We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Thoughts and prayers for the brave soul who inserted that sign. There are wonderful human beings on this earth who care more for others than themselves. What an unselfish being. An unsung hero.
Currently attempting to catch up on all of the chaos in the Market Square.
Turn and run.
In my area, we are trying to squelch an invasion of the nutria.
Yikes!
http://www.recordnet.com/news/201804...ff-alarm-bells
Edit: Tim Pelican??
^Looks like a giant muskrat. We have muskrats here, but not an invasion, as far as I know.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
I was hiking a local trail last week and I thought I had encountered some, but when I researched it later it turned out to be cow parsnip, which looks almost the same but only grows to about six or eight feet, whereas giant hogweed grows to 20 feet. Still, I wasn't going to touch it!
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Ya know, it's fascinating to me that whomever it was in Genesis (Gabriel? Banks? Rutherford?) was able to spin a tale that reads, on a lyric sheet, like Day Of The Triffids or the Doctor Who serial Seeds Of Doom), but is in fact based on a newspaper article about an actual, real life invasive plant species.
Alnwick Garden in Northumberland has a 'Poison Garden' with a specimen of giant hogweed in it. I was desperately hoping for a Genesis reference from the guide but it didn't happen. She did at least mention heracleum mantegazzianum.
Nature takes its revenge.
Sleeping at home is killing the hotel business!
That's a coincidence, just happened to take this pic yesterday!!
Scary looking and triffid like.IMG_4760.jpg
I wonder: was The Day of the Triffids perhaps inspired by hogweeds?Originally Posted by refugee
Hard to say. The Wikipedia page on the original novel doesn't mention where author John Wyndham actually came up with the idea of a species of giant, mobile plants being the antagonists of the story, only that Wyndham was apparently influenced by the work of a Soviet agronomist named Trofim Lysenko, who was the top dog of the USSR's Academy of Science during the Stalin and Khrushchev eras. He apparently developed his own theories about genetics, which apparnetly have been debunked. In the novel, the main character theorizes that the triffids were created by genetic meddling, apparently at the behest of Lysenko himself.
But who knows where Wyndham actually got the idea for humanity being terrorized by the triffids.
And in upstate New York: https://www.newyorkupstate.com/expo/...3rddegree.html
Nothing to fear since
venus.jpg
is here
I don't get it. Downtown Brown is here?!
Venus Flytrap.
Oh you should have said so. I couldn't figure out why you were posting a picture of Downtown Brown from Simon & Simon.
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