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Pictures for Pam, Day 46: Happy Holidays!
(originally posted in 2018 on Christmas Eve)
It's Christmas Eve here in southern Oregon! If it was cold like it was a couple of days ago, snow would be falling heavily right now. Instead it's raining hard and has been since I got up at my usual crack of dawn. It's a bummer because I was hoping for a white Christmas but it's not going to happen. And, even though tomorrow will be cold enough for snow, the day will be clear so we are out of luck...phooey! Oh well!
The rain clouds held back the lightening sky so it was almost dark enough for a flashlight when I stepped out for my daily walk. Splashing down the driveway I peered around for possible stray cats and dogs falling from the clouds—boy was it coming down! The noise on my umbrella was so loud that I couldn't have my usual internal conversation about thoughts for the day. Maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to just walk along and look through the pouring rain and into the forest and meadow. Actually, it was quite Zen. No distractions, just Being. Very peaceful.
After about an hour the rain finally let up and I put my umbrella on the porch. It was light out now and the world seemed like it was happy to take a break from the relentless deluge. I listened to my podcasts and enjoyed myself.
On my last lap, I was walking up our hill when I noticed an odd filament on the road. Something about it was really strange and I kneeled down to take a closer look. It looked like a 1.5-foot/45.72cm piece of really thin wire coated in a creamy brown color. "Well, that's weird..." I thought to myself. "What is that?" I wondered if Steve dropped an odd piece of wire on the road, or maybe it was a stripped root of some kind.
It moved.
In a combination of horror and excitement I yelled, "WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?!! IT'S ALIVE!" I stared in absolute disbelief at the strange filament that was ever so slowly coiling and waving around on the road. As I stared, the weeks spent studying invertebrates in my Zoology class a zillion years ago came hurtling into my head. "WOAH!! DUDES!! IT'S A WORM!!!"
I could hardly believe I was doing this, but I reached down and ever-so-gently picked it up. It was like holding the thinnest snake I'd ever handled, but I managed to sort of drape it over my fingers as I would a snake. At which point it slid off and landed on the road again. I tried again. This time it didn't slip off and I held it up to my face to get a really close look. Which was its front end? Hmm...one end was a bit squared off, and I guessed it might have actually been longer at some point because it appeared to be cut off there. The other end looked like an extremely miniature version of an earthworm's head. I exclaimed in delight, "SO COOL!" Suddenly, I had a mission.
Carrying my umbrella in one hand and my bizarre wormy buddy in the other, I made my way hastily up our hill. Steve needed to see this! It will blow him away! As luck would have it, Steve was walking out to greet me as I neared the house.
"STEVE! I FOUND THE WIERDEST THING EVER!! LOOK!!!" He came over and I held out my hand so he could see the strange creature. Suitably impressed and fascinated, Steve pointed out its shortened back end. We both wondered how long it might have been originally. 1.5-foot/45.72cm seemed awfully long already. Kinda creepy.
I walked over to the meadow and gently placed it on the dirt. Part of me was totally grossed-out, but I was really happy to find such a strange animal on our property. I wondered what kind of worm it was. However, one thing I knew about worms is that there are a LOT of them. We're talking over a MILLION. The odds of me identifying exactly which one seemed unlikely but with that Earthworm head, I thought I might have a chance. To my great surprise, it only took about five minutes to discover what it was--a Horsehair Worm! (And they are in the same family as Earthworms!) And, though they are normally as long as 14"/35.56cm, some be 6.5 feet/2 meters!! UGH! The good news is that adults don't eat. Only the larvae are parasitic and go after insects.
Oh dear, I hope I haven't disgusted everyone! Please forgive me...wildlife of all kinds fascinates me so I hope you haven't lost your lunch on account of my unusual animal discovery!
Today's picture is a minimalist snowy holiday card! A few years ago it was snowing and I set up our 100-300mm lens in our doorway and took pictures of the birds that visited our feeders. This darling is an Oregon Junco and is among my favorite birds. Did you notice how huge and fluffy it is?! AHHHHH!!! SO CUTE!!! :D
Pam, I hope that this Christmas Eve finds you doing as well as can be and better than you have been doing. Every little step forward is progress, no matter how small. I hope that my healing energy finds its way to you and gives you a burst of energy! Thinking of you always!
