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cohanf

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old guy struggling toward a new path; artist; painting, writing, photography, gardening; plants, bugs, music, film, books, connection (not dating)...
West Central Alberta, Canada

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cohanf, to nature
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@nature Short video of Ruffed Grouse /Bonasa umbellus in full display, posing in the and late afternoon ! I suspect he was displaying because I'd just been mowing: I think the sound of motors sometimes make them think another is drumming in their territory!
I'm trying Spectra as a fediverse platform- let me know how it works for you!
I'm posting to YouTube as well for non-fedi connections or anyone who likes that better for viewing!
https://spectra.video/w/jrxvBcDGQER3WLbZ3ixi8X

cohanf,
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@nature a couple of still photos from the same time as the video in main post.
It was quite funny/cool to watch him standing boldly in the little clearing, wind blowing in his face ruffling his fancy dress, and very slowly strutting and turning before eventually heading back under the trees..

bird roughly the size of a small chicken, with feathers in a complex pattern of brown, grey, white and black. Overall it is well camouflaged in the woodland against fallen leaves etc, though right now he is showing off. His tail is raised and fanned out like a turkey's, showing a fancy pattern like part of a mandala underneath, and thick downy feathers on his backside. Around his neck is a black ruff that gave him his name-- in display the black feathers extend outward and upward framing the head. He is facing away from the wind, and standing in a small shaft of sunlight which shines through his tail feathers, on the forest floor covered in recently fallen leaves and some low grass.

cohanf,
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@jeanoappleseed @nature yes, it is one of the fediverse video hosting platforms- so, again, not mastodon, but working on ActivityPub, so it can interact with other platforms on fediverse. They use a different kind of hosting: peer to peer, which as I understand (which may not be well, so if anyone can add/clarify, please do!) distributes the bandwidth needed when folks view videos across the viewers networks (probably better to search peer to peer than try to make sense of my description..lol)

cohanf,
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@jeanoappleseed @nature re: ruffed grouse- I probably have some crappy vid of them drumming, which is extra cool.. have to get that up one of these days!

cohanf, to nature
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@nature Just a random photo from 02- things are already much more bare and looking very !

cohanf, to plants
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: and (also rain!) for a lot of leaves on the ground, but still colour to be found, especially in the understory and some plants /trees that turn later than others.
Top left Prunus- a plum variety growing well in the last few years-- after its pollinating mate died 🙄 Centre Ontario native Aralia racemosa ripened some berries, though the plants have mostly frozen down, now.
@plants cont---

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Late because of a rough start, the @opensourceseeds tomatoes are slowly getting there. 😋

/cc [ | | | @gardening | | @plants | | | 🍅 ]

cohanf,
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@kas @gardening @plants
@opensourceseeds
I don't usually grow tomatoes for this reason-- this is the stage they are likely to be at at this time of year, and they are likely to be frozen at any time...lol

cohanf, to nature
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@plants
@nature Still lots of green but it's more fun to look at ! There's more of it every day (especially with some frosts).
Plus: there are still for lots of and the year-round are in the yard more with chicks grown up (and kitty gone ☹️ )

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cohanf, to plants
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1/ @plants from the for a sort of - 2 of the shots (2nd n replies) have the window glass and one a bit of frame, as background (the other on a countertop, beside with window light!)
The little was looking colourful- Haworthiopsis now, I haven't been that active in houseplants in recent years, so still not used to the 'new' names which aren't even that new anymore...lol Views backlit and front lit.

Small succulent plant in a plastic pot painted greyish, with stones on the soil surface, sitting on a faux marble countertop in a shaft of sunlight coming from the side, many narrow hard vertical leaves that come to a sharp point, tightly packed around a short invisible stem- they are huddled closely around the inner growing point. Leaves are a dark green, with rows of white raised tubercles across the surfaces. Leaves are tinted reddish, especially farther from the centre, towards the bottom where some are quite red, then orangey, with dying/dead leaves towards bottom progressively paler, then dry shrunken and light tan coloured.

cohanf,
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@plants second for Ornithogalum pyrenaicum has rarely if at all flowered for me in past, this is its third time this year! A plant it is sometimes included in Cactus and Succulent collections, it's also and (in this climate- probably not quite hardy, but I have not tested), but I haven't had enough material to test- prob should have a bigger pot and cushier growing conditions!

cohanf, to nature
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@plants @nature
is and and lowering
turning and slipping away
smoky days, wet days, clear and warm days last week, now we go into a week forecast above average, sunny and dry-- good for farmers harvesting, though chilly most nights. I should get some garden stuff wrapped up, start thinking about cutting firewood for the inevitable drop!
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cohanf, to nature
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@nature @plants 11:19 pm here, just squeaking in for lol
This one is all about +1 weed adjacent and a bonus illustration of the, er.. vegetative cycle?

