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Amarillo (Yellow) – KeaPOD 144
Posted in beautiful, Happiness is..., Nature, Photography, POD (picture of the day)
Tagged amarillo, iris, photography, spring, yellow
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Speaking of Bees – Short Video: Just Add Sugar

Lo-res iPhone photo shows bees covered with powdered sugar working to clean each other off. Click on the image to view the short video on YouTube (and turn up the volume to hear the bees and some happy birds in the background).
I visited my brother in Wisconsin last week and had the opportunity to help him “sugar” his bees. He explained that honeybees can be carrying parasitic mites, but they don’t clean them off. The way to get bees to clean each other is to sugar them — literally, to dump powdered sugar on them so they’ll have to clean each other off. It makes them pretty angry, too, so I had to suit up.
Angry honeybees will actually ram folks before stinging. You can see I got a nice honeybee sugar imprint — but no stings.
What an interesting and even exhilarating (and, might I say, neat-o) experience!
Posted in fascinating, Nature, pretty cool, Video
Tagged bees, honeybees, nature, sugar, sugaring, video
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Spring Bee with Crocus – keaPOD 143
Posted in beautiful, Nature, POD (picture of the day)
Tagged bee, crocus, flower, nature, photography, plants, spring
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Boulder Dog
Posted in dogs, fun, Life, Nature
Tagged Bobolink Trail, Boulder, creek, golden retriever, photography, water
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No, That’s Not Smoke – It’s a Superneato LiDAR Image

Light-detection and ranging (LiDAR) remote sensing image of the Willamette River from the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries.
This is a screenshot from a 15 April 2013 The Oregonian article, which notes that “This imagery was featured in the North American Cartographic Information Society’s first Atlas of Design.” This superneato LiDAR (see caption for more information) image shows a section of the Willamette River, which flows throw central Oregon, USA. You can buy this poster at Nature of the Northwest.
Posted in beautiful, brilliant, fascinating, Nature, Photography, science, water-as-art
Tagged geology, geomorphology, LiDAR, nature, Oregon, photography, river, science, water
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A Girl and Her Cat – Via Design Taxi

Russian photographer Andy Prokh has captured adorable photos of his daughter Catherine who grew up with their gray British shorthair cat.
From the website “Design Taxi.”
Posted in beautiful, Happiness is..., Life, Love, Photography, so cute!
Tagged cat, design, photography
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