Nature
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Happy Father's Day Bucketeers! Here's a couple of photos I scanned of Mike's bench he built for his office. Miss him.
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I just noticed that one of the sotols out back under the Washitonian palm has another big bloom coming up. It's about head high. It's the rain.
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One thing I miss in Texas is BIG trees like what grow up in Kansas. I have always wanted to see these majestic trees and have never gotten to.
#RCJH GO KU
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 roadtriiiiiiippppppp
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 said in Nature:
One thing I miss in Texas is BIG trees like what grow up in Kansas. I have always wanted to see these majestic trees and have never gotten to.
I can attest that the Redwoods and Giant Sequoias are spectacularly huge, majestic and awe-inspiring.
There is a property a couple blocks from me that has 3 redwoods on it and was recently bought by a developer who razed the classic mid-century house and is squeezing in five rental units. I've been pretty concerned that the development will put one or more at risk... It's really sad because those trees have been there since before Columbus discovered the new world.
I'm generally not a tree-hugger, but trees that are more than 500 years old should be considered national treasures.
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@bskeet I had a few trees about this size (
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@nuleafjhawk Sorry for your loss, sincerely. During the freeze of 2021 I lost 17 really tall palm trees that were behind my garden/solarium. Not to mention the many limbs that came down from my live oaks. It hurts to lose a friend!
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Voyager 1 is getting close to reaching one light DAY after travelling all this time through interstellar space. It boggles the mind what technology from September of 1977 has produced. The distance of Voyager 1 from Earth is currently 25,454,331,948.8 kilometers, equivalent to 170.1516995509 Astronomical Units. Light takes 23h 35m 6.512s to travel from Voyager 1 and arrive to us. I follow it on Twitter and it posts it's location throughout the day. On the flip side, it is such an incredibly small distance to cover over all this time when compared to the distance of neighboring stars. It's simultaneously a major achievement and very humbling. Your phone charger is smarter than the computer on Voyager 1.
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Another picture of Hattie under the bird feeder, apparently eating the shells from the black sunflower seeds in the feeder. The birds do NOT like her being there. Male Cardinals dive bomb her.
