So elegant (and motionless… o.O)!
white tigers from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
Posts Tagged ‘interesting’
White tigers
laelene Posted in video blog，Tags: animals, interesting, observation, singapore, travel tales, zoo
08
September
2010
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Huntington Gardens: Shakespeare Garden & greenhouse
laelene Posted in photo blog，Tags: beauty, interesting, nature, panda, pictures, plants, pretty
06
September
2010
Part 1 of a 3-part series from pictures taken at the Huntington Library & Gardens. Click to see the whole image.
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- Teeny little strawberry growing under the protection of the leaves.
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- You don’t often see flowers so blue/purple.
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- A huge bush with lots of flowers.
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- Among those flowers was a giant black bee buzzing around.
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- The bush was also teeming with bees pollinating.
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- I spot two pomegranates in a tree!
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- It’s a fuzzy plant that looks like it belongs in the lettuce or cabbage family.
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- Hidden amongst all that fuzz was a grasshopper perfectly camouflaged.
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- We went into the greenhouse and immediately came across these bean pods.
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- Do the leaves turn this dark red when they get old?
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- Funny how they dangle, yet their petals grow up and expose the stems (versus most plants where the petals protect them).
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- I’m thinking these are plantains? Or do bananas grow upwards as well?
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- These are for you to see how certain plants have seeds that will float along with the wind.
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- Our friend Opti spun too hard and blew it all the way to the top, where it got stuck.
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- I pose with these huge highlighter yellow flowers.
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- I think this is a root of some sort.
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- Well, now I’m not so sure it’s a root. What are they??
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- In the kid’s garden, there was this sculpture of a tortoise that I decided to get a ride on.
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- Trying to maintain my balance while being told by Panda to smile.
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- It looks more like a vegetable than a fruit to me.
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- The baby versions of that vegetable-looking plant.
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- I love plants like these that eat bugs!
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- It’s a quite a long way to the bottom. I think I see some bugs in there.
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- These have quite the design on them.
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- Now these are my favorite plants! The one and only Venus flytrap.
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- Check out those little claws. So delicate yet so menacing.
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- Here’s a magnified look.
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- A little camera was available for taking a closer look.
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- And here’s that plant with my camera’s zoom.
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- Looking up to see what there is.
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- This flower hadn’t opened yet, but I could get a peek inside.
Click here for the next part.
Cattle encounter
laelene Posted in video blog，Tags: animals, interesting, travel tales, videos
05
September
2010
Feeding time for the cattle! They completely ignored everything else.
walking alongside cattle from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
Social media timeline
laelene Posted in photo blog，Tags: interesting, pictures, social media
27
August
2010
A cool timeline showing the progression of technology and social media. Take note of some of the hilarious phrases.
My dream plant
laelene Posted in photo blog，Tags: huntington gardens, interesting, pictures, plants
21
August
2010
I have always wanted to have my own Venus flytraps, but they are hard to come by. So instead I took time to admire the ones at the Huntington Gardens.
These plants are so awesome.
They look so delicate, yet fierce at the same time.
A view through the magnifying glass.
They had this video lens that you could use to look at the plants and show people on a screen.
It caught a mosquito! I wonder why it didn't close though.
Transformer among us
laelene Posted in photo blog，Tags: cars, interesting, observation, pictures
12
August
2010
Have I shared this before? Can’t remember.
I believe it was a Honda previously...
“Elephantnip”
laelene Posted in video blog，Tags: animals, interesting, thailand, travel, travel tales, videos
10
August
2010
You know how catnip makes cats go crazy (in a good, happy way)? Well, this tree apparently is just as good-tasting to elephants as catnip is to cats. When I went elephant-riding, my elephant tried to break off some to eat, but that was a sturdy branch.
elephant catnip from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
Air hockey spinning top
laelene Posted in video blog，Tags: experiences, games, interesting, observation, videos
07
August
2010
We somehow decided to try spinning the air hockey paddles as tops and they turned out to be really good! Note how well they self-correct and save themselves from spinning out of control multiple times. Maybe top tips should be round instead of pointy.
stable top from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
I’m tempted to put some water in the center. Wouldn’t that be cool?
air hockey top from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
Strange LA weather
laelene Posted in photo blog，Tags: interesting, los angeles, observation, pictures, weather
06
August
2010
At night in LA, there is often this marine layer that comes in and gives everything a foggy feel. Makes the entire night sky a sort of glow.
Pet clam & sea snail
laelene Posted in video blog，Tags: animals, interesting, observation, travel, videos
01
August
2010
When I was in Thailand, I wrote about the day I found a bunch of clams on the beach. Then I posted some videos of them burrowing into the sand. Here now are videos of the two that I took back to the hostel, climbing around, burrowing, and otherwise doing amusing things. I’m not the only one to find this fascinating, am I?
sea snail and clam blending into the sand from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
happy clam from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
(Yeah, I know, it’s slow going. But check out how the sea snail flips itself over and burrows away, whereas the clam goes in tip first and squeezes its shell.)
It just glides so smoothly. But out of water, it finds it’s no match for gravity:
Part claw, part… lotus? You decide:
Based on the previous video, now can you find the part of the clam that is sticking out?
And then the grand finale! The clam is so happy it burrows a little, then thrusts itself out of the sand. Meanwhile, the sea snail decides to come out to play too.
