Flowers and Girls Online: They Got Everything !

It All Started Trying to Identify a Plant

 

 

Things were sorta iffy in the sky this morning so, I figured, "Don't wander too far."

A block down from the office, I took a photo of this plant in front of a restaurant.

Along with me, were some books, overdue by a few months, to take back to the library.

The Kin Town Library, treats me like royalty for some strange reason.

The books I checkout aren't in big demand so, they allow me, to keep being tardy.

When one gal, couldn't find an ID for this flower, the whole library staff , jumped in to help.

After awhile, I told them, "Maybe this plant is from a foreign country. I'll check online."

Leaving the library, a gal chased me down to tell me something.

She said she'd write the name down if, they found an identification and have it sent to me.

Next, I walked to a flower shop, to see if they could ID the plant, viewed on my camera.

No luck there so, I would have to rely on the good old internet search.  Groan

On Facebook, I have a contact, who's usually the expert, at these sort of things.

He said, it was a tough one but, maybe if, I tried leguminous plants, I could find it.

Wiki Dude tells me Leguminosae or Fabaceae, covers thousands of plants.

And, I looked at 1,377 thumbnails of flowers, just on one website.  Ouch

How Did Hot Chicks Get in There ?

 

After I started throwing Latin names into my searches, things seemed easier.

Some Flickr-looking site had, much larger thumbnail photos, to look at.

This plant, for now will be called a Desmodium laxum or something like that.

It also, looks like some sort of Lotus australis or a hybrid of one.

At the bottom of every page containing flower photos, were the girls.

They were humongous ads, larger than the flower photos and, said stuff like:

The Most Dazzling Singles Are Waiting for You !

This Bombshell Wants a New Boyfriend

Russian Ladies Won't Let You Get Bored

We'll Help You Find the Girl You Saw in Your Dreams

Chat with Gorgeous Slavic Matches 24/7

 Are You Looking for a New Girlfriend ?

These Flirty Russians Are Looking for a Man Like You

Looking for an Easy Way to Meet a Gorgeous Lady ?

These Asian Girls Are Like Exotic Candies !

These Flirty Russians Will Seduce You in an Instant

 Well, I tell ya, it was crazy, trying to identify this flower, there were so many.

Before you know it, I'm on page 49 or 50 of that site.

And, I picked some names for this plant, way back on page 41 or something like that.

Now, I'm wondering if, all those gals could see me online.

It's been so long since I dated a gal like that, my hyphen's growing back !

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Wildlife Photo: White Snake and Some Asian Legends

This photo of a White Snake was taken May 2011 up north in the mountains of Okinawa, Japan on one of my excursions traveling through the Dai Sekirinzan in search of wildlife and admiring the rock formations known as Karst.

When you visit this tourist attraction, the entry fee of a few hundred yen gets you a bus ride to the top of the mountain.  It's one of those diesel-powered, air-conditioned tour busses that looks and feels real inviting and it really is comfortable to sit in on a steamy-hot day.  Then, it starts moving.

If you are toting along a camera or anything fragile, like a baby, or something, you'll have to take a few extra precautions.  The bus takes you flying up the hill at a decent speed and hits enough potholes, ruts and bumps to jar the lenses right out of your cameras.  I imagine, if you were dragging a little kid along for the ride, you'd have to worry about their eyeballs popping out of the sockets, too.

Fortunately, when the bus ride ends, there's a rest stop.  They have rest rooms, refreshment machines and a gift shop/museum, of sorts.  Everyone, stretches and mills around trying to get their land legs back on before going to follow the trails through the karst formations.

This white snake is cooped-up in a glass enclosure.  Just trying to make conversation with the Okinawan Papasan who appears to be some sort of guide/caretaker at the place, I asked him what kind of snake this was and tried to find out what the story was behind the thing.  I've heard that a white snake is considered to be a good thing in these parts of the world so, wanted to see if there was some local myth associated with this one.  I love to have a great caption to post along with a wildlife photo.

Well, the guy says, "That's a White Rattlesnake from Texas".  Hah !

Ryukyu Rusty was standing right there.  He says, "BULL__IT, I'm from Texas and that aint no Rattlesnake"!

That's one thing I like about Texans.  I had an Aunt from Texas.  I loved to hear her talk.
She'd say stuff like, "We don't lie in Texas unless we're playing Poker".  Then she'd get this gleam in her eye and say, "Wanna play some Poker"?  And she'd pull a deck of cards out of her back pocket !

My research on this white snake isn't done, yet but, I'll show you some of what I've gathered, so far.

From China, a guy who falls in love with a gal WHO TURNS OUT TO BE A WHITE SNAKE

From Japan, there is folklore saying there is a WHITE SERPENT GOD

It will probably take me some time to discover the true story behind this white snake in Okinawa but I'm fairly certain it aint from Texas.  Do you think people just make legends up ?

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