Sassafras Tree and Leaves
When North America was first being settled by Europeans - and for a few centuries - the root of this tree was used to make the first 'Root Beers'. This is occasionally still done today for a cool refreshing drink with a great natural flavour by those in the know and willing to work a little extra for the taste.
Very occasionally one can still find a small craft-style soft drink company that will make and distribute 'Sarsaparilla'
I was checking out my Sarsaparilla comment after I posted this - basically I am correct but for a full description of Sarsaparilla go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_%28soft_drink%29
Falling Pine II
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| 06 June 2013 |
A storm came in with thunder, lightning, rain and wind a few days later and this old guy finished his journey. When thinking about forest growth from quick growing soft wood deciduous and conifer trees to so-called climax forests of mainly hard-wood deciduous trees, the demise of this pine is just part of the larger life of the forest in general. Ce est la vie
Falling Pine
On about the fourth of June I noticed that an old dead pine had lost the battle with gravity, broken at the base, falling into the arms of supporting trees. My chain saw was not running well and more meaningfully my growing number of years was sending me a message that perhaps I should hold off on attempting to complete the felling and clearing of this old tree in case I had to do a sudden reflexive jump for safety when it was severed - so I let it stand for nature to take its course.
Posting Slowdown
Been having a few glitches transferring photos from old computer to new one - so have been doing many more photographs locally rather than from Cape Breton (or Newfoundland and Ireland). And have also found that what seemed like a large photo collection is not so large when they are posted daily for a year and a quarter. But Hey! it's free and sometimes even interesting - so keep browsing and even occasionally give me a feedback,
Thanks for stopping by, Himself!!
Cardinal Babies Growing Fast
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| 24 June 2013 The only hint of a Cardinal is the beak - these guys are filling the nest now - not long after this photo (the following day) they were gone - no sign of a disturbance, just gone - hope they just flew away like young birds do
Northern cardinals breed between
March and September. They usually raise two broods a year, one beginning around
March and the second in late May to July. The second nest is often parasitized
by brown-headed cowbirds. Nests are built by the female in dense tangles of
vines or twigs in shrubs and small trees. The female lays 1 to 5 (usually 3)
white to greenish eggs that average about one inch in length and one-half inch
in diameter. Incubation begins when the last egg is laid, and is performed
solely by the female. The male brings food to the incubating female. The eggs
hatch after 11 to 13 days of incubation. The female broods the chicks for the
first 2 days. Both parents feed the chicks a diet of insects. Both parents also
remove fecal sacs from the nest. The chicks begin leaving the nest 7 to 13
(usually 9 to 10) days after hatching. The parents continue to feed the chicks
for 25 to 56 days after they fledge from the nest. After leaving or being
driven out of their parents' territory, young birds often join flocks of other
juveniles. They may begin breeding the next spring. re/
Halkin and Linville, 1999
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Cardinalis_cardinalis.html
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Where In The Church Is NorvellHimself
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| 23 June 2013 |
Glass Technically Is A Liquid
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| 22 June 2013 ©smck |
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| 22 June 2013 ©smck If these two photos appeal to you at all try setting the bottom one as your desktop background - it is more commanding than the first photo by far |
Baby Cardinals
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| 21 June 2013 Not wishing to disturb the mother with her chicks I took two hurried shots of the babies while she was away looking for food for them - and inadvertently used the wrong setting. I will probably replace these two photos with others another day. This is the same 'nest of eggs' I posted on 09 June as "Cardinal Nest With Eggs. |
India
INDIA
I was just checking in to my blog and noticed that there is a visitor from India. Welcome to my low-key bit of output - I truly hope you find it of interest and that you return again - thanks for browsing, signed 'Himself!'
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A Few Nibbles
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| 17 June 2013 - © smck |
Sweetbay Magnolia - Magnolia virginiana
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| It was raining steadily when this photo was taken |
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| these two single flower photos were taken on a clear day - the blossoms have an incredible fragrance |
Eastern Box Turtle - Terrapene carolina
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| 14 June 2013 ©smck |
Pi
I’ve always been an
absent minded kind of a guy but as I age it seems as if my memory might be
really not working well – so on a whim I decided to memorize the decimal values
of Pi (p) out to 100 decimal
places to check out the old grey matter.
When I completed that task I couldn’t seem to stop wanting to ‘just do
another 50’. Well I pretty well have
that damn transcendental (non-repeating never ending decimal string) out to 300
places now AND I AM NOT GOING TO GO ANY FARTHER!!
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
82148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128
48111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
44288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091
45648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273
. . . . and so on forever
The
dark print numerals after the decimal place above are the first 300 decimal
places, now etched in some manner into my brain – but I keep thinking that
maybe another 100 or so might be OK – say 500 places – a nice round number, eh?
[examining this post this morning and saw that I had inadvertently posted without tidying up - so is it my memory or just a normal mistake, eh?]
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