Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Interesting: a Twitter bot using live and historical data from a bunch of sensors hooked up to an oak tree, to describe the impact of weather and climate from the tree’s point of view.
@awitnesstree@twitter.com
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tweeting-tree-climate-change
This was in front of an office building that’s currently being remodeled as a hotel. At the time it was still open, but they’d already stopped seriously maintaining the grounds, so seeds from the landscaping trees actually had time to grow.
I managed to get out to the local botanical gardens again for a mild hike / photo walk. Large parts of the grounds are designed to look wild, though the plants are all grouped by category and labeled. Other parts are obviously manicured. I also have photos of a snail hidden in a rosemary bush and a lizard that…wasn’t very hidden!
Flickr Album: South Coast Botanic Garden
#Photography #nature #flowers #garden #lizard #snail #trees #spring
A deserted Parisian street on a gloomy November day, years ago. I stumbled on it again while looking for my photos of Notre Dame from the same trip, and I actually like this shot better than any of the ones I took of the cathedral. The lack of scaffolding probably helped!
Caption from Instagram
Photo on Photog.Social
Lemons after the rain (digital). And the same lemons ~2 months earlier (film).
The potted lemon tree is still small, but it’s mature enough to produce lemons. Of course, at two feet tall, it’s only producing a crop of maybe five lemons a year.
One of the photos I took when we dragged out the old film camera was of this tree, so I keep coming back to it. It’s joined the moon and the distant LA skyline as a standard test subject!
Bottlebrush #trees don’t produce air roots, do they? I’m guessing this is some sort of plant parasite.
Tree down. You can’t see from this angle, but it fell on another tree and knocked that one over too.
Have you ever seen a ring around the sun? Or a pair of bright spots flanking it? Or a rainbow-colored cloud? Just as sunlight reflecting and refracting inside raindrops can create a rainbow, sunlight reflecting off of ice crystals can form fascinating and beautiful halos. It doesn’t even have to be cold at ground level: if the ice crystals are high up in the atmosphere, spread in a thin layer of cirrus cloud, you can still see them… even in places known for warm weather like Los Angeles. I have a whole gallery of halo photos I’ve taken in southern California. You’ll see them more often than you expect. You just have to look up.
It’s a little windy.
Seasonal Wetlands: Summer vs Spring by Kelson Vibber
It finally occurred to me to put together a side-by-side image of the one spot I managed to take photos of on both hikes!
On the right: May in Madrona Marsh, after winter and spring rains filled up the low-lying areas of the preserve.
On the left: Late August in the same spot, after summer had dried up the pools. Despite the drought, and helped along by a couple of freak summer storms, the ground is still holding onto enough moisture that the floor of the vernal pool is covered with low greenery instead of dry grass.
I know, it’s always better to put “before” on the left, and I tried it with that layout, but it ended up looking better this way.
I returned to Madrona Marsh at the end of summer to see how much it had changed since spring.
8 new photos on Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/
Photo taken at: Madrona Marsh Preserve and Nature Center
The last of the seasonal wetlands at Madrona Marsh, a nature preserve surrounded by suburban Torrance, California. These pools spread over the grounds each winter and spring with storm water, and dry out each summer.
And it really is surrounded by the city. Housing tracts on two sides, retail on the third, and a Target on the fourth, just a few dozen yards to the right of this spot.
#marsh #trees #nature #madrona #madronamarsh #torrance #whpmyoasis #water #california #southbay
Photo taken at: Madrona Marsh Preserve and Nature Center
Seasonal wetlands at Madrona Marsh. Winter and spring rains fill up these shallow pools, which become home to birds, frogs, insects and more during spring and summer. By the end of summer, the pools dry up until the next year.
