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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 7, 2014 - 12:16pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 24, 2014 - 09:33pm PT
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Where have most of the flowers gone?
To seed, of course.
Except in the Southern Hemisphere.
The donini plant, Alpinismus donini, has a unique trait of shedding its years in its high Rocky Mountains habitat and its shed seeds are carried south by migrating birds.
These seeds resist digestion and are eventually sown in greatest numbers in the higher regions of Patagonia, which seems like a very long ways to fly before taking a dump. But that's just my personal hygienic fetish commenting. YOU potential readers must be the judges for yourselves.
The quest to find the answers to a botanical mystery that had scientists going insane to try explain how it grew in both places in two different times of the year, in opposing cycles, is an adventure which you will never forget. (The section about tracing the various species of birds' differing migratory paths is especially riveting.)
Order your copy now, in advance, please. There will be an avalanche of subscriptions we are certain.
Fred Beckey & Wayne Merry both endorse the book, two thumbs up!
Send cash, check or money order to me, Mouse From Merced, here in Middle Earth, by return mail, and I'll keep your request on file. You will be mailed a chit for each copy. The books will be sent ASAP after the printers have done. Each copy will be personally autographed by donini.
There is no title yet, but think one up and mail it in with your cash, check or money order for only 39.95, shipping incl.. No tax, we got it covered like a Jack Tackle belay!
We may decide to have a drawing BY donini HIMSELF, the man who led the expedition to find the answer to the question, "Hey, WTF?"
Or not: This will depend on when donini returns from his LATEST HEROIC TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURE, kinda.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2014 - 02:34am PT
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Juan, that Aprile with it's shoures soote...
Official Catholic accounts state that on the morning of December 9, 1531, Juan Diego saw an apparition of a young girl at the Hill of Tepeyac, near Mexico City. Speaking to him in Nahuatl, the girl asked that a church be built at that site in her honor; from her words, Juan Diego recognized the girl as the Virgin Mary. According to the account, Diego told his story to the Spanish Archbishop of Mexico City, Fray Juan de Zumárraga, who instructed him to return to Tepeyac Hill, and ask the "lady" for a miraculous sign to prove her identity. The first sign was the Virgin healing Juan's uncle. The Virgin told Juan Diego to gather flowers from the top of Tepeyac Hill. Although December was very late in the growing season for flowers to bloom, Juan Diego found Castilian roses, not native to Mexico, on the normally barren hilltop. The Virgin arranged these in his peasant cloak or tilma. When Juan Diego opened his cloak before Bishop Zumárraga on December 12, the flowers fell to the floor, and on the fabric was the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe.--straight from Wiki, but without the little numbers
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 3, 2015 - 12:04am PT
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Insectos todo el tiempo.
marzo.abril.mayo.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 17, 2015 - 10:51pm PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Mar 18, 2015 - 08:47am PT
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BECAUSE THEY ARE ephemeral NOT FOR EVER WE LIKE TO NOTE THIER BEING THERE.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Flowers are popping after the stormy weather bump!
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Jun 10, 2015 - 07:50am PT
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couchmaster
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Jun 10, 2015 - 09:56am PT
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I'll add this crappy Iphone photo of flowers growing out of a crack below North Dome, couple weeks back. They actually snaked down the way quite a bit.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2015 - 10:06am PT
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Normally, I'd have just left that alone. But you can't expect much from a tele-phone.
On the other hand, I can't call out on my camera! Incoming calls get forwarded automatically to the recycle bin, unfortunately, as well.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jun 18, 2015 - 11:44am PT
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Jun 18, 2015 - 11:51am PT
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Nothing special, just some peonies
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labrat
Trad climber
Erik O. Auburn, CA
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Jun 18, 2015 - 01:08pm PT
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Jun 18, 2015 - 05:31pm PT
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Jun 18, 2015 - 06:05pm PT
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Jun 18, 2015 - 06:36pm PT
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Gone to graveyards everywhere.
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thebravecowboy
climber
liberated libertine
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Jun 18, 2015 - 08:32pm PT
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they went in my brain. with all those chemicals, you know.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Jun 19, 2015 - 05:58am PT
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Here ya go Mouse. I've been waiting for this one to bloom so's I can get a picture. The Sobralia macrantha plant looks a little like very thin bamboo that grows in a clumping style in the highlands of Mexico and Central America up to about 8000 ft. It's really cool to see them growning along the roadside in the mountains.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 19, 2015 - 06:25am PT
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"Bam-boo-yah!"
Sobralia Macrantha, that sounds like a stage name for an opera singer.
Gonna miss it this summer--a bummer.
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