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Wednesday Reads: Nature Made

Posted: July 15, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: just because |12 Comments

Neowise photo by Ian Lopez

Good afternoon, I can’t tell you how many times I have tried to start this post. From last night to this morning, I would get myself in full search mode, looking for links…or in this case, searching for beautiful pictures of flowers, comets, mineral formations basically anything of natural cosmic or earthly creation. (That being created by God, as she has truly placed so many beauties in our world.) My intention being a post of lovely “things” to disappear into…as the news is horrors.

So it started off well:

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A three-mile wide comet named "NEOWISE" has been lighting up skies across the country, including over National Heritage Areas (NHAs) like the Northern Plains National Heritage Area in central North Dakota. Heritage areas (@nationalheritageareas_nps) are designated by Congress as places where natural, cultural, and historic resources combine to form a cohesive, nationally important landscape. Through their resources NHAs tell nationally important stories that celebrate our nation's diverse heritage.⁣ ⁣ Image: Comet Neowise and a CCC/WPA Prairie Rustic shelter at Double Ditch State Historic Site (North Dakota), one of the many key resources of the Northern Plains National Heritage Area along the Missouri River. Photograph from July 12, 2020, taken in the very early morning hours by Jonathan Campbell.⁣ ⁣ #nightskies #comet #neowise #northdakota #nationalheritage ⁣@nasa

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Our Sprout had quite a night! Sprout reached peak stink during the wee hours and the fabulous fumes are still lingering in the Tropical Terrace. Sprout’s velvety maroon spathe is absolutely stunning today. We are sold out for today! But we do expect the bloom to last for about another 24 hours, so get your tickets and reservations for tomorrow, 7/15. We don’t know if its spadix will deflate between now and then, but we do know Sprout will still be an amazing sight to behold! . We’d love to see your Sprout smelfies, stories, haiku, and stinky reflections. Tag us with #SproutStinks. . #LongwoodGardens #OurGardensYourHome #TitanArum #amorphophallus #CorpsePlant #CorpseFlower #BungaBangkai #AmorphophallusTitanum #aroids . Photos by Hank Davis.

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Operation “Pollinate Sprout” was a success. Once Sprout reached peak stink during the wee hours of the morning, Senior Horticulturist Joyce Rondinella cut a small window in Sprout’s spathe to access the flowers at its base. She brushed them with pollen collected from two titan arum friends Spike and Velvet Queen from @ChicagoBotanic. If all goes well, Sprout will sprout bright orange berries in about nine months! Sound familiar? Fingers crossed. . #LogwoodGardens #OurGardensYourHome #TitanArum #amorphophallus #CorpsePlant #CorpseFlower #BungaBangkai #AmorphophallusTitanum #aroids #FeedMeSeymour . Photos by Becca Mathias. . Photo 1: Sprout’s maroon spathe is meant to imitate the smell and color of rotting meat to attract pollinators. Photo 2: Sprout in its full blooming glory after a very funky night. Photo 3: A small window was cut in Sprout’s spathe to access the flowers for pollination. Photo 4: The female flowers are the darker spots below the male flowers that appear as white dots above.

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Only to be blocked by a recurrence of an orange turd-faced asshole.

I apologize for the remaining post, but some things must be pointed out.

Meanwhile…

Read the thread above, some infuriating comments there. Outrageous…that judge needs to go. Everyone involved in the situation should be fired.

Just a few more:

This is an open thread.

12 Comments on “Wednesday Reads: Nature Made”

  1. Minkoff Minx says:
    July 15, 2020 at 11:07 am

    I left out the dump on Fauci…it is too disgusting.

  2. Pat Johnson says:
    July 15, 2020 at 1:05 pm

    Wow! Those nature pics are spectacular!

    Great post, jj! You deserve a round of virtual applause!

  3. NW Luna says:
    July 15, 2020 at 1:45 pm

    Beautiful nature pictures! Thank you!

    • Enheduanna says:
      July 15, 2020 at 2:52 pm

      That sprout thing is out of this world!

      • quixote says:
        July 15, 2020 at 3:11 pm

        The smell truly is more like shit and rotting corpses than real shit and corpses! Only lasts a few hours though. The “sprout” part on a plant that’s fullgrown can be six feet tall. Can you imagine being the first human to come across that thing in the jungle?

        • NW Luna says:
          July 15, 2020 at 3:23 pm

          Hah, I was just going to post that it’s also called the “corpse plant.”

          • quixote says:
            July 15, 2020 at 6:39 pm

            There are smaller relatives who smell very similar. A botanist friend, who was renting a room in Hawaii, had one as a houseplant. It got overpowering when it bloomed (that species stinks for days, not hours) so he put it in the garden for the time being, not far from the garbage cans as it happened. Comes home the next day and the landlady is cleaning the cans with bleach and hoses and mops and everything. “Don’t know what it is,” she says, “but the cans sure stink!”

            I don’t know if he ever got up the courage to tell her what the real problem was.

          • NW Luna says:
            July 15, 2020 at 7:23 pm

            That is one uh, enthusiastic botanist to keep that as a houseplant!

          • quixote says:
            July 15, 2020 at 10:55 pm

            They don’t bloom very often, and like the giant one, they have amazing-looking leaves

        • NW Luna says:
          July 16, 2020 at 12:09 am

          The Univ of Wash Conservatory has a full-sized one, and IIRC when it blooms they have to take off part of the greenhouse roof to give it enough headroom. Probably helps with the smell, too!

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