Monday 19 November 2012

Macro on Monday - Guess What

gold star

Two Gold Stars awarded for last week's Guess What. Adrian for correctly identifying Lichen and Bonnie for saying some sort of fungi and a Lichen is a combination of a fungus and algae (see British Lichens, What are Lichens?). Well done both of you.

2012-11-12 14.14.30x.jpg


P1040270 Lichen.jpg


I wonder how you will get on with this week's Guess What.

2012-11-19 09.47.22.jpg
iPhone4 using Camera+ app and add on macro lens


Clue: Was it Blackbirds or Starlings whot done it?

No prizes, just for fun.

============================

When I am building my electronic projects I usually end up with a rats nest of wiring. I couldn't resist taking this shot of a BT engineer working on the phone line junction box opposite my bungalow. How do they ever work out which wire goes to which building? Makes me wonder how I manage to get up to 7Mbits download through copper wire.

P1040278 BT.jpg


Still - as long as it keeps working!





4 comments:

  1. Baked fruit, perhaps apple? baked in a pie.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Is it what remains of a fallen apple John?
    A random guess!
    J
    Follow me at HEDGELAND TALES

    ReplyDelete
  3. I'm finding some of these very tricky lately John, probably completely wrong but my guess is perhaps part of an apple? If so maybe you will attract a Fieldfare or Redwing or even a Waxwing before long. I am spearing apples on to my trees as I do every Winter for that reason, never managed a Waxwing yet though.

    I wouldn't want to be up that pole let alone trying to sort out the spaghetti :-)

    ReplyDelete
  4. It's a bit of fish and chips batter. (made me hungry)
    They are not colour blind and if you strip a bit of phone cable it gives no end of posh colour covered wire.
    Copper wire crystallizes or so as I was told by a Merchant Marine radio bloke and should be replaced every five years or so. I guess that is what he's up to up his pole. The poles now have a date on and have to be replaced along with the wires.

    ReplyDelete

Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

Related Posts with Thumbnails