tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88403866027786393552024-03-14T09:23:41.180-07:00Dirt BallsVaried Works and Topics about Art and the EnvironmentPamela Ayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02355517422186193106noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840386602778639355.post-50127170799622658302017-03-25T08:48:00.000-07:002017-03-25T08:48:30.107-07:00Illustrations for Setting up a Blind (for Watching and Photographing Wildlife)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Written and Illustrated by Jim Arnosky </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, New York</td></tr>
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<br />Pamela Ayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02355517422186193106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840386602778639355.post-63561351288458196872011-08-22T12:37:00.000-07:002011-08-22T12:38:14.706-07:00Jellyfish blooming?
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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 307px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8csjht8SlsIyUDvDl-lacmWvxiuWoqQM4F-SShdfJ5ap3KlqvxYIVla2qlxl1hfgfnjMzIvwgcwzHkB_oiiZJKLElwDcsIGIstV5xZbrA8n9_-WPwN0cF_C0JCGRLyZ-b2jYXNEfA5mM/s400/Nature+Notes+june+l.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616711169935474530" border="0" /></a><h3 style="font-weight: normal;" class="productDescriptionSource"><span style="font-size:85%;">Book Description</span></h3> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> From the writer of "The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady", these "Nature Notes" from 1905 feature a selection of Edith Holden's watercolours of birds, flowers and landscapes, together with journal extracts, anecdotes and poems.</span><br /><br /> <style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Edith Blackwell Holden (1871–1920) was a British artist and art teacher, known in her time as an illustrator of children's books. Much influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, she specialized in painting animals and plants. Holden was made famous by the posthumous publication, in 1977, of her Nature Notes for 1906 under the title The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady. She was living in Kineton Green Road, Olton, Solihull in 1905-6 when she recorded the notes. The collection of seasonal observations, poetry, and pictures of birds, plants, and insects—which was never even considered for publication when it was composed—had the nostalgic charm of a vanished world seven decades later. It was a best seller.</p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span>Pamela Ayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02355517422186193106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840386602778639355.post-90860743668567044752011-06-02T08:11:00.000-07:002011-06-10T15:36:17.428-07:00April -May - The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady - Edith Holden<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioVdu8ljGhzVsXpRw6Q0QGBiuVUo6VI7d9DHF5jj-iuaKI2LtLYUF0vSoQUykEAgwGuwEG7NXvnSzpsLntE64EvB0UfrJOivDDn33mqNkBY1d2TtVO9XetrmpE1hjijfZBo2pPYBYj974/s1600/Nature+Notes+April+a.jpeg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 307px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioVdu8ljGhzVsXpRw6Q0QGBiuVUo6VI7d9DHF5jj-iuaKI2LtLYUF0vSoQUykEAgwGuwEG7NXvnSzpsLntE64EvB0UfrJOivDDn33mqNkBY1d2TtVO9XetrmpE1hjijfZBo2pPYBYj974/s400/Nature+Notes+April+a.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616715568526085986" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnAW_T9VbtZQVDPgs18B6rn2GGC_IloJmnYplmbDQVxrN0j1BQcDxcvtCvWY5mdAId_X-uDQTjIiVm5lGBSyPQzOOuVMGPDz6EXfLDOy74zR3OZ3eGTvuJCvvWn6QIJ7oQCETG02EEDOg/s1600/Nature+Notes+April+c.jpeg"><img style="display: block; 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}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Edith Blackwell Holden (1871–1920) was a British artist and art teacher, known in her time as an illustrator of children's books. Much influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, she specialized in painting animals and plants. Holden was made famous by the posthumous publication, in 1977, of her Nature Notes for 1906 under the title The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady. She was living in Kineton Green Road, Olton, Solihull in 1905-6 when she recorded the notes. The collection of seasonal observations, poetry, and pictures of birds, plants, and insects—which was never even considered for publication when it was composed—had the nostalgic charm of a vanished world seven decades later. It was a best seller.</p>Pamela Ayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02355517422186193106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840386602778639355.post-2341436711863133162011-05-10T12:41:00.000-07:002011-06-10T15:34:26.203-07:00Mark Catesby's New World - birds<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzL5KCNRmwFSGqb70weJ9zs2phwA2IM6Cw-iY-vJXFQAcCEr8d2Oh1SsiCP44PFXp6Skyxmntb7rHZHUGSQUNUKIf4AjPuphFTb1azguahC-ATlL_4xTbLz5P0_vltcxO32q6Oy9apBJU/s1600/Quercus_Anpotius_by_Mark_Catesby_1754.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 393px; height: 604px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzL5KCNRmwFSGqb70weJ9zs2phwA2IM6Cw-iY-vJXFQAcCEr8d2Oh1SsiCP44PFXp6Skyxmntb7rHZHUGSQUNUKIf4AjPuphFTb1azguahC-ATlL_4xTbLz5P0_vltcxO32q6Oy9apBJU/s400/Quercus_Anpotius_by_Mark_Catesby_1754.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605178462328598770" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNwXUPn-ZyCVJD_Fb5UjZBmQ6aWTtk1CNCpQK6mqbZ8VQ7lqBjMtd7OsRhW7mcC9sk_k09ySPfVwe6caYFWDM6BfCJqe19DtJ306TSUyfGDSiPTbH07aAfQ3hwrqoyLaQjktBc7usUK6Q/s1600/catcar.jpg"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuQGWlPzOKg7nyjljyr5ukZdFSe4rMGGIwX8TyI6bYRHNNwRrJPOumPw9GVmYVnGeywGcez8khan6ucGudeqvhwpDk6l7_1i6eNQEpoLSUUA0JcjpGAYN2V67ZWYWW9ELUV5s1sI5fCs0/s400/catesby_520.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605175179289534626" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;">All rights reserved by the individual artists.<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Mark-Catesbys-New-World.html">Mark Catesby's New World</a>Pamela Ayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02355517422186193106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840386602778639355.post-25326969672063536052011-05-09T02:36:00.000-07:002011-05-09T02:42:33.426-07:00Mississippi and Ohio Rivers at Cairo, Ill. map<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtPBwoJxO4pbb85ERA9-KlIpe0bCJ7G9OvTW5bb_Smp09uYbGFgXttcHS_hVYfLLHHO-pSLJMV_LmMVDbU3VRVWu8MsnCwchJQjoXtRTb1yOEPD4ZnsBWZB_139JB_vwjmc37z8w7AcMA/s1600/FLOODmap-popup-v2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 277px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtPBwoJxO4pbb85ERA9-KlIpe0bCJ7G9OvTW5bb_Smp09uYbGFgXttcHS_hVYfLLHHO-pSLJMV_LmMVDbU3VRVWu8MsnCwchJQjoXtRTb1yOEPD4ZnsBWZB_139JB_vwjmc37z8w7AcMA/s400/FLOODmap-popup-v2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604648479903808786" border="0" /></a><br /><div class="legend"> <div class="caption"><p>A 1944 map showing the junction of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers at Cairo, Ill., used aerial photos and soil borings to produce a color-coded guide to the historic twists and turns of the Mississippi. It is still used today.<br /></p></div> <p class="credit">Credit: Harold N. Fisk/Mississippi River Commission and the War Dept.</p> </div>http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/08/weekinreview/08flood-slide-show.html<br />http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/weekinreview/08mississippi.htmlPamela Ayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02355517422186193106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840386602778639355.post-18387737678112655602011-05-01T21:15:00.000-07:002011-05-01T21:46:27.274-07:00Logging in MichiganWHITE PINE LOGGING, PART I<br /> <br /> Let's discuss white pine logging in logical fashion. First, how were the trees cut?<br /> Answer: by hand, with cross-cut saws or axes. <br /> <img src="http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/ChoppingTreeTwoMen.jpeg" alt="ChoppingTreeTwoMen.jpeg (134445 bytes)" height="460" width="409" /><p class="MsoNormal" style=""> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold-Identity-H;"> Source: </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Unknown</span><br /> <span style="font-size:100%;"><br /> After the timber cruisers found the best stands of pine, the crew would come in and build a camp, which consisted of a bunkhouse, cook shanty which had a dining room and kitchen, the most important part of camp. There was a blacksmith and a carpenter as well as a granary and barn for the animals. The camp store would have the basic supplies need by the men, such as clothes and tobacco. These buildings were not very well built, as they were often meant to be temporary, to be moved when the trees were gone. Each camp typically had two foremen, about seventy men, twenty teams of horses and seven yoke of oxen. The men came to the camp in late fall or early winter, as logging was a cold weather job. The food was plentiful, if boring. The usual meal would be bread, potatoes, tea, beans and pork. The crews worked from about 4 a.m. until dusk, even eating the noon meal in the woods. The horses and oxen, on the other hand, were very well treated and rarely overworked.<br /> </span><br /> <img src="http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/loggers.jpg" alt="loggers.jpg (82762 bytes)" height="323" width="433" /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold-Identity-H;"> Source: </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Unknown</span><br /> <br /> Evidence of loggers still remains in the woods of early 21st century Michigan, as evidenced by this white pine monolith in the woods near Otsego Lake. For some reason, the tree was "notched" but not felled. Later, <a href="http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/fires.html">fire</a> scorched the stump.<br /> <img src="http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/wpine-partially.jpg" alt="wpine-partially.jpg (138773 bytes)" height="503" width="360" /><br /> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold-Identity-H;"> Source: Photograph by Randy Schaetzl, Professor of Geography - Michigan State University </span> <br /> </p> <p>Next, how were the logs transported to the river? Usually, in winter, the logs were transported via sleds, pulled by horses.<br /> <img src="http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/BigWheel2.jpeg" alt="BigWheel2.jpeg (52277 bytes)" height="349" width="489" /><br /> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold-Identity-H;"> Source: </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Unknown</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /> The logs were far too big and heavy to take from the woods by dragging, so the loggers made ice-covered roads, where the logs could be pulled on sleds.<br /> </span><img src="http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/getting_water_from_lake_for_ice_roads.gif" alt="getting water from lake for ice roads.gif (48512 bytes)" height="204" width="400" /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold-Identity-H;"> Source: </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Unknown</span><br /> <br /> <img src="http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/icesled.gif" alt="icesled.gif (86516 bytes)" height="375" width="512" /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /> <br /> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold-Identity-H;"> Source: </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Unknown</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /> <br /> The loads were often extremely big and contests were held between rival camps to see which could stack a load the highest. The logs were taken to the banks of rivers, where they were piled twenty to thirty feet high, awaiting the spring thaw. When rivers melted, the logs were pushed into the swollen rivers and floated to the mills. At the mills, the logs were sorted in the boom area, each identified by a log mark on the end of the logs. They were then sorted in the boom area, each company’s logs together.<br /> When the winter season was well advanced the log hauling began. The roads were plowed of snow and sprinkled with water; they then froze into smooth, glassy ways. Over these the logs were hauled on sleds from the <em>skidways</em> to the <em>rollways</em>. The cutting went on through the winter season until the trees were all felled, or the spring thaws ruined the roads. By spring the last log was in place, the melting snow flooded the creek, the rollways were "broken out" and the drive was on.</span></p> <p><img src="http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/traverse_city-logging.JPEG" alt="traverse city-logging.JPEG (64710 bytes)" height="231" width="754" /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold-Identity-H;"> Source: </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Unknown</span><br /> The sled tracks had to be iced down, so that they would slide easily. Thus, it was the job of some men to, every day, go to the river, load up on water, and take the water to the logging roads. These roads were then "iced down", so that the next day logging could proceed easily. Below is an image or two of just such an ice sled, filling up with water (see the barrel of water being pulled out of the iced-over river?).</p> <p><img src="http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/logging-R.jpg" height="375" width="599" /> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold-Identity-H;"> Source: </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Unknown</span></p> <p>Nicely iced logging roads allowed lumberjacks to load up and haul tremendously large loads of logs. Images below illustrate this point well.</p> <p><img src="http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/logging-W.jpg" height="528" width="600" /> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold-Identity-H;"> Source: </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Unknown</span></p> <p><a href="http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/loggingcart&logs.gif"><img src="http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/loggingcart_logs_tn.gif" alt="Click for full size" height="255" width="332" /><br /> Click here for full size image (290 kb)</a></p> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold-Identity-H;"> Source: </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Unknown</span><br /> <br /> Be aware that most of the time, the sleds were never loaded this high--it took too much time and was too dangerous. These images were set up and posed, for show. </p> <p><img src="http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/woodc077.jpg" alt="woodc077.jpg (22487 bytes)" height="264" width="352" /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold-Identity-H;"> Source: </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Unknown</span></p> <p><br /> The image below illustrates not only how full these logging sleds could get, but also what intensive logging did to the previously-forested landscape!<br /> <img src="http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/logsleds-1892.jpg" alt="logsleds-1892.jpg (26721 bytes)" height="286" width="504" /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold-Identity-H;"> Source: </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Unknown</span></p> <p><br /> Many people wonder and ask, "How did the loggers ever get the logs up so high onto a sled?" The image below may give you a hint.</p> <p><img src="http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/woodc045.jpg" alt="woodc045.jpg (27311 bytes)" height="218" width="318" /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold-Identity-H;"> Source: </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Unknown</span><br /> </p> <p>The increased lumber production during the final decades of the 19th century was due in part to changes in machinery and techniques which brought greater efficiency to the industry. Throughout the first half of the 19th century lumbering had been a weather-dependent and seasonally limited enterprise. Cutting was done during the winter when timber could be pulled on large sleds, if there was snow, from where the tree had been felled to banking grounds (<em>rollways</em>) along a river.<br /> The river drive was also dependent on a good winter snowfall for it was the spring runoff, which enabled the rivers to carry the huge pine logs to the sawmills at the mouths of the rivers. Log drivers were usually men who had spent the winter in the woods cutting timber. It was their job to control the flow of the river by building and breaking dams and to break up log jams they could not prevent.<br /> Sawmills were most often located at the mouths of the driving rivers. Associations were formed to cooperate in the sorting of logs into a pond or bay where floating "booms" of logs separated the property of one company from that of another. From the booms logs were floated to the mills to be sawed.<br /> Greater mill capacity coupled with a continuing demand for wood also put pressure on the loggers to cut as much as possible each season. A number of small changes improved the efficiency of woods operations somewhat. These included the substitution of the cross-cut saw for the axe in felling timber and the replacement of oxen with horses as sled teams.<br /> </p> <p><small><small>Some of the images and text on this page were taken from various issues of <span style="color:#ff0080;">Michigan History</span> magazine.</small></small></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;">This material has been compiled for educational use only, and may not be reproduced without permission. One copy may be printed for personal use. 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<br />Pamela Ayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02355517422186193106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840386602778639355.post-70470752883858427202011-04-14T11:57:00.000-07:002011-04-14T12:43:04.720-07:00Giant Turtle in Vietnam to be treated<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7clA__JFfGq9TUyUpe-6GRzD0Jbvx6uG8i1Ux-4h28JPV9FV1UWrSZqdK8MX49OY6NpR4__yg7fUigMrNnZI5l0bBK6NsPiW6aZGT4vzqQF-NiqpT2gcoGEoTi0lBTJa-Gpkdhb2El08/s1600/chang-si-turtle-painting-beijing.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 572px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7clA__JFfGq9TUyUpe-6GRzD0Jbvx6uG8i1Ux-4h28JPV9FV1UWrSZqdK8MX49OY6NpR4__yg7fUigMrNnZI5l0bBK6NsPiW6aZGT4vzqQF-NiqpT2gcoGEoTi0lBTJa-Gpkdhb2El08/s400/chang-si-turtle-painting-beijing.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595518900028538802" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" >Chang Si (active between 1156 and 1161), roll painting. Beijing Palace Museum</span><br /></div><br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0E_MpwoI7v4" allowfullscreen="" width="480" frameborder="0" height="390"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Experts in Hanoi have captured a legendary giant turtle for medical treatment, a milestone in a case that has grabbed national attention and cast a spotlight on environmental degradation in Vietnam.<br /><br />Several dozen people, including special forces soldiers, swam and used boats to pull three rings of nets around the rare beast - the size of a car door with a head as big as a human's, from a lake in the heart of the Vietnamese capital.<br /><br />In recent months the turtle has surfaced almost twice as frequently as in previous years, according to state-run media, and what appear to be pink sores have been photographed on its shell, neck and feet, raising alarm.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG3xaKcJHSkhLP1Be46lj6bsJlEiy3pOHInA403IkY50cDXrIYwHERvnA8jgJLty5LB6OF4nlfbK_UxC1oB0mhnvkftLlzjO8vsVcncT8HBC7XbuaS0JKzO_lI0kMbHkO8CBfM9HFxbGo/s1600/r745300_6132920.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 190px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG3xaKcJHSkhLP1Be46lj6bsJlEiy3pOHInA403IkY50cDXrIYwHERvnA8jgJLty5LB6OF4nlfbK_UxC1oB0mhnvkftLlzjO8vsVcncT8HBC7XbuaS0JKzO_lI0kMbHkO8CBfM9HFxbGo/s320/r745300_6132920.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595516541983392834" border="0" /></a><br />Experts believe the turtle, weighing some 200 kilograms, may be suffering the effects of pollution, snaggings by fish hooks, attacks from smaller red ear turtles that have proliferated in the lake, or all three.<br /><br />"Generally, the turtle is fine and stable," turtle expert Ha Dinh Duc, part of the capture operation and a member of a steering committee set up to make decisions about the elderly animal, said after it was ensnared.<br /><br />Thousands of people crowded around the lake to watch.<br /><br />According to Vietnamese legend, a giant turtle in the same lake - some believe even the same animal - reclaimed a magic sword given to King Le Loi in the 15th century that he used to win independence from China's Ming Dynasty.<br /><br />The lake was thereafter named Ho Hoan Kiem, or Lake of the Returned Sword, and Hanoi has been built up around it.<br /><br />Scientists have said they believe the turtle caught on Sunday may be more than 100 years old and a member of the critically endangered Rafetus swinhoei family of turtles, although others have dubbed it an independent sub species.<br /><br />The case has made headlines in the local media for months, sparking some criticism over the state of the environment in fast-developing Vietnam.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFh158bUlH47DzOMqiBO8GzBSgmgjr88UtKrodESb4D-misEEFo4kdxyceJR6LB0H3xtFA6aPGWS7gvqEEiZvXeVYADq5ru9ojnaerJHH88stkUrV3uV54Ssp4SOTYB1APbxits8jVixQ/s1600/vietnam_turtles2002001.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFh158bUlH47DzOMqiBO8GzBSgmgjr88UtKrodESb4D-misEEFo4kdxyceJR6LB0H3xtFA6aPGWS7gvqEEiZvXeVYADq5ru9ojnaerJHH88stkUrV3uV54Ssp4SOTYB1APbxits8jVixQ/s320/vietnam_turtles2002001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595518452254631970" border="0" /></a><br /><br />"We have been too apathetic with regard to the turtle in the past as we rolled along with the speed of industrialisation and modernisation and forgot to protect its habitat," resident Le Tuan posted on the popular news website Vnexpress.vn.<br /><br />Critics also say it took scientists and the government too long to decide how to care for the animal.<br /><br />The reptile tore a hole in a net on March 8 and escaped when workers waded into the algae-green waters of the lake in a first attempt to catch it.<br /><br />On Sunday the turtle appeared to get past two of the nets, but a shirtless swimmer believed to be from special forces grabbed the shell and rode the animal a short while to prevent it from getting past the third net, television footage showed.<br /><br />It was put into a pen on an island in the middle of the lake that has been dubbed its hospital and sanatorium.<br /><br />-Reuters - First posted Mon Apr 4, 2011<br /></div><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/L3q9u66JcmQ" allowfullscreen="" width="640" frameborder="0" height="390"></iframe><span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"><span onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 13);ButtonMouseDown(this);" class="" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_JustifyFull" title="Justify Full"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Justify Full" class="gl_align_full" border="0" /></span></span>Pamela Ayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02355517422186193106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840386602778639355.post-9630840966148883532011-04-08T21:39:00.000-07:002011-04-08T23:10:21.182-07:00National Park Shutdown<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBV2LvvgvlgV5ccd9zySZ76ywJsvsALgZWkL68B5kfELcKVyZquCmJ0eP6RSTpbFrbloXNcOIFDJd7PGIRrtl78d7ioc3Ez7l9hG6d92f2bt7dDm8wkC-F-dSIIbzOu31WXEKrAcZSoyk/s1600/muir_and_roosevelt_in_yosemite11111.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBV2LvvgvlgV5ccd9zySZ76ywJsvsALgZWkL68B5kfELcKVyZquCmJ0eP6RSTpbFrbloXNcOIFDJd7PGIRrtl78d7ioc3Ez7l9hG6d92f2bt7dDm8wkC-F-dSIIbzOu31WXEKrAcZSoyk/s400/muir_and_roosevelt_in_yosemite11111.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593444859467135922" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Pioneers in the National Park Movement<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Today, the national park system includes almost 400 sites, with parks in nearly every state.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">From Yosemite National Park in California to Acadia National Park in Maine, and from Independence Hall to the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site, America's national parks are home to some of our Nation's most beautiful landscapes and richest history. </span><br /><br /><h1 id="watch-headline-title"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="PBS PREVIEWS: NATIONAL PARKS | Extended Preview | PBS">PBS PREVIEWS: NATIONAL PARKS | Extended Preview | PBS </span></span></h1><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mx8WbZIWCSM" allowfullscreen="" width="640" frameborder="0" height="390"></iframe><br /><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Question: What can I do right now?</strong><br /><strong>Answer: </strong>We encourage you to tell your representatives in Congress that you care about our national parks and want them open and funded. If you’re planning a visit to a national park in the near future, let them know how a national park shutdown would affect you. If you were affected by the shutdown in 1995 and 1996, let them know that, too. But most importantly, make sure they know that their constituents care deeply about the national parks. Remember, if a shutdown occurs, it will happen after midnight on Friday, April 8th. It could last hours, days, or weeks.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202.224.3121 and ask to speak to your representative. </strong>Use our answers to the questions below, as well as your personal experience, as talking points for your phone call.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Question: What happens to the communities the parks are located in or near?</strong><br /><strong>Answer</strong>: National park closures in 1995-96 had a devastating impact on the people and businesses that depend on park tourism at parks including Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and Everglades. During the last government shutdown, thousands of people who depended on the parks—employees of the Park Service, concessions operations, and the businesses in neighboring communities—found themselves temporarily out of work and without customers. It cost national park surrounding communities $14 million dollars a day. Every federal dollar invested in our national parks generates $4 in the local economies.</span> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><a id="q2" name="q2"></a>Question: National Park Week is April 16-24; will the parks be open even if the government is shutdown? </strong><br /><strong>Answer</strong>: Unfortunately, they will not be open. Thousands of people, including many from other countries, will be turned away. A government shutdown would jeopardize family vacations and school field trips to places like the Statue of Liberty and Gettysburg. Tourists in Washington D.C. would not be able to go to the top of the Washington Monument or the exhibits at the Lincoln Memorial. The National Park Service has events planned around the country for National Park Week, but these would likely be canceled in the event of a shutdown. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><a id="q3" name="q3"></a>Question: How would shutting down the parks affect our lives?</strong><br /><strong>Answer</strong>: Nine out of every ten Americans have visited a national park, and just last year alone the parks welcomed more than 280 million visitors. Given our current economy, many American families have chosen to spend their family vacations and outings at a national park. If the parks are shut down, hundreds of thousands of Americans planning vacations or family outings will be turned away from enjoying our beautiful national parks. If the shutdown lasted for any amount of time, national parks would lose millions of visitors.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><a id="q4" name="q4"></a>Question: How many national parks are there and how many would be shut down?</strong><br /><strong>Answer</strong>: There are 394 National Park System units in 49 states. Sadly, the visitor centers, campgrounds, research centers and other facilities at all of these sites would generally be closed in the case of a government shutdown. Front gates will be locked and only the most essential park service personnel will be allowed to report to work. During the last shutdown, only one percent of park staff were able to report to work.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><a id="q5" name="q5"></a>Question: Do the parks generate revenue? </strong><br /><strong>Answer</strong>: Yes. A recent study commissioned by the National Parks Conservation Association found that every federal dollar invested in national parks generates at least four dollars of economic value to the public. National parks also support $13.3 billion of local private-sector economic activity and 267,000 private-sector jobs.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><a id="q6" name="q6"></a>Question: How long were the parks closed during the last government shutdown?</strong><br /><strong>Answer</strong>: The parks were closed for a total of 27 days (Nov. 14-19, 1995 and Dec. 16 - Jan. 6, 1996).</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><a id="q7" name="q7"></a>Question: What is the overall economic impact of closing the national parks?</strong><br /><strong>Answer</strong>: The overall economic impact of national park closures would be substantial for some of the businesses that rely on the tourism that national parks draw. For example, during the last government shutdown, Mariposa County, California lost $10,000 per day in tax revenue because Yosemite was closed and 25 percent of adults in the county found themselves temporarily out of work. The total estimated economic loss could be more than $30 million a day. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><a id="q8" name="q8"></a>Question: Is it economically advantageous for our government to invest in national parks? </strong><br /><strong>Answer</strong>: Our national parks are critical to supporting the livelihood of businesses and communities across the country; so we have to do more than just keep them open. We have to keep them adequately funded. During a time of economic hardship when people are looking domestically for their spring and summer travels, we need to adequately fund the places that protect our American heritage and draw tourists from throughout the world. Park rangers and other staff are critical to protecting this unique American heritage and serving the many visitors who look forward to their national park vacations. People from around the world love to visit our national parks because they’re very clearly something America does right. Ronald Reagan called our national parks “the envy of the world,” and the National Parks Second Century Commission noted that “the National Park Service is arguably the most popular agency in the federal government.”</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><a id="q9" name="q9"></a>Question: Are park budgets threatened as a result of this congressional budget impasse?</strong><br /><strong>Answer:</strong> Yes. The current short-term spending measure cut more than $100 million from the budget of the National Park Service. National parks protect our national treasures and generate many private-sector jobs. The NPS budget occupies only 1/13th of one percent of our federal budget. Yet there is a real threat that funding could be cut for park rangers and other staff who protect these special places, serve visitors and ensure their safety. We’re asking people to contact their members of Congress to urge them to both keep national parks open and prevent cuts to their funding.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><a id="q10" name="q10"></a>Question: Wouldn't it be good for parks to have a break from visitation?<br /></strong><strong>Answer:</strong> Closing our national parks would be the wrong thing to do. These national treasures should be open to everyone. People from all over the country and the world plan trips to our national parks every year. Closing our parks would not only deprive visitors of an experience of a lifetime, it would also mean that the men and women charged with protecting our national parks would not be available to do so. The biologists, ecologists, and other resource professionals that are employed by the park service work to rid our parks of invasive species and to protect the threatened and endangered species that call our national parks home. That work will be severely hampered by a government shutdown.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">http://www.npca.org/park_policy/faq-shutdown.html<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.nationalparksociety.com/</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p>Pamela Ayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02355517422186193106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840386602778639355.post-34094047528469848792011-04-05T18:28:00.000-07:002011-04-05T18:30:25.934-07:00live feed - eagles<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="480" height="296" id="utv997474"><param name="flashvars" value="autoplay=false&brand=embed&cid=3064708&v3=1"/><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/><param name="movie" value="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf"/><embed flashvars="autoplay=false&brand=embed&cid=3064708&v3=1" width="480" height="296" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" id="utv997474" name="utv_n_536754" src="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object><br /><a href="http://www.ustream.tv/" style="padding: 2px 0px 4px; 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margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 329px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7lOImEs0r4KnioKeJe8cF6XEB7661j_Ev0Y0z4xJSjqvMjLMJhePpaS6pT1d-3aMEtQE3q_jArVsZeqNPvWxuTGGlswUr7SQgTctw5dL1SnDNG8i3bkVAlUa2ddhVXrYnI7oveK1IBNQ/s400/Botanical-Livres-de-Fleurs-1620-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589736167189844962" border="0" /></a>Pamela Ayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02355517422186193106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840386602778639355.post-66864807022205295302011-03-29T21:56:00.001-07:002011-03-29T21:57:17.088-07:00Botanical – Flore des Seres et Des Jardins de L’Europe – Dendrobium<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1jWF-Mni91bm58bf6eSinPDNbISA7Vqdwk88cPljXM3hjh908cvqPTxkfE2HCvWFXWRhepYqZQaPtCiJJL0kZC9-qVmYHofQ1Gzm70B_7IcPjgcLWYsrXYmkkJ4W3_6Myyvz1W9thi4/s1600/Botanical-Flore-des-Seres-et-Des-Jardins-de-LEurope-Dendrobium.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1jWF-Mni91bm58bf6eSinPDNbISA7Vqdwk88cPljXM3hjh908cvqPTxkfE2HCvWFXWRhepYqZQaPtCiJJL0kZC9-qVmYHofQ1Gzm70B_7IcPjgcLWYsrXYmkkJ4W3_6Myyvz1W9thi4/s400/Botanical-Flore-des-Seres-et-Des-Jardins-de-LEurope-Dendrobium.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589732531263948674" border="0" /></a>Pamela Ayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02355517422186193106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840386602778639355.post-83080058036947921302011-03-29T21:47:00.000-07:002011-03-29T21:49:16.937-07:00Botanical – Flore des Seres et Des Jardins de L’Europe – Datura fastuosa flore pleno (Jimson weed)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBf23dxC5UITspUV92UUVryVAHXGCv4bFe23pKcb3IymwFwn637xPxmTboIQQpCE1SEgFYOCoouVspPIPpa08kfYjkgTjQbYtzEXJ8_-JnH9EgkfQNcHILiZjFZZIPvudWoTZYHjUXyQw/s1600/Botanical-Flore-des-Seres-et-Des-Jardins-de-LEurope-Datura-fastuosa-flore-pleno-Jimson-weed.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBf23dxC5UITspUV92UUVryVAHXGCv4bFe23pKcb3IymwFwn637xPxmTboIQQpCE1SEgFYOCoouVspPIPpa08kfYjkgTjQbYtzEXJ8_-JnH9EgkfQNcHILiZjFZZIPvudWoTZYHjUXyQw/s400/Botanical-Flore-des-Seres-et-Des-Jardins-de-LEurope-Datura-fastuosa-flore-pleno-Jimson-weed.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589730404735792530" border="0" /></a>Pamela Ayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02355517422186193106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840386602778639355.post-84256628315892408602011-03-29T21:39:00.000-07:002011-03-29T21:42:55.018-07:00Botanical – La Flore Des Environs De Paris – (7)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF0AKmdcSUhXP8HLjNLFsIeS65MZdeqmcExqM1yOg3i36XVlL_h2wwg4skJbQ9UrcoEJOe4EUmMfy_xk9ICxDBX8VbX7wLy9jN7gjk0iLaEWfBh7YCi5SK6twsbbIrPUp7Qi6Lk6G6w1Q/s1600/Botanical-La-Flore-Des-Environs-De-Paris-7.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF0AKmdcSUhXP8HLjNLFsIeS65MZdeqmcExqM1yOg3i36XVlL_h2wwg4skJbQ9UrcoEJOe4EUmMfy_xk9ICxDBX8VbX7wLy9jN7gjk0iLaEWfBh7YCi5SK6twsbbIrPUp7Qi6Lk6G6w1Q/s400/Botanical-La-Flore-Des-Environs-De-Paris-7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589728199117640210" border="0" /></a><br />Vintage French Botanical, pre-Revolution. Flore des Environs de Paris, 1776; Bulliard. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">http://vintageprintable.com/wordpress/vintage-printable-botanical-2/botanical-la-flore-des-environs-de-paris-7/</span>Pamela Ayreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02355517422186193106noreply@blogger.com0