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Just another photo of my Sunburst focusing on the cascading flower spike with a few open blooms.
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Instrument of torture.
I love my uke but this is so true. They (and all the guides for them) were not meant for any cup size D+.
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"The truth that lies closest, however, is only this; that you are beating your head against the wall of a windowless and doorless cell."
— Franz Kafka, from Diaries (via violentwavesofemotion)
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Mud Salamander (Pseudotriton montanus diastictus)
Sometimes called the eastern mud salamander, it is native to the southeastern United States. They like clear water and soft mud and debris to bury and hide in.
These salamanders lives change drastically from youth to adult. In their younger stages, they are a bright red or orange color, and eat anything their size or smaller in the water, including each other. As they grow, they open their diets to insects and mites on land. Adults will tend to be a darker, rusteir red with more spots. Females are generally larger than the males. They can grow up to about 6 inches. Females may not be sexually mature until 4 or 5 years.
These salamander are different from their close relatives, the red salamander. Unlike their cousins, the mud salamanders are stalkier, and they have black eyes instead of yellow.
Their numbers are rapidly decreasing and people are not able to do many studies on this species becuase they are difficult to find. Causes of critical endangerment are not verified, and are currently being investigated in areas with especially vulnerable populations like Virginia.
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CT scan of a day-old monarch butterfly chrysalis, and side view of a 9-day old monarch butterfly chrysalis, shortly before the butterfly emerges (Micro Photonics Inc)
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