#railroad creeper vine

[rachelsrandomsphotos]

Railroad-creeper (Ipomoea cairica)

Taken at Turkey Creek Sanctuary in Palm Bay, FL

[thebotanicalarcade]

n445_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: La Belgique horticole :. Liége :[s.n.]. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42946146

[emenyeh]

Ipomoea cairica is backing with a profound background.

It seems giant to the building on the background.

Ipomoea cairica is a vining, herbaceous, perennial plant with palmate leaves and large, showy white to lavender flowers. A species of morning glory, it has many common names, including mile-a-minute vine, Messina creeper, Cairo morning glory, coast morning glory and railroad creeper. The species name cairica translates to "from Cairo", the city where this species was first collected.

Ipomoea cairica 是一種藤本植物，多年生草本植物，有掌狀葉和大而艷麗的白色至淡紫色花朵。 牽牛花的一個品種，它有許多俗名，如一英里藤、墨西拿爬山虎、開羅牽牛花、海岸牽牛花和鐵路爬山虎。 物種名稱 cairica 翻譯為“來自開羅”，即首次收集該物種的城市。

槭葉牽牛（學名：Ipomoea cairica），又名番仔藤、五爪金龍、掌葉牽牛，旋花科番薯屬，香港、台灣常見的多年生草本纏繞植物。

[ultraheydudemestuff]

Cleveland Lakefront State Park

8701 Lakeshore Blvd

Cleveland, Ohio 44108

In the heart of one of Ohio's largest cities, Cleveland Lakefront State Park provides natural relief to the metropolitan skyline. Sand beaches, tree-lined picnic areas and panoramic views of the lake are found within the park along the Lake Erie shoreline. Ohio has been truly blessed by the presence of Lake Erie on its northern border. Lake Erie is one of the largest bodies of freshwater in the world. When considering nearly 99% of the world's water supply is either frozen or saltwater, the Great Lakes are a tremendous resource most Ohioans take for granted. Lake Erie is shallow allowing for violent storms with high waves. The lake is divided into three basins: west, central and eastern. The west is most shallow at 25 to 30 feet average depth. The central basin, wherein lies Cleveland Lakefront State Park, has an average depth of 61 feet. The eastern basin is deepest at 210 feet average depth.

Lake Erie, because of its higher nutrient levels and warmer temperatures, produces greater numbers and varieties of fish than any other great lake. The annual Erie fish catch nearly equals the combined catches of all the other great lakes. Dominant species are perch, smallmouth and white bass, channel catfish, walleye and freshwater drum. Sand beaches are scattered along the main shoreline. Coastal plants such as sand cherry, beach grass, beach pea and others are rare in this urban environment. Common trees include cottonwood, willow and ash with vines of wild grape, Virginia creeper, bittersweet and poison ivy among the branches.

The first pioneer settlers arrived in the area in 1796. In 1827, the Ohio Canal was completed as far south as Akron, and by 1832, it was in operation from Lake Erie to the Ohio River resulting in great prosperity and a rapid population increase for Cleveland. Cleveland was a noted center of the stagecoach lines between the East, West and South until the railroads came about 1850 replacing the stagelines. When the Cleveland and Mahoning Valley Railroad was completed, it extended into that valley's great coal fields laying the foundation for Cleveland as an industrial giant. With the availability of coal and iron ore, great iron furnaces and rolling mills soon lined the banks of the Cuyahoga River.

As early as 1865, lands were set aside in Cleveland to be developed as recreation areas. In 1977, the city of Cleveland leased its four lakefront parks to the state of Ohio. The four parks became Cleveland Lakefront State Park in 1978. In 1982, the Euclid Beach area was added to the state park property. The Villa Angela area consisted of two separate land purchases. The first 30 acres was bought by the city of Cleveland and turned over to the state in 1984. ODNR and the Cleveland Public Library purchased the remaining 13 acres in May 1991. While each area appears to be a separate park, they are administered through a single park office located at Gordon Park.

[airmanisr]

The "Creeper" heads for Damascus by Kevin Madore Via Flickr: Playing the role of Norfolk & Western M-Class #382, surviving sister #475 hauls a mixed train upgrade toward Carpenters on Pennsylvania's Strasburg Railroad, during the 2019 Reunion of Steam. Back in the first half of the 20th century, Norfolk & Western's Abingdon Branch became one of the last bastions of steam railroad service in the United States. The mixed train was dubbed the "Virginia Creeper" because it's slowly crept across the hilly countryside about like a vine of the same name, which grows prolifically in the area. The train pictured here is probably just a little heavier on the passenger service than the original "Creeper", which typically featured multiple freight cars, with a baggage express car and coach tacked on the tail end of the consist.

[bloggerthanwolves]

Log #35 - M.P. Redux, Part Two - Late & Over Budget

Finally went and finished the expansion of the mob grinder, AKA the Mitosan Project. After the most recent log about it, most of the rooms were partially dug, but none of the new canals were done, the water routing was partial, and the kill room wasn’t started at all.

So I went and did all that. It took a long time. Just doing all the canals was, I’d estimate, over ten hours. All in all it was spectacularly boring, so here are some highlights:

I was clearing part of an abandoned mine-shaft to let water through and died to Cave Spiders. Respawned near Potwhole and made my way back in a couple of hours.

Somehow, my items were gone - this keeps happening. I know for a fact that chunks at Mitose couldn’t have been rendered for a full five minutes in vanilla Minecraft rules. I even heard someone on the BTW discord claim that the items you drop after death stay for twenty minutes, though I suspect that’s completely false.

