Geonoma in Serra dos Órgãos National Park
Palms in Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, founded 1808.
There were lots of outstanding photographers present -- please post a few postcards from Brazil!
Postcards from Brazil
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, Apr 25 2010 11:36 AM
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Posted 25 April 2010 - 11:36 AM
Just a few teaser photos -- we missed you, wish you had been there!
Geonoma in Serra dos Órgãos National Park
Palms in Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, founded 1808.
There were lots of outstanding photographers present -- please post a few postcards from Brazil!
Geonoma in Serra dos Órgãos National Park
Palms in Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, founded 1808.
There were lots of outstanding photographers present -- please post a few postcards from Brazil!
Between the beach and the bays, Ocean Beach, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 25 April 2010 - 12:09 PM
Postcards? Wish you were here? Yes it was lovely, thank you.
Just kidding, Kim! Geonoma gamiova, I presume?
Just kidding, Kim! Geonoma gamiova, I presume?
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Posted 26 April 2010 - 08:17 AM
amazing stuff!!! cant wait to see the rest!
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still "warning-free."
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Posted 26 April 2010 - 09:27 PM
A few more from Rio 
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Innisfail - NQ AUS - 3000mm of rain a year or 10 feet if you prefer - Temp Range 14c to 38c
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Posted 26 April 2010 - 10:51 PM
These are lovely. I knew I should have gone a few years ago when I had the chance.
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Warm subtropical, with occasional frosts.
27.35 south.
Warm subtropical, with occasional frosts.
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Posted 27 April 2010 - 05:11 PM
Flowering Corypha in Flamengo Park...
A view from the park...
A view from the park...
Between the beach and the bays, Ocean Beach, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 27 April 2010 - 05:24 PM
Kim - Your pictures are beautiful. I love the upshots of the palms (I took a lot of those myself). That talipot flower is great!
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Posted 27 April 2010 - 05:27 PM
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Posted 27 April 2010 - 05:30 PM
Going up teleferico Pão de Açúcar...
View from the top, lots of morros make for dramatic scenery... (say MO-hos)
View from the top, lots of morros make for dramatic scenery... (say MO-hos)
Between the beach and the bays, Ocean Beach, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 27 April 2010 - 05:37 PM
No chance to beat Kim`s perfect photography...
We`ve just arrived in São Paulo after saying goodbye to the other friends who are at the airport right now after a wonderful post tour to Minas Gerais and Campinas, with Harri Lorenzi for these last three days. Jack and Lindsey had to catch the 8 PM flight to Toronto so they missed the final moments at the Plantarum Institute. Barbara loved each moment of these last 10 days and meeting you all in such happy occasions will represent great memories we won`t ever forget.
The post tour was fantastic too. I can`t wait to download our ~6000 pictures and select a few to post here when we come back to Recife next week. Thanks everyone for making our first biennial a remarkable experience...Ohhh, and the palms...
We`ve just arrived in São Paulo after saying goodbye to the other friends who are at the airport right now after a wonderful post tour to Minas Gerais and Campinas, with Harri Lorenzi for these last three days. Jack and Lindsey had to catch the 8 PM flight to Toronto so they missed the final moments at the Plantarum Institute. Barbara loved each moment of these last 10 days and meeting you all in such happy occasions will represent great memories we won`t ever forget.
The post tour was fantastic too. I can`t wait to download our ~6000 pictures and select a few to post here when we come back to Recife next week. Thanks everyone for making our first biennial a remarkable experience...Ohhh, and the palms...
Sirinhaém beach, 80 Km south of Recife - Brazil
Tropical oceanic climate, latitude 8° S
Temperature extremes: 25 to 31°C
2000 mm average rainfall, dry summers
Tropical oceanic climate, latitude 8° S
Temperature extremes: 25 to 31°C
2000 mm average rainfall, dry summers
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Posted 27 April 2010 - 05:41 PM
A special abraço to Kate and Craig, the perfect samba dancers who almost got lost in the tunnels of Rio...Happiness is the word to define you 2, anytime. Take care, we enjoyed a lot your company.
