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New pictures oc, xer. Another perspective in the mountains. |
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| | From:  _Xer | Sent: 12/3/2008 9:06 PM |
| Please do not remove any before then??? |
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Xer, I retouched your glacier close up a little. Thanks for the heads up about new pictures. I would appreciate EVERYONE putting a notice on the General Board, when new pictures are up. I love looking at your pictures! Jen, that butterfly sequence was real luck. Furthermore, the female papilio was one of the largest I ever saw, with a wingspan of 6.6 inches (I caught her, measured her, and released her.) |
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Xer...I stared longingly at the surf...mmmmmmmm...I hear it! I uploaded the last one of Mooch and me at his football games...and one of a roller coaster I took in Cedar Point Ohio  |
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It is terrible that MS will not let me upload my pics. I am pretty sure that it is because of file size. I have not be able to locate my file conversion/size program. Will re-visit that one hopefully today.
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Is everyone having trouble with posting pics here or needing to delete in order to add more, because of my hundreds? I just haven't had the energy to sit here long enough lately to delete my travel pics. Sorry! Pikes, so many of your Colorado photos are quite familiar to me. I notice that you have already deleted some.  That makes me sad because I enjoy looking and re-looking and re-living! If deleting mine will keep yours, I will spend the entire weekend doing so.  KC |
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MS Picture Manager will let you resize them, by shrinking their pixel width, height, you should reach a compromise where you can upload. When you save, rename the picture, under Save As, so you have the new size, and the original for quality. |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 12/6/2008 8:21 AM |
| Kitty, the size or number of images you have upload ONLY effects your own size limits. We each have our own limits imposed on our MSN Passport, Nothing I upload at any community will have the least effect on what other members may upload. That is true across the board. Nothing you have uploaded here can possibly impact what I, Coot, Pikes, etc. can upload. Please don't delete the second half of your vacation pictures yet. Thank you. |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 12/6/2008 8:23 AM |
| Jen, I'm glad you could at least enjoy the photos of the beach. I will go now ant look at your last pictures posted. |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 12/6/2008 9:09 AM |
Pikes, I was struck by how tiny the bristle cone pines are for their age. Considering you have hiked and climbed Yosemite, you must have visited the sequoias. Didn't you once even talk about visiting the ones over by the coast? The rings on the bristle cones must be very compact for them to be so narrow, but what is really amazing is how short they are to be so old. Don't turtles, and fish, like sequoias, get larger as they get older? How odd the bristle cones remain so diminutive.
As for the wood lilies. It is hard to imagine that most of the folks who pick the beautiful flower are not unaware the dire results on the plant. How terrible! Of course there will always be some individuals who care about nothing except their own selfish desires, but surely most of us are simply ignorant clods about many many things. Have you ever managed to get any bulbs to nurture at home? It would be cool of someone with a large green house went on a personal campaign to grow those lilies en mass then went around the state planting them in difficult to reach locations! heheheh
Thank you for sharing that unique visit with us here. |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 12/6/2008 9:12 AM |
Hey, Jen. You da mom! 
I had never been aware before that not all roller coasters are endless. |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 12/6/2008 9:18 AM |
I caught her, measured her, and released her.
Hummm.... probably best to just leave that one alone...... |
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Kitty, I am rotating pictures, so the same ones aren't always up. You are welcome to right click and save any you want. Don't delete yours! Xer, bristlecone pines grow incredibly slow- an inch of wood will have more than a hundred annual rings compacted into it. The climate up there is extremely harsh, and soil frozen most of the year. Hurricane force winds carry granite sand that blasts the bark and wood right off, so in a very old tree, only a thin living strip of bark hides on the lee side of a scoured and blasted trunk, supporting a few living branches, among a bunch of tortured dead ones. I not only have seen both redwoods, coast and Sierra, but visited and photographed the largest and tallest of them. Before they were protected (one of Lincoln's greatest acts!) at least four, larger than the reigning champions General Sherman and General Grant, were felled. Not for wood, but for circus side shows, pieces shipped around for disbelieving people. Pieces - because a whole stump was too big to haul. Biggest of all was the Dowd Tree, in the Calaveras grove. I have a sequoia in our garden, and it is the fastest growing tree here. It was planted in 1995, as a one gallon size tree, about a foot tall, with a "trunk" a little more than pencil thick. Now it is 30 feet tall, and the trunk is twenty inches in diameter. The butterfly was a female. Females are always larger than males. I have tried to cultivate the lilies, no success. Those growing in "harm's way" near a trail, I dug and moved to locations on the "other side" of boulders, and in places where people are unlikely to go. One small meadow has a nice, successful lily colony growing now. I could get in trouble for doing that, by the environmentalists, because I didn't ask their permission, or anyone else's. Fact is, on that trail, my work probably kept the lilies from becoming extinct in that little alpine valley. |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 12/6/2008 10:37 PM |
| Hey, Pikes, _ good _ for _ you!!! I wish you lots of success getting a lily to take at home too. If you ever do keep one alive long enough to reproduce, please grant me the first 'baby' she has? Maybe they could take out here too? Also, I would love to have a couple sequoias on my little acre of earth. Where can we get starters like yours was? |
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You have nurseries up there that carry them. Giant sequoia does very well in your weck of the noods. Forestfarm in Oregon grows them, and I'm sure supplies retailers in your area. The lilies may be too wild. Only belong in the wild. I don't have much hope in trying to cultivate them. Not only a real mystery, but just too fragile. |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 12/7/2008 5:36 AM |
| Thanks bud, I'm going to find out what I can about sequoia starts around here. |
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