in this random rambling thread we post random pictures

[Twister-n-Dos]

 

[KristyHall]

This is why I'm not so freaked out about GMO. It's simply pinpoint specific hybrid work, a more precise, measured version of the breeding of crops and livestock that people have been doing for thousands of years. Just sayin'...

I am concerned because at the current time, so little is known that it will take years to realize the affects of what tampering with the genes may have. In the future it will be more stable, but for now, we are still guinei pigs and I am not willing to be an unwilling test subject for something that is still not fully understood

 

[KristyHall]

 

[KristyHall]

 

[KristyHall]

nformation and photographs via The Earth Story.

These are rainbow eucalyptus trees (Eucalyptus deglupta) and they hail from the Philippine Islands.

The trees get their name from the striking colours observed on their trunks and limbs. Although it may look like someone took a paintbrush to them, these colours are entirely natural. Unlike most trees, the rainbow eucalyptus does not have a thick, cork-like layer of bark on its trunk. The bark is smooth and as it grows it 'exfoliates' layers of spent tissue. This exfoliation technique occurs at different stages and in different zones of the tree.

Once a layer is shed, a new fresh green bark is exposed. As this new bark ages, we can see the tissue change colour to dark green followed by a bluish colour, then to purple and pink-orange and then finally to a brown pigment right before exfoliation occurs.

As this process occurs at different rates and in sporadic areas of the tree, the colours are constantly changing, resulting in unique patterns; a living work of art.

Photos and more information:
http://bit.ly/14lGzr3
http://bit.ly/19A1wzC

 

[Twister-n-Dos]

Salvador Dali at a book signing, taken with a fisheye lens. By Philippe Halsman, 1963

 

[KristyHall]

 

[sgtmom52]

 

[Lothiriel]

That was the best part of the trailer!

 

[Lothiriel]

Seen at the Otsego County Fair this morning:


He was either Grand Champion or Reserve Grand. And he was so freakin' gorgeous!!

This girl was a Grand Champion and just beautiful: