Althouse: April green at sunrise.

April 25, 2023

April green at sunrise.

The second photo shows the scorched ground from the prescribed burn a couple weeks ago. It's interesting how some of the regrowth is coming up in circles.

35 comments:

MadisonMan said...: As perennials grow from their original clump, they expand out in a circle. That's what I've always assumed. The original part of the plant succumbs as the expansion happens.; 4/25/23, 10:29 AM
wild chicken said...: Looks like Missoula. Some green grass, and leaves just starting to bud. Like March other places.

It seems like it's colder and spring comes later every year but I guess I'm just not busy enough not to notice.; 4/25/23, 10:36 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Nature abhors a vacuum, I heard it said.

Trans is natures response to the dehumanisation of women.

Free love, the pill, quick and easy divorce, abortion on demand; is it right to believe all of those and more would not come at a price? Or do we still believe all of these have been wonderful for women?

“Baby mama” is a nod to the baby’s right not to have his mother be called something less than a woman.; 4/25/23, 10:50 AM
gilbar said...: https://nypost.com/2023/04/24/bud-light-sales-plunge-17-amid-dylan-mulvaney-controversy/
Bud Light suffers ‘staggering’ 17% sales plunge amid Dylan Mulvaney controversy
The latest sales data from NielsenIQ and Bump Williams Consulting shows that Bud Light sales fell 17% in dollars, while volume dropped a whopping 21% in the week ended April 15.

It's Weird! because non Bud Light drinkers, like our Professor; continue to think that having Dylan as the new spokesthing is a GREAT Idea; 4/25/23, 10:51 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/25/23, 10:53 AM
SteveWe said...: The circles are likely the footsteps of the burn crew.; 4/25/23, 10:54 AM
rehajm said...: Funny how these prescribed burns don’t catch grief from climate activists. The eco arsonists don’t either. Funny that…; 4/25/23, 11:09 AM
Gospace said...: And in unprescribed burns- we have lynchings and burnings alive of criminals by mobs. Without involvement by a single person of pallor.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12011009/Haiti-Gang-members-beg-mercy-vigilante-lynch-mob-stones-burns-alive.html

In the UK Daily Mail of course. A quick scan sows no headlined coverage elsewhere.

But I'm sure this will get some attention- headline from teh paywalled WSG so no link: Italy Strips Some Gay Couples of Parental Recognition. Will there be backlash against this move? Or is the move itself backlash? I'm thinking more the latter.; 4/25/23, 11:34 AM
Ampersand said...: The circular growth pattern is odd. I was guessing that access to sun might cause it, but that would produce rows, not circles, and they would be more closely spaced. So the answer likely comes from something about the burn that either caused circular seed diffusion, circular deposition of nutrients like nitrogen or potassium, or allowed clusters of predator insects to survive long enough to eat the root systems that began to form above their nests. I'm guessing circular seed diffusion caused by post burn rainfall that pushed seeds to the edge of puddles.
I do enjoy the nature photography here.; 4/25/23, 11:35 AM
typingtalker said...: Ann wrote, "It's interesting how some of the regrowth is coming up in circles."

In my experience, the center of the circle contains the remains of the original, now-dead plant while the circumferential (when was the last time you typed that word?) growth is made up of offshoots from the original plant.; 4/25/23, 11:47 AM
wendybar said...: Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸
@BillboardChris
An 18-year-old boy died when doctors tried to create a vagina for him using part of his colon.

His colon was used because puberty blockers stopped growth of his genitals, which meant there wasn’t enough tissue to do the penile inversion surgery.
Major complications began within 24 hours of surgery, and necrotising fasciitis was confirmed in the days that followed. Despite large doses of antibiotics and repeated removal of dead or infected tissue, the previously healthy patient went into multiple organ failure and died.
Once again, after this harrowing account of a young person’s needless death, the researchers assure the reader that “vaginal reconstruction” has a “positive influence” on the quality of life of “non-transgender and transgender women," but cautions that “physicians and patients…
The investigation into the young person’s death revealed that the deadly strain of E-Coli most likely came from the patient’s own intestines, not from the hospital setting, meaning that the more risky vaginoplasty surgery necessary due to early puberty suppression almost certainly caused the fatality.
This surgery is being done in children’s hospitals across the U.S.

Dr. Oren Ganor of @BostonChildrens says they “reconstruct things the way they were supposed to be for that patient.”; 4/25/23, 11:51 AM
wendybar said...: "The Biden era is turning America’s youngest voters, the “zoomers,” into doomers.

They’re depressed and fearful — and their confidence in the nation’s institutions, from the police to the Supreme Court, is weakening.
If Democrats are winning the war for the hearts and minds of America’s youth, however, the price of victory may be the poisoning of those same hearts and minds.

