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Post by hwinpp on Mar 1, 2010 8:06:34 GMT
Oil palm? This could be a good game, extrapolating from a tiny detail
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Post by imec on Mar 13, 2010 19:56:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2010 20:03:51 GMT
Wow. really pretty, imec.
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Post by spindrift on Mar 13, 2010 21:16:04 GMT
Very lovely pictures.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2010 21:35:02 GMT
Beautiful, but how about hunting up some hair ice?
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Post by Jazz on Mar 13, 2010 22:04:17 GMT
Imec, your winter photos are clean and beautiful. They remind me of my childhood and growing up in the north.
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Post by imec on Mar 13, 2010 22:50:20 GMT
Beautiful, but how about hunting up some hair ice? Too late I'm afraid - check out my post is The weather where you are.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 14, 2010 17:09:45 GMT
Phenomenal, really, really beautiful, Imec. I thought you'd never top the technical aspect of your snowflake pictures, but these are really something. Please mat and frame #3 and 6 and send them to me immediately.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 15, 2010 17:08:06 GMT
I know! I know! Call on me! Oil palm? This could be a good game, extrapolating from a tiny detail Is it too late to call on bixa? (HP, palm is right, oil is not)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2010 22:08:25 GMT
What kind of palm,there are thousands of species...is it a date palm perhaps?
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 15, 2010 22:23:42 GMT
This means I can put my hand down now, Kimby? ;D
I would say it's a sabal palmetto, a.k.a. cabbage palm.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 16, 2010 0:42:13 GMT
bixa wins!
They are all over the lot at our house on Sanibel Island, Florida. The only native palm that grows there, I believe.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 2, 2010 19:05:10 GMT
Don't know if this qualifies as a "detail" or not, but any guesses?
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 3, 2010 2:33:29 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2010 10:10:22 GMT
Bixa,I adore this picture and want! Jeez!! It is beautiful. It is detailed that's for sure. WOW!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2010 10:27:00 GMT
Looks like a paper wasp nest to me.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2010 10:32:41 GMT
I'm pretty sure that is what it is. We have them all over here. They pack a mean sting.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 3, 2010 16:14:47 GMT
There are several pieces of an old nest out in the yard. I don't know how they got there. The piece in the picture is only @ 3 inches high & wide.
I thought all the colors in that photo -- concrete, volcanic stone, baked native clay, and the papery nest -- were interesting together.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 10, 2010 20:19:00 GMT
Two sides of the same item:
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2010 22:07:43 GMT
Oooh...nice details, Kimby. I'm wondering now what they are. Are the photos taken from a height?
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 10, 2010 22:09:55 GMT
Is that a large flake of tree bark?
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Post by Kimby on Apr 10, 2010 22:13:14 GMT
bixa wins! It was a large flake of ponderosa pine bark (2 x 3 inches) that fell off the tree.
It was taken with macro setting on my camera, then cropped until no edges were visible.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 16, 2010 14:47:40 GMT
Oooh...nice details, Kimby. I'm wondering now what they are. Are the photos taken from a height? Just noticed the similarity between this photo: and this one I scanned for my (somewhat overdue) Australia trip report: img219.imageshack.us/img219/6996/ozrock.jpgI can see why deyana asked about the height from which the photo was taken...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2010 17:52:22 GMT
Very similar. That picture also could be one of a fossilized fish.
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Post by Kimby on May 22, 2010 23:36:36 GMT
Just to bring this thread back to people's attention....
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Post by Kimby on May 22, 2010 23:51:50 GMT
A compass rose on a pedestrian walkway. "A River Runs Through It" is sort of a slogan for our town, which was the setting for a book of the same name by Norman Maclean.
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Post by Kimby on May 25, 2010 1:06:46 GMT
Know what this is?
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Post by bixaorellana on May 25, 2010 5:18:48 GMT
It's a little rock pool with some kind of pygmy weed growing in it, isn't it?
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Post by Kimby on May 25, 2010 17:31:39 GMT
Sort of. It is an entirely natural phenomenon called a "mill hole" in which rocks in a stream get swirled around by current running over bedrock, grinding out their own resting place. In this case, the riverbed is now above waterlevel, except at flood stage, so the bedrock has holes with rainwater and pond weeds - and of course the rock that created the hole - inside.
I wonder how many years/eons it took for this rock to carve out the hollow it sits in?
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Post by Kimby on May 25, 2010 17:32:39 GMT
(I thought sure someone would say it's the eye of a sculpted whale!)
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