The King, Monarch and Royalty that earn my love and respect.

[usonian]

1. The Buddha gave the following advice to a king:
Exhibit these 10 virtues:
• Charity
• Morality
• Altruism
• Honesty
• Gentleness
• Self-Control
• Non-Anger
• Non-Violence
• Patience
• Respect of Others.

2. A Monarch is beautiful, graceful and transformed/transformative.

3. Royalty is based on a lifetime of achievement, inspiration to others and just being a warm and gracious person.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WILLIE MAYS

[TreasonousBastard]

1. I first thought of the butterfly, and you filled it out perfectly.

[Faux pas]

2. Yes Please!

[AllaN01Bear]

4. eggscllent . hear hear.

i just signed out and then i saw your post and had to sign back in to post comment.

[grantcart]

5. Working around Casa Grande I passed a hotel with golf course and a baseball diamond

Out of curiosity I stopped by and discovered the Spring Training facility of SF Giants in the 60's, Francisco Grande.

Inside the walls were filled with Giant pictures and memorabilia and pictures. At the center of the picture wall was a picture of the great Willie Mays.

[yardwork]

6. I'm down with this.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Mays is 92 years young today

5 years ago I was raising those beautiful butterflies (had a couple enclosures going and was furiously trying to keep them fed with milkweed). The past couple years, I battled oleander aphids that pretty much wiped my milkweeds out so have paused with the hope they will dissipate in this area.

The "bejeweled" chrysalis of the Monarch -

[erronis]

9. Beautiful and hopeful photos, both. Thank you, BRDS

Always wondered what your moniker means.

Mine just means a wanderer without purpose (I think).

[BumRushDaShow]

13. You are welcome and the name

comes from a popular phrase in rap and hip hop.

(puts on Ari Melber hat )

[Brother Buzz]

11. That Monarch chrysalis is crazy cool

Back in my childhood, we had a grove of Eucalyptus down the road the Monarchs would winter on, so I thought I knew all about them. I never, ever saw a Monarch chrysalis. Progress, and all that, they cut down the grove and installed a McDonalds.

...............

My buddy, Thom 'Kid' Ross, put this up to commemorate Willie’s 53rd birthday.

'Willie Mays: The Catch' as it first appeared on a hillside just south of Petaluma, CA -- May 6, 1984

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Where you are

you have the Western Monarchs that have been in worse shape than the Eastern ones. And the one thing that amazed me over there was the Eucalyptus as "street trees". Literally everywhere!

And I think it was in 2019 when I managed to raise 27 monarch cats that one season, through to eclosure and release. Surprisingly, there were close to equal numbers of males and females.



Most of them were done by late August/early September.

And that is a cool compilation "time lapse" pic of that catch!!!

[Brother Buzz]

16. Marin County

My colony was on Richardson Bay. But I visited colonies at Fort Barry (next to Golden Gate bridge), Kirby Cove, Muir Beach, and Bolinas. Today, I believe only Fort Berry is visited, and the Bolinus count is down to dozens. A few years ago, there was a small rebound, but it appears it was short lived. Times have been better

Monterey is famous for the pine tree gatherings, but in Marin County, it appears the Monarchs are happy with the Eucalyptus (curiously, an introduced tree)

I never heard of the trees referred to as "street trees". Again, there's more I don't know about Monarchs than I know.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. As a non-native tree

apparently there has been hand-wringing about those trees -

The Great Eucalyptus Debate

The Bay Area is deadlocked in a battle over whether its non-native blue gum trees should be felled or protected.


By Emma Marris and The Last Word On Nothing

November 30, 2016


The Tasmanian blue gum, Eucalyptus globulus, is a magnificent tree. That is perhaps the only thing that everyone agrees on. It is, as Jake Sigg puts it, “a big, grand, old tree.” Tall, gnarled, stripey-barked, with white flowers like sea anemones, blue gum eucalyptus are characteristic of the San Francisco Bay area, despite being native to an Australian island half a world away. They just happen to thrive in the Bay climate, and many were planted either for timber or for scenery from the 1850s onwards.

There is, to put it mildly, widespread disagreement about what to do with these trees. The argument is as complex and tangled as the bark streamers that hang from the blue gum’s trunks. In the most general terms, there is a faction of environmentalists that want to see many of these eucalyptus trees removed, because they are a fire hazard close to homes, or because they are non-native and make poor habitat for native species, or both. In this group, place native plant enthusiast Sigg (who nevertheless loves the species and would like to see more of them planted in landscaped, irrigated parks). This faction also includes the local chapter of the Sierra Club.

There is another faction of environmentalists that dispute that the trees are more of a fire hazard than what might replace them, see them as decent or even very valuable habitat, and want to retain them to sequester carbon, provide shade, beauty, and recreation, and to avoid the use of the herbicides that are generally necessary to thoroughly kill them off. This faction includes a longtime correspondent of mine, Mary McAllister, and allies in different groups, including the Hills Conservation Network and the small-but-fierce Forest Action Brigade. Those are the basic contours, but getting a fuller understanding requires a walk deeper into the woods.

This fight is many years old. There have been lawsuits and there have been letters to the editor pro and con. There have been protests and postcard campaigns and blog posts and newsletters and lots and lots of official public comment on management plans for various eucalyptus forests and groves. It is a classic Bay Area dispute: greens vs. greens, experts vs. experts, and committed amateurs vs. committed amateurs. And it has gotten very hot.

(snip)

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/the-great-eucalyptus-debate/509069/

[dobleremolque]

8. Excellent post! Those other guys.....

Meh. They're like the Kardashians with crowns.

[maveric]

10. Say Hey Willie is the greatest all-around ball player ever.

Great to see that he’s still with us.

[Ligyron]

15. "Don tussh dem, dey r dangerous!!"

Say hey Willie graciously did those public service announcements concerning blasting caps that were often found on construction sites which were blowing kids hands off and worse. Being someone we admired and would listen to, he no doubt prevented a lot of agony and long term regret.

Still, he used to crack us kids up with his delivery which sounded much like a hostage video and we'd imitate it much to our childish amusement.

Great ball player and did some incredible snags and acrobatic catches

[Brother Buzz]

18. I remember those, and for a brazilian years I would not even touch on old school electrical fuse...

convinced it was a blasting cap. What does a dumb ten-year-old know?

On edit: I remember the line was, "Don touch dem, dems is blasting caps".

[The Unmitigated Gall]

12. Good post.

Turns out, our “betters in Buckingham” really aren’t that good at all.