Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime
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Summer is
Zinnias
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Rain or shine
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Jos, love that bee skipping. I'm somewhat limited to house building pics at the mo but still find joy in watching the bees.
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ChrisW, in reply to
Bee being lazy
I'm impressed too, Jos, even though I have a particular dislike for fennel - to the extent my mind kindly blanks out memory of its name for me, 9 times out of 10 - it's the smell that does it.
But visually - not just biology, you have there a beautiful illustration of Newtonian mechanics in action. And of course that's not a lazy bee, but a busy one optimising its energy efficiency to maximise net return to the hive :-) -
Whereas here's a bee that was hard at work kicking pollen around as well as slurping nectar, still hard to capture for half a mo after half a summer working its wings ragged.
And another illustration of summer - dandelion getting itself caught up in the return phase of indoor-outdoor flow.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
So we've had mosquito on sole of foot, Dandelion (or rather Hawkweed) between toes surely what we need next to really illustrate summer is a foot full of Onehunga weed prickles?
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Trawling through some old pix of summers past I came upon this innocuous little snap.
On looking closer I discovered this chap who I did not know then but I do know now. Weird eh?
The co-incidence, not the chap. -
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
surely what we need next to really illustrate summer is a foot full of Onehunga weed prickles?
Or, a snap of gorse bush that I fell into on NYE and smashed up my knee. Or not, instead I think it will be more bloody flowers!
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Jos,
He was watching you...
Thanks guys.
Funny about your fennel aversion Chris, I love the stuff, we eat the bulbs and dry the seeds. Reminds me of ouzo and pernod, that can't be bad. :)
snakes on a zucchinilove that pink tutu Sofie
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Lilith __, in reply to
On looking closer I discovered this chap who I did not know then but I do know now. Weird eh?
It's just like that scene in Blow-Up!
And doesn't he look suave in that hat. :-)
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
And doesn’t he look suave in that hat. :-)
He wears a hat?
That explains the shape of his head.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
I discovered this chap who I did not know then but I do know now
Looking well chiselled there!
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
zucchini
+1
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
more bloody flowers!
Preferable to gorsey-prickles....
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Or somewhere else
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With bells on.
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ChrisW, in reply to
surely what we need next to really illustrate summer is a foot full of Onehunga weed prickles?
I reckon that's a sign of mid-Spring, at least it's so this far from Onehunga. When the time is right I'll suggest a new Capture thread to Jackson, in Spring We'd Like a Perhaps Foot ;-)
But -
Dandelion (or rather Hawkweed) between toes
you've Sprung me there, or half-sprung. Yes false dandelion, Hypochaeris radicata , commonly known as catsear when not as dandelion falsely. For them mine is a land of plenty, but no Hawkweed (Hieracium spp.) sullies my doorstep.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Awesome pictures, Sofie
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Sacha, in reply to
Beautiful. Any details about where that waka belongs?
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JacksonP, in reply to
Weird eh?
"Where's Wally?"
I win.
;-)
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JacksonP, in reply to
Spring We’d Like a Perhaps Foot
You mean when
it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee?Fine by me.
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ChrisW, in reply to
Well yes, not exactly what I was thinking(!) and perhaps there would be deep suspicion these days of any goot-footed balloonMen whistling in the streets, but Yes.
And to dilute themore bloody flowers!
you could offer prizes for the first photo of Onehunga weed prickle in foot, greatest number of Owpif ...
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BenWilson, in reply to
you could offer prizes for the first photo of Onehunga weed prickle in foot
I'd have to go to the neighbors to get some. One consequence of not cutting the lawn really short as most people seem to do, is that I get no Onehunga weed, and the lawn doesn't die during droughts. It's not good for cricket, admittedly, but to me that's only a minor bonus.
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ChrisW, in reply to
Woot woot! - goot-footed balloonMen - what a goat, what a loon ...
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ChrisW, in reply to
Waka of a different ilk - waka hourua Aotearoa One in Gisborne for Transit of Venus week in June last year - with carved tauihu rather different also.
The monument on the hill in the background is a memorial to those workers of the Kaiti freezing works killed in World War I - the brick building below it the last small remnant of that freezing works, demolished as an earthquake-risk in 1994. So, nice cultural links between past and present and place - the tauihu figures are wearing gumboots.
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