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PADDLEBOAT FERRY WHEEL (5.16.07) |
Paddlboat ferries carried
passengers around the San Francisco Bay throughout the 1800s and into
the early 1900s until boats with propellers as well as bridges made
paddleboats slow and obsolete. This old wheel sits on Waldo Point along the northern edge of Sausalito.
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DANDELION GOLDMINE (5.15.07) |
Never mind that Dandelion Goldmine would be a great name for a band, millions are spent to eradicate the little yellow taraxacum officinale each year. Yet, as any herbalist worth his or her leaves knows, there's money to be made off those "weeds." To name a few...there's dandelion wine, dandelion tea, and depending on what culture you're from, a multidude of dandelion medicinal uses.
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 The large round hay bales and the equipment to make them were introduced to the American landscape during the 1970s. Kidsfarm.com provides a very simple outline (with pictures!) of how each bale is made. It also says each bale weighs about 800 pounds. However, another websites swears they weigh anywhere from 1000 to 2000 pounds. Ultimately, does it really matter which website is right? They're freaking heavy, period.Be first to comment this article |
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"In the right stage of the weather a pond fires its evening gun with great regularity."
—Henry David Thoreau
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This would be a mute swan, one of seven types of swans worldwide and the national bird of Denmark. This one happens to be sitting on five eggs, which will hatch around 37 days after whenever they were laid. The male and female parent swans, which are monogamous, share nest duty, but getting any closer to find out if this was mama or papa didn't seem like a good idea.
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How a candle burns is more complicated than you might think, and you can read all about it by clicking here. In the meantime, some factoids: only a quarter of a candle flame's energy is released as heat; it takes 4 percent of that heat to melt the wax; the light blue of a candle flame is the hottest, coming in at 1400-degrees celsius; and the red part of a flame is the coolest, registering about 800-degrees celsius.
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