Powerful horses. They got frisky in the cooler water. Not sure if their robust bodies was due to their lineage or their physical activities. "healthy as a wild horse"
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Post by parfive on Jun 22, 2024 14:50:58 GMT -5
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Post by miket on Jun 22, 2024 14:52:39 GMT -5
Still blooming after years
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Post by vegasjames on Jun 22, 2024 17:50:24 GMT -5
jamesp and vegasjames Those horses look so much more healthy than I imagined them being. They are beautiful! There is plenty of food and water out there despite what BLM claims.
What really pisses me off is that there are natural springs all around Southern Nevada that could provide the wild horses with plenty of water, but the BLM has a fence around many of just far enough around that the horses cannot reach the water. Then they claim there is not enough water for the horses and round them up by chasing them with helicopters. Under their own law, it is illegal to harass the wild horses, which is what chasing them with a helicopter is. I run across these fenced off springs all the time, and see even more in the satellite images as they are easy to spot. They covert the springs with metal sheeting a couple feet off the ground, then surround the whole spring with a fence just beyond water reach.
Up at Cold Creek, just North of Las Vegas, there used to be a lot of wild horses. The area is a high altitude with lots of vegetation, and a high flow spring that fills a series of ponds they created. So, plenty of food and water for the herds. Yet, BLM cleaned out all the wild horses from the area. Last couple of times I have been up that way I have not seen a single horse, and there used to be maybe 30-40 of them.
Something I think people are overlooking is the fact that the horses help to control the vegetation that can otherwise increase the risk of wildfires. Therefore, the BLM is increasing the risk of destruction to the land.
And unlike the cattle, as the BLM caters to the cattle ranchers, the horses are constantly on the move and thus do not cause serious damage to the land the way cattle grazing does.
It is not just the wild horses they are rounding up, but also the wild burros. And man of these wild horses are ending up in the meat markets.
By the way, the one scrawny horse in my pics, if you look really carefully, her newborn colt is lying right next to her. That is why she is looking so scrawny.
All the herds I have seen around here in Nevada have been very healthy looking.
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Post by vegasjames on Jun 22, 2024 17:58:59 GMT -5
Cool story about Diesel finding a family with the elk
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Post by RickB on Jun 26, 2024 17:58:37 GMT -5
I've been experimenting with some Georgetown flint from Texas. This material works great when it is worked raw as it is fine grained, very smooth and flakes easily. I had never seen or worked a slab of this before or heat treated it either. When I've worked it raw, I was not able to get long and narrow flakes but when I heat treated it that all changed. I was able to get a decent narrow flaking pattern with long thinning flakes that I like. I heat treated it using the normal procedures and kept it around 500 degrees for a few hours then turned off the heat. I did learn a lesson though: Anxious to work some, I pulled three slabs up out of the appx 400 degree hot sand and instantly heard a dreaded sound of small faint crackling pops coming from the rock. Those proved unworkable but the remainder of the batch worked just fine. There was no color change which was what I expected and the rock took on a nice gloss when flaked. Photos of a knife that I made and some raw Georgetown. Here is a link to the "Texas Beyond History" site which has some historical information on Georgetown flint. www.texasbeyondhistory.net/plateaus/nature/images/georgetown.htmlwww.texasbeyondhistory.net/prehistoric/index.html
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Post by ThomasT on Jun 29, 2024 17:28:15 GMT -5
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Post by RickB on Jun 30, 2024 14:41:07 GMT -5
Getting ready for 4th of July week. I'll be driving miss Daisy to the coast tomorrow morning for the next two weeks. Let the festivities begin. the green, green grass of home
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Post by amygdule on Jun 30, 2024 15:09:07 GMT -5
My Pet Rat Willard, June 30, 2024
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