The party of hope and change has become the party of despair. For now, the Democrats have the votes of America’s young, yet those voters deem Biden a failure."

https://nypost.com/2023/04/24/liberals-keep-telling-young-people-theyre-doomed-no-wonder-theyre-so-depressed/; 4/25/23, 12:36 PM
madAsHell said...: I've been trying to find Tide detergent at my local Safeway, they never have the big jugs with the valve on top. You know, the bottle you lay on it's side.

It turns out the large Tide detergent jugs are not available on EBT cards. So, they are stolen, and many times re-sold for quick cash.; 4/25/23, 12:38 PM
wendybar said...: "As with Fox, Murdoch used a lawsuit as an excuse for the move. His house-cleaning at Fox includes its audience."

"Russiagate’s lies cost no one their jobs.

The cover-up of Hunter’s laptop cost no one their jobs.

The lies about the Raid on Mar-a-Lago cost no one their jobs.

Welcome to post-truth America. If Carlson is surprised, he has not been paying attention to what has happened to us. We are no longer a great nation because we are led by greedy little bastards who saw nothing wrong with Hillary emailing state secrets to Red China and to foreign donors of her fake charity while secretary of State.

We are led by greedy little bastards who saw nothing wrong with Barack Hussein Obama using the FBI to spy on candidate Donald John Trump.

We are led by greedy little bastards who saw nothing wrong with Biden withholding a billion dollars in aid to Ukraine until it fired the prosecutor who was investigating Burisma, the company that gave his worthless son an $800,000-a-year no-show job."

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/fox-is-the-ray-epps-of-news; 4/25/23, 12:50 PM
iowan2 said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/25/23, 1:01 PM
iowan2 said...: The circles? Not sure, from such a small area. There is a turf fungus called 'fair ring' The fungus fixes nitrogen for the air. The fungus organizes its self in an almost perfect circle. Its the extra nitrogen and the available form it is, that causes the grass to grow faster and be a deeper green. But this is just a guess. I'm not schooled in all the turf maladies.; 4/25/23, 1:01 PM
Jaq said...: So the judge is screening the jury pool to make sure that they are not susceptible to Trump's probable arguments. This is our justice system today. A fixed jury pool with a biased judge is going to brand Trump a rapist. Meanwhile Tara Reade will never get her day in court.

https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1650926759234117658; 4/25/23, 1:38 PM
Jaq said...: Now that Tucker is gone, Fox will have a complete blackout on J6, do you think that Republicans will go ahead with hearings if there will be no coverage? It's not about some poster of Nancy Pelosi in a bikini, like that scene from Slapshot, or was it Major League?; 4/25/23, 2:02 PM
Narr said...: I'm lichen the top photo the moss.; 4/25/23, 2:17 PM
Old and slow said...: If you find yourself celebrating the death of someone because you disagreed with them about politics, you just might be the asshole. It's often said that the left believe that everything is political and view all of life through that prism. It is no more attractive when done from the other side.; 4/25/23, 2:55 PM
Old and slow said...: Whoops, wrong thread. I meant that for the Belafonte thread.; 4/25/23, 2:56 PM
Michelle Dulak Thomson said...: iowan2,

That's also what I thought at first. You start with one original spore, which grows into a mushroom, which dispenses its own spores around it, forming a tiny circle of next-gen mushrooms . . . lather, rinse, repeat. "Fairy rings," not "fair rings." (Never been certain why the spreading outer ring doesn't also spread back inwards, but all I've ever seen are perfect circles of shrooms with nothing at all in the center.)

But these don't actually look circular at all. They look, in fact, footprint-shaped, which makes me think that someone else's suggestion above that they might have something to do with the firefighters' progress through the woods might be correct.; 4/25/23, 3:48 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: I've been trying to find Tide detergent at my local Safeway, they never have the big jugs with the valve on top. You know, the bottle you lay on it's side.

It turns out the large Tide detergent jugs are not available on EBT cards. So, they are stolen, and many times re-sold for quick cash.

At the Overlake Safeway, the Tide packages were moved behind the service desk in a locked cabinet.

Also, the bathrooms have dim, blue lights instead of the bright whites. The Snoqualmie Ridge Safeway has the normal bright white lights. The blue lights are a recent development as the homeless druggies are being moved out from Seattle to Bellevue/Redmond.; 4/25/23, 3:57 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: The second photo shows the scorched ground from the prescribed burn a couple weeks ago.

