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Post by mohs on Oct 23, 2022 17:07:55 GMT -5
Right on Jean My guess is that the rangers are using pressured water spray to chase off those aphid Notice that the base around those plants is always wet Will look forward to your milkweed pics ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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Post by mohs on Oct 23, 2022 16:12:06 GMT -5
After the discussion about aphids & learning their threat to the plant & hence to Monarch’s Had to check the Milkweed condition This morn The Aphids from the previous flower bloom picture Are all gone ! Someone, Rangers ! are tending those milkweed really well ![https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1666559180/EOS/ladybugonmilkOct232022.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1666559180/EOS/ladybugonmilkOct232022.jpg) Cause I don’t think this half hidden lady Did all that clean up ...
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Post by mohs on Oct 23, 2022 13:10:23 GMT -5
infinitely spectacular
& so much of it
reminds me of vertigo thoughts of
Blaise Pascal
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Post by mohs on Oct 23, 2022 12:51:48 GMT -5
that fine looking stand you crafted Lee lots of little things to keep ya busy a large space to do it in which I suppose requires it own attentions
altho it is desert so somewhat maintenance free ha
really tho- those saws be a fab'n & slab'n !
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Post by mohs on Oct 23, 2022 10:53:43 GMT -5
Right on Rich! Really enjoyed reading dat! Wow I dated that picture March 20th 2022 could have sworn- I took that last year Anyway I went out Salt River Tribal Lands yesterday To shoot sets ![https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/c_scale,w_423/v1666540350/EOS/mckellipssetOct222022.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/c_scale,w_423/v1666540350/EOS/mckellipssetOct222022.jpg) All I had to do was turn around 180 degrees To capture the Supers Butte they were obscured by a dust storm Sometime soon
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Post by mohs on Oct 23, 2022 10:37:02 GMT -5
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Post by mohs on Oct 22, 2022 20:52:20 GMT -5
My heavily tweaked photo edited overexposed inversion set Some may recall this location from last season ![https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/c_scale,w_773/v1666489071/EOS/McKellipsoverexpsedsetOct222022.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/c_scale,w_773/v1666489071/EOS/McKellipsoverexpsedsetOct222022.jpg) Glad to be back. The set wasn’t very dramatic anyway/ So this pic will be a good baseline for the progression. Although the tribal police have posted 'No Parking' signs. Part of the Super Bowl clean up Really cracking down That area had lot of squatters – w/lots of dirt bikes also. no more. This 'no parking' thing will present a problem for me, maybe. I’ve had run in with Salt River Tribal Police for trespassing Not pleasant. Butte I been going out there since the seventies Not disturbing a damn thing- except for a few turned over rocks. So it either put up or lock up. Defense fund help anyone? Ha Tanks for looking and let season begin ! Ed
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Post by mohs on Oct 22, 2022 15:55:09 GMT -5
Yo Rich @par5 somewhere you mentioned whether I was going to chase Super's jag shadow last year I found a fabulous perch to photograph the Superstition shadows ![https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1647887434/CanonPS/supershade3202022.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1647887434/CanonPS/supershade3202022.jpg) had my camera setting funky that day This was before I knew anything about the phenomenon I might have inadvertently captured it -pretty close give me a cigar- tell me I going go far ![P-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/pirate.png)
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Post by mohs on Oct 22, 2022 15:47:30 GMT -5
Yo Chad I dig quartz ![https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1639430148/Galaxy/quartzcairn12132021.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1639430148/Galaxy/quartzcairn12132021.jpg) A cairn of quartz I piled up at Saguaro Base There some really good chalcedony, quartz, fire n'dattuff Its across from Pickett Post Butte One humongous mountain of sedimentary Butte Now that the weather as inverted Plan on riding up Globe way Dew some hounding and photoing See if anyone as added to my quartz cairn...
