Comments for the nature thread.

I really like the garden posted by Kopenhagen. My new backyard is a blank slate I would love to find the time to make something like that. It reminds me of a Japanese garden. If I cound get the tree laying on its side in Dsk's pic...it'd be great!

 

The Moeraki boulders posted by Am*3...bit of a mystery those things. Millions of years ago the oceans were red due to a high iron content. Stromatolites (sort of the early version of coral reefs) formed all over the planet producing oxygen creating a rust in the ocean which formed the iron deposites we dig up today and changed it's colour to what it is now.

 

Mentioned here at 16:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsn3wpVAcjk

 

It's possible those boulders are Stromatolites. Maybe your drier hotter weather caused the smoother shape than elsewhere.

 

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mtnlane
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Those stromatolites are amazing aren't they!  We have a heap of them here in Western Australia - up at Shark Bay.

 

I don't have any pics of them on this computer atm and anyone could google them - just saving anyone the trouble lol 

 

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=shark+bay+stromatolites&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=zkODU-...

 

 

 

 

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I love those round boulders.

 

I'm really hoping some of the os people will post some squirrel pictures this week.

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Omg ..it's great ..busy as ..good to see !


@1966kelso wrote:

I love those round boulders.

 

I'm really hoping some of the os people will post some squirrel pictures this week.


 Take a closer look at kopenhagen's pics post #55.  There's a skwerl


@1966kelso wrote:

I love those round boulders.

 

I'm really hoping some of the os people will post some squirrel pictures this week.


I love those round boulders.

 

Yes, pretty cool. I was surprised they exist here far inland.

 

I'm really hoping some of the os people will post some squirrel pictures this week.

 

I wish I had a camera back when I rescued that orphaned baby squirrel. I've mentioned it before and how it would nuzzle my ear and purr. I recently saw this video where the poster of it thinks the cat taight the squirrel to purr. I don't have a cat...AND I don't purr either, lol. Well...maybe sometimes! 🙂

 

Summers almost here and in my new ultra quiet backyard I'll get to know some squirrels and take some pics. Hopefully in time for a theme they'd fit.

 

Edit: here's the purring Squirrel...https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=GyGm8g0OR-g

Sorry, wrong video.

 

You can hear it purring at 1:35 in this one....https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fHT1nAX46dM

Stromatolites Cervantes WA...near thhe Pinnacles

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awww that is so cute!  do they make good pets?

I think I have been smitten with squirrels eversince I read The Children of Cherry Tree Farm by Enid Blyton when I was about 8

 

 

edit:  um, the squirrels not the rocks

i was just about to post that the squirrel in cherry tree farm and willow tree farm books purred!