Sirinhaém beach, 80 Km south of Recife - Brazil
Tropical oceanic climate, latitude 8° S
Temperature extremes: 25 to 31°C
2000 mm average rainfall, dry summers
Tropical oceanic climate, latitude 8° S
Temperature extremes: 25 to 31°C
2000 mm average rainfall, dry summers
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Posted 27 April 2010 - 08:57 PM
Great, great stuff.
Yep. I gotta make it to Thailand.
Yep. I gotta make it to Thailand.
Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.
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"The great workman of nature is time."
"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."
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Posted 27 April 2010 - 09:45 PM
I am glad to see the event went well and love the pictures. I thought about you all last week and wish I had been there. I actually was close as I went to São Paulo on Wednesday and Thursday. But, that was business not pleasure. I hope to make the next one altough it will be a lot further away.
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LIFE ON THE RIO NEGRO
03° 06' 07'' South 60° 01' 30'' West
Altitude 92 Meters / 308 feet above sea level
1,500 kms / 932 miles to the mouth of the Amazon River
Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil - A Cidade da Floresta
Where the world´s largest Tropical Rainforest embraces the Greatest Rivers in the World. .
Click here to visit Amazonas
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 01:46 AM
Kim, Kathryn, Bo, Gileno et al - Thank you so much for sharing your photos of what must have been a very special biennial. I (we) have been waiting expectantly for the photos. Bo, congratulations to you, the IPS, organizing committee and the hosts for putting together these events. As Jeff Searle said recently "If I have to crawl to Thailand ......"
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So many plants, So little space.
So many plants, So little space.
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 02:43 AM
I remember that, it's the smiley picture Bo.
Bo's camera has this interesting setting - the picture will be taken will all persons are smiling. Craig and I went back and forth with one of us smiling and then the other. It finally snapped the picture when we both smiled!
I wonder if you can get that feature for open eyes.
Bo's camera has this interesting setting - the picture will be taken will all persons are smiling. Craig and I went back and forth with one of us smiling and then the other. It finally snapped the picture when we both smiled!
I wonder if you can get that feature for open eyes.
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 11:37 AM
I've read about this technology. They use it at one Japanese railway - quote: "to check if the smile is wide enough to infuse the customer with the required feeling of warmth."I remember that, it's the smiley picture Bo.
Bo's camera has this interesting setting - the picture will be taken will all persons are smiling. Craig and I went back and forth with one of us smiling and then the other. It finally snapped the picture when we both smiled!
I wonder if you can get that feature for open eyes.
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 01:15 PM
Funny thing is, I found out by a coincidence. About a week before the trip I bought this cute little Nikon Coolpix S4000 camera. Since I have an aversion to reading instructions I just started using the camera. On our first full day, Sunday April 18th, our bus broke down so our group were stuck for a couple of hours at this location out in the Brazilian forest. We spent the time socializing and eating our lunch, and I took a bunch of photos. I must have accidentally touched a different setting because all of a sudden the camera began to take photos when I pointed it at someone. Very strange and I couldn't figure out why. Fortunately our son, André, was close by, and being the technologically savvy guy he is, he showed me a setting that says "smile timer". When you activate this setting and turn the camera in the direction of someone who is smiling, believe it or not, the camera, after a time delay of about six seconds, will take a photo! How amazing is that! 
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 01:21 PM
In the Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro.
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Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.
Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm
I am seeking for cold hardy palms!
Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm
I am seeking for cold hardy palms!
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 01:25 PM
Royals
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Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.
Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm
I am seeking for cold hardy palms!
Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm
I am seeking for cold hardy palms!
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 01:28 PM
Pão-de-açúcar (Sugar Loaf)
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Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.
Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm
I am seeking for cold hardy palms!
Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm
I am seeking for cold hardy palms!
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 01:35 PM
´Vitória-régias´ in the pond.
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Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.
Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm
I am seeking for cold hardy palms!
Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm
I am seeking for cold hardy palms!
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Posted 28 April 2010 - 01:37 PM
Other side
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Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.
Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm
I am seeking for cold hardy palms!
Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm
I am seeking for cold hardy palms!
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