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Post by mohs on Oct 22, 2022 11:25:23 GMT -5
victor1941 Hi Victor I know very little about plants Is that yellowish green aphids? thought it was a fungus. ![https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1666455831/NEWER/milkweedinfectedpod.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1666455831/NEWER/milkweedinfectedpod.jpg) That pod or bulb is huge lot bigger than the others Bigger that a grapefruit it had all the yellowish-green specks w/ black ant crawling all over it ., None of the others pod- seemed so infected Anyway I was monitoring it -then it was gone! Guessing the rangers snipped it off ? Butte I’m not 100% sure Tanks ! Hi again @victor41 ya know it dawned on me that I really didn't know what aphids were www.saveourmonarchs.org/blog/how-to-get-rid-of-aphids-on-milkweedwhat I find interesting in this article is that they are called Oleander Aphids I grew up with large oleanders bushes all around can't say I ever saw aphid them in the Phoenix zone huh must of overlooked those will be inspecting oleanders more closely now
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Post by mohs on Oct 22, 2022 8:58:18 GMT -5
some gneiss pictures here! MilkweeBloom [Calotropic Procera] at Papagohs ![https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1666446902/NEWER/milkweedglowerOct212022.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1666446902/NEWER/milkweedglowerOct212022.jpg)
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Post by mohs on Oct 21, 2022 23:36:47 GMT -5
its all about m ![(smart)](//storage.proboards.com/1258779/images/WdOWsmFZJNTgRFYTeRWD.gif) hs Tensor Tympani Muscle it marching to beat of different ![8-|](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/nerd.png) drum
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Post by mohs on Oct 21, 2022 23:23:20 GMT -5
Ha I know very little about milkweed When I did a cursory Google search To try and identify these strange plants in Papago I came up with that they were a form of mistletoe It was Jean rockpickerforever that set me straight as usual,,,mostly she supplied the identifying link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calotropis_proceraAs mentioned earlier the City of Phoenix was passing out Milkweed seed packet to hikers Guess they want to encourage Monarchs The Papago Calotropic Procers Milkweed plant,,,well… can’t imagine that is they type of Milkweed ![https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/c_scale,w_416/v1648946438/Overload/milkseeds.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/c_scale,w_416/v1648946438/Overload/milkseeds.jpg) the City of Phoenix is encouraging the home gardener to grow? Those plants have me really interested. So strange in the desert setting I’ll have to ask a ranger about the origin, how long they been there ect…. Being that I have lots of free time, & somewhat active, w/ some resources; I’m learning much more of what around, I think
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Post by mohs on Oct 21, 2022 19:53:11 GMT -5
and serious moonlight
goodman
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Post by mohs on Oct 21, 2022 19:18:24 GMT -5
pardon me buoys is datda
chatanoogie booogie
get down 2nite
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Post by mohs on Oct 21, 2022 16:41:15 GMT -5
I been monitoring the milkweed daily,,,mostly ![https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1665604176/NEWER/milkweedpodWideOct2022.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1665604176/NEWER/milkweedpodWideOct2022.jpg) And hoping to catch Monarchs Only one I saw- was the butter shadow ![https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1665604157/NEWER/butterflyshadowpapapgomiljweedEOSwideOct122022.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1665604157/NEWER/butterflyshadowpapapgomiljweedEOSwideOct122022.jpg) & it hasn;'t been around for about 2 weeks So I don’t what the cycle is? A ranger must have snipped off one of the pods It was huge, w/ some sort of yellow fungi growing on it And black ants crawling. Guess they figured it was unhealthy? Not sure when those pods bust open ![https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1666388224/NEWER/milkweedbloompodsoct2022.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1666388224/NEWER/milkweedbloompodsoct2022.jpg) The blooms are in holding pattern...
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Post by mohs on Oct 21, 2022 14:36:21 GMT -5
Happi Birthday Sheri ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) its Ed...M ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/rofl.png) stly enjoyed are all to brief meeting at Q many many moons ago you were one of the first RTH members I interacted with you were in Mesa for a long time I was short distant down that rocky road ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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Post by mohs on Oct 21, 2022 2:18:54 GMT -5
![(thumbs-up)](//storage.proboards.com/1258779/images/poyofurZTHYIzGrfVSom.gif) was considering water proof fabrics
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Post by mohs on Oct 20, 2022 20:56:40 GMT -5
![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/rofl.png) It was a rough model for a patent application, Rich Once the idea catches on will market the silk version For the connoisseurs of fine camera lens cannon coverings The lower budget ones will be 100% cotton, tho ![::)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/eyesroll.png) Lens Protector of the Looms M ohS oxs™ will make small silky ones for the ELF and wool version for the northern climes ![https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1666211993/NEWER/chollneedleswebmacroOct2022.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1666211993/NEWER/chollneedleswebmacroOct2022.jpg)
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Post by mohs on Oct 20, 2022 19:03:30 GMT -5
and a little something to brighten the day ![https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1666310549/NEWER/redcactusboommacroOct2022.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/rock-n-hearts-inc/image/upload/v1666310549/NEWER/redcactusboommacroOct2022.jpg)
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