Top right and bottom centre are from garden/yard, the rest are from a on the Top centre: a fallen poplar leaf on a bit of dried cow poop ..
Bottom centre: sampling of fall colour on dandelion leaves. continued--

cohanf, to nature
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@plants @nature
This week saw days of 10-25C, nights 0 to 10C, some rainy days. The coming week is forecast for low 20sC, nights 2-7C- sounds like typical fall weather! Sunny days should be good for farmers with crops to harvest.
This week is (okay, you know I grew up calling these purple, now I might say lavender or violet!) but we're still in the too!

cohanf,
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@plants @nature
Top left- rebloom on Geranium himalayense with Right- native aster Canadanthus modestus in the with bumblebee Centre, Achillea/Yarrow cultivars/hybrids mainly flower earlier, though there are always a few..there is another notable wave in late summer/early autumn,
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cohanf, to plants
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@plants @gardening @nature
A continued typical seasonal roller coaster here- some days in mid to high 20sC (that's hottish for us), some days in the mid teens, cool nights, and a mix of sun, clouds, rain and smoke! (new normal).
Still lots of when it's warm, though starting to see some sad sluggish , and the numbers of various sorts shift (more in replies).

cohanf, to plants
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@plants @nature I would have had my for 26 done yesterday, but the laptop needed another reset, and haven't yet been able to re-install PhotoscapeX! Photos were already edited and I was able to use the old version Photoscape this morning to put them together, less fancy borders, but that's okay! details in replies

cohanf,
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@lacouvee @plants @nature It's worked well for me, quite a lot of function on the free version. I also keep the older version (still available for download, and doesn't seem to freak out the system to have both) for the clone stamp feature- useful when, for example, your camera sensor is dirty and you have black spots in the sky, ditto for shooting through windshields...lol

cohanf, to nature
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+ a cheat for
I see lots of on living and dead here, and lots of on the ground or fallen wood, but I do not often see regular looking, stemmed mushrooms on standing trees! In fact I think I've only seen it once before, and it was quite near this one- in a stand of Populus balsamifera /Balsam Poplar, in moist/mesic mixed woods on the farm. I forget, for sure, but this may be a dead standing tree. @nature

Same mushroom and site as described in previous photo's alt text, this is a much closer view, showing some texture on the mushroom and close up of the tree bark.

cohanf,
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@jeanoappleseed @nature I haven't seen it much, either, still looks odd! I forget for sure, but think the tree was dead. Both of our native poplars tend to be not super long lived and end up full of fungus (though they do get larger than this one)

cohanf, to plants
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@plants @nature This one's an + !
on Carlina acaulis in the
This is a so those 'petals' aren't, nor are they ray flowers as in many composites (sunflowers, asters, daisies etc)- those white strappy parts are papery bracts, just there to draw attention.The actual flowers are all those tiny things in the centre- --cont-

cohanf,
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@plants @nature though I can't say I've figured this species out, exactly-- I think those all look like pistillate flowers that are open in the outer rings of the central area, I can't tell whether the whitish middle part will be more pistils, or stamens/pollen.. Nor am I sure whether the various plants bear both ovaries and pollen, or just one or the other, or one at a time... I need to watch more closely, or read up..lol

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@nature A stunner for My feeling was that it reminded me of flies, though not the type I usually see

cohanf,
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@friesen5000 @nature possible-- the colours sure look like bee mimicry.. I just don't have good enough references to look it up-- Insects of Alberta website didn't have anything that really matched, I usu don't have the oomph to try bugguide- since it includes all regions, you really have to dig in to see if results are relevant! I'll try to post it also to INat see if anything comes up; I gotseveral shots, but basically all the same, so just that view.

cohanf, to plants
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@nature @plants
Another 'exciting' weekend at work, another late It's definitely now! We had a few 'hot' days this week, plus rain and a warning!
Bonus lots of them this year, contributing to probably our lowest mosquito season ever and a Lophocampa maculata the Spotted Tussock -much flashier at this stage!

sebastian, to plants
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seedlings, 4 months old


not

@plants @gbif @NdeVere

hildebrandtii v crispa,, 4 months old
gigas, 4 months old
crispa,, 4 months old

cohanf,
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@sebastian @plants @gbif @NdeVere
all cool! I've long admired Dorstenia online, never had a chance to grow or see any in person.

cohanf, to plants
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This is from a week ago, but I was so late with it, I just left it for this week- then still didn't have oomph to post it after my gross weekend of work...lol
This set is a reminder that I not only for but for the !(more details in replies- also a couple of photo bombs with cropped photos).

@plants @nature

cohanf, to nature
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About 10 hours late on ! so why not throw in a couple more days: and ! I take lots of photos of the many local fungi/ , but don't have names. Late summer/early fall (just a couple of weeks away, here) is peak season for many sorts. + a couple of pics from the that are hard to fit in colour themed collages- I don't have many in these shades! Details in replies.
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artem, to plants German
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@plants
I got my first #carnivorousplants 👍 🌱 😎

cc: @chillicampari

#plants

cohanf,
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@artem @plants @chillicampari Sweet-- they are still one of the coolest :) I think I tried one long ago, but at the time I did not know they needed winter chill, and it didn't last long term (may have been some other failure on my part, also..lol)

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and for
@plants @nature
Top left and right- a couple of peas- I grow a number of mange-tout /snow peas/sugar peas and soup varieties- several start out as the first and mature to the second. Most of the flowers look like these-- some combination of pink or burgundy with white/lighter. I'd grow these just for the look of the plants-- I have some with deep violet pods also.

LunarAP, to pagan
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Hello,

I am a moon fanatic and an atheopagan.

I'm relatively new to paganism, and I'm actively seeking ideas for personal and group rituals focused on Earth's Moon.

Please check out https://atheopaganism.org/ if you have any questions about Atheopaganism.

#introduction #moon #pagan @pagan #atheopaganism

cohanf,
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@LunarAP @pagan interesting page.

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