Or am I the only one who geeks out over stuff like this?
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Showing posts with label geeking out. Show all posts
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Geology Time with Commander Geode
Okay, not really... I just thought that subject heading was funny. I know not as many people are jazzed about Geology as I am, so I'm not going to get all nerdy on y'all. I just wanted to show you this neat rock I found...
If you click on it, it gets larger so you can better see how weird it is. I believe it's some kind of geode with sparkly crystal beads - like grains of rice or tiny balls of pasta - all over the face. Pretty cool, huh?
Or am I the only one who geeks out over stuff like this?
Or am I the only one who geeks out over stuff like this?
Monday, December 16, 2013
I'm Too Turkey
"I'm a turkey. You know what I mean...
And I do my little turn on the catwalk...
I shake my little tush on the catwalk.
I'm too turkey for this song...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
The Tree Project
So here I am in a new environment. Six months now. And we're still kind of settling in. The things we could do, we did - like the landscaping project. Other things - like new flooring - will have to wait until next year. It all depends on time and fundage. One project that didn't have to wait for fundage is something I'm calling The Tree Project.
When we first got to this heavily treed acre and a quarter, we had a good idea what some of these trees are. Black walnut trees are pretty hard to mistake for anything else - especially when they start dropping smaller tennis ball looking fruits all over the place. And an oak is an oak is an oak.
Except when it isn't.
We have at least 4 different varieties of oak in the yard. And a couple different kinds of hickory. So the first thing I did was pick up a copy of The Audobon Society's Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region. Which helped us determine that the big oak in front is a white oak and the hickory tree just outside the sunroom is a mockernut hickory.
Using the internet helped, too. Without online resources, I wouldn't have known that was a redbud tree in the front yard or that those were dogwoods just off the property line. (Never seen either of those up close before.)
But a few trees still eluded me.
The other day, I went around the yard with my camera - snapping pictures of each tree's bark, the leaves, and any fruit they might offer. (Stupid oaks weren't being cooperative and wouldn't show me their acorns - at least not on the tree and with all the squirrels, I can't just guess which acorn goes to which tree.)
Now I'm trying to catalog which trees are what. Yeah, I'm totally geeking out. But I have a burning desire to know. And it's not easy. (Of course, it doesn't help that some oak trees are known to hybridize... those hussies... which would explain why the oak in back has traits of both the Scarlet Oak and the Shumard Oak.)
I even made a map of the yard and numbered the trees in red, so I'd know which pictures were of which trees. (Yeah, I'm thinking way too hard about this, but that's kind of what 'geeking out' means.) In the end, I'll have a good idea of who's who and what to expect from them over the years. Who'll be dropping nuts, who'll be flowering, and who to watch out for in times of drought. In the great scheme of things, it's not that important, but it's important to me.
What kinds of things do you geek out about?
When we first got to this heavily treed acre and a quarter, we had a good idea what some of these trees are. Black walnut trees are pretty hard to mistake for anything else - especially when they start dropping smaller tennis ball looking fruits all over the place. And an oak is an oak is an oak.
Except when it isn't.
We have at least 4 different varieties of oak in the yard. And a couple different kinds of hickory. So the first thing I did was pick up a copy of The Audobon Society's Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region. Which helped us determine that the big oak in front is a white oak and the hickory tree just outside the sunroom is a mockernut hickory.
Using the internet helped, too. Without online resources, I wouldn't have known that was a redbud tree in the front yard or that those were dogwoods just off the property line. (Never seen either of those up close before.)
But a few trees still eluded me.
The other day, I went around the yard with my camera - snapping pictures of each tree's bark, the leaves, and any fruit they might offer. (Stupid oaks weren't being cooperative and wouldn't show me their acorns - at least not on the tree and with all the squirrels, I can't just guess which acorn goes to which tree.)
Now I'm trying to catalog which trees are what. Yeah, I'm totally geeking out. But I have a burning desire to know. And it's not easy. (Of course, it doesn't help that some oak trees are known to hybridize... those hussies... which would explain why the oak in back has traits of both the Scarlet Oak and the Shumard Oak.)
I even made a map of the yard and numbered the trees in red, so I'd know which pictures were of which trees. (Yeah, I'm thinking way too hard about this, but that's kind of what 'geeking out' means.) In the end, I'll have a good idea of who's who and what to expect from them over the years. Who'll be dropping nuts, who'll be flowering, and who to watch out for in times of drought. In the great scheme of things, it's not that important, but it's important to me.
What kinds of things do you geek out about?
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