{"id":7,"date":"2019-06-30T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-09-03T01:11:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T01:11:46","slug":"rock-faucet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/rock-faucet\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Faucet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our backyard forest has turned me into a botanist! I used a couple of phone apps that can take photos like these<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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and give guesses on the plant name. I hacked up some code to compile a list of of 80 different plants and trees I\u2019ve found so far:<\/div>\n
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In the process, I have uploaded 50 photos to augment existing Wikipedia articles and created (brief) new articles that were missing on the\u00a0fourvalve mimosa<\/a>, the\u00a0arrowhead rattlebox<\/a>, and this guy, my favorite, the rare\u00a0Alabama skullcap<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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There are lots other common skullcaps, but this beauty can be found only in a small area around Birmingham.<\/div>\n
This one is called dayflower because it\u2019s flower only last one day:<\/div>\n
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This one is the medicinal Saint Johns-wart:<\/div>\n
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This poisonous plant is called pokeweed:<\/div>\n
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If you boil the leaves 3 times, tossing out the water each time, they become a not so poisonous cooked green, pretty tasty!\u00a0Polk Salad Annie<\/a>\u00a0was\u00a0a hit song back in the 60s<\/a>.<\/div>\n
I the safer food category, we have our first potato harvest:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And in the stinky food category, you can look for this fruit:<\/div>\n
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He is a\u00a0Durian<\/a>. Smells so bad that they put \u2018No Durian\u2019 signs right next to \u2018No Smoking\u2019 signs in Asia where they are otherwise popular.<\/div>\n
To aid in our gardening, I managed to squeeze water out of a rock:<\/div>\n
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And Helen managed to squeeze me, briefly, into a Scottish kilt:<\/div>\n
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Zach made another trip from Bozeman back to Rochester to install some kitchen appliances:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The plan is to finish a full inside and out renovation and sell it to friend James within a few months.<\/div>\n
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