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Bristlecone pine ringsThis is a massive slice of climate history. It's incredibly valuable, because you can cross-check other parts of earth sciences against each other, so that you can know if carbon dating really works. Or that global warming really is about to kills us all. For a very brief growing season each year, the bristlecone pine makes a new ring. I can't imagine how Edmund Schulman, who was the first to discover exactly how old the Bristlecones were, must have felt when he started counting rings on core samples and realized that, instead of a few hundred years old, these trees were thousands of years old. Even the fallen trees are valuable. They don't decay very fast, so a tree that fell a few centuries ago is still there and can extend the chronology backwards even farther.
Uploaded on Nov 10, 2009
Bristlecone pinesBeen too stressed out lately. Got woken up one too many times in the middle of the night. Things like that. So I'd planned (and then re-planned, because the first plan wasn't working out so well) a trip to the parts of California that I've never seen. The Bristlecone Pines are because of Galen Rowell. See, they are some of the oldest living things on the planet. They live for centuries, with a short growing season and with a bunch of adaptations for having an incredibly slow metabolism to conserve every last resource. They thrive where other trees won't. We were up at 10,000 ft, which is altitude sickness zone.
Uploaded on Nov 9, 2009
Red Rock Canyon California State ParkBeen too stressed out lately. Got woken up one too many times in the middle of the night. Things like that. So I'd planned (and then re-planned, because the first plan wasn't working out so well) a trip to the parts of California that I've never seen. This wasn't intentional. It just turned out that the hills started looking awfully interesting as we drove along the US 395... and then we realized it was a state park. Mrs. Wirehead took this one.
Uploaded on Nov 9, 2009
Big Freakin' MonolithThe thing I like about the G7 is that it's got just that happy little borderline of usefulness. See, if I'm in a downtown location, I can often set my ISO to 400, stand really still, and take an exposure within the range where the anti-shake image stabilization helps. Yeah, if you zoom in at 100%, it looks like crap. But on a decent screen size, it still looks OK.
Uploaded on Nov 9, 2009
HeyIt's a big freaking red chair. What's not to like? :D
Uploaded on Nov 9, 2009 |
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