Tales of Home [5]

  sweet doggie

very sweet doggie ^^

Norc wrote:
i just realized it probably looks like we have a pet-bear

You should get one! They're cute, and you can hang them almost anywhere!



Well....at least at first....

then they grow up....





Then you may have to catch them...

Thats a lovely pic of Leopold ! Just lovely !     (the one by the water, looking thoughtful)

if only he actually was thoughtful

Some pics I took while was off- first a nautical theme-





This was weird- this is the first time Ive seen a ship of this size in this loch since the US Navy left, and it moored in almost exactly the same spot-







A bee, on a flower-



A posh garden-



A rather cool tree stump-



And one for Halfy- some nutter trusting their life to to something which probably has less power than a lawn mower-

Any power at all is a cop-out.    Pansy.

Pettytyrant101 wrote:A bee, on a flower-

I love bumblebee's!  
They do 10 times the work of a honnybee, and they don't mind working on days with no sun. They'll be out there pollenating cranberries in an hour when the dew lifts.

Its been a good year here for bumblebees- they were notably down in numbers the last couple of years, but loads about this year in the garden.

whats the difference between a bumble bee and a honey bee?

Dunno about regional differences but here bumble bees tend to be larger, fluffier and fatter (the one in that pic is a youngster by the size of it) and the black and yellow stripes tend to be clearer and more prominent than on the honeybees who have smaller bodies with less clear patterns.

bumblebees are awesome. they're too fat to actually fly, but the do it anyway.

We can get in to space and build stealth bombers, but we still havent worked out that piece of physics properly yet.

Bumblebees are native in these northern climates, while the honey bees are mostly imported. The bumblebees here mostly nest in small colonies of a few dozen bees, often in an old rodent burrow or in the roots of bushes and tussocks, so they're more like small villages compared to the highrise city-dweller honey bees in their hives of thousands.

The bumblers are big and furry, and have this cool trick of buzzing their flight muscles without flapping their wings to warm their bodies.  That's why they can fly on colder days when the honey bees have to stay at home.

And they almost never sting. You can hold them in your hand if you're gentle. They often move into our houses to hibernate during the winter, and you'll find them starting to buzz around in  the spring. I always carefully catch them and put them outside. They're my friends. Like the bears.

They're my friends. Like the bears....David
 Gosh darn it ! that was sweet to hear !  

Norc wrote:bumblebees are awesome. they're too fat to actually fly, but the do it anyway.

They are not too fat to fly. They make mini tornadoes that help them fly.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1541106/Bumble-bee-paradox-solved.html

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bumblebee_argument

http://www.livescience.com/33075-how-bees-fly.html

Though I haven't yet seen a simple explanation from the basic Newtonian principle of 'deflect air down so bee goes up'.  People usually screw this up when talking about classical wings (they veer into Bernoulli's principle, which works....but only when done right.  Most people - and I'm  pointing at aviation textbook writers as well - do it wrong.).

It should be added that the wing motion is the same as our arm motion when treading water: back and forth, deflecting water down like feathering a paddle. But the viscosity at smaller scales means that the eddies dominate over the wholesale motion of fluid moving downwards. You still should be able to calculated lift from the mass of air being deflected down, but now it's complicated because it's spiralling down rather than just washing down.

Halfie, you have to shorten it enough to make it look cute and cosy written with large letters over a picture of a sunset or a pretty flower. Apparently that's how you get a message through these days... At least according to my facebook feed... Also, add: "repost if you think bumblebees are cute."

{{{I   (well-functioning) brains}}}

second that amarië

bumblebees are awesome though. let me see if i can find a picture of one my dad found last summer or something. it had rained and it was all wet. we let it dry and then it flew off

If you go down to the woods today you'll find, a drunk Scotshobit with a camera   



Smoke effect was an added bonus from holding a cigarette at the time and a fortuitous gust of wind!



If you look carefully you can find evidence of the local wildlife- here we have the droppings of the Lesser Scottish NED-



Bit of storm damage from winter-





Deeper into the woods-



Unfortunately my buckie consumption was making my head spin a bit-



So I found somewhere cool and shady to sleep it off in-

loving those pics, especially the last one and the one with all the trees on the sky thing  might i edit some of them? (doing it anyway lol cus i have to wait for my room to cool down anyways)

so basically i just umpfed up the exposure a bit, more darkness and higlights, umpfed up the colours and added some warmth. basically. because cameras, i am guessing an ordinary compact-camera or a phone, tend to not get all the colours as bright and beautiful as it perhaps was

and one more just because bumblebees are awesome

Very nicely done Norc   

Of course I have buckie o-vision anyway where all the colours are really vivid and run into each other  

Great pics, Petty Love the one where Mother Nature has uprooted that tree - we came across a similar sight when we were out a couple of weeks ago, though not quite as dramatic as the one in your photo. Seeing things like that makes you feel small and powerless, and grateful that you live in a solid house