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Published: 2007-04-11 12:19:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 998; Favourites: 46; Downloads: 0
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The same sunset 2 minute later at 7:35 p.m. WNW.As The Monsoon Show Begins W 7:04 p.m. [link]
Monsoon Show Continues SW 7:23 p.m. [link]
Shades Of Orange WNW 7:30 p.m. [link]
Monsoon Show Continues WSW 7:31 p.m. [link]
More Monsoon Show WNW 7:32 p.m. [link]
More Monsoon Show WSW 7:32:30 p.m. [link]
Still More Monsoon Show West 7:33:30 p.m. [link]
In The Pink Sunset NNE 7:38 p.m. [link]
A Different Colored Sunset W 7:41 p.m. [link]
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whoa... incredibly vibrant colors!!! this is straight outta the camera?
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Yes, I have a "thing" about that. [link] 
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Thank you. I guess we each have to draw the line where we stand and feel comfortable on this photography vs. photomanipulation issue. I just want to catch nature as realistically as I can. I know I'm already "adding" myself into the mix by choosing what I decide to shoot and how I shoot it but post changing or enhancing to what I think would look better isn't what my goal is. 
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you're welcome. although it makes a prettier shot sometimes, something just doesn't feel right about it, like cheating...
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I could not agree more. Since I specialize in nature photography, shouldn't I be responsible for recording nature as she is, not as I want her to be or as I think she would look better? Yeah, much like cheating. 
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lolz... yup. i'll do some editing with what i can do with the actual mechanics of the camera, but that's about as far as i've gone... i think it's permissible in some cases, as when you want to refine a picture, but not to completely alter a shot
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I'm not sure what you mean by 'refine'?
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ehh, sharpen, add a border, that kind of stuff
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Combination of red, orange and yellow is my favourite
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Way cool! 
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There are 
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Beautiful! Stunning atmosphere, and those colours...
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I don't think the sky could be more on fire if it tried!
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One of these days, you'll definitely have to get a fire extinguisher! Can't have the atmosphere burning like that!
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I have one but I don't know if it is approved for outdoors use.
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That was my impression. So spray away!
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Must be the sky's revenge. Howcome it's so cold?
Reminds me of Joe Btsflk. Remember him?
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My Dad always says you can't count on the cold being over until sometime after 15 April which it now is but he never rules out cold until the end of April. He's warned me in the past not to plant anything frost sensitive until late April. I think it's a nice change from the early summers we've been having! Whose Joe Btsflk?
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It is nice when we don't have so doggone much hot weather, but they're warned us that we will have lots of hot droughts. I hope they're all wet!
Joe Btsflk was a character in Lil Abner. He always went around with a raincloud over his head, raining on him. When I read some cult literature, I feel like him. I tell people so.
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OK, now I know who he is. I don't know about drought. We almost always have heavy rains in Feb regardless of weather conditions but none this year but rain in March and April are really off pattern for us. I just don't know if I believe them. Besides, what happened to the El Nino winter? I didn't notice that much flooding here, did you?
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El Nino fizzled this year. And we haven't had decent rains in Feb for a good many years recently. The only decent year I can remember for decent winter rains for quite awhile was 2005. I took as many trips to photograph wildflowers as I could, and got some good shots.
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Yeah, I know. I miss the wet Februarys. Got some different stuff this year, ladyfinger cholla - still trying for a good one of the green flowers, got a fairly good one of the cute Baja Fairy Dusters, looking for others that the March and April rain might have egged into blooming. Haven't seen any on the ironwood yet, missed the olive tree due to taxes. 
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Did the ladyfingers grow spontaneously, or did you plant them? You're lucky you have ironwood that close. We used to have one ironwood tree, I think, until we had to sell some of our property. Now we don't have any. 
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No, the ladyfinger was already growing in the little island half circle at the horse barn driveway. It's in the center by the fence and the 3 baby native mesquites are to the dirveway side so you probably never noticed it although it takes up most of the center to the fence.
No, it is a bloom stalk, not pups. They are most definitely flowers. I will loose that agave as the stalk was already well up before I noticed it. If I can catch them just coming up, I can cut them off and save the plant but, it's too late for this one but there are lots of pups at the base.
Maybe I will load a not so clear photo of the tiny olive blooms into Scraps. I never did get a good one but they were only there a short time that I could pay attention to them. Mostly, I think they were blooming when I was too busy to notice.
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That's entirely possible, that I didn't notice. And it's been awhile since I was there (and for all I know, those plants grew since I was last there).
You're lucky you have pups at the base. Mine bloomed last summer, and it didn't have any.
All too often, things bloom or do whatever when you're too busy to notice. It's been several years since I had cactus fruit, because I just get too doggone busy! Oh, and I love nopalitos, too, but the only year we harvested any was when I went with a friend to her old house and harvested pads there.
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Agaves only bloom once and then die. The stalk is most assuredly a flower stalk and contains no baby plants but seeds once the flowers have died.
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Some agaves only bloom once. What matters is whether the stalk is a terminal stalk, or a lateral stalk. If a lateral stalk, they will bloom repeatedly. I spent quite awhile with the work of the acknowledged agave expert, Howard Scott Gentry. I'm still wondering about whether the octopus may sometimes produce flowers, and sometimes baby plants. I will dig out my copy of Gentry when I have time, but given the shambles our book collection is in, don't hold your breath!
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Neither my common agave or the octopus have ever produced what you are calling a lateral stalk. All have been blossom stalks and all were obviously flowers when they opened. To date, that has been 3 each.
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The octopus obviously has a terminal stalk. So do the Agave americana. My octopus bloomed last year, and it's deader'n a doornail.
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I have two more plus a few pups so am ok for the moment.
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Yeah. I don't have any pups of the octopus, but I still have the plants you gave me a long time ago. None of them has bloomed yet. And there are quite a few pups.
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