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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-31-2014, 10:36 PM
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to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and thirty miles across. .
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-03-2013, 08:03 AM
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This year has been a banner year to view the Joshua in bloom as the moisture content was perfect and large blooms are now present in most of the Mojave Desert that we have visited. The Joshua Tree has bell-shaped blooms, 1.25 to 1.5 inches large, each with 6 creamy, yellow-green sepals, crowded into 12 to 18 inch, many-branched clusters with an unpleasant odor. The trees bloom mostly in the spring, although not all of them will flower annually. Joshua Trees (and most other yuccas) rely on the female Pronuba Moth for pollination. No other insect or animal visiting the blooms transfers the pollen from one flower to another. In fact, the female Yucca Moth has evolved special organs to collect and distribute the pollen onto the surface of the flower. She lays her eggs in the flowers' ovaries, and when the larvae hatch, they feed on the yucca seeds. Without the moth's pollination, the Joshua Tree could not reproduce, nor could the moth, whose larvae would have no seeds to eat. Although an old Joshua Trees can sprout new plants from its roots, only the seeds produced in pollinated flowers can scatter far enough to establish a new stand. The fruit is elliptical and green-brown and can be seen in photo 4, a photo taken at night to better show the fruit. Six-celled, 2.5 to 4 inches, and somewhat fleshy, it dries and falls soon after maturity in late spring revealing many flat seeds. The last photo is of the Joshua and Yucca plants before bloom.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-22-2012, 12:19 PM
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The FedEx truck arrived a little while ago with a packet of these little posters addressed to Mrs Rupert! She has started putting them on all her outside plants, and so far there isn't a Squirrel in sight! :lol:
[IMG] DSCF6168-800 by Rupert2009, on Flickr[/IMG]
We'll have to see if Otis is still defiant in the morning when he makes his usual rounds to "attend to the care of plants". :hmm:
This morning he showed absolutely no sign of backing down....he's holding his ground!
[IMG] DSCF6156-700 by Rupert2009, on Flickr[/IMG]
[IMG] DSCF6157-800 by Rupert2009, on Flickr[/IMG]
If he is fearful, he sure is a good bluffer! No wonder he is the king of poker on Tuesday nights! :lol:
[IMG] DSCF6163-800 by Rupert2009, on Flickr[/IMG]
Mrs Rupert thanks you Charlie, and will send you a big bowl of Squirrel Helper with lots of meat if these don't keep out Otis and his wayward Army buddies. :lol:
Regards!:)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-21-2012, 02:38 PM
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Don't get mad at squirrels--get even.When they see you bringing this home they will toe the mark and will no longer be a problem. If they don't--- "Bon Appetit".It's a win win situation.:D--charliezap
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
10-01-2011, 03:44 PM
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So our Aussie buddies made it a point from the moment we met there was no such thing as the mythical Canadian Moose. Grant was adamant all the moose spied from the highways were cardboard cut outs. It became the running joke while we were in Banff. Oh the next place is a great place for moose, or the moose come out at night here, or hey was that a moose I saw back in those bushes !! Oh yeah this is prime moose bogs here. I think you get the point. After several days in Banff / Yoho area we then turned our tales to oh Jasper will have moose, even on the drive we were ribbing them. We even visited a place called Moose Meadows!
On the first full day in Jasper I spotted this sign at the Lake we were at and took a snap. I asked Grant if he wanted a picture of him beside it.
JasperMoose-2750 by DaveYDaacon, on Flickr
Well I kid you not about 10 minutes and 4 landscape shutter clicks later and well , I'll let the pictures tell the story.
Mom
JasperMoose-2756 by DaveYDaacon, on Flickr
Calf
JasperMoose-2758 by DaveYDaacon, on Flickr
Mom and Calf together
JasperMoose-2770 by DaveYDaacon, on Flickr
Dad initially hidding in the bushes
JasperMoose-2763 by DaveYDaacon, on Flickr
But as luck would have it, he came out for some fine shots ...
JasperMoose-2795 by DaveYDaacon, on Flickr
JasperMoose-2847 by DaveYDaacon, on Flickr
I have many more ....
Jim and I acted as myth busters and put to rest the mythical Canadian Moose. Here's Grant as we pulled into a roadside stop to have a few "pops" to celebrate our good fortune (doing his best Moose impression)
JasperMoose-2865 by DaveYDaacon, on Flickr
I did say 'pops' as in plural did I not ?
Jasper-2881 by DaveYDaacon, on Flickr
Jasper-2885 by DaveYDaacon, on Flickr
And to put the icing on the cake a young couple came out the woods with about $15,000.00 worth of Nikon gear (a 300 f2.8 and a 500 f4 I think?) when we asked what they were shooting it was basically some sort of wild rodent. When they asked what we were shooting and Grant showed them on his $1500 K5 , they immediately said 'I HATE YOU' to which we all just smiled and cracked another Kokanee :D
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-11-2011, 10:12 PM
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Relaxing by the campfire, viewing natures wonder. I have never seen a lightning steak this long across the sky. Amazing to view and to capture too. Bob
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