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Here's another sunset from Maui a couple months ago.
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Thirty-ninth in the series ‘Wild Bonsai’, this tree is 48 inches (1.2m) in height and perhaps 700 years old.
'Wild Bonsai' (see album) is a numbered collection of photos of naturally occurring bristlecones (p. longaeva) generally less than five feet in height (1.5m) and - as nearly as I can estimate - between fifty and five-hundred years old - some much older. Most will have sprouted and survived in tiny cracks and crevices or miniature basins of sand and gravel. Shaped by the elements, flourishing tenaciously in the most minimalist of conditions, their lives are measured not in the millennia of more robust bristlecones, but in centuries...often mere decades.
'Duality', the cover photo for this album, is to me a matriarch of sorts and will remain unnumbered as a small token of a deeply intuitive and unapologetic respect that remains as transcendent and mysterious to me as it may seem odd to others. The essay that accompanies 'Duality' could, in many ways, apply as well to any other tree I may post in this series.
A perspective: Housed in the Tokyo Imperial Palace, the fifth oldest living cultivated bonsai in the world is estimated by ancient documents to be at least 500 years old and is a designated National Treasure of Japan. The exact age of the bonsai remains unknown, as any such attempted determination would be invasive, and contrary to a national reverence and respect for such historical artifacts.
Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes
Ce petit renard est présente en Russie, au Kazakhstan, en Ouzbékistan, au Turkménistan, en Iran, en Afghanistan, au Tadjikistan, au Kyrgyzstan, en Chine et en Mongolie. Il vit dans les steppes, les semi-déserts et les déserts asiatiques. Il s'abrite généralement dans des terriers creusés par d'autres animaux. Dans la nature, les renards corsac sont des animaux nocturnes. Toutefois, en captivité, ils sont assez actifs durant la journée. Les renards corsac du Jardin des Plantes aiment se coucher au soleil, ce qui est appréciable pour les visiteurs.
The Rufous Hummingbirds have arrived! We will have these feisty beauties for Spring and Summer. A male Rufous flying into one of our Hummingbird feeders today. Let the games begin, our Anna's Hummingbirds will have to make adjustments. Both species are very territorial. Photo taken in our backyard in Camas, Washington, today.