You can see in the screenshot my items did drop - so why were they gone? Was I slower to reach them than I thought? Does BTW specifically render chunks where you recently died? Does vanilla Minecraft still count item despawn timers when you’re outside the chunk? Does BTW? Either way the death set me back a few hours and a few diamonds, but was ultimately of little consequence. Wait, then why did I bring it up..? Whatever.

I discovered this...interesting bit of work I did about a year ago. This is the canal mobs fall into from the east wing. But I have no idea why I made it so deep. I don’t want the mobs to take fall damage, so I have no reason to specifically lower the water canal. But for some reason, this was twenty blocks lower than needed, which 1. messed up my kill room plans and required me to raise it, and 2. meant I probably wasted hours digging this out for no good reason. I really have no idea what I was thinking, since I didn’t mention my rationale here.

The kill room. The bit of redstone on the right is a timer (turntable) hooked up to a chopping block attached to a sticky piston. Every fourth turn, it recedes, mobs fall into the kill chamber, then it pushes back onto the mobs, suffocating them, increasing the saw’s damage, and crucially, increasing the drop rate of mob heads.

The loot collection area. Five different chests, each with a different hopper filter. Made to collect creeper drops, skeleton drops, zombie drops, tool/armor drops, and miscellaneous, respectively. If you’re wondering why I bothered with the sorting, it’s because bones, creeper oysters, and rotten flesh only stack up to 16, meaning that a normal double chest would quickly fill up.

Collecting experience from the Vessel of the Dragon.

The Project now outputs easily five or ten times as much as before. It’s not technically done - once I finished digging and started placing vine traps and closing off rooms, I realized that the nine stack of vine traps I had saved would not nearly cover the entire grinder. It covered, like, one half of one wing. So I’ve slowly been harvesting more vines and activating more of the rooms over the last week. At present, it’s at 75% capacity.

Hey, a rare Arcane Scroll drop. Isn’t useful until after the Dragon, I think, but neat.

So, what did I learn from this year-long sabbatical to build a Minecraft mob farm? A few things. Mostly mistakes that will permanently stain this thing.

1. I built it too close to the surface so it was constantly collapsing the ground and leaving scars where water tunnels are, getting in the way of other stuff I want to do. 1a. I built it under a frickin’ desert so it was extra collapse-happy. 2. I built it outside of the permanently rendered spawn chunks which I didn’t know existed, so it will only run when I’m nearby. 3. I only have a single kill room, which is far away from most of the mob spawning area. This means a lot of mobs are spending a lot of time alive, reducing total spawns, and thus total throughput and speed of production. It would be best to have local kill rooms that kill mobs ASAP and then just transport all the drops to a central area. 4. Like 1/3rd of the kill rooms are close enough to my base to be inactive most of the time.

But for all of that, it works, goddamnit, it works, it gets me the goods in the quantities I need. Tons of bones, flesh, and creeper oysters. Iron income is...nice. Not enough to build an actual railroad, even a small one, but nice.

I built a rail track to the kill room for fun and easy access. The booster rails cost most of the my meager gold supply, but I had to celebrate somehow.

[greater-than-the-sword]

When I grow up I want to live in an old house. A brick house covered with vines and creepers in summer, surrounded by strawberries. A porch with a creaky swing. A tree that you can climb into from the window of the third floor bedroom.

I'm going to live in a house without a fence- the backyard just goes on and on until it turns into the woods somewhere, but not the normal woods with a highway on the other side. Those real primeval looking woods like they have out in the hills with thick moss and the giant tree stumps from the old growth before the loggers came. The kind where you can walk for hours and not find anything except maybe an abandoned railroad track. Sometimes on a dewy morning deer come out of the woods to eat the strawberries.

In October the entire porch is covered in pumpkins and candles. At Christmas time the whole house is covered in Christmas lights. That's the kind of house I want to live in.

[clinicalherbalist]

The Blue Hole at Mcconnell springs in Lexington, ky. It's a place where an artesian well has dissolved the limestone it comes up through and created a sinkhole filled with bluegreen limestone spring water. In the Yucatan, which like the bluegrass is an area of karst topography, people call this sort of thing a cenote (or ts'onot). In central Kentucky there are many such structures, but we do not seem to have a commonly used word for them. I was here this morning because a friend has a project going to work on stopping erosion around and runoff into the blue hole, and a bunch of us were checking out the site and situation. . . . . When i first encountered this body of water and the area around, in the early 1990's, it was not yet a city park (if the city owned it they hadn't done anything with it). And its existence was a sort of open secret, lots of people knew about it but only because they had been taken there by others. You got there by going past the famous secret cave on red mile road, crossing Versailles [pronounced: vurr-SALES] road, and taking a left on the railroad tracks opposite the quarry. And off to your right, in this decaying industrial hell, was a couple dozen acres of woods. And if you looked for it you would see a path, and that path would take you past an ancient burr oak tree (if you looked around the base you might see candles from peoples' rituals or find offerings left to the fairies) and down to this water hole. We used to go there, punks and street kids and other such folk, late on summer nights and go skinny dipping, or just hang around in the woods, sometimes make a fire. More than once i slept there for a few nights together when i didn't have anywhere else to go. . . . The woods were (and are) mostly what you might call weedy types of trees. Hackberries, locusts, the sorts of things that grow in a field or ditch in central Ky if you let them. There used to be a thick understory of honeysuckle bushes (Lonicera maacki), which have mostly been gotten rid of, and a thick groundcover of vines that stayed leafy all winter (winter creeper and perriwinkle and ivy), which has not. There was also a good bit of sumac and black raspberry bushes, some of which is still around and some of which was cleared to make the visitor center and other such amenities. That dead tree by the water was an ash-leaves maple (Acer negundo). The next spring downstream from this one is shallow, faster moving, and full of watercress. I used to drink the water and eat the watercress right from the spring. Not safe really, but nothing was back then.