Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Hebe,
To honour the memory of Loo-chi Hu (QSM)
Sad to hear…
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Farmer Green,
Conflation or reduction...
Science is not consensus;
consensus is not sciencebut that only leaves, er, conscience...
and other agreeable thoughts.
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Luke Williamson,
pieces of eights...
I’ll have to have a rethink on how to create
more opportunities for the workers.Mines in the water!
- keeps the munitions lobby happy!
...and Galleys!!
We're renowned for our rowers,
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Luke Williamson,
foils at dawn...
to further mix the metaphor...So, you may cross the line first but if you have received 10 head shots, you might not win the race.
MMP - Mixed Maritime Pursuits?
STV - Several Traded Volleys? -
Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
living on a lean too...
(which ought to include “$36million paid for by NZ taxpayers”)
It's probably there, on the hull, in 12pt black Letraset®, varnished over, kinda like hiding search words...
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Hard News: Friday Music: Bright pastel…, in reply to Nora Leggs,
the perfect thing for the great unwashed...?
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Here’s today’s tui then….
ever present, everywhere,
its tui a.m. and there's no one in the place...
But, but tuimorrow never comes... -
surreal thing...
...not a pollen ’ater. :-)
No, more Apollinaire!
You keep leaving all these words in your pictures for me to see in my head!
;- )and, did I mention the voices?
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to JacksonP,
Pollenesia…
…see new sculptures
All stand for Stamen and The National Anther…
Love that blood red ferrous wheel
against bruised candyfloss pinkBut what’s really going on?
This next bit might get up your nose a bit …A typical anther contains four microsporangia. The microsporangia form sacs or pockets (locules) in the anther. The two separate locules on each side of an anther may fuse into a single locule. Each microsporangium is lined with a nutritive tissue layer called the tapetum and initially contains diploid pollen mother cells. These undergo meiosis to form haploid spores. The spores may remain attached to each other in a tetrad or separate after meiosis. Each microspore then divides mitotically to form an immature microgametophyte called a pollen grain.
The pollen is eventually released when the anther forms openings (dehiscence). These may consist of longitudinal slits, pores, as in the heath family (Ericaceae), or by valves, as in the barberry family (Berberidaceae). In some plants, notably members of Orchidaceae and Asclepiadoideae, the pollen remains in masses called pollinia, which are adapted to attach to particular pollinating agents such as birds or insects. More commonly, mature pollen grains separate and are dispensed by wind or water, pollinating insects, birds or other pollination vectors.
So, go ahead, get up close, smell those flowers…
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to "chris",
Primate of the Month...
oh no! get a grip...
I need fully opposing thumbs
for language & stuff to evolve!;- )