BEST DAMN CHRISMAS ever
(via David Sarachman Google+)
a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees.~
Wait…. It’s not April 1st.
1:01
The time on the clock tower, at the power house at Boldt Castle, 1000 Islands.
Everybody is a genius…
(via Google)
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Cherry Blossoms n bloom, from my favorite tree on my commute.
Rochester, NY April 2011
my inlaws tree, its so crazy bright.
snow storm outside, perfect day for a christmas party.
Seed Bombing is awesome, in theory. What could possibly go wrong? ;-)
Seed bombing is about to jump to a whole new level of awesomeness. A fleet of unused and decommissioned C-130 Hercules cargo planes, originally created to drop land mines, will be recommissioned as foresters. Lockheed Martin — the quintessential military innovation company — has taken a 25 year old idea from former UK RAF pilot Jack Walters and turned it into a reality. The planes will be outfitted to each drop up to 900,000 trees in one day and with 2,500 C-130’s sitting unused in 70 different countries, this idea could make for a lot of little saplings.
“The possibilities are amazing,” Peter Simmons told the Guardian. “We can fly at 1,000ft at 130 knots planting more than 3,000 cones a minute in a pattern across the landscape – just as we did with landmines, but in this case each cone contains a sapling. That’s 125,000 trees for each sortie and 900,000 trees in a day.” The cones in question are expertly formed to bury themselves in the soil of a deforested area at the same distance that one would want them to be if planting the trees by hand. The tree bombs don’t explode on impact but rather their casing dissolves over time and they contain a measure of fertilizer and enough moisture to ensure that the tree takes root.
(via Old Military Planes to Tree Bomb Deforested Areas | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World)
Boy went to war in 1914 - left his bike chained to a tree.
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Update:
Thanks to reddit I now have a link to the real story.
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/vashon/vib/lifestyle/80272877.html
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