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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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Mar 29, 2012 - 11:56am PT
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At the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena.
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Tobia
Social climber
GA
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Mar 29, 2012 - 02:52pm PT
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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Mar 29, 2012 - 04:18pm PT
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JJBrunner
climber
Simi Valley, CA
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Mar 29, 2012 - 05:24pm PT
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 29, 2012 - 09:19pm PT
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This one is for you Ms Tami
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roy
Social climber
NZ -> SB,CA -> Zurich
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A roadside stop in Austria...
One has to wonder about the person that built this.
Cheers, Roy
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Debbie was showing me around the garden today... pointing out all the things she likes (which is everything...) and she started to get excited about the Praying Mantises that are just hatching out of their egg case, she's been watching all winter of course.
Well our collective eyesight isn't what it used to be, but anyway it seemed like an opportunity to document yet another natural occurrence, so I went and got the camera...
with the macro lens I had to get up close, and the closeness revealed the story of an ant raid on the egg case, with some of the juvenile Mantises getting away...
here is one encountering the ants, moments later it jumped off the egg case...
and another one having a rest after a harrowing entry into the real world
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Zander
climber
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Hi Ed,
Great photos of life and death drama. Say hi to Debbie for me.
Here are some photos of our garden. We used to have a Sargent's Cherry with a twenty foot canopy. Every square inch was covered with blossoms. It was twice the size of our neighbors tree, which is hampered by the sidewalk. It is the same age as our's would have been if it hadn't passed away, maybe 65 years old. Here's the neighbor's tree.
After ours passed away, the root stock started sprouting. Unfortunately the resulting tree had no blossoms. We decided to try to graft some branches from the neighbors tree onto the root stock shoots. It is now the second spring and two out of the three are still doing well.
In this photo you can see the stump of our old cherry on the left. Next to it is a four inch trunk of one of the volunteer shoots. At the base in the middle and right are the two grafts, now blooming.
Here's a close up of the grafted branch that is doing the best. You can make out the climbers tape I used when grafting is still rapped around it at the base.
We will probably need to figure out a way to graft to a shoot after it reaches four or five feet tall. For now it is just so cool that it actually worked to graft the two types of tree together.
Cheers,
Zander
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Chilko Lk, BC. Yeah, it is way beyond the back of beyond.
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go-B
climber
Habakkuk 3:19 Sozo
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Cr@p, I wonder what the horse whisperer said?
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Gene
climber
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's a great picture!!!!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
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I"m scared of Scott's pic! yikes!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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What's he scared about? He's clean shaven and he can rap to his car.
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Scott Thelen
Trad climber
Truckee, Ca
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I just don't like hooking on sandstone
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Apr 10, 2012 - 11:08pm PT
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International Space Station
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Robb
Social climber
The other side of life
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Apr 17, 2012 - 04:49pm PT
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