strawberries in spring, rosehips in fall, pumpkins in between
Date(s): 2006. Photos by aymar. 1 - 22 of 22 Total. 2483 Visits.
1 an overfertilized field of strawberries
2 strawberry speed racing end of season wrap up
3 service structure Service structure for migratory strawberry harvesters (Pisa model). Right behind, a narrow field of winter wheat, about combined harvest width.
4 Duchesnea indica mock strawberries, the sometimes invasive strawberry doppelganger
5 Duchesnea indica
6 Duchesnea indica
7 pumpkin patch
8 pumpkin patch with shadowcasting Lambsquater Goosefoot
9 pumpkin patch
10 Halloween is over
11 a heap of potsherds
12 Rosa sp
The original Indo-European word for rose was very roughly 'wrdho'. It is still preserved in 'rhodo-dendron' (no cladistic endorsement, Erica family, just an appropriate flower color. Not every primerose is in fact a rose, than as now.) Likewise unrelated: Guelder Rose, a popular alias for the European Cranberry Bush (Viburnum group). Even more exotic: the Rose of Jericho.
I cannot explain the 's' in 'rose'. This is unrelated with the better documented (would not go so far as to call them tranparent) Avestic transformation laws which have transmogrified the original 'wrdho' word in such better know airline ammenities as 'jul-ep' (literally 'rose water') and 'Van Gül' (='Rose Lake'). Some conjectural fly overs by Hava Yollari. [The cropping up of Avestan and Arabic terms in Turkish is more the rule than the exception. Somewhat akin to Norman expressions in English. Life style and literature. Bicycle problems can be usually described in French.] Does all not help with 'rose'...
13 Rosa canina
The roots of dogrose were once regarded as an antidote against rabies. Obviously spurious in any Pasteur sense. As for the particular dovetailing, most likely just another 'similis similibus curatur' assumption. One barbed wire deserves another. [The fallacity should be obvious. The 'thorns' in roses are just superficially anchored prickles (outgrowth of the epidermal stem layer), in no way comparable to Newel post affairs like dog teeth. (I would have regarded the long thorns of hawthorns as abortive stem growth, true thorns that is, but the textbook classifies them as spines, close to prickles that is.)]
14 Rosa canina
Rosehips, the building permits of November. Will only make sense if you procure your form sheets from the right kind of supply office. As an aside, strange people those Japanese, honoring municipal building permits so much that they incooperate them in their peacetime flag. Well, who knows, maybe they are right. (Do not claim that the lyrics are Troubadour grade.)
15 Rosa canina Rosehips will only get their full flavor after the first night frosts. [Cold nipping makes for good hipping or any such some doggerel.] Some discolored Ground Ivy pinch hits as background.
16 Rosa canina, bedeguar 'Bedeguar', either a printed travel guide (Baedeker) or the Avestic word for a gall infected rosehip (literally 'wind-rose'). Looks more like a beachball infested chestnut. The second part is still fairly close to the 'wrdho' word if you throw in a bit Guillaume magic (from 'war' time footing to 'garrison' duty) and drop the Mr.Who part. The bedeguar is fairly well padded and in no way a hollow sphere as the wind word might imply.
17 Rosa canina, bedeguar
18 Rosa canina, bedeguar No evergreen mistletoe magic. Just a rich source of vitamin C.
19 dog walking for the greater common good
The poster tries to increase public sensitivity. It has no legal force despite the graphic symbolism. I do not believe that you can separate dog walking from pooping (everywhere but here). Leashing bye-laws are likewise rarely observed.
Status quo: Sensitive crops will be protected by electrified dwarf fences during the critical harvest period. Probably better than nothing but hardly foolproof. I know of a local case (producer side) of hydatid tapeworm. (The blood dimmed tide of liver operations, where the cysts in this hosting situation usually lodge - gruesome truth, any internal organ well supplied with blood will do). Most farmers, sheep holders or not, will also keep dogs.
20 Taraxacum the enduring dandelion
21 Rainbird Would classify the moving part as a verge mechanism, tower clocks in the pre-Galileo time frame. The Engelhard patent, use of a verge mechanism for irrigation purposes, is somewhat more recent (1933). The 'dial hand' (nozzle) moves only when the loaded arm impacts the water spout. 'Break momentum' or something of the nature. Corollary, the 'toc' sound. The ghost of superceded cuckoos. (I am aware of a somewhat variant Hopi-Anastasi legend.) For the shake of correctness: Friction threshold prevents a continuous balancing of nozzle and verge. (The angular momentum of the earth constitutes a large enough 'sink'.)
A more primitive kind of self acting sprinkler would be the double 'L' model. Simple kickback set up (directed charge in updated parlance). Some old Bark comics. Primordial tree hammock setting. Without deliberate criticism: Conservation of energy theorems are elegant but sometimes you also want to see how the...
