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RE: Sat/Sun July 16/17 - Adamphotoman - 07-17-2022
Thanks Steve, Just noticed the Cherry Tree [really just a bush] is bearing fruit. Not sure if it is edible.
RE: Sat/Sun July 16/17 - Man From Ironbark - 07-17-2022
Wild cherry? Whish is also known as sweet cherry.
The European name for it, “Merisier” comes from the latin root “Amarus cerasus” which means “bitter cherry”.
Wild cherry is savored either as jam or in spirits. Wild cherries have been an item of human food for several thousands of years. The stones have been found in deposits at Bronze Age settlements throughout Europe, including in Britain.
As the main ancestor of the cultivated cherry, the sweet cherry is one of the two cherry species which supply most of the world's commercial cultivars of edible cherry (the other is the sour cherry Prunus cerasus, mainly used for cooking; a few other species have had a very small input).
RE: Sat/Sun July 16/17 - Adamphotoman - 07-17-2022
Peter, Thanks for the history lesson on Cherries.
Here is another?
And the tree is? Fungi is?
RE: Sat/Sun July 16/17 - Man From Ironbark - 07-17-2022
Well, I'm no expert on things that live in the USA. However a stab in the dark could suggest;
Bracket fungi on Birch?
Though I'm uncertain of both, I'm also reasonably close?
The fungi both does and does not resemble a Polypore but there are others such as the Boletes which inhabit birch forests.
Pycnoporus cinnabarinus, also known as the cinnabar polypore, could be the one.
It doesn't really resemble Fomitopsis betulina, which is known as the Birch Bracket.
There are others, Pycnoporellus fulgens is one that comes to mind.
But then why not ask a mushroom expert? [ Basidiomycetes > Polyporales > Polyporaceae > Pycnoporellus . . . ] These links on that page should show you quite a few to look at. Spore print colour can often determine difference between fungi of similar appearance.
Back to photos. As usual, an amazing selection of photos from our small family.
Here's a magpie that has adopted me. Someone cut his wing badly and he's been following me around since March. Turns up at the door as soon as I walk towards it. Follows me to wherever I disturb weeds or do digging, turning over logs or whatever. Though I don't actually feed him, the garden does. So indirectly, it is all my fault. Magpies will eat almost anything and do like my walnuts. I'm happy to have pest interference from any birds.
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RE: Sat/Sun July 16/17 - Dreamin - 07-17-2022
Patty, that is an unusual beach composition!! LOL! Does he also have the farmer's tan? white chest and legs and burnt arms and face? .
Grant, nice shot of the pansies with water droplets!! I also live in bare feet and sandals.....and I have the ugly flat feet to prove it! Oh, and I believe your cherries are edible, Nanking Cherries.....if I am not mistaken. Sour, and used for baking?
Peter, so nice of you to let the injured magpie hang with you....Nice looking bird, how big are they? Pigeon size?
No images from me today. Spent the weekend doing some plumbing again.....trying to get water from pump house to my daughter's garden, 300 feet away. I am using the exhisting plumbing in the poultry house and then running it outside at the end, and then hoses another 100 feet.......but I have to cut out the drip lines every 10 feet and put in a union to have a solid PVC line with no leaks. That takes time. Almost done! I had a terrible Friday.....tried to cut grass and accidentally ran over a 100 foot extension cord from barn to garden shed.....while it was hot....luckily I did not get shocked, and then ran over a 100 foot water hose....sheesh. Some days it does not pay to get out of bed.
RE: Sat/Sun July 16/17 - Dave - 07-18-2022
Such a fine selection of photos in this weekend Daily!
And thanks for the kind words about my succulent image.
Don, sorry about your troubles the other day.
Lorell, that's a moody yet subtle winter starburst image. Nice!
Natalie, you asked about the size of the succulent. It's in an out-of-the-way spot, so it probably doesn't get tended to often. (Maybe that's the secret - leave it alone and it'll probably do better than if I meddled.) Anyway, the woody stalks raise the plant to around 1.5 feet high, and the gold/green "flowers" are about 1.5 - 2 inches across.
damar, I love the quirkiness of your very good photo of the beach=going cowboy gear.
Grant, beautiful portrait of those attractive flowers. And lovely cherries.
Top-notch magpie images, MFI.
RE: Sat/Sun July 16/17 - Man From Ironbark - 07-18-2022
(07-17-2022, 08:25 PM)Dreamin Wrote: Peter, so nice of you to let the injured magpie hang with you....Nice looking bird, how big are they? Pigeon size?
The adult Australian magpie is a fairly robust bird ranging from 37 to 43 cm (14.5 to 17 in) in length, with distinctive black and white plumage.
Magpies carol.
RE: Sat/Sun July 16/17 - Dreamin - 07-19-2022
That's bigger than I thought!