Happy flower burst - Happy New Year!
Northern Saw-whet Owl / Aegolius acadicus
Eyes wide open
Majestic
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Stone-faced
Cold stare
See my nasal tufts?
King of the Spruce tree
Orange and yellow
Junior, showing off
A real character
Patterns in black and white
Blue Morpho
Tail and all
Tussock Moth caterpillar
A Pyraloid Moth
Brilliant camouflage
Yep, it's that time of the year again
Gull
Strawflower
Mushroom magic
A farmyard find
Early Yellow Locoweed
Noxious, but beautiful
Up close and personal
Mallard female
The Story of Life, Tyrrell Museum
Fine feathers of a female Mallard
Finely iridescent
Feather finery of a female Mallard
Posing nicely
A filtered Poppy
Sunflower detail
Cracker sp.
Globe Thistle / Echinops ritro
Face to the sun
One of a kind
Bursting
Glorious autumn colour
Long time no see
Out of the darkness - for the Chilean miners and t…
Stink Bug
Bluer than the sky
Is this a Shield Bug?
Marbled Orbweaver / Araneus marmoreus
Tall Larkspur seed capsules / Delphinium glaucum
Western Toad
Such a cutie
Different!
Young Red-winged Blackbird
Leopard Lacewing
House Sparrow fledgeling
Unfurling
Eastern Kingbird
Tiger Beetle
Barred Owl
American White Pelican
Lily
A fine ambassador
Glorious colour
The power of red
Into the big, wide world
Blue Morpho
Purple elegance
Blue Clipper
Pink Cattleheart, Parides iphidamas
Common Sargeant, Athyma perius
Gray Cracker
Dutchman's Pipe
A touch of white
Female Evening Grosbeak
Well done, Team USA!
Mother Nature's skill
Bald is beautiful
Ice angles
Spectacled Owl
Busy Dad and Mom
Cracks and wrinkles
My thoughts turn to spring
Survival of the fittest
Growing up
Bars within the soul
In the nick of time
Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans!
Short-eared Owl
Ha, ha, ha - good one
Nuthatch with a mohawk
Pretty little shroom
Helmeted Guineafowl
Bejewelled
Split gill
Contrast
Colours of happiness
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Gray Cracker / Hamadryas februa
I think I have the correct ID for this beautiful butterfly, seen in the ENMAX Conservatory at the Calgary Zoo last year, on 26th April 2010.
Added much later: I received this video this evening, called Mushroom Death Suit. It's about seven and a half minutes in length and presents quite a fascinating idea by a young woman. This is about creating a new hybrid mushroom that could be trained to clean toxins from dead bodies and "eat" them, thus preventing the release of so many toxins that we have in our bodies. Cremation or burial both release these toxins into the air or into the earth. Might be interesting to a few of you : )
youtu.be/MSiCSPP0ng4
"Bioartist Jae Rhim Lee has invented a flesh-eating Mushroom Death Suit.
It's exactly what it sounds like. Since 2008, Lee has been culturing mushrooms to decompose her flesh, hair, nails, and other body parts.
According to the CDC, we have 219 toxic chemicals in our bodies that end up back in the eco-system when we die no matter what we do.
So we keep polluting even after we die. If we are embalmed and buried in a conventional casket, we are part of the 827,000 gallons of embalming fluid and 90,000 tons of steel going into graveyards every year in the United States. Cremation? It still puts toxins and carbon emissions into the air. Lee claims that 5,000 lbs of mercury from dental fillings alone are released every year this way.
Even a green burial does not address the toxins in our bodies leaking into the ground.
Lee's mushroom death suit is an alternate burial system that uses mushrooms to decompose and clean toxins in our bodies. See the crocheted netting on the garment? That is embedded with mushroom spores.
She's been developing a new strain of fungus, the Infinity Mushroom, that feeds on and remediates the industrial toxins we store in our bodies, converting them efficiently into nutrients.
Jae Rhim Lee has figured out how to convert toxic corpses into clean compost! Talk about really thinking ahead! Bravo!"
--Bibi Farber
This video was produced by Ted Talks. Info taken from YouTube.
Added much later: I received this video this evening, called Mushroom Death Suit. It's about seven and a half minutes in length and presents quite a fascinating idea by a young woman. This is about creating a new hybrid mushroom that could be trained to clean toxins from dead bodies and "eat" them, thus preventing the release of so many toxins that we have in our bodies. Cremation or burial both release these toxins into the air or into the earth. Might be interesting to a few of you : )
youtu.be/MSiCSPP0ng4
"Bioartist Jae Rhim Lee has invented a flesh-eating Mushroom Death Suit.
It's exactly what it sounds like. Since 2008, Lee has been culturing mushrooms to decompose her flesh, hair, nails, and other body parts.
According to the CDC, we have 219 toxic chemicals in our bodies that end up back in the eco-system when we die no matter what we do.
So we keep polluting even after we die. If we are embalmed and buried in a conventional casket, we are part of the 827,000 gallons of embalming fluid and 90,000 tons of steel going into graveyards every year in the United States. Cremation? It still puts toxins and carbon emissions into the air. Lee claims that 5,000 lbs of mercury from dental fillings alone are released every year this way.
Even a green burial does not address the toxins in our bodies leaking into the ground.
Lee's mushroom death suit is an alternate burial system that uses mushrooms to decompose and clean toxins in our bodies. See the crocheted netting on the garment? That is embedded with mushroom spores.
She's been developing a new strain of fungus, the Infinity Mushroom, that feeds on and remediates the industrial toxins we store in our bodies, converting them efficiently into nutrients.
Jae Rhim Lee has figured out how to convert toxic corpses into clean compost! Talk about really thinking ahead! Bravo!"
--Bibi Farber
This video was produced by Ted Talks. Info taken from YouTube.
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