Category: Nature
Beijing Uses Nutrient Bags for Trees
In Beijing, China the ground is very dry and has a layer of dust from the Gobi Desert. Whenever that layer of dust gets wet it solidifies and becomes hard like concrete which doesn’t provide a lot of nutrients for vegetation. It looks weird when initially seeing it because it looks like an IV bag, …
Interesting Fact About Manure
In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything for export had to be transported by ship. It was also before the invention of commercial fertilizers, so large shipments of manure were quite common. It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, …
Squirrel Superhero Pose
During this time of the COVID-19, otherwise known as the Coronavirus, I have been feeding a local squirrel. I’ve been feeding it different things to see which it prefers as I am trying to make it fat like the gopher off the movie “Caddy Shack.” A friend sent me a meme that showed how squirrels …
Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona
Winslow, Arizona is the home to a gigantic hole in the earth called Meteor Crater. This hole is so big it could fit downtown San Francisco in it. Here are a couple photos that I took with different camera equipment. The second photo I had to stitch multiple photos together to fit the whole crater …