Explored on 12/25/18, highest placement, #1.
It's Christmas Eve here in southern Oregon! If it was cold like it was a couple of days ago, snow would be falling heavily right now. Instead it's raining hard and has been since I got up at my usual crack of dawn. It's a bummer because I was hoping for a white Christmas but it's not going to happen. And, even though tomorrow will be cold enough for snow, the day will be clear so we are out of luck...phooey! Oh well!
The rain clouds held back the lightening sky so it was almost dark enough for a flashlight when I stepped out for my daily walk. Splashing down the driveway I peered around for possible stray cats and dogs falling from the clouds—boy was it coming down! The noise on my umbrella was so loud that I couldn't have my usual internal conversation about thoughts for the day. Maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to just walk along and look through the pouring rain and into the forest and meadow. Actually, it was quite Zen. No distractions, just Being. Very peaceful.
After about an hour the rain finally let up and I put my umbrella on the porch. It was light out now and the world seemed like it was happy to take a break from the relentless deluge. I listened to my podcasts and enjoyed myself.
On my last lap, I was walking up our hill when I noticed an odd filament on the road. Something about it was really strange and I kneeled down to take a closer look. It looked like a 1.5-foot/45.72cm piece of really thin wire coated in a creamy brown color. "Well, that's weird..." I thought to myself. "What is that?" I wondered if Steve dropped an odd piece of wire on the road, or maybe it was a stripped root of some kind.
It moved.
In a combination of horror and excitement I yelled, "WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?!! IT'S ALIVE!" I stared in absolute disbelief at the strange filament that was ever so slowly coiling and waving around on the road. As I stared, the weeks spent studying invertebrates in my Zoology class a zillion years ago came hurtling into my head. "WOAH!! DUDES!! IT'S A WORM!!!"
I could hardly believe I was doing this, but I reached down and ever-so-gently picked it up. It was like holding the thinnest snake I'd ever handled, but I managed to sort of drape it over my fingers as I would a snake. At which point it slid off and landed on the road again. I tried again. This time it didn't slip off and I held it up to my face to get a really close look. Which was its front end? Hmm...one end was a bit squared off, and I guessed it might have actually been longer at some point because it appeared to be cut off there. The other end looked like an extremely miniature version of an earthworm's head. I exclaimed in delight, "SO COOL!" Suddenly, I had a mission.
Carrying my umbrella in one hand and my bizarre wormy buddy in the other, I made my way hastily up our hill. Steve needed to see this! It will blow him away! As luck would have it, Steve was walking out to greet me as I neared the house.
"STEVE! I FOUND THE WIERDEST THING EVER!! LOOK!!!" He came over and I held out my hand so he could see the strange creature. Suitably impressed and fascinated, Steve pointed out its shortened back end. We both wondered how long it might have been originally. 1.5-foot/45.72cm seemed awfully long already. Kinda creepy.
I walked over to the meadow and gently placed it on the dirt. Part of me was totally grossed-out, but I was really happy to find such a strange animal on our property. I wondered what kind of worm it was. However, one thing I knew about worms is that there are a LOT of them. We're talking over a MILLION. The odds of me identifying exactly which one seemed unlikely but with that Earthworm head, I thought I might have a chance. To my great surprise, it only took about five minutes to discover what it was--a Horsehair Worm! (And they are in the same family as Earthworms!) And, though they are normally as long as 14"/35.56cm, some be 6.5 feet/2 meters!! UGH! The good news is that adults don't eat. Only the larvae are parasitic and go after insects.
Oh dear, I hope I haven't disgusted everyone! Please forgive me...wildlife of all kinds fascinates me so I hope you haven't lost your lunch on account of my unusual animal discovery!
