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On the left is a pair of buds at the end of a twig of my green feathered Japanese maple.
On the right is what it’s grown into a bit over amonth later. I put my index finger where the buds from the picture on the left were. (Both images link to bigger versions.)

The red japanese maple and the one that went wild (that is, the grafted part died and the stump grew shoots with “less fancy” leaves) are doing, fine, too, as do the potted little willow, the older azalea, and both of the oaks that were alive last year. The younger azalea needs a bit more time to readjust , but is growing new leaves, too. And do we ever have forget-me-nots.

Everything grows, and it’s awesome!

Since I like green so much, here are some green images I found on deviantart (thumbnails link to deviantart pages):

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Six months’ worth. I keep putting off sending them to the zoo to ask if I may upload them.

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Part two of the whole “catch up with posting images” thing: Photos taken outside of zoos between January and May.

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We’ve had cloud cover for a week now, which might be not the best light for photographs, but I’m trying to get the hang of consistent adding, anyway. So I played around with staged-in-my-room photos, too.

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Once upon a time in Gürbetal, Switzerland, there was a car parts dealer who after finishing cannibalising old cars parked them on his property. This happened from the 1930s to the 1970. A lot of the cars are still there.

Official website (German)
Forest of Sleeping Cars flickr sets by elessar_ch
Album on mth-fotografie.ch

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Steampunk webcomic find: 2D Goggles – The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. Some rule of cool and/or funny revisionist history in which Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace didn’t only design a working computer in theory, but it actually got built.
Updating schedule is “a batch of pages whenever I have them”; so far there are the “origin” chapter plus two episodes, and a bit of smallstuff. Lots of links to the creator’s research material in the author’s notes, just the right thing for some types of geeks.

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Deep Sky Colors
Astronomical photography.
Wired.com had a step-by-step example of the photo postwork which I found very interesting.

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Graffiti Taxonomy: Paris
A study of different versions of letters in graffiti tags.

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Villafane Studion pumpkin carvings
Pretty impressive, particularly the Predator.

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First, have a comic page:

I wonder if I can make that (”anything sequential art”) a regular thing, like with the microfiction. I really wish I could loosen up and not get lost in details too much.

Then, have some other stuff:

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In case you didn’t know yet, I like insects, spiders and the like. So, bit of a themed post.

A short video I captured of an ant dragging a rather hefty lunch home:

Bits of my stuff:

Links:
Moths Use Sonar-Jamming Defense to Fend Off Hunting Bats
Dancing caterpillars put off predators (cute photo, found via neatorama)
a bug sculptures photoset on flickr

Origami arthropods found on deviantart, different creators:

That artist of the last one has a lot of other great models in his gallery, only with the thumbnail links disabled.

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Well, what with cold and otherwise induced brainfog, this was a dead month, blogging-wise. Let’s start the next one off, then.

I’m way more proud than I should be about finishing the Zodiac Chickens series. If you want to see all on one view, try the “Zodiac” tag.

Insect Photos:

Stag beetles are supposedly very rare, yet we keep finding them in our garden. I think it’s because our family tends to leave treestumps in the earth; the beetles’ larvae feed on rotting wood.

Flowers and other Nature stuff:

And some old-ish buildings:

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