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Lair Review for Opalwhisker

Yes!! Hit me with that peach/caramel combination!! I will always melt when you show me a dragon with these colors; I love it so much and my own boys Cohen and Gwyath are proof of that! Not only does Shizuka have amazing colors, but I’m a sucker for the lace apparel, especially the sepia variety. She’s a lovely fashionista and I would definitely let her give me fashion tips yes please.

You have so many pretty female SDs and Songbird is no exception. She has so many soft purples and blues, which I love, and the laces return! The apparel she’s dressed in makes her look so elegant combined with her color scheme! I’m a sucker for singers also, which only adds to how much she already has me charmed.

Um hello gorgeous!! Seriously, Kirunali is one of the prettiest imperial gals I think I’ve ever seen, but that may just be because I’m really biased toward abyss/abyss/rasp skink/spin dragons. Her colors? Flawless. Her apparel? Even more flawless. Not to mention I love the candle apparel, so that’s a big bonus! There’s just so much perfection within one dragon. I know she’s a spy, but she’s probably also a thief because she’s stolen my heart <3

Kravitz looks so grim and brooding that I had to review him too. I love seeing obsidian dragons that have a white ghost tert! His apparel and aesthetic is so spooky; I feel like I’d meet him as an apparition in a foggy graveyard, but he’d disappear before I could ask who he was. I also adore feathery wings on imperials! What a good spooky boy.

Thank you for requesting a review! Your lovely ladies melted my soul @opalwhisker

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Top 8 Native Trees to Plant in New Jersey

If you would like to upgrade the aesthetics of your landscape and increase the value of your property by proper tree pruning and trimming in NJ this spring, consider planting native New Jersey trees. The astounding variety of tree species, with their own unique size, foliage, and colors can become an amazing focal point and a source of privacy from unwanted sounds or views.

Trees can also reduce a property’s utility costs and bring wildlife to your backyard. Our list of the Top 8 Trees to plant in your yard this year includes some of the most common types of trees for the area and a few unique specimens that also thrive in New Jersey.

Hazel Alder

The Hazel Alder tree is a perennial that is tolerant of very wet soils and can grow in full sun or partial shade. It is often found along riverbanks or in swampy areas and functions as a stabilizer and restorer to these habitats.  It is considered a small tree because it typically only grows to a height of 10 to 20 feet.

The Hazel Alder, or Smooth Alder as it is often called, is a multi-trunk tree with dense branches. It produces pretty flowers in the spring before its green leaves appear. The leaves are simple but impressive because of their parallel veins and dark green top contrasting with a pale green underside.  The Hazel Alder has no serious insect or disease problems and tea made from its bark is said to aid in many common ailments.

Tulip Tree

Producing tulip shaped flowers and leaves that cone into a chalice-like design, the Tulip Tree is a beautifully fun ornamental plant for your yard. With a possible 40’ circumference when mature, the Tulip Tree is also considered an excellent shade tree. Tulip Trees grow at an extremely fast rate in comparison to most other trees, averaging about 25 inches a year!

Silver Bell

A tree that has shown to remain disease free in spite of environmental factors, the Silver Bell tree is smaller in stature than most other trees on this list but makes up for its size with beauty. Plant a Silver Bell tree in a place where you will be able to appreciate its foliage throughout the year as it bares bright yellow leaves in the fall and silvery, bell-shaped blossoms that appear in April.

Sweet Birch

The Sweet Birch tree has shiny red-brown bark and yellow foliage. It is prettiest during early fall although it does provide a spring blossom.  The Sweet Birch offers shade for many homeowners’ landscapes. It grows best in residential and park areas. This tree typically reaches a height of 40 to 50 feet and needs full sun for at least 6 hours a day. It likes moist soil and often grows in rocky areas.

Sweet Birch trees attract butterflies and songbirds but are resistant to the bronze birch borer. Its bark has a strong wintergreen scent and taste that is used in everything from candy to medicine. The Sweet Birch’s sap can be used to make alcohol such as “birch beer”. The hard and heavy wood of the sweet birch is commonly used in furniture manufacture.

Flowering Dogwood

Choose between white, pink or red flowers…or get all three for an exceptionally colorful look. Flowering Dogwood Trees will bloom during the spring and produce yellow, red and maroon leaves in the fall. The glossy red berries of the Dogwood will attract songbirds and other wildlife throughout the year.

The Dogwood Tree grows to a height of about 20-25 feet tall so utilizing its beauty as a disguise for something not-so-perfect looking on your property might be just the idea you have been looking for.

This tree species prefers partial shade but will do well in full sun if well cared for. The Flowering Dogwood will do best in evenly moist, well-drained, acidic soil. If well cared for the dogwood will serve as a great accent tree providing many years of beauty in spring, summer, and fall.

Black Spruce

Sometimes called the Bog or Swamp Spruce due to its tolerance to wet sites, the black spruce is an Evergreen with foliage year-round. This tree grows to a height of 30 to 50 feet and does best in cold climates. The bark of the Black Spruce tree is scaly and dark gray. The needles are stiff, blue green in color and grow into a pointed crown at its top.

