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cohanf

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old guy struggling toward a new path; artist; painting, writing, photography, gardening; plants, bugs, music, film, books, connection (not dating)...
West Central Alberta, Canada

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cohanf, to InitialD
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This video is a short clip from a video taken a number of years ago in the mountains- the sun hit the water in a way that dazzled the camera sensor, creating this effect of purple rain!
If you are old like me, or a Prince fan, purple rain is going to make you think of his big hit by that name! Do you think this was a message?? 😆

links from and YouTube
https://spectra.video/w/uyn5ivZVApB8RiJj8tAF2o
https://youtube.com/shorts/lIeyEtwWoBE?feature=share

cohanf,
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@NatureMC I noticed it a little on another video from the same day.. this was my old camera, I haven't noticed anything like this with the current one, though I haven't been in the mountains for a long time, and don't often come near running water...lol

cohanf, to Battlemaps
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I'm back to 3 day working weekends, long brutal days, so weekend posts will tend to be on Monday or Tuesday...lol Last week saw plenty of wet heavy #snow #rain and some #sunshine
#Flowers are coming along anyway mostly in the garden + wild catkins and first wildflower (not shown here, yet) -this week: cool/rain then mid-20sC!
#SixOnSaturday #Alberta #MayDay🌱🌿❄️📷#garden
more in replies/alt

vlrny, to random
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I had another meltdown in public today. 🤦‍♀️

Just doing my bit to lower the bar for what "normal" looks like in the outside world. 🤷‍♀️

So yay me! 🎉

And a song for all o' ya'll out there fucking up for the public good. 💖

Mother Mother - It's Alright

https://youtube.com/watch?v=G5-KJgVsoUM&si=Zhvs5fsTjOUK3znB

cohanf,
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@vlrny Hope you're feeling a little better now. A big problem with people being able to get by is other people worrying about what that should look like! Screw 'normal' ;)

cohanf, to Bloomscrolling
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I started this collage for Six on Saturday, didn't finish (work days) then thought I'd add one more image and make - I finished yesterday but by night had no oomph to post! Now it might be !
I already had the square edits for 6, so I made it vertical with the 7th- is this shape ok for people to view? Is it good on phones? I only use laptop, so I always prefer landscape orientation images... details in alt /replies

NatureMC, to random
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I felt quite childish at first when I interviewed an ant for my podcast. I've just seen that the French health insurance chatbot is a grinning ant. Remember: ants are cool!

cohanf,
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@NatureMC Since ants are the dominant life form on the planet, seems reasonable to interview one!

cohanf,
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@NatureMC 🙂

NatureMC, to random
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I had been in a department for printed books (which are very expensive in France) for ages. It's a pain to search shelves where you can't type in a search term or title! 😂
So many non-fiction books cutely laid out, with umpteen different colourful fonts (where is the design god of revenge?), but hardly any content. Many magazines offer more. Or two tutorials on youtube. There was a terrible Harry Potter hype and two shelves of cooking books. I haven't bought a book. 😞

cohanf,
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@NatureMC was this in a store?

cohanf,
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@NatureMC sad to hear. I guess with the changing market for books, they are trying (desperately? unsuccessfully? ) to adapt :( I haven't been to a book store in ages- not that I might not like to, but no funds to buy books and I'd have to go to the small city 40 miles away- we used to go semi often, haven't been there in a year or two...

cohanf,
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@NatureMC There is a library in the town where I work, but I am in town only to work and then buy groceries...lol I'm not the driver, so no lingering! I was starting to think about looking at what books the library has online, then going in person just to pick them up, then covid came along with further reduction in my public activities (my work is extreme exposure, so then just grocery shopping, and nothing else!).. Prob if I live in or near a town in the future all that will change.

cohanf,
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@NatureMC do you actually read while in the library, or take the book home to read? (It's been many many years since I was in a library, but in past here you could of course sit while the library is open and certain specialty books and magazines could not be taken out, but for regular books etc you could take them home for a week or two, whatever it is).

cohanf,
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@NatureMC Certainly in the big cities they would have all of those things in libraries also-- even many years ago they had a lot of it. Probably the small town one has some of it, they also can get materials from other branches. It's not possible for me to spend time there in person, but I presume at least some of the stuff could be pre-reserved online.

cohanf, to Alberta
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@plants I showed Draba aizoides yesterday, which was the first to open in the on Sunday, but several more opened yesterday, in time for
2 vids in replies show all the flowers and a short walk.
Sunny heading for 18C today, so there should be lots more Crocus at least today!