For the record. The burning was peaceful.; 4/25/23, 5:55 PM
gilbar said...: here's green for ya!
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43657072/evs-fall-short-epa-estimates-sae-article/
EVs Fall Short of EPA Estimates
explained VanderWerp. "We see a big difference in that gap between gas-powered vehicles and the performance of EVs.
On Car and Driver's 75-mph highway test, more than 350 internal-combustion vehicles averaged 4.0 percent better fuel economy than what was stated on their labels. But the average range for an EV was 12.5 percent worse than the price sticker numbers.; 4/25/23, 6:21 PM
Mutaman said...: tim in vermont said...

" Meanwhile Tara Reade will never get her day in court."

Not too hard to get your day in court- hire an attorney, have them serve and file a summons and complaint, and buy an index number. I recall Reade starting that process by retaining prominent Trump donor Douglas Wigdor a while back, but after a few weeks Wigdor announced that he was no longer representing Reade. Haven't heard much from Ms. Reade since. I think the SOL has since passed.; 4/25/23, 6:35 PM
Rusty said...: Cold for Morels. But I found a few anyway both halves an greys. The usual places weren't producing so I had to range further afield. About half a pound. Spooked two huge deer. It's obvious they ate well this winter.; 4/25/23, 6:37 PM
Drago said...: Mutaman: "Not too hard to get your day in court- hire an attorney, have them serve and file a summons and complaint, and buy an index number. I recall Reade starting that process by retaining prominent Trump donor Douglas Wigdor a while back, but after a few weeks Wigdor announced that he was no longer representing Reade. Haven't heard much from Ms. Reade since. I think the SOL has since passed."

Reade was unable to land a billionaire like Carroll did with Reid Hoffman who is footing the bill for the political hit lawsuit.; 4/25/23, 10:08 PM
wendybar said...: " Meanwhile Tara Reade will never get her day in court."

Not too hard to get your day in court- hire an attorney, have them serve and file a summons and complaint, and buy an index number. I recall Reade starting that process by retaining prominent Trump donor Douglas Wigdor a while back, but after a few weeks Wigdor announced that he was no longer representing Reade. Haven't heard much from Ms. Reade since. I think the SOL has since passed.

4/25/23, 6:35 PM

If the SOL has passed for Tara Reade, then it passed 20 years ago for the woman who is suing Trump. That (didn't) happen 30 years ago, but she has an agenda to stop Trump from being President.; 4/26/23, 4:42 AM
Mutaman said...: Drago said...

"Reade was unable to land a billionaire like Carroll did with Reid Hoffman who is footing the bill for the political hit lawsuit."

Actually Wigdor was representing Reade pro bono but after a few weeks he realized she was full of shit and withdrew as her attorney.; 4/26/23, 1:20 PM
Drago said...: Mutaman: "Actually Wigdor was representing Reade pro bono but after a few weeks he realized she was full of shit and withdrew as her attorney."

Actually Wigdor's statement shows you to be as full if s*** as you always are:

"Wigdor offered no specific reason, but said his decision was "by no means a reflection on whether then-Senator Biden sexually assaulted Ms. Reade."

Has it simply become habit for you to lie so obviously and casually and in such easily disproven fashion?

Spoiler: we already know the answer.

Thanks for playing.; 4/26/23, 9:57 PM
Drago said...: Wigdor went on: "Much of what has been written about Ms. Reade is not probative of whether then-Senator Biden sexually assaulted her, but rather is intended to victim-shame and attack her credibility on unrelated and irrelevant matters," Douglas H. Wigdor said. "We have and will continue to represent survivors regardless of their alleged predator's status or politics."

Mutaman gotta Mutaman I guess.; 4/26/23, 9:59 PM
Rusty said...: More morels yesterday. All half morels-morella semilibera- these are more cold resistant and the precursor of the other kind of morels-morchella-true morels.; 4/27/23, 6:49 AM
Mutaman said...: Drago

"Wigdor offered no specific reason, but said his decision was "by no means a reflection on whether then-Senator Biden sexually assaulted Ms. Reade."

To paraphrase Ms. Mandy Rice -Davies: "He would say that, wouldn't he".

"The lawyer for Tara Reade, the former Senate aide who has accused Joseph R. Biden Jr. of sexual assault, said Friday that he was no longer representing her, just two weeks after taking her on as a client."
Times

Two weeks!!! Come on Drago, you're clearly not the sharpest pencil in the box but why do you think Wigdor dropped out? How come they couldn't call Rudy or the Trump 'Kraken' lawyer Sidney Powell to take over?; 4/27/23, 1:51 PM
Mutaman said...: Tara Reade posing with her new representative who suddenly has lots of time on his hands.

https://twitter.com/ReadeAlexandra/status/1650553431881551872/photo/1; 4/27/23, 2:00 PM