Today's picture is a minimalist snowy holiday card! A few years ago it was snowing and I set up our 100-300mm lens in our doorway and took pictures of the birds that visited our feeders. This darling is an Oregon Junco and is among my favorite birds. Did you notice how huge and fluffy it is?! AHHHHH!!! SO CUTE!!! :D
Pam, I hope that this Christmas Eve finds you doing as well as can be and better than you have been doing. Every little step forward is progress, no matter how small. I hope that my healing energy finds its way to you and gives you a burst of energy! Thinking of you always!
Explored on 12/25/18, highest placement, #1.
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Here I have a White Christmas, but only just, about ½ an inch of snow where it was not walked or driven on. temp -1.2 C
Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year.
Happy Holidays, Janet!
Merry Christmas Janet.
Die Sehnsucht nach Schnee an Weihnachten ist immer wieder groß.
Frohe Weihnachten und ein glückliches neues Jahr auch Dir und Deiner Familie.
Erich
JOYEUX NOËL
Janet have nice happy Christmasdays ...
a hug aNNa*
and I got goose bumps and it scared me.
Everything that snakes causes horrible seconds. I am almost paralyzed.
The mind says 'stay calm'! and I can overcome myself. But still there is always this huge dislike, fear, disgust ...
I had 2 composts when I had a garden, and there were many earthworms living there, every time I touched them a bit, sometimes even in a ball ... and I would have run away .. I know they are very useful, and Every time I found an individual in the street after the rain, I carried him over a stick hanging in the grass ... despite the disgust.
And now this your kind of nematode worms ... grrrr !!!
The string worms are among the groups of animals that have so far been largely ignored in research. Accordingly, little is known about this group of animals compared to other taxa. The first clear mention was a string worm in the Historia Animalium (1551-1587) by Conrad Gessner, where the string worms are named after the popular name as water calf or Latin Vitulus aquaticus. At this time, however, there was the typical, in 1758 with the famous 10th edition of the Systema Naturae by Carl von Linné two-part naming not yet. Within the worms Linnaeus classifies an animal with the name Gordius aquaticus, named after the Gordian knot. He thus referred to the comparison made at the beginning of the 17th century by Aldrovandus of a worm of worms with the famous knot of Greek mythology.
The string worms represent the sister group of roundworms (Nematoda). With this they share a number of features, including the structure of the cuticle and the absence of ring muscles and cilientragenden epidermal cells. The life cycle of the string worms is also identical to that of the most primitive group of roundworms, the Mermithidae, and can be considered as a common feature of the string worms and roundworms.
But I made a little sense and learned that there were already a few fossil specimens found. , Thus, the oldest known roundworms have been discovered in about 120 million years old amber; The oldest string worm comes from the lignite of the Eocene, a maximum of 60 million years ago. Based on these findings, it can be assumed that the string worms have already existed at least at the beginning of the Tertiary, but the actual origin must have been much earlier.>/i>
Quelle: WiKi
Happy Holiday
Merry Christmas Janet !
Many thanks, best wishes to you too !
Never heard of Horsehair Worms till now.......
Merry Christmas.
Juncos -- oh the have arrived .. they are a treat to watch ~!
. You so have the gift for putting into words amusing tales for which is certainly a joy to read.
Also thank you for the interesting info on Worms !!!!!
Thank you Janet !!!
Your image here is just great ! ******
I hope you had a good Christmas and I look forward to seeing more great shots in 2019.
My best wishes, Rosa.
Happy Christmas
A worm is not something that could disgust me, even if I were just eating. :))
Happy and peaceful Christmas to you and Steve!
Please take care and stay well!
Oh dear no snow!!!!! We didn't have any neither. There again - it would be strange for my area to get any, as we are in our own eco-system. It was quite cold yesterday though - we had 1C (34F) but now it's gone up a couple of degrees and it's raining.
I love your picture here. Such a great pose and to see the snow - great. I understood that it was snowing in Oregon, but obviously not where you are.
Happy New Year to you and Steve. Let's hope 2021 is a kinder year to us all. Love and hugs xx
Keep well,
And... best Wishes for the New Year.
Greetings!
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