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Post by lenke on Mar 7, 2013 6:41:13 GMT -7
and with whom i held a very lovely conversation for about 40min while i was avoiding the boring speeches, and he was inspecting the location for his next squeaky meal!  |
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Post by amoritay on Mar 7, 2013 7:17:15 GMT -7
Oh he is so beautiful!!!!
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Post by Haz on Mar 7, 2013 8:30:30 GMT -7
Wow! I have never seen an owl in person.
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Post by DF on Mar 8, 2013 12:14:44 GMT -7
Finally saw the picture - Amazing! And didn't fly away. Good thing Lucky wasn't out and about
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Post by Adele on Mar 8, 2013 17:57:30 GMT -7
That is great! A big horned, owl, right? Those guys are huge. We had them back in Davis. They might be here in MN, but I've never seen them. They can do some serious damage and are absolutely stunning.
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Post by lenke on Mar 10, 2013 6:00:06 GMT -7
He's a Cape Eagle Owl. Quite an unusual visitor to noisy humans.
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Post by Adele on Mar 12, 2013 16:05:15 GMT -7
A Cape Eagle Owl? I just looked them up. Really cool!
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Post by Grant on Mar 12, 2013 19:37:40 GMT -7
So beautiful! On a cactus  Grant |
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Post by lenke on Mar 13, 2013 21:19:24 GMT -7
its an aloe, grant indigenous to the western cape flora biome! and from which, by the way, most of the recent fashionable "aloe" extract products come. If you snap off a leaf, and rub the gell onto your sunburn, there's nothing better that aloe to get rid of the sting (and bee stings, and all sorts of other itchy scratchy things!)
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Post by Grant on Mar 14, 2013 21:13:43 GMT -7
Oh Yes, now I see it. .... the beauty that you have there in Africa Grant |
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Post by Adele on Mar 17, 2013 20:13:49 GMT -7
We used a lot of aloe plants growing up in California (after growing up with real plants, I always doubted the lotions that come in a bottle). I grow some aloe in my apartment here, and recently found out that Hercules loves them. They went from being over grown, to now being over eaten.
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Post by lenke on Mar 22, 2013 2:59:00 GMT -7
We used a lot of aloe plants growing up in California (after growing up with real plants, I always doubted the lotions that come in a bottle). I grow some aloe in my apartment here, and recently found out that Hercules loves them. They went from being over grown, to now being over eaten. so hercules has a green bill then! one thing i've found with our aloes, if you chop em too much, they kind of retreat into themselves and start sending side branches out. it makes for a very prickly plant, sometimes. |
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