Posts by ChrisW
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
will you catch it the moment it drops?
Heh! My surveillance technology is not up to much, but I do have an outside light, and lo, the hand is empty. And I have a rarely used flash for camera, clearly identifying the unheld walnut gently tossed in petanque style. Perhaps associated with another brief millimetre rain shower before sunset and subsequent wind.
Like pitter-patter for rain, 'petanque' is just right for falling walnuts - it's the sound of one dropping from high in the tree, hitting a branch on the way to the ground.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to ChrisW,
Autumn is like a perhaps hand
which comes surprisingly
predictably out of a green
globe offering
me a nut
so brown
and promising
the kernel of truth perhaps
within the hand is holding
the universe in a nutshell.(with apologies to e.e. cummings and thanks to JacksonP)
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to ChrisW,
Walnut fruits generally form in threes - two at least of these ones getting ready to drop clean nuts.
Extree! Extree! Read all about it!
Update on the walnut yield – one of these three has given forth its walnut to drop on the smooth mown grass below.And update on the single walnut today –
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Rain drops beyond measure this afternoon, briefly recordable on part of the art installation on my doorstep.
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Shades more obvious in the late afternoon light.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Jos,
Very apt now is our Mr Brown!
Just as long as we're clear no reference intended to our host Mr Brown ...
And, being a little sensitive on such things myself, I'm confident the commemorated Mr Brown died without known offspring and hence descendants today.Here's this morning's view from my seat through the kitchen window - slightly wider version than that almost 6 months ago a few days after the spring equinox posted on the Spring thread. Now a few days before the autumn equinox, I wouldn't say 50 shades of green has changed to ditto brown, but the poplar forest just touching the skyline is starting to yellow. No sign of rain in those clouds.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
And a lovely drop it is too, Nora. It seems gravid with many more drops nested within. I was not quick enough to capture the one or two drops (almost numero-literally truly) that fell at my place yesterday.
All I have is a little summer dry to offer....Small portion of a restored 1869 headstone, relaid nearly prone on the grave of a man named Brown, his name outlined in what had been luxuriant green moss after the wet of January to August, now ...
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Bob Harvey on RNZ National just few mins ago (yet pre-recorded) saying "Nature is the terrorism of today, and it's coming to Auckland".
EQ now reviewed, mag 3.9, 6 km deep under Motutapu Island. -
Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Jos,
a mouse/rat as well
By the looks of it a young Norway rat, the usual town rat. "Mouse/rat" perhaps an indicator of non-technical interest in the subject, but DOC's rodent identification guide is worth checking out if only for the marvellous cartoon guide to the characteristics of the Norway rat, ship rat, kiore/Pacific rat and mouse, in the first few pages of the pdf.
And those flies are certainly photogenic! More aesthetic substrate for them than I've ever managed too.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Gareth,
Is that a grafted nut?
Not grafted. And on the basis that the tree was planted in 1898±1, I presume it's of shall we say, bog standard 'English' variety. Nothing's particularly easy with it, but all very satisfying.
