A walk with out a Camera!
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 11:32:13 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Once upon a time there was a tree like this in our neighborhood
Around the time of Christmas it exploded in these blood-red berries. Sufficiently cold nights and bright days seem to only encourage the resplendence. There are a number of these trees every half a mile or so.
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 11:34:19 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
A closer look
What can be so wrong when life is so plentiful and vibrant!
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 11:35:21 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
You don't believe me, see here
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 11:36:18 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Just goes to show not everyone is in the same mood!
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 13:44:20 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
And this Sunday morning on my walk this tree looked like this
It was overcast. Cloudy. The LG phone has an awful camera with no sense of light. It shows shades of what is there. Assure you there are those same red berries ample. There is also a swarm of thrushes all on the tree. You can see a couple of them flying away. They are there in the tree as well just the camera is awful.
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 13:55:02 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Here is the same tree an hour later when I come back from the walk
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 13:55:25 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
About 10,000 berries gone in an hour
About 10,000 berries gone in an hour
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 13:59:35 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
See this video here what happened
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 14:05:06 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Here is the same thing uploaded to YouTube
Not sure why google+ has an ability to directly upload these videos. A pain to download 10MB and upload again!!!
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 14:09:05 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Here is another video another tree
Here is another video another tree
This tree is about 30 minutes walk from the first across a lake. On my way out this tree had no birds in it. It took another 30 minutes for me to walk back to this tree and you can in this video they managed to find this one too....
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 14:11:22 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Across the lake I can't see them but I hear a whole bunch of them
Here is the video. I couldn't see them at all but I hear them on this cloudy dampened day.
Across the lake I can't see them but I hear a whole bunch of them
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 14:12:44 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Only tell tale signs that birds were here earlier
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 14:14:42 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
All in all it is a lovely walk on a regular basis
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 14:15:41 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Well it is sunny sometimes too
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 14:19:46 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
And it is home to other mysteries as well
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 14:21:12 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
I blame the camera but once in a while it presents shows counter-arguments
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 14:22:03 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
A healthy complexion
satya - Mon Jan 07 2013 14:22:48 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
This ain't too bad either
satya - Tue Jan 08 2013 10:59:18 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Apparently the tree with red berries that glows around Christmas is called a Brazilian Pepper Tree
Apparently the tree with red berries that glows around Christmas is called a Brazilian Pepper Tree
satya - Tue Jan 08 2013 10:59:28 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Brazilian Pepper Tree
satya - Tue Jan 08 2013 10:59:52 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Birds that eat Brazillan Pepper Tree
satya - Tue Jan 08 2013 11:04:21 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
mocking birds
satya - Tue Jan 08 2013 11:31:34 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Ummmm Not only all that glitters is not gold but it could be poison
Apparently these red berries could give you an itch or result in nasty allergies as this tree is related to poison ivy and poison oak and has a strong desire to spread itself at the cost of native species. So much for the feel-good-ness.
satya - Tue Jan 08 2013 11:37:44 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Next year, if there are no mocking birds in East Hampton I now know why!
Next year, if there are no mocking birds in East Hampton I now know why!
satya - 1/19/2013 1:43:44 PM
A sand county Almanac and other books by Leopold
satya - 1/19/2013 1:44:54 PM
It looks like
Where walking is not for the body but for the soul!
satya - 1/19/2013 1:52:18 PM
The Walden by Thoreau
satya - 1/19/2013 1:53:15 PM
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satya - 1/19/2013 2:23:10 PM
One possible place to read walden online
One possible place to read walden online
if your browser offers enlarged font, (as I find myself in regressive years), this is not a bad place to read.