SSGrower
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Hummers are back, thanks for sending em my way.
Beautiful
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BudmanTX
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your welcome....
i saw 2 different ones today too......one even came up to me and said "hi"....well not in those words ......but you know what i mean....
SSGrower
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I have heard them yet to confirm by sight.
pabloesqobar
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BudmanTX
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good to see ya around @pabloesqobar 
pabloesqobar
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I make occasional appearances in between negotiated time-outs.good to see ya around @pabloesqobar
LOL adhesion contract
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
That might be a sticking point
DCcan
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The ice is gone, but Winter took out the stepping stones.
I'm not getting wet or drowning in kelp,that's as low as it gets. They got an 8' dinghy, but I'll wait for the cable car to be up and the volunteers get it all tidy...rescheduled this job for 80 deg F and no fog.
I'm not getting wet or drowning in kelp,that's as low as it gets. They got an 8' dinghy, but I'll wait for the cable car to be up and the volunteers get it all tidy...rescheduled this job for 80 deg F and no fog.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I was in Hawai'i in '96. I took home an "Arundina" orchid (Hawaiian bamboo orchid). It didn't make it more than a coupla months.
Now I have a trio of essentially bulletproof Phalaenopsis.
lokie
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Fancy flowers don't have a chance around me. Not all of them die. I have 1 orchid that is still alive. It has not bloomed
in near 3 years, and grew only 1 new leaf in 4.
Weeds? I have grown a few of those.
DCcan
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Never appreciated them till I saw the US Botanic Garden in DC, they were highlighting them for a year, amazing.
They have a mint exhibit (coleus, sage, rosemary, mint family (Lamiaceae) going on now. It's right in front of the Capital, great place to have a lunch and a puff in DC,the outdoor garden.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Back when I was an adolescent in DC, the Botanical Gardens were a favorite haunt. I vividly remember Cattleya orchids surrounding the entrance from the vestibule. They smelled intensely and wonderfully of bubble gum. The good kind, Fleer or Dubble Bubble.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I found a lovely collection of extreme close-ups of butterfly and moth wings. They call them macro photographs, but they are what I learned to think of as photomicrographs.
The two b&w SEM pics are at a known scale of 200x and 1000x respectively.
The brilliant color of butterfly wings is often enhanced by iridescence, a diffraction phenomenon created by repeating layers of semi-reflective material. The more magnified pics show some of these structures.
~edit~ I suspect some of these pics have been colorized. The structures shown at 2000+x are waay to sharp to be optical photographs. I believe the colors were processed in, but at that scale they should be blurrier simply because the wavelength would be 1 to 3 mm (to scale, so to speak).
The two b&w SEM pics are at a known scale of 200x and 1000x respectively.
The brilliant color of butterfly wings is often enhanced by iridescence, a diffraction phenomenon created by repeating layers of semi-reflective material. The more magnified pics show some of these structures.
~edit~ I suspect some of these pics have been colorized. The structures shown at 2000+x are waay to sharp to be optical photographs. I believe the colors were processed in, but at that scale they should be blurrier simply because the wavelength would be 1 to 3 mm (to scale, so to speak).
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I had one of these when I was a kid. It was in an acrylic display box. I set it in my bedroom where from my bed I could see it easily. It was the most glorious saturated iridescent blue. Species is Morpho menelaus, and mine was a solid 5 inches in wingspan.
I don't see an abdomen - probably beneath the hind of wings?I had one of these when I was a kid. It was in an acrylic display box. I set it in my bedroom where from my bed I could see it easily. It was the most glorious saturated iridescent blue. Species is Morpho menelaus, and mine was a solid 5 inches in wingspan.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I think so