A mound of low stiff deep green foliage arranged in tightly packed rosettes of tightly packed overlapping leaves, with scattered dry seed stems from last year, and many apical bud clusters., surrounded by and growing between rocks. A single tiny white flower is open.

cohanf,
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@plants The videos, (smaller files) and Youtube links.

  1. scattered open yesterday for
    https://spectra.video/w/qWb913kH38J1huaeAWs7gf
    https://youtube.com/shorts/Pfk6W4AxbpA?feature=share

  2. a short walk enjoying sunny moments, clouds, wind, poplar catkins and a with views to the mountains and neighbours' calves.
    https://spectra.video/w/t36L2ajTnDqQq1GwGe11Qv
    https://youtube.com/shorts/lJC3agC2Zb4?feature=share

cohanf, to HikingPics
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Happy Earth Day! I'm sure most people on here are at least somewhat aware of issues, I hope something can convince the general public to take things more seriously!
First of the year and a view to across the neighbours'.

View across an early spring pasture with low-grazed dry grass and areas of hay and manure remnants where cattle were fed over winter. Farther back a line of low willows is just starting to show a bit of spring colour. Farther still, distant blue, snow-capped mountains, above a row of cumulus clouds, a hint of blue sky showing and above, nearer, blue grey clouds showing light showers trying to reach the ground.

cohanf, to Alberta
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Late for the UK- but since I'm home/not yet outdoors on a Sunday afternoon and just at the edge of the growing season, here's a post for ! Photos from last week, of the season: -Populus tremuloides +Willow- one of our several native species. Bonus non-native on the Aspen- supposed to be wind pollinated! + one of several types of seen on the Willows (along with honeybees)

A couple of aspen twigs, silvery green with leaf buds at tips covered in red-brown shiny pointy bud scales. Blurred background of other branches with bits of blue sky showing through. To one side, a twig is topped with a cluster of dangling catkins a 2-3 inches long, soft, fluffy greyish fuzz with tiny blobs of red clusters showing through- the pollen sacs- open here and there showing yellow. A single honey bee, already carrying a good load of yellow pollen is intently working, head down on one of the catkins., mid upper left.

lifewithtrees, to random
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And then, one suddenly finds themselves to be 42.

🥰🤔😝

cohanf,
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@NatureMC @mstdn.social darn, I totally missed that answer when I passed 42, and now it's so long ago I wouldn't remember it anyway... 😆
Happy Birthday or belated, whichever it is now @lifewithtrees

18+ cohanf, to spiders
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season is gaining momentum here though spring is an on and off thing! Posted my first observation of the year to Jumping caught a in front of the house
vids on +

(10 minutes after writing this, forecast wind and showers/flurries blew in, rain quickly changing to huge flake/clumps of snow!)

https://inaturalist.ca/observations?place_id=any&user_id=cohanf&verifiable=any

https://spectra.video/w/u3ZZdkphn5rmk1R1yWnhbC

https://youtube.com/shorts/L8ibboYV5TQ?feature=share

Another view, other side, a bit closer-small but not tiny spider, black with light coloured hairs around face and on leg joints, along with some lightish tan coloured markings on joints and around edges of abdomen. It is tightly grasping a medium size black fly with copper coloured eyes. Background is a light to medium blue plastic tarp composed of small squares.
side view of same spider/fly as first photo, with text that says "Okay, enough pictures, let me have my lunch!" in alternating lines of gold and blue text.

cohanf,
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@NatureMC haha, well, I'm sure some goddess or Little Mother must be responsible for spiders! Spider Mother visits me often enough that I don't give her credit, maybe 😀

mythologyandhistory, to history
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Did you know that the oldest known #adhesive was also chewing gum?

#Birch tar is in its simplest form, burned birch #bark. It forms a sticky black pitch that can be used as glue.

Evidence for #human (& #Neanderthal) use has been dated to 200k or the Old #Stone Age.

Birch tar is also a disinfectant & it has been found as a chewing gum in various locations in Europe.

One birch gum piece from 5700 yrs ago, contained a complete human #genome of a woman.

