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Slow Down This Is A Neighborhood Not A Racetrack!

April 19, 2016 — 33 Comments

Snail

F/5.6, 1/60, ISO 800.

Snail

What do you do when two snails have a fight?

Leave them to slug it out!

Interesting Fact: Most snails have thousands of microscopic tooth-like structures located on a ribbon-like tongue called a radula. The radula works like a file, ripping food into small pieces. Many snails are herbivorous, eating plants or rasping algae from surfaces with their radulae, though a few land species and many marine species are omnivores or predatory carnivores.  ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail#Overview )

 

Your Escape Cracks Me Up!

October 12, 2015 — 23 Comments

egg escape

F/14.0, 1/60, ISO100.

Day 285 / 365

What did the egg do when it saw the frying pan?

It scrambled!

Interesting Fact: Bird eggs have been valuable foodstuffs since prehistory, in both hunting societies and more recent cultures where birds were domesticated. The chicken was probably domesticated for its eggs from jungle fowl native to tropical and subtropical Southeast Asia and India before 7500 BCE. Chickens were brought to Sumer and Egypt by 1500 BCE, and arrived in Greece around 800 BCE, where the quail had been the primary source of eggs.[5] In Thebes, Egypt, the tomb of Haremhab, built about 1420 BCE, shows a depiction of a man carrying bowls of ostrich eggs and other large eggs, presumably those of the pelican, as offerings.[6] In ancient Rome, eggs were preserved using a number of methods, and meals often started with an egg course.[6] The Romans crushed the shells in their plates to prevent evil spirits from hiding there.[7] In the Middle Ages, eggs were forbidden during Lent because of their richness.[7] The word mayonnaise possibly was derived from moyeu, the medieval French word for the yolk, meaning center or hub. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_(food)#History )