Cool Nature Photos

[deserteagle71]

The Wheeler Peak in New Mexico? That is pretty far....

Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada. At 13,063 feet the second highest peak in the state.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

There is a Wheeler Peak outside of Taos, NM. It is 13,167 ft. I never knew there were two of them.... the one in NM is the highest in the state.

 

[deserteagle71]

We have been sweltering here the past week. Two days ago the high temperature was 93, per the National Weather Service. For this morning (and for tomorrow morning) the National Weather Service has issued freeze warnings. The surrounding mountains got a fresh coat of snow overnight...my view from my deck at sunrise this morning:

 

[oosik]

Well - its been unseasonably cool & wet here in Ea WA state but, fortunately, NO SNOW. Everything is still green & growing here. One of these days somebody will throw the switch and it will be hot, hot, dry, dusty and TAN.

One of my meadows - recently mowed. My dog, Brownie, looking for something "icky" to chew on.

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[kenmbz]

We have been sweltering here the past week. Two days ago the high temperature was 93, per the National Weather Service. For this morning (and for tomorrow morning) the National Weather Service has issued freeze warnings. The surrounding mountains got a fresh coat of snow overnight...my view from my deck at sunrise this morning:

Wow, amazing view.

 

[GeneV]

That's a spectacular view yeh!

 

[Fuddy1952]

Couple hours ago I'm working on putting wooden steps other end of horse stable when I see something moving through the grass. I'm 68, lived in Virginia all my life, never saw a turtle like this. Box turtles go in their shell when picked up, this didn't. Smooth shell and colorful. About 5", you can tell in 5 gal. bucket. It has a couple old shell injuries but seemed healthy and moved fast for a turtle.
After pictures I let it go where it was headed, down hill to the creek and pond.
Then wife and I drove to local store and back just now and a gray rabbit ran across driveway. We see brown cottentails all the time, never a gray. Maybe mixed with a tame one?

 

[MossRoad]

Looks like a lucky painted turtle to survive those injuries.

 

[MossRoad]

Went out for ice cream last evening and saw a family of foxes playing on a sidewalk and the street in an industrial park. Went by them several times but they'd ditch into the woods every time we got close and pop right back out as we left, so this is the best I could do from a moving car with an iphone 6. :laughing:

 

[Diggin It]

Then wife and I drove to local store and back just now and a gray rabbit ran across driveway. We see brown cottentails all the time, never a gray. Maybe mixed with a tame one?

My greys are all wild. And skittish. Most of them bolt if I even open a door. A few will sit as if frozen in place to see where I'm going.

 

[deserteagle71]

My cottontails are all brown but they certainly aren't skittish! They hang around the yard and get so used to me I just about have to step over them because they won't move.

Took this shot a couple summers ago. It was well over 100 degrees and it was kicking back in the shade next to my John Deere. If you look closely you can see this is a nursing mama.

 

[cqaigy2]

Trying to cool off.

 

[Fuddy1952]

This is more odd than cool nature. Mom's caregiver sent this, tomato she bought then couple days later seeds inside were sprouting. I've never seen that.

 

[Diggin It]

^^ Me neither, so I Ducked the question:

So, your tomato is ripe and ready to eat. Then why are the seeds germinating? There are several reasons this can happen, but most importantly the tomato with germinated seeds can be eaten safely.

Seeds germinating inside a tomato is called vivipary. It occurs in overripe fruit when seeds have reached maturity and the natural hormone, abscisic acid (ABA), is reduced. Then, seed dormancy is lost gradually. The tomato fruit allows vivipary since the seeds do not desiccate (dry out) in the moist environment inside the fruit.

Some causes of seeds sprouting in tomatoes are long storage in cool temperatures (below 55 degrees), being overripe, potassium deficiency, over fertilization with nitrogen and again, being overripe, the predominant causes of vivipary.

Why Are Tomato Seeds Sprouting Inside of My Tomato? | North Carolina Cooperative Extension

 

[MossRoad]

This is more odd than cool nature. Mom's caregiver sent this, tomato she bought then couple days later seeds inside were sprouting. I've never seen that.View attachment 659093View attachment 659094

A bunch of people around here that my wife knows have reported this recently. We figured it was because the tomatoes are most likely picked a long time ago, held in cold storage indefinitely, and artificially ripened with ethylene gas when ready for sale. Weird things happen in that process.

 

[ArlyA]

While deleting old photos in our new HD, I spied these pileated photos taken on our front porch. These guys will only come to suet feeders in the spring, when they're running out of food in the woods. What a strange, strange looking bird.

 

[/pine]

While deleting old photos in our new HD, I spied these pileated photos taken on our front porch. These guys will only come to suet feeders in the spring, when they're running out of food in the woods. What a strange, strange looking bird.

I think they evolved from pterodactyls...!!

 

[/pine]

This little ******* has become a nuisance...comes right up on the porch and is not scared...

 

[dalola]

While deleting old photos in our new HD, I spied these pileated photos taken on our front porch. These guys will only come to suet feeders in the spring, when they're running out of food in the woods. What a strange, strange looking bird.

Love hearing these guys hammer away. Amazing the power of their blows. Sounds like someone with an AK in the woods target shooting. We intentionally leave a smattering of standing dead wood in our forest to keep them around.

 

[ArlyA]

I found a few more pileated photos. We seem to have these funny birds everywhere up here, so we see and hear them on a regular bases.