The Black Spruce’s cones persist for several years and are the smallest of all spruces.  The root systems are typically shallow, so it prefers a layer of mulch around its base. The Black Spruce tree is often found growing near the red spruce but rarely found near white spruce trees. This tree’s wood is used in many paper products.

American Holly

The Holly Tree’s deep green leaves remain vibrant throughout the year which is one of the reasons this tree makes our list. Its bright red berries will give a pop of color to your landscape and can be clipped and used in Holiday Decorations. Holly Trees will grow up to 50 feet tall and can be trimmed to look like an individual tree, a hedge or even a wall.

Red Oak

Widely considered a national treasure another of native New Jersey trees.  The Red Oak tree is New Jersey’s official state tree.

Known for its beautiful fall colors and the value it brings to surrounding wildlife, the Red Oak is a fast-growing species that will provide shade with its height and large canopy spread. Always well-loved for its stately structure and shape, the red oak lives a long life and provides beautiful color in the fall.

Planting trees is always an investment in the future of your property and our planet. If you have questions about tree service in NJ and any of the tree species listed or others you have found on your own, don’t hesitate to comment with questions or call our office for more information…we provide free estimates!

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The Clientele— Music for the Age of Miracles (Merge)

The ordinary turns luminous in this eighth full-length from Alasdair MacLean’s Clientele, as soft layers of guitar, murmuring vocals and lush swathes of strings swaddle rueful melodies. These songs masterfully distill the nothing-much epiphanies of changing seasons and glancing contact with the world into gemlike intervals. They are so gentle that they seem to evaporate into mist even as you listen, and yet they are nowhere near as fragile as they seem; very ordinary imagery of walking home, rubbing elbows with post-work crowds as the light fades are so tenderly rendered that the songs have some of the sweetness of life itself, some of its strangeness and fleeting beauty.

It’s been seven years since the last Clientele record, the Minotaur EP, and in the meantime MacLean has been busy recording two equally lovely (and Clientele-ish but with a shade or two of Latin lilt) albums with his wife Lupe Núñez-Fernández as Amor de Dias and in reissuing old Clientele material. The long layover seems to have occasioned no dramatic changes in his sighing, sun-through-mist aesthetic, which owes a lot to soft-but-complicated 1960s outfits like the Left Banke and Love. If you laid these songs against the re-released material from Suburban Light from the turn of the millennium, you’d notice a bit of ripening, a fuller blown arrangement in strings and other orchestral instruments and a bit of near eastern influence (Anthony Harmer plays santour or Persian dulcimer on many of these tracks), but nothing has shifted very drastically.  

Age of Miracles looks for transcendence in the mundane — and regularly locates it, as for instance in the song “Everything You See Tonight Is Different from Itself,” a lilting reverie punctuated by big emphatic guitar chords and airy arpeggios on, I would guess, that Persian santour. MacLean plumbs the bubbling immanence of natural life, the sense that something more lurks under the regular features of the world in the opening lines, “Nothing here is quite the same, songbirds singing new refrains, palpitations on the train and static in the grass.”  The song, too, lifts off out of its foundations, spiralling out in heady swirls and arabesques touch on the spiritual.

The most arresting song comes late in the album in “Museum of Fog,” in which MacLean speak-sings a narrative over cloudy, hazy, guitar, wordless vocals and bowed cello. He tells of returning to a bar he’d visited illegally at 16, wandering by chance into a back room where a band was playing and then having one of those experiences where time seems to double back on itself.

“The sound their instruments made was almost-human: my beer glass slithered through my fingers as I recognised it as my own 16-year-old laughter, escaping through a toilet window, retreating from a policeman, dragged back through the long track of years which had passed, and re-presented, re-lived in front of the audience. In its disembodied state, it was one of the most purely beautiful things I have ever heard – it briefly brought the past back to life, old hopes and innocence burst into sudden flower.”  

Music for the Age of Miracles is rather beautifully arranged by MacLean and long-time drummer Mark Keen, scored by Chris Taylor with the strings and brass conducted by Anthony Harmer. The sound is very full but soft, with dream-like indefinite edges, sunlit surfaces and moody subterranean currents. It is very easy for this kind of chamber pop to sound ephemeral and silly, but MacLean has a way of imbuing gauzy, hazy clouds of melody with striking intelligence and spiritual relevance. This is one of the prettiest albums of 2017, no small feat in itself, but it feels like a good deal more than that as well.

Jennifer Kelly

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crows and ravens are VERY cool i know but i think if i ever wrote a book that just aggressively used a bird for pure aesthetic it would be a mourning dove or something. some kinda pigeon for sure

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Moodboard | 💞 REVOLVING HEARTS — our muses' romantic relationship

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Adding onto this. I got cherr guitarist thoughts tonight. I think she should have a cool guitar design, as a treat.

I hope you guys see my vision.