#RedBay

[ulstersnapper]

R E D B A Y 🛥 A trawler bobbing about in Red Bay with the magnificent 'Queen of the Glens' as a backdrop 🥰 #glenariff #queenoftheglens #redbay #fishingboat #fishingtrawler #trawler #trawlerlife #fishing #antrimcoast #waterfoot #causewaycoastalroute #causewaycoastandglens #norniron #visitcausewaycoastandglens #discovernorthernireland #discoverni #visitnorthernireland #goingcoastal #coastalviews #irishsea #glensofantrim #glens #antrimglens #northernireland #ourweecountry #humpday #happyhumpday #happyhumpdayyall #2023 (at Glenariffe, Moyle, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoIYdxCILCL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[marrow-bone]

I cannot overstate the value of native 'weeds' and green manure practices. I've been having fantastic luck with my vegetable garden because I've let the native smartweed, goldenrod and falsenettle just go ahead and grow instead of picking every piece out, and then I just go in and lazily pluck out the pieces that are getting a bit too big for their britches every once in a while and let them fall where they stood; I even bring in clippings from around the yard to sprinkle in there, too. The result is my plants have protected roots, more water retention, more valuable mulch decomposing around them, and when I do need to clear a spot, there's only the easy-to-deal-with weeds in the way. Plus some of them make for great animal fodder! I don't have to remove everything I didn't plant, only pluck the tops by hand every now and again, and even if the weeds weren't giving back nutrition by decomposing, I have more nutrients than I know what to do with anyway because I have two compost areas and a worm bin inside (get a worm bin, seriously, they're great, and can fit under a sink)

I highly recommend checking your area for master gardener guilds, because they can be a wealth of information, plus a great resource for acquiring native species that are hard to find. Natives are better in literally every way; the only non-natives I have anymore are edible or larger pieces I keep for other utility or nostalgia.

Imagine if baking bread was a skill any person living independently in their own house needed to have at least a passing familiarity with, so there were endless books, blogs and websites about how to bake bread, but none of them seemed to contain the most basic facts about how bread actually works.

You would go online and find questions like "Help, I put my bread in the oven, and it GOT BIGGER!" and instead of saying anything about bread naturally rises when you put yeast in it, the results would be advertising some kind of $970 device that punches the bread while it's baking so it doesn't rise.

Even the most reliable, factually grounded sources available would have only the barest scraps of information on the particularities of ingredients, such as how different types of flour differ and produce different results, or how yeast affects the flavor profile of bread. Rice flour, barley flour, potato flour and amaranth flour would be just as common as wheat flour, but finding sources that didn't treat them as functionally identical would be near impossible. At the same time, websites and books would list specific brands of flour in bread recipes, often without specifying anything else.

An unreasonable amount of people would be hellbent on doing something like baking a full-sized loaf of bread in under 3 minutes, and would regularly bake bread to charred cinders at 700 degrees in an attempt to accomplish this, but instead of gently telling people that their goal is not realistic, books claiming to be general resources would be framed entirely around the goal of baking bread as fast as possible, with entire chapters devoted to making the charred bread taste like it isn't charred.

Anyway, this is what landscaping is like.

[coastal-connection]

Winter Jobs

As the weather changes and turns colder the boats need their winter jobs. The Redbays are coming out for a good clean/ winterise then put away in the shed. The pilot boat hopped out for a quick clean and survey then back in. Still lots of wee jobs to be done in the coming months.

[clickireland]

This week I have been experimenting with Long Exposure photography - This time using the iPhone instead of a camera - the results are quite good TBF. #longexposurephotography #redbay (at Cushendall) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjNXvRnDg3o/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[plant-taxonomy-showdown]

Tags:

let’s go paracryphiales…#i guess…#sadly does not contain the exploding fruit possumwoods#but i’m voting for it anyways

from @vanillasaur

I like that one of them has a pretty little yellow flower

from @teachablr-moment

obscure as heck!#votin for paracryphiales cause the leaves look like redbay and also the name possumwood 😌

from @bax16

Order Round 1: Paracryphiales vs Vahliales

Obscure taxon lovers, eat your heart out!

Paracryphiales:

one family (Paracryphiaceae)

three genera

36 known species

type: trees and woody shrubs

range: Australia, Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands (like New Caledonia, biodiversity super hotspot btw)

some of the trees are called possumwoods!

Vahliales

one family (Vahliacea), one genus (Vahlia)

five known species (only five known species! In the entire world!)

type: herbs and subshrubs (small shrubs that are often only partly woody)

range: Africa and the Indian subcontinent

as far as I can tell, none of the five species have common names in English

very little information outside of academic articles

This is the only battle this round! Winner will move onto Round 2, which will have 8 battles with 16 contestants!

