...and have a picture to prove it.
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Rasty wrote:
I don't know anything about flowers. I know a lot about flour though.
CoachLou wrote:
odd man out wrote:
...and have a picture to prove it.
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Rosa Virginia................north american wild rose![]()
LIhikers wrote:
I kinda, maybe, sort of, envy you folks who know one plant from another.
I can sumtimes tell the difference between, grass, a bush, and a tree, but not always.
Because of my lack of ability to tell my wife's flower plants from weeds and grass, I'm not allowed to cut the grass at home any more.
It's my job to keep the mower running and Kathy's to use it.
LIhikers wrote:
I kinda, maybe, sort of, envy you folks who know one plant from another.
I can sumtimes tell the difference between, grass, a bush, and a tree, but not always.
Because of my lack of ability to tell my wife's flower plants from weeds and grass, I'm not allowed to cut the grass at home any more.
It's my job to keep the mower running and Kathy's to use it.
Rasty wrote:
LIhikers wrote:
I kinda, maybe, sort of, envy you folks who know one plant from another.
I can sumtimes tell the difference between, grass, a bush, and a tree, but not always.
Because of my lack of ability to tell my wife's flower plants from weeds and grass, I'm not allowed to cut the grass at home any more.
It's my job to keep the mower running and Kathy's to use it.
The wife and kids warn me what items in the yard I'm not allowed to mow.
odd man out wrote:
But I did take botany in college. I never could never remember the genus/species of box elder, so my prof made sure it was ever quiz every week. Lost a lot of points, but I will never forget Acer negundo. I do better with trees than flowers.
rafe wrote:
Wish I knew more about what I was looking at in the woods.
AnotherKevin wrote:
odd man out wrote:
But I did take botany in college. I never could never remember the genus/species of box elder, so my prof made sure it was ever quiz every week. Lost a lot of points, but I will never forget Acer negundo. I do better with trees than flowers.
Hmm, one reason that I wind up sticking in the Latin names of plants and other creatures in my trip reports is that the vulgar names vary so widely. I saw your post, and thought to myself, "wait a minute, Acer is the genus of maples, not elders." I looked up Acer negundo, and it's the same tree I learnt as "black ash". (And it isn't an ash, either!) At least if I use the Latin name, people from other parts of the country have a chance of figuring out what I'm talking about.
BirdBrain wrote:
rafe wrote:
Wish I knew more about what I was looking at in the woods.
You are looking at the handiwork of God. I do not know much of what I see either, but I do appreciate what He has made anyways. All of man's "marvels" do not hold a candle to one flower. The greatest of symphonies are not to be compared to the songs of birds.
BirdBrain wrote:
rafe wrote:
Wish I knew more about what I was looking at in the woods.
You are looking at the handiwork of God. I do not know much of what I see either, but I do appreciate what He has made anyways. All of man's "marvels" do not hold a candle to one flower. The greatest of symphonies are not to be compared to the songs of birds.
rafe wrote:
Wish
I knew more about what I was looking at in the woods.
BirdBrain wrote:
You
are looking at the handiwork of God. I do not know much of what I see
either, but I do appreciate what He has made anyways. All of man's
"marvels" do not hold a candle to one flower. The greatest of symphonies
are not to be compared to the songs of birds.
jimmyjam wrote:
i don't know about smelling roses, but today is Tuesday and that means it's time to go to and smell a half pound cheeseburger with all the fixin's and hand cut fries and ice cold beer.![]()
moose717 wrote:
AK ... I am not religious, but what you said is beautiful. Thank you.
max.patch wrote:
monday is food truck nite right up the road in kennesaw. and on the way home i can pass by both rei and costco.
BirdBrain wrote:
I agree AK. In my attempt to be profound, I may have sounded snarky. It was not my intent. I intended to glorify the Creator of all things, not minimize the attempt to learn about His creation.
CoachLou wrote:
Rosa Virginia................north american wild rose![]()
AnotherKevin wrote:
BirdBrain wrote:
I agree AK. In my attempt to be profound, I may have sounded snarky. It was not my intent. I intended to glorify the Creator of all things, not minimize the attempt to learn about His creation.
Sorry, BB, didn't mean to bristle. I have too many fundamentalist friends (both Christians and atheists) who think that being a scientist is somehow incompatible with being a Christian.
I point out to them that Gen. 2:19 is the birth of science. (It continues to be commanded elsewhere.)
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