To Me, It looks like some type of plant pod; about to open!
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orin stepanek wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:04 pm
Found on Mars; page 204! of discuss a picture of the day. To Me, It looks like some type of plant pod; about to open!![]()
neufer wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:57 pmorin stepanek wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:04 pm
Found on Mars; page 204! of discuss a picture of the day. To Me, It looks like some type of plant pod; about to open!![]()
Closer look at Art's Alien? Or am I missing some point you amaking? Here's an Iris Bud! From on line images Can you see what I'm thinking?
+1 Art; good find!neufer wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:57 pmorin stepanek wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:04 pm
Found on Mars; page 204! of discuss a picture of the day. To Me, It looks like some type of plant pod; about to open!![]()
Oops sorry Ann; Guess I was looking at Neufers reply instead of yours! I guess you were replying to; Nevermind! Actually I was mixing his reply with yours! Say how did they allow you get a 4'th smiley in?
Thanks, Orin, your iris bud is lovely!orin stepanek wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:43 pmCloser look at Art's Alien? Or am I missing some point you amaking? Here's an Iris Bud! From on line images th.jpg
Can you see what I'm thinking?
And I picked a blue one just for you!
When it comes to weather and climate, there's just no "typical" anymore.
We have had a lot of storms and a lot of rain, but precious little snow. Here in Malmö we have had no snow at all (not that I complain), but farther north, where they are used to doing a lot of winter sports, the lack of snow is a real problem.Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 1:40 pm
Here in Colorado we've had the most extreme winter I can remember. We had a deep freeze (negative Fahrenheit) in early October, along with heavy snow. That snow has persisted to now, with many subsequent storms dropping yet more. I've lived here 25 years and never had a winter where snow lay on most of the ground so long. Usually we have snow and it's evaporated away in a day or two. And we've had many, many very cold nights, in the single digits (F). Still lots of sun, fortunately. All in all, an awesome year for snowshoeing and cross country skiing. And I'm looking ahead (especially now that I can sense spring in the air) at a summer with green pastures, fantastic wildflowers, and a low risk of wildfires.
At least all of this bizarre weather around the world is serving to convince the last holdouts that climate change is a real thing.
Ann wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 3:47 pmChris Peterson wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 1:40 pm
Here in Colorado we've had the most extreme winter I can remember. We had a deep freeze (negative Fahrenheit) in early October, along with heavy snow. That snow has persisted to now, with many subsequent storms dropping yet more. I've lived here 25 years and never had a winter where snow lay on most of the ground so long. Usually we have snow and it's evaporated away in a day or two. And we've had many, many very cold nights, in the single digits (F). Still lots of sun, fortunately. All in all, an awesome year for snowshoeing and cross country skiing. And I'm looking ahead (especially now that I can sense spring in the air) at a summer with green pastures, fantastic wildflowers, and a low risk of wildfires.
At least all of this bizarre weather around the world is serving to convince the last holdouts that climate change is a real thing.
We have had a lot of storms and a lot of rain, but precious little snow. Here in Malmö we have had no snow at all (not that I complain), but farther north, where they are used to doing a lot of winter sports, the lack of snow is a real problem.
And yes, climate change is most certainly for real.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Ciara wrote: <<Storm Ciara was a powerful and long-lived extratropical cyclone that was the first of a pair of European windstorms to impact the United Kingdom and Ireland at peak intensity less than a week apart. Ciara caused widespread wind and flooding damage across both North America and Europe, and at least 18 fatalities. The cyclone was first noted as a developing winter storm over the Pacific Northwest of the United States on 2 February 2020. After crossing North America, the system emerged into the North Atlantic and underwent rapid intensification. Ciara subsequently made landfall in northern Scotland on 9 February and Norway the next day. The worst effects from Ciara were felt in Ireland and the United Kingdom, where the storm arrived over the weekend of 8–9 February, bringing high winds and heavy rainfall that caused severe damage, widespread flooding and three fatalities in the latter country.>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Dennis wrote: <<Storm Dennis was a February 2020 European windstorm which, in , became one of the most intense extratropical cyclones ever recorded, reaching a minimum central pressure of 920 millibars (27.17 inches of mercury). The thirteenth named storm of the 2019–20 European windstorm season, Dennis struck Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom at peak intensity less than a week after Storm Ciara, exacerbating the impacts from that storm amidst ongoing flooding in the latter country.