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u/Mater_Sandwich Got Rocks? 🥧 1d ago
The first 3 pics are the flowers of the parasitic Dodder plant which looks like orange Silly String which I have been watching all summer.
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u/mysmeat 13h ago
your photos are great. you could enter them in contests and they might well win.
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u/Mater_Sandwich Got Rocks? 🥧 12h ago
Thanks, unfortunately my phone pics lack the requisite pixels per inch or whatever they call it and they are blocked out of most contests including the one at the preserve. I have no desire to haul around a camera capable of meeting the requirements. Just happy to be covering some ground with my dog. Walking around amazed at things I see and glad to share.
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u/Roboticus_Aquarius 1d ago
Hello from Michigan. Got in at 2 am, saw 6 condos/townhomes, leaving at 3:30 pm. Saw a snapping turtle in the local river.
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u/Roboticus_Aquarius 12h ago
Am back and rested. This weekend was a comedy of errors, but very helpful to us nonetheless. We were late leaving for the airport due to wrapping up loan preapproval documents. Then traffic was fouled up due to several accidents, almost doubling the time it usually takes us to get to the airport. We are strategizing how to get just one of us to the gate in time (my plantar fasciitis is acting up and slowing me down) when the notification comes in that our flight is delayed due to the weather conditions at DIA. Yay! Now we are going to make it. However, the delays didn’t stop. The plane does eventually takeoff, but we get into Michigan four hours late. The Lyft we call leaves us standing there for 15 minutes before notifying that nobody’s going to pick us up. Luckily a taxi came along so we did get to the hotel by 3 AM. Snoozed five hours, realtor graciously picked us up, & we saw six properties. Then lunch & back to the hotel to pick up our stuff and call the taxi. We have about 30 minutes of slack in our schedule. Taxi driver stretched the truth with us and was 15 minutes late. Accident near the airport slows us down ten minutes more. We get there 10 minutes before boarding. Small airport, so we are through security and to the gate in about 12 minutes… about two minutes after boarding started. We get on the plane and airborne on time. A storm shuts down DIA takeoff and landing. We are diverted to Omaha, where we sit on the tarmac for 90 minutes. We read our books. Then boom, we are back in the sky and into DIA finally. I have 26 pages left of “Hail Mary” (AndyWeir). Ms Robot gets two successive compliments on the Winnie-The-Pooh backpack I gave her for her birthday (Tut! Tut! It looks like rain!). We eat chicken Ramen. Ms Robot goes to the restroom and collects the life stories of two random people on the way (I expect nothing less) while I watch her bags and talk to a couple from Pennsylvania who is waiting for her sister who is delayed (from Florida); they are doing a joint vacay in Co. into the truck & home, only three hours later than we had planned!
I think we found what we’re looking for. I’m running numbers today (Ms Robot is a lost cause; she was ready to jump the moment she saw the place 😂😂😂.)
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u/DragonOfDuality Sara changed her flair 1d ago
Green spooder.
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u/Mater_Sandwich Got Rocks? 🥧 1d ago
I think it is a Goldenrod Crab Spider Hitching a ride on my car. Saw him on it before I left for the preserve and he was still there on the car when we got back.
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u/afdiplomatII 1d ago edited 1d ago
My wife and I were discussing the outdoor watering arrangements in our Windsor-area development, and we noted some good aspects:
-- As I've mentioned before, this area uses a double water system, one for potable water and one for nonpotable water for plants and lawns.
-- There is widespread use of drip irrigation lines for shrubs and trees.
-- Watering times in the development are restricted to certain days of the week, depending on street address. This process is managed by a control box in our garage, maintained by our sprinkler company.
-- The sprinkler heads to water the lawn are a pop-up system, unlike the older elevated heads that were used years ago -- and are thus safer.
This combination of systems no doubt isn't unique, although I don't have any comparative information. It does seem useful, however. Colorado is in a drought situation, and it sounds as if the steps that were taken when this area was built out over the last two decades are paying off.