Nature Lovers' Thread

[Guest]

Really great shots guys!

Thats some weird lichen/fungus..... Never seen that before....

What's cool is that it is not crispy or dry, but soft and flexible if you run your fingers through it. Hard to get a nice fully crisp picture of it though, since the depth of all the hairs differ a lot

 

[- ezra -]

great stuff guys, keep the pics coming...

ok, this is my crowning achievement when it comes to bee shots, and its also one of the best pics I have ever taken...

 

[skar]

Hello,

great thread, really nice pic's of the wonderfull nature.

Here some Normandie's (france) nature pics: (flowers & butterfly's)

(dont got a good cam a this moment, so the shots are "regular")














I love nature, to go a few hours while smoking a to take time to look around is, to listen the songs which nature offers...a simple pleasure but so much good

+++

 

[pipeline]

That is an excellent capture, ezra! Very difficult! (you must spread some reputation before giving it to ezra again....)

Great shots, skar! Nature's wonder shines through....

 

[pipeline]

Its almost like that fungus/lichen took the code for the structure of roots and used it for the shoots.... cook stuff!

 

[Guest]

great stuff guys, keep the pics coming...

ok, this is my crowning achievement when it comes to bee shots, and its also one of the best pics I have ever taken...

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to - ezra - again.



Great shot.

 

[Tarkus]

Wish I could take credit for it....hell, I have never even seen an Aurora. Can't wait though!!

 

[pipeline]

Saturn is nuts! Its weird that the ring is exactly flat! Looks like a colorful aurora if you could have a solid surface to stand on..... isn't saturn just gas?

Its spring!

 

[Guest]

Nice. I LOVE MOSS. As some of you may know. One day I will achieve an all-moss lawn so I can fucking roll around in it and smoke in it. I wanna get into moss cultivation. Seems pretty damn easy outdoors. Indoors is another thing.

What's extra cool is moss will just freeze or dry up and then with some temps above freezing or some water it'll spring back to life.

I was amazed at how complicated moss reproduction was once I learned about it this year. It's pretty cool, it's explained on the net pretty well in some places. This picture just about sums it up...

 

[daisy jane]

Hmmm, my absolute least favorite part of Biology

Good luck Gelatinous. Keep up the great shots! Same with Pipeline!

 

[pipeline]

Half fungus-half plant! Many of the same structures (names) many fungi have!

 

[Guest]

What's cool is that over time the sprophyte and the gametophyte separated over time. Also, the sporophyte got huge in modern plants, and the gametophyte got microscopic.

First, mosses came, with large gametophytes (green plantlike portion) and small sporophytes (stalk that shoots up and disperses spores). Then ferns came. Their sporophyte (the fern plant) was dominant/large and their gametophyte (a tiny little leaf) was very small, but still, big, at 1" across or so.

Then, other more modern vascular plants like trees and plants evolved in such a way that what we see as a sporophyte is the TREE! And the tree's gametophytes are now microscopic - they're pollen & eggs.

That trend is pretty cool to me. I can't find a picture to illustrate it though.

 

[pipeline]

Yup, I remember that from class..... Never thought of the function of the gametophyte being taken over by stamen>>pollen and pistil>>egg..... Doesn't Bush not believe in evolution?!

 

[Tarkus]

Moss is kickass. So is Travertine. Here is some on the way to Gorman Falls in Colorado Bend State Park.

This is some more of it at Gorman Falls, it was awesome. I would have loved to smoke a joint amongst all the greenery, but it is illegal to disturb it.

Badass little moss cave under the falls. It looked pretty big too, but you would probably ruin it getting in. Sorry about the fuzzyness...


The Plitvice Lakes of Croatia are breathtaking. The best build up of Travertine in perhaps the entire world.

 

[Paddi]

Great pics everyone...keep em commin´

Here´s a few more from me:






















Peace
Paddi

 

[Mrs.Babba]

spring!?!?!?!

spring!?!?!?!

This is what we woke up to this morning!!! ...looks like xmas around here, not 4/20!!! its a crazy crazy world we live in

great pics everyone!!!!






^ This one has JJDubz's name alllll over it!!!! LOL

 

[JJDubz]

I need to get my snowball shield and get me some gloves so these darn trout arnt so slippery....

Fire away Babbs!!!

PS - great pics all

 

[LIMELIGHT]

 

[pipeline]

Nice Lime! Might get a cage or horse fence for the tomatoes.... You've got to stay on top of them if you're going to stake.... Well you dont got to..... Might end up with some muddy tomatoes though....

Already gettin peppers! Should be about time for me to start any day now! Right behind ya!

Great shots guys! Thats weird it snowed Mrs. Babba.... heck its just about May!

 

[Guest]

I'm about to blast this thread with pictures, just warning you all.
1st day with sun in like 2 weeks, so I went and frollicked in the outdoors and biked through the woods. Found some stuff I've never seen before.

Fungus, coating the underneath of a rotting piece of wood.

Closer...

Some really cool moss I've never seen before

Closer...

A lycopod

Closer...

Some kind of eggs under a log sitting on fungus, they're 2mm-3mm diameter I'd say

Closer...

Water reflection

Closeup of a mealworm