All Blog Posts Tagged 'open' (12)

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In which John Green gives advice to students returning to school for summer break, discusses the reasons public education exists, and celebrates the landing of…

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Dear John,

First, I must open with gratitude. Thank you and all those involved for The Fault in Our Stars. My dad has terminal cancer and even though he is far older than the characters of your novel, I still feel like I have a better grasp on how to love him even when his asshole tumors kick in. Not only did I feel like the topic of the novel was something I was a bit better able to relate to, but I also thought that TFiOS was…

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Hey guys,

 

this is for all metal lovers and specially if you are from Portugal... and for those who would like to know more about it... and also for anyone that is interested XD

 

Today (this was suppose to be posted on the same day but I got too busy so I'm telling you this almost a week later -_-) there were announced two more bands for a portuguese metal festival that is going to happen in August, in Vagos: Opeth and Kalmah. :O  …

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Dear coloured tiles in the hall

why must you be so far apart on this white floor, We both know they are forbidden to step on so if i must avoid them could you move closer to each other so i can walk through this hall I’m late for class and do not have time for strategies. And someone was looking at me funny for…

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i forgot to make a blog yesterday... again. sorry, BEDA!!! T-T



anyway, today, i started my developing my pictures for my photo project. so far, most of them came out nicely, which i'm very shocked about. last time i did something like this, only about 10 of them came out, and i wound up taking a bunch of re-takes. :P



I might post some of them on here when i'm done. :3



also, this new song came out, Open Happiness, that was put together by Butch Walker. it's a… Continue

A few weeks later, the field still looks pretty much the same from my house. Out the window, you wouldn't know that the prairie dogs are gone. The weeds in the former colony are still short and the prairie dog mounds still prominent. Based on other ghost colonies I've seen, the mounds can last for at least a few years. Closer up, there have been a few subtle vegetation changes since the prairie dogs were killed. There's a small patch of snow on the mountain blooming, and another of curly cup… Continue

My prairie dogs are all dead. When I got home from work, Whitney said she'd noticed on her walk that almost all of the holes were plugged up with dirt, and there was a dead prairie dog lying on the ground. Then I heard from my dad what I've always feared – there was a city truck and signs this morning that said “Westminster prairie dog management: Stay on path.”



It poured rain today, probably the biggest rain we've had this year. It would have been so nice, but once I learned that,… Continue

A method occured to me the other day about how we could actually win the battle against weeds (and other invasive species) if we really wanted to. All we have to do is restructure our economy, so that instead of being built to serve humans, the economy is focused on serving nature. Then IPM would be a major industry, employing tens of thousands of people in the Denver area alone, and instead of a few small weed crews watching in frustration as weeds take over even as they battle valiantly to… Continue

Wednesday: Muckraking. We raked muck muck out of a tepid tributary to Boulder Creek. We we there to pull Eurasian watermill foil from the little creek, but we couldn't see the bottom for all the algae floating on top. So, we raked it out. It was a pretty swampy creek, but the dragonflies were cool. There were electric blue dragonflies, many of them mating and laying their eggs. One pair, firmly attached to each other, flew down and landed on a floating blade of grass, and, for a moment, they… Continue

Monday and Tuesday presented various opportunities for gruesome death, and those days are always interesting. We finally got to tackle some Russian olive trees, a weed for which I have an almost unusual level of personal distaste (and so do the chainsaw wielding members of the forest crew, who actually had to wrestle the beasts to the ground.) Opportunity for gruesome death number one was the multiple chainsaws. Number two was the chipper, a lovely machine with a diagram on the side of a stick… Continue

Combing open spaces for weeds, it happens that we also see a lot of bones. Our open spaces are littered with the bones of animals past. I almost never see animal remains on a trail, but since this job started, we've found skulls (and in one case a disturbingly fresh head) representing six families of mammals from four orders. If you want specifics -- and I know you do -- here they are:



1. Order Rodentia (rodents)

Family: Sciuridae (squirrels)

Genus/species:… Continue

Whitney and I went for a walk yesterday, and we couldn't have picked a clouder, windier day for it. Really, the conditions were pretty unpleasant. Luckily for us, hiking in bad weather builds character, or something. It was a trail I've never seen, despite its nearness -- the Coalton trail in Superior, off of McCaslin Blvd. It was a few miles east of the trailhead for the Greenbelt Plateau trail that we hiked on Valentine's. It was a strange trail -- really more of an unpaved road -- that was… Continue