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UER Forum > Archived UE Main > Urban awareness - urban weeds (Viewed 665 times) uair01  Location: Rotterdam.NL Gender: Male -=|x|=-  |  |  Urban awareness - urban weeds < on 4/9/2005 8:13 PM >   On my way to work I amuse myself by noticing things that other people never see. In february (11/02/2005) I noticed the weeds that were growing along the "upper class" street where my office is. Weird that there are any weeds at all here ... The plant has prospered in the meantime. The second picture is from april (06/04/2005). I'm not yet sure what plant it is (I guess: milk-thistle) and I hope it will not be pulled up before I can see it's flower (my guess: dandelion-like). click to view click to view Unfortunately I couldn't adjust the scale of the pictures. The plant has grown more than how it appears in the pictures. "Not to look behind a door is an insult to the door, and the reality it is hiding." manitou  Location: Mississauga/Toronto/Waterloo Gender: Male I was born with an inherent knowledge of every abandonment in the world!  |  Re: Urban awareness - urban weeds <Reply # 1 on 4/9/2005 10:22 PM >   Maybe a web cam should be installed so that we can have a 24 hour Weed Watch! www.dkphotogroup.com Decoy  Location: Leslieville Gender: Male Oh I have slipped the bonds of earth...  |  Re: Urban awareness - urban weeds <Reply # 2 on 4/10/2005 5:32 PM >   Yeah. Then take the videofeed and pipe it into a monitor in an art gallery, call your work "the survivors" (or something equally contrived), and presto! You're a post modern artist! Wooo! Wait, why am I paying to go to university for this? *sigh* And I'm not being sarcastic. If you want to be an weed-artist, set it up. Keep us posted on the weeds btw. It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pitty To be lookin' at the board, not lookin' at the city. uair01  Location: Rotterdam.NL Gender: Male -=|x|=-  |  |  Re: Urban awareness - urban weeds <Reply # 3 on 4/10/2005 7:02 PM >   Posted by manitou Maybe a web cam should be installed so that we can have a 24 hour Weed Watch! Have you seen my "Drying paint" webcam already? Exciting stuff! There is not much difference between succesive days: see 25 march 2005 versus 23 march 2005: click to view click to view But wait until I publish my webpage about streetlights going on and off (I'm serious ). "Not to look behind a door is an insult to the door, and the reality it is hiding." manitou  Location: Mississauga/Toronto/Waterloo Gender: Male I was born with an inherent knowledge of every abandonment in the world!  |  Re: Urban awareness - urban weeds <Reply # 4 on 4/11/2005 12:47 AM >   Sweet, I look forward to it! www.dkphotogroup.com Chainsaw  This member has been banned. See the banlist for more information. Location: Underground, Colorado Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Urban awareness - urban weeds <Reply # 5 on 4/11/2005 2:36 PM >   Man...I feel like Otto walking out of "Stoner's Pot Palace" - that's just plain misleading... Quid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. Servo   |  Re: Urban awareness - urban weeds <Reply # 6 on 4/12/2005 1:44 AM >   What's even cooler is when you find trees growing out of roofs... Asylunt  Location: MPLS Gender: Male The Friendly Beer!  |  |  |  Re: Urban awareness - urban weeds <Reply # 7 on 4/12/2005 5:45 AM >   Uair, you are my kind of person. You actually observe the world around you, which is fresh. I too have been interested by random weeds and often overlooked plants. In fact, I'm growing a thistle for the hell of it, I mean they are very beautiful and intriguing plants, but who the hell ever grows them and studies them, noone, but me. Keep up the worldly observation, I dig it, I'm the same way. Asylunt "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain Heartless  Location: Dakota Territory Gender: Male nowhere is a state of mind  |  |  |  Re: Urban awareness - urban weeds <Reply # 8 on 4/12/2005 7:42 AM >   Posted by Asylunt <snip>... they are very beautiful and intriguing plants, but who the hell ever grows them and studies them, noone, but me. Asylunt I've got spearmint and morning glories going now on my windowsill next to my bed, and some paganum harmala and mimosa hostilis germinating! I also dig the fact that you observe that closely what's around you, keep on rockin'. "I hope that I find you in heaven, because I'm so lost without you down here..." Lost Highway Photography uair01  Location: Rotterdam.NL Gender: Male -=|x|=-  |  |  Re: Urban awareness - urban weeds <Reply # 9 on 4/12/2005 9:23 PM >   Yesterday - I hadn't seen the plant the whole weekend - I was surprised to see flowers already: click to view But today they seem to have closed down or wilted. I didn't know that they were so short-lived: It's definitely a "Composite" just as I expected. And tomorrow I'll try to look it up in my flora - I'm very bad at that. And for those that had other expectations when I started to talk about "weeds" - the grass to the left of the plant is most probably "street grass" (official Dutch plant name) - how's that for a confusing name "Not to look behind a door is an insult to the door, and the reality it is hiding." UER Forum > Archived UE Main > Urban awareness - urban weeds (Viewed 665 times) All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. 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