#history #paleolithic

cohanf,
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@mythologyandhistory I've known of this substance from archaeological mentions, but never stopped to wonder if it might be easy to make- I've wanted a good durable natural adhesive for certain kinds of art projects.....

NatureMC, to Meditation
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"Stay curious!" Today I experimented with this prototype of a portable pocket shrine or lucky charm. The piece can be hung open on the wall or carried as a small bag, or even worn around the neck with a ribbon. Inspired by 19th century , by art books, amulets, old meditation pictures, and cabinets of curiosities. Could there be people who buy such things? 🤔

Inside every part holds a mixed-media collage. In the middle silk scraps with a photo of a historic woman scientist working with a microscope, the word "curiosity" and lichens on bark. Top: a real seed pod, the seeds are glass beads. The pod is applied to silk and embroidered with golden leaves. Right: Embroidered moss and a silver snail amulet. Left: a silver spiral on silk. Bottom: a 1920s poster of an abstract microscope with the words "Keeping up with science".
The backside of the whole shrine. The shape is roughly cruciform. A square area in the centre is surrounded on the sides by small rounded flaps; the flaps are larger at the top and bottom.

cohanf,
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@NatureMC I've long wanted to play with this idea, but haven't really done it yet. When I was in Mexico, there were (I forget what they called them) -protective boards, like small canvas boards for painting, then all kinds of things- crosses, buddha, virgin mary, horse shoes etc all stuck to the board, and the whole thing shrink wrapped in plastic! Various combinations of items for various concerns. I bought one :)

cohanf,
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@NatureMC more like the nichos, (still haven't remembered what they were calling them, if I even knew at the time!) -but like I said- the items glued to a canvas board, then shrink-wrapped in plastic. Yes, the combination of Catholic and everything else was the especially interesting part! I have more to say about the market where I bought it, but time to get ready for work..lol

cohanf,
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@NatureMC Well- my school had nothing even close to this...lol

cohanf,
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@NatureMC a very different relationship with history and with human remains! Growing up here, there weren't even old buildings! I did have a connection to the past through stone tools- arrow , spear points, scrapers etc from earlier indigenous inhabitants, that we would find in the fields! But I don't think I saw a single human bone! Now animal remains is another story!

cohanf, to Plants
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1)Some blab, videos + photos of a couple of tropical plants that I had to rescue- from me! I had a bit too much to say about soils, watering, etc, so I made a blog post with the 2 videos + a bonus vid of a flowering cactus.
I'm testing Wordpress, so I posted the same thing there and at blogger. The videos are on YouTube, Spectra links in replies.
https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/04/killing-tropicals-belatedly-saving.html
https://cohanmagazine.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/killing-tropicals/
@plants

Semi close view of backlit leaves of Peperomia albovittata Piccolo Banda. From this direction, in this light, the almost heart-shaped leaves appear medium green with blood red venation. At this stage of growth, the leaves are coming nearly from the soil with very little stem.
Murdannia loriformis Bright Star a small plant with strap shaped leaves that taper to a point, a bit wider in middle. they are a medium slightly yellow-green with a wide band across the centre of silver-grey-green. Leaves come from a central rosette with a short stem and new rosettes come from the base. I has a delicate branched flowering stem with one tiny open white flower and a number of buds. Around the base of the plant are tiny green leaves with red reverse, the sprawling stems of Peperomia verticillata. Most of the plant is in shade, with a shaft of sunlight hitting the foremost leaf in the centre, and the open flower.

cohanf,
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@NatureMC haha, thanks. In my ongoing and highly successful campaign to make my life more complicated, for nowI will be adding to it in tandem with the existing blogger site..lol I'm not actually certain whether the WP site is visible to anyone yet, I see something about adding 3 posts, which I haven't yet..

kas, to houseplants

My Hoya linearis, that is hanging in the garden all summer, usually blooms when I take it inside in the autumn when the night temperature reaches about 5°C.

This year it has decided that now is the time. It actually suits me well because the flowers are too heavily perfumed for my bedroom.

Now I'm keen to see if there are any Danish night insects that take interest in the flowers, so that I may have some seeds. It would be great to start a new pot from seeds, wouldn't it.

/cc [ linearis | | @plants | @houseplants | | | ]

Blurry picture of the plants seen from beneath in an attempt to better reveal the flower structure.

cohanf,
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@kas @houseplants @plants fun! 🙂

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