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a walk around a local "forest", taking photos w/ google lens for tree/plant identification.



peach palm, edible, can propagate from seed or suckers:





rosary pea, evil, insanely lethal, 1 seed can kill a human:





zombie palm.. that's cool:





gomortega, if so: produces a large yellow sweet fruit:





psychotria nervosa, florida "wild coffee" <-- but not coffee, gