What is this plant? ***Solved!***

Anonymous is right: The plant is Pyracantha or Firethorn.

Good knowledge!

Happy Triple Infinity Day 888

Summer Window

In it together

Yesterday I saw a male Robin and a male Cardinal sitting together on a fence rail posturing like they were talking about the missus at home. Or like two family heads conversing about the neighborhood. Or like tribal chiefs considering this year's trade. There is a working relationship with the Robin and the Cardinal--I swear they were considering something. The Cardinal, a highly attractive bird that lives his life monogamously, is the center of it's small territory due to it's habit of staying in one place year around. A Robin's territory is wider spread. The Robin, a spring and summer visitor, knows to take heed to the Cardinal who spends it's entire life in one place. Good show, Robin. That's smart thinking. If the Cardinals and the Robins are in it together, then surely we are too.

Slime Mold: A Life Story--Update!

This IS a slime mold! The end result appears to be called, stemonitis splendens, which I believe is in the sporangia phase. The first phase is called, plasmodium. I don't know what the burgundy phase is called... See the Labels below for additional names of this creature.

This puzzling, oozing thing appeared on a tree stump in my back yard. Enjoy.

Mid-afternoon. The slime was initially thought to be some
kind of wood eating insect eggs.


Next day, early morning. See how the white "eggy"
material is turning burgundy or maroon or some color in
that dark red family?



Still early morn. Burgundy phase complete--and stunning,
actually; the white eggy material grew into several
conglomerate needle-like forms.

Late day. Not very photogenic, but the end result; Brown

hardened forms resembling tiny volcanoes.

Good News! Cheese IS alive in America!

I am mistaken, thank god. Bobolink Dairy Farm in New Jersey raises roaming grass fed cows and the enzymes and bacteria that lives in cheese! The farm and their owners, the Whites, were featured on an episode of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. Jonathon White, co-founder, said that New Jersey was the New France. HeeHee! Check 'em out: http://www.cowsoutside.com/.

Here's a picture of his wife and co-founder Nina (she's a dancer/choreographer) followed by their cheese babies:

American Beer Import

Beer drinkers: Coors, Miller and Budweiser are vying for your money. Actually it's a Belgium Company and a South African company that are willing to pray for your drunkness to make a ton a cash. I just read an article in the newspaper about the micro-brewery, Boulevard Brewing Company, which indicated that Coors (owned by a Canadian Company) is in talks with Miller (said S. African Co.) to become a conglomo-brew in order to make more money than Bud, I mean Stella Artois, hmmmm..... I love the people that love their American beer and eschew the imported beer (said with a Hickish twang). How long can they support that claim? Will people start to buy from their local breweries or at least display some of that ripe American nationalizm and buy only U.S. beer? You are all up to the test Coors, Miller and Budweiser drinkers. It's not so American now.

Brought to you by, yes, a beer snob, but an American beer drinking beer snob--HA!
I do not support Nationalizm. Thank you. Oh, I suggest Sierra Nevada.

Americans kill everything...including cheese

I want to try this cereal

Black holes are cannibals

the resonance cures

obtuse caboose

smithereen

a bean

a jean (we miss you)

where have they gone?

a cartoon

where you put

your hand in the socket

radiating limbs

jagged and air controlled

in and out

the resonance cures

nano waves again

sparking sparking

like dancing billiard balls

bump into you bumped into

you and on and on

until the target is hit

but the energy remains

and never ends

don't forget

constructive and destructive waves

it all makes sense

physics.

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i forgot to buy r.e.m. tickets when they were available in the midwest, so i had to travel to alaska to buy them. i walked around on, i guess, the outskirts of a glacier; some areas were white and some deep cerulean blue. it was neat to see water bubbles being held under the blue part of the ice. simon was in the airport where you buy these tickets, i decided to go in. simon informed me that the tickets were more expensive than the previous midwest price. oh well, it was our fault we missed it. we had to spend the night in alaska so we got a hotel. i was walking from the gas station for some reason when from the shadows i saw an enormous eagle fly out of the snowy ground. the eagle was fierce and every person around me coward in a worship pose, i did the same. the eagle stood before us and was going to do something horrible to us, it wanted what was in my hand so i fed the seeds or something of that size to it. it seems like i knew they were poison...but not enough to kill the eagle, because i end up running from it in the hotel and i can't find my room--i'm running all over this place. room 510, i think. either before or after this episode i was in a room with a tiger running and jumping off the wall.

Denver Zoo Animals !Updated!

Your money's worth

View of microscopic Martian dust particles.

Here ya go America, this is what your tax dollars earned!

Excerpt taken from Dan Whitcomb's article in msnbc.com:

'The Phoenix lander has returned the highest-resolution pictures ever taken of dust and sand on the surface of another planet as it prepares for its primary mission of searching for signs of life on Mars, NASA scientists said on Thursday.
The pictures were taken through an optical microscope and showed particles — some as small as one-tenth the diameter of a human hair — that were collected on a slide when Phoenix touched down on May 25 at the arctic circle of the Red Planet, kicking up dust from the surface.
"We have images showing the diversity of mineralogy on Mars at a scale that is unprecedented in planetary exploration," Michael Hecht of the U.S. space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said at a media briefing.'

Georgetown, CO

Georgetown began as a mining camp in 1859, where miners searched for gold and silver ore. Now it's a really cute spot to walk around, stop in the Rock Shop and have a bite to eat at the Red Ram. (Thanks, Lemonie!)

Jimmy Durante fish