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alex-grows-pomegranates:

This week in germination!

1) Acacia stenophylla, a tree legume. It already has true leaves coming in!
2) Pereskia grandifolia, a primitive/basal cactus that keeps its leaves and sort of looks like a cross between a rhododendron and a large rose bush.
3) Jacaranda mimosifolia, another tree and a legume-lookalike. I didn’t expect this many to germinate so I will have to figure out what to do with all the seedlings when they get bigger. 😛 They also have weird-looking cotyledons!
4) Aloe zebrina, more aloes forever
5) Hesperaloe parviflora, a cold hardy Agave relative and is not an aloe

I’m still waiting on the Cyphostemmas and Ferocactuses (which I didn’t expect to take this long since their seeds are smaller)

ostdrossel:

ostdrossel:

ostdrossel:

Since people keep asking, here is a pic of my setup. I am using a device called Bird Photo Booth 2.0. It consists of this camera box, much like a trail camera, that has a macro lens on the top and a regular one on the bottom. Inside is a little shelf on which I place a small camera (sold separately, you can also use a smartphone or a GoPro) that has, amongst other things, a motion sensor function that I can set to take 10 pics per second. The bowl attachment comes with the camera as well. So whenever a bird makes it to the bowl, the camera takes pictures. If I leave the camera out the whole day, which happens a lot, I end up with up to 7000 photos, depending on the activity of the day. My evening pleasure and routine is to go through all of them, delete the bad ones and keep and slightly edit the ones I deem publishable. I have no affiliation with the inventor, I just came across his invention through the almighty internet and participated in his kickstarter because I loved the idea.

I installed my camera on a fabulous heavy inherited tripod and installed a baffle to keep the squirrels out. I put it in my yard each day, rain or shine, and so far have not had any major malfunctions. Since I have been feeding birds before I had the booth, they are very interested and willing to take mug shots. I am currently also experimenting with the bowl attachment, addding a tiny hummer feeder and a jelly container. When the weather gets warmer, I will hopefully get pictures of some more irregular visitors.

Another reblog.

And another reblog, for those who want to see the baffle under the camera box.

Source: ostdrossel

ostdrossel:

ostdrossel:

ostdrossel:

Since people keep asking, here is a pic of my setup. I am using a device called Bird Photo Booth 2.0. It consists of this camera box, much like a trail camera, that has a macro lens on the top and a regular one on the bottom. Inside is a little shelf on which I place a small camera (sold separately, you can also use a smartphone or a GoPro) that has, amongst other things, a motion sensor function that I can set to take 10 pics per second. The bowl attachment comes with the camera as well. So whenever a bird makes it to the bowl, the camera takes pictures. If I leave the camera out the whole day, which happens a lot, I end up with up to 7000 photos, depending on the activity of the day. My evening pleasure and routine is to go through all of them, delete the bad ones and keep and slightly edit the ones I deem publishable. I have no affiliation with the inventor, I just came across his invention through the almighty internet and participated in his kickstarter because I loved the idea.

I installed my camera on a fabulous heavy inherited tripod and installed a baffle to keep the squirrels out. I put it in my yard each day, rain or shine, and so far have not had any major malfunctions. Since I have been feeding birds before I had the booth, they are very interested and willing to take mug shots. I am currently also experimenting with the bowl attachment, addding a tiny hummer feeder and a jelly container. When the weather gets warmer, I will hopefully get pictures of some more irregular visitors.

Another reblog.

And another reblog, for those who want to see the baffle under the camera box.

Source: ostdrossel

Apply to be a SAC Intern!

spiritadoptioncenter:

Hey guys! We’re happy to announce that we’re reopening intern applications. Feel to send us any questions about the application, process, and anything else.

If you’re interested, we encourage you to apply. Don’t worry about your experience because we’re considering anyone from any experience level; just do your absolute best on your application.

Name:

Age:

Experience level: (Beginner – 0-6 months, intermediate – 7 months – 1.5 years, experienced – 2+ years)

Are you able to astral travel? If so, how well?

Are you able to conjure? If so, what do you conjure most/what spirits are attracted to you most?

What is your spirit family like?

What is your availability? (Please include the time zone you are in)

Are you on Discord? Are you able to get Discord?

Why do you want to work with this shop?

gettysburgaddress:

inoue-takehiko:

evilscum:

deenoverdami:

I want you all to know that an Arab Muslim from Tunis proposed the Theory of Evolution near 600 years before Charles Darwin even took his first breath. Don’t let them erase you.

his name is Ibn Khaldun

Also, it was not the apple falling from a tree that made Issac Newton “discover” gravity. He was reading the books of Ibn Al Haytham, an Arab Muslim from Iraq, who pioneered the scientific method, discovered gravity and wrote about the laws governing the movement of bodies (now known as Newtons three laws of motion) some 600 years before Newton existed. Without him, modern science as we know it wouldn’t exist. Read on him. His achievements are far greater than what I’ve just mentioned here.

#no offense but arabs literally invented chemistry and algebra and we came up with the concept of the camera #the cataract operation that’s still practiced today was invented by an Arab #we created alchemy and the wright brothers used abbas ibn firnas’ findings and writings to build on to create a plane #I could go on and on and on #pls don’t erase our scientific history