I'm not really expecting any submitted propaganda on this one, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

[writeabouttrees]

Mash-up verses Mashup

In the last post, I dealt with hyphenation, but not all tree names that are wrong are indicated with a hyphen. Sometimes two words are just run together to make a new word, to wit, the western redcedar. Why is redcedar one word? If you guessed that it is because it is not red, you would be right, although it’s bark is reddish. If you guessed it is not a cedar, you would also be correct.  True cedars (Cedrus) are not native to North America, they are from the Mediterranean and the Himalayans. Somewhere along the way, someone thought that the wood from the redcedar smelled like the wood from a true cedar, so called it a cedar. To let us know it is not a true cedar, the two words are conjoined forming an entirely new word. Strangely though of the three false cedars native to the pacific northwest, two are “clarified” by hyphens and one by conjoining. 

Here are some other examples:

Tanoak – not a true oak, although it has acorns and succumbs to sudden oak death. 

Redbay - not a bay tree, the source of bay leaves.

Hophornbeam - not a hornbeam and not even a hop.

Write on!

[runchef]

MirroRV. #builtby #tiffinmotorhomes #redbay #alabama #wayfarer #fw #2018 # (at Zion Lodge, Utah)

[kimheise]

Finished with this tiny corner of a new painting today. I'm still mulling over the last few pieces, but they are mostly done, will post soon! #watercolor #caterpillar #foliage #wip #partsofpaintings #botanical this is a #palamedes #swallowtail on its host plant #redbay

[41510]

My favorite coffee ever - Red Bay Coffee, Oakland California.
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#oakland #california #bayarea #eastbay #yelpeastbay #coffee #cafe #redbay #redbaycoffee #cafecito #yelp #fruitvale #eastoakland #coffeeshop #wallart #art #africa (at Red Bay Coffee)


[rvways]

#redbay #redbayalabama #tiffinmotorhomes #allegrobus #tiffinopenroaders #alabama #tiffinrv #tiffinmotorhomes https://www.instagram.com/p/BtcLtDOn_NR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nxkmy8bvhtzk

[momnewfoundland-blog]

If using cannabis makes you a loser, then I will be a loser too. - www.momnfld.ca #newyearresolution #happynewyear #newyear2019 #weedislife #weedismedicine #marijuanaonline #marijuananewfoundland #cannabisnfld #buyweedonline #weeddelivery #weed #newfoundlandandlabrador #redbay #happyvalley #deerlake #victoria #twillingate

[polarwooly]

Tempest Redbay, Air Genasi Monk with tiefling heritage. (she/they)

Tempest isn't actually that old, but being a pirate doesn't leave a lot of time for a skincare routine. She has a bunch of kids, both adopted and biological, most of them adults in her own line of work. The Redbay name is not unknown on the high seas.

[lupinepublishers]

Lupine Publishers- Agriculture Open Access Journal

Efficacy of Selected Attractants for Monitoring the Populations of the Redbay Ambrosia Beetle Xyleborus Glabratus Eichhoff (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) and Other Bark Beetles in the Florida Panhandle by Lambert HB Kanga

The redbay ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus glabratus Eichhoff (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) is a non-native insect first discovered in the United States in 2002 in Port Wentworth, Georgia. This beetle has a direct impact on the natural forest ecosystem because it vectors the fungus Raffaelea lauricola, which causes laurel wilt disease, a vascular disease of trees in the family Lauraceae, such as redbay, sassafras, camphor, silkbay, pondspice, bay laurel, the endangered pondberry and the economically important avocado. Originally from Southeast Asia the beetle has spread to coastal forests of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina. This study surveyed previously un-surveyed areas of the Florida Panhandle, the Apalachicola National Forest usinga) A mixture of manuka and phoebe oil, b) Ethanol gel attractants and c) Hand sanitizer.The redbay ambrosia beetle was not detected in the Apalachicola National Forest; however, another 2,394 specimens of beetles belonging to the tribe Xyleborini and related tribes of the Scolytinae were found. Of these, more than 90% belonged to introduced (invasive) species- Lupine Publishers.

https://lupinepublishers.com/agriculture-journal/fulltext/efficacy-of-selected-attractants-for-monitoring-the-populations-of-the-redbay-ambrosia-beetle-xyleborus-glabratus-eichhoff.ID.000112.php

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[coastal-connection]

Whisky Festival

During the whisky festival down in Islay, Struan was asked down to help with capacity. He joined in with Venture West's two 1150 Redbays. Bunnahabhain was the distillery this time. They had a great set up with a pontoon, it made it easy access for the guests. They headed North up the sound of Islay to see the beautiful scenery and local wildlife. A few drams were had (only the guests of course).

[almostasenior]

Redbay

Hilton Head Island South Carolina Aromatic evergreen information marker for redbay

Bee Happy 🐝

Alice

Cees flower of the  day

[clickireland]

Red Bay Castle deep into the Glens of Antrim . . #redbay #countyantrim #photography #landscapephotography #history (at Northern Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVzlrAsI6yj/?utm_medium=tumblr