Slow weekend.

Races cancelled. Wife gone for two days. Help out. Son in law barbecuing whole pig. Church function. Poor pig! Sacrifice! Ate a Veggie burger last night. Crap. But plants have feelings also! Oh heck! Beef is a recycled veggie anyway.

Watched a nature programme the other night.

When you consider life as a whole from the smallest to the largest, animal or vegetable, all the inter dependencies suggest that an intelligence far beyond our understanding must have been involved, even if you are not in any way religious.

If one did not rely on the demise of another, everything would not survive.


Salad sandwich with salad cream takes some beating in the summer.


Good for the wife to go away for a few days, makes you aware of their importance to ones well being.


Regards.

Where is the world's biggest recycling factory?

Something my small brain struggles to understand:

If a tree hasn’t got a brain, how does it know and work out ways to spread their seeds far and wide. For instance a sycamore tree has developed the seeds that look like helicopters floating down, they travel quite a distance.

When did sycamore trees get together and think, I know, we will develop a seed thats encased in a thin blade with a slight turn in it that will spin as it falls and float along the breeze.

AND how does the sycamore tree without a brain and without eyes know that it’s seeds design that floats in the wind is working.

I know some will say it’s millions of years of evolution, but how do they know to do it without a brain.

My brain can’t take it in

Boosey. Acorns. They just drop as all nuts do. Maple trees here are basically the same as sycamores.
Adaptation I assume. But do not know.
Biggest recyclers are humans. They take and use and discard. Then the discarded items are fed or used again by humans. For better or worse.
Wife will be home tomorrow. Thank goodness! Tired of opening cans! Besides better to sleep with than my Border Collie!

You are not on your own boosey, it is difficult if not impossible to comprehend life in all it's forms as a result of chance, and not involve intelligence beyond our comprehension.


Those who believe in evolution forget the need to explain the origin in any acceptable terms.


You could show anyone the most simple man made object and no one would believe it had come about by chance.


Your brain boosey is no different than millions of others, in fact better than many who accept anything and everything without consideration.


Regards.

Boosey. Watched a great programme regards trees. Take the Oak for instance. How it knows time to discard leaves etc.
It actually does it by days sunlight. When low it actually talks. Sends messages to the leaves. They can record the talking, but as of yet unable to decipher. The leaves are drained of water and turn colour. Then fall. The water is then stored and saved for the water as it sleeps. Replenishes it self. the leaves provide many insects etc. for the winter. It also fertilizes the ground and much more.

Especially in a forest or assortment.
Now here's a wonderful reality. Trees relate to others, of all species of trees. Via sending messages via the roots. Indeed there is a main trees called the hub. Say for instance a certain tree is being attacked by say beetle. A message is passed along to say a pine tree asking for help. The pine will send an anti dope via the roots, moss or such.

Have a great nature mag every month. How and why certain, and many bodies investigate such.

Indeed whilst sitting on the toilet thinking I decided to post regards rain. A bit long to put up in one go... but was dividing it up to post today actually.

You know, strange as one may think, life is in nigh every thing. Plants, trees, grass etc. We know now, but just take it for granted.
But! Though we know how to help growth, add and change plants, crops etc. we haven't yet got the foggiest of how and what makes it grow!

Beneath a single patch of forest soil lies a vast interconnected web of life.
Forest ecologists liken it to a kind of hidden intelligence.
By tracking specific chemicals, scientists observed how trees in a forest talk — forming underground symbiotic relationships – called mycorrhizae – with fungi to relay stress signals and also share.

By sharing resources, network forests with healthy hub trees become more resilient. Researchers examine fungi DNA to map connections in a Canadian forest. They found that the selective removal of hub trees – by loggers, for example, or from an insect invasion could cause connections to be lost than if trees were removed randomly. Clear-cutting would destroy all links.
Trees have several tubes going upwards to all parts of the tree; for many reasons — water, nutrients etc. which connect to symbiotic networks of fungal threads.

Trees resource pathways of sugar, nutrients from the soil, mixed resources from networks and nutrients and carbon (from sugar) Plus chemical distress signals
Excess productions.
Taller trees, older trees called 'Hubs' often have more sugar than they need, having more access to sunlight, through photosynthesis, than they need.
Exchange of goods.
A mass of fungi threads, or mycelium, envelope the root tips of a 'Hub' tree, feeding nutrients from the soil in exchange for sugar, which the fungus lacks. (Nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus and other nutrients.
Deep Connections.
These help weaker, say firs, and supply 'Understory' to identify and nurture related seedlings and nurseries resources. For instance, weaker ones can tap into the network as it swells. Firs can also share species such as ad birch, for example. However, all trees benefit from each other often in some way or another. Indeed are covered in Fungal threads.
Warning signs.
Through the network, trees under stress can transfer resources, such as water, and can send chemical signals that trigger defensive mechanisms in other trees. Threats like insect infestation and drought are expected to increase as the climate changes.
Pine preparation. Fir trees infected with say Budworms send stress signals to nearby pines.
Seasonal partners. Deciduous paper birch and evergreen trade resources seasonally.

It looks like far more goes on than we know about Daz.
It’s like us pigeon men are naturally always looking up at the sky,
How many times have we said to do someone look at those crows/magpies chasing that hawk away or look at those birds circling up there like little dots.
Most people are oblivious to what’s going on under/around and above them.

The more one considers all the available information, the more it proves what little we know with regard to nature and the universe.


Would be better employed me thinks sorting out what we do know and enjoying the marvels we have been provided with.


Regards.

Agree!

Like Dave Rogers said to me regards crows, magpies etc. chasing away B.O.P.
'Roly in winter time they don't chase B.O.P. … The B.O.P. soon eat them if hungry'.
Right, and you won't see the crows etc. chase the B.O..P. When the B.O.P. is hungry.


Some say they like to see crows around their' lofts for that reason. Me, I liked it far better when chased away.

As Hal may recall too, Bill Butterfield one season nigh got wiped out when crows attacked and ate the youngsters flying out, or old birds as they landed. Likewais happened to Archie the owner of Pigeon Basics.
Seen the crows attack and kill squirrels etc. However, no match for the B.O.P. That's for sure.
Indeed many falconers train the B.O.P. to catch crows and the like.
Strange here now, getting like overrun with Jackdaws. I loved them when a kid as a pet.
Twice the happening here near me. Twice! The crows took over the magpie nests and moved them on. Next season the Sparrow hawk took the crows and their nests. A couple of years later or sooner, the S/H moved on. So was quite a happy chappie.