The 77th RainForest Site :Wildclickers are celebrating March

The Sierra's singin' Spring today!! Light rain with mild temps and the lylacs, rosa banks, and groundcover colors, lawns, the lily tree, oleanders, white blooms from the tree i have no clue what....{one day i'll research} anyhooo, a good day for just sittin' home and viewing. House and yardwork can wait.

Great photos ul, and Walter.

Another beautiful day here. Now the second day of Easter is over.
Lots of humming bees today.


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Walter seems to have a sweet tooth- tempting cakes.

They say so :wink:



Not Lienzer or Sacher Torte .... but really niiiiice, too.





(I'd wanted to take some photos from the blossoming rhododendrons on the cemeteary in my native town - but we were there with mother today ...)

Those cups and plates look like they're from mrs. hamburger's house - and a bit like my Hutschenreuther set

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You and your 300 friends have supported 2,726,820.6 square feet!

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1 Aktbird57 .. 1601 62.599 acres

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heading toward 63 acres ... still snowing lightly when I walked home from the bus stop tonight.

Busy day, late clicks - good looking cakes......

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Not soooo nice and sunny today - <click> - but the cherry tree in front of the house started blossoming

Great photos all - - - they look really nice.

I'm clicked.

Beautiful photos ul, and Walter!

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Weather perfect for gardening, trimming, etc. The photo is of the Heavenly Bamboo. What makes the plants special is the color it provides in the garden, during all four seasons of the year. In the spring, the new foliage emerges as bright bronzed red, and is soon followed by large, six to twelve inch panicles of creamy white flowers.
As the season changes, the foliage becomes blue green, fading to light green. Clusters of bright green berries replace the flowers. By late summer, the berries will ripen to a bright red.
In the fall, the foliage color again begins to change to shades of pink and red, ending the year with bright red leaves and berries.

Walter, that ashtray on the cake&coffee table in your photograph is the exact twin of the one I have sitting by my elbow as I type this!

Back from dance class. A little ache-y, in a good way - and clicking.

aktbird57 - You and your 300 friends have supported 2,727,569.8 square feet!

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1 Aktbird57 .. 1601 62.613 acres

Heh - you really should have visited us when you were here!
(It's not nice to take ashtrays from restaurant, though :wink: )

Something serious now:


Selling off the rainforest - a modern-day scandal

source: The Guardian, 11.04.07, page 3

Corruption and greed. Very disturbing stats, walter.

I know you all recall my rants regarding the bushco Dept of the Interior when they were first 'chosen' to literally sell American lands and wildlife to the highest bidders.

From the Sierra Club (couldn't have said it better}

Issue #204
April 4, 2007
Dept. of the InFerior
Josh Dorner, RAW Contributor


The Bush administration is like a hydra -- the many-headed monster of Greek mythology -- just when you get rid of one corrupt official, another even more-corrupt official appears in its place. I think they have a big sign in the White House cafeteria indicating the number of days since the last indictment. I hear they get pretty excited when it gets into the double digits. The latest tale of wrongdoing comes from the ever-troubled Dept. of the Interior, whose former second in command, J. Steven Griles, just pleaded guilty to crimes in the Abramoff scandal. The latest misdeeds involve one Julie MacDonald, a top ranking official at Interior who oversees the critical work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service.
The Inspector General at Interior recently released a report cataloguing the numerous occasions in which she overruled agency scientists, many of whom claim she was an "attack dog" who "terrorized" them, in making key habitat decisions, among others. Now we're growing accustomed to such behavior from the Bush administration, so Ms. MacDonald must have felt compelled to really outdo herself.

MacDonald, who admitted she had no background in natural sciences, made crucial habitat decisions that the IG's office found were "without a semblance of agency reasoning," including ordering one biologist not to let the designated range of the willow flycatcher flow from Arizona into California because "her husband had a family ranch there." {duh}

The real kicker though is who she decided to share sensitive internal documents with. She forwarded internal EPA documents on water contamination to Chevron employees and shared numerous other documents with the Pacific Legal Foundation and the California Farm Bureau -- both groups that consistently oppose habitat and species designations. Not content to simply use old-fashioned email to illegally leak documents to industry lobbyists, she decided it would be a fabulous idea to share documents with some random person she'd met while playing online role-playing games. She claims that she turned to the games due to the stress of her job.

NOTE: The DOI are all"former" oil and energy company lawyers and lobbyists - appointed by gwb and co.

I think the only thing keeping the "Dub" out of jail is his father. When Papa goes, the Bush Dynasty will more than likely fall apart. And, good riddence.

during the Medicare scandal little brother JEB was declared by the ((Federal Investigators)) as being to stupid to prosecute. They stood by and allowed the partner of JEB to escape the country. Shame...... But, JEB kept millions of our tax dollars and no one seems to really give a ****.

Then there was Neil of the Silverado Savings and Loan scandal - two billion out of taxpayers pockets and Neil still managed to keep two hundred and fifty million of our tax dollars and nothing happened to him - - - really dumb of us.

Then, there is the brother of our current president that no one seems to know about - Marvin. He is a mystery. I wonder why?? Papa has something up his dead sleeve after he passes on.

I know, I'm jaded in my old age......

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Thanks for the great reports, Walter - and re. your ashtray, Andrew....

You have already seen a photo of my Patti's Sacher ashtray - Yes, Walter, our Wien friends call her my Clepto....

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I'm getting together some photos of my Mom.

The bill may lead to more efficient sustainable energy legislation sooner.

The composition of the new Congress offers us the brightest prospects we have seen in years to pass strong federal renewable energy policy through a renewable electricity standard (also known as a Renewable Portfolio Standard or RPS).

Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), head of the Senate Energy Committee, has said he will support a 15 percent national renewable electricity standard.

As of April 4, 2007, 48 Senators have signed a "dear colleague" letter supporting the renewable electricity standard.

The House renewable standard bill, introduced February 8, 2007 by Tom Udall (D-NM), Todd Platts (R-PA) and others, would require that utilities generate or buy 20 percent clean, renewable energy by 2020. Fifty-nine representatives have co-sponsored the bill.

We do give a ****! Problem is, justice and the courts can't move fast enough after the past eight years of wh corruption - and the years bush sr. planned the 'new world order' crap with his right wing cronies.

There are more than enough people who'd luv nothing more than seeing those jerks in prison. Convince the Senate of that though.