Today's walk report: 072417, unfolding

Unfolding... This isn't really a walk report, it's another stroll report. The strolling took place around the front, back and side yards of our property and that's not much of a stroll. Full circle, it's about 110 yards (100 meters).

Can the principles of origami . . . help scientists understand the nature of the universe?

The "unfolding" project was partially inspired by an episode of NOVA on PBS entitled, The Origami Revolution. I highly recommend it. After you finish my post you may find it, at least for now, on YouTube--here.* I have had a long term relationship with origami starting with a childhood fascination. I have, however, only dabbled in the art from time to time.

There was, for example, a stint I had with paper money folding in the 90s. Bored waiting for others to finish a meal I would sometimes fold tip money at a restaurant in creative ways...

and folding money took some other directions too...

That is technically called a cubeoctahedron, but is otherwise referred to as, six bucks. It's been sitting on my desk for years.

Another fascination for me has been how plants and especially flowers, unfold. That takes our journey right outside of the window now in front of me. Almost all of these images were captured throughout the second week of April, 2017. Yes, it's taken me this long to pull this stuff and myself together enough to get this done.

Centaurea cyanus.

Centaurea cyanus.

Linum grandiflorum.

Linum grandiflorum,

Linum grandiflorum.

Linum grandiflorum.

Centaurea cyanus and Linum grandiflorum.

Eschscholzia californica.

Eschscholzia californica.

Eschscholzia californica.

Eschscholzia californica.

Papaver rhoeas.

Papaver rhoeas.

Papaver rhoeas

Papaver rhoeas.

Papaver rhoeas.

Papaver rhoeas.

Papaver rhoeas.

Papaver rhoeas.

Papaver rhoeas.

Papaver rhoeas.

Bearded Iris.

Bearded Iris.

Bearded Iris.

Bearded Iris.

Bearded Iris.

Bearded Iris.

Bearded Iris.

Bearded Iris.

Alrighty then, now that wasn't so difficult was it, Eric? Thanks for coming along. More walk reports are forthcoming as soon as the weather (high temps) starts to cooperate a little--stay turned.

* Update on the YouTube link to The Origami Revolution, it has been deleted. You may want to search your local PBS site or try NOVA on devices such as Apple TV. It's worth looking for.

Today's walk report: 042514

Walk and stroll...

First the stroll, which is basically me wandering around the property here looking for photo ops, pulling weeds, etc. Most of these shots were taken yesterday and today.

Scarlet flax (Linum grandiflorum).

Scarlet flax (Linum grandiflorum) and Baby's breath (Gypsophila).

Again.

Needs ID.

Paper wasp on Salvia apiana (white sage.)

Papaver rhoeas, aka, Shirley poppy and some sort of Coreopsis.

There was also a Pink Grapefruit tree installed.

Gilia tricolor, aka, Bird's eye.

Clarkia unguiculata.

Bee in Eschscholzia californica.

More Gilia tricolor.

Bee on Clarkia unguiculata.

Bee in Eschscholzia californica.

And today's walk...

I was alone again on the walk today and there was a lonely feeling to go along with it. Nevertheless, I made the best of it.

Male Anna's hummingbird on Cape honeysuckle (Tecomaria capensis).

Female rufous hummingbird with a pollen caked head.

Alyogyne huegelii, "White Swan."

A pain in the ass little tweety bird, I'll try to ID later.

Another intense crow vs. a red-tailed hawk battle. From these images I think it appears that the red-tailed hawk may have been the aggressor. It was not.

They went their separate ways in the end. I don't believe they ever actually made contact but I could be wrong. Nonetheless, it was close. Very aggressive looking behavior.

Needs ID.

Caesalpinia gilliesii, now blooming.

This is a 2nd round of blooms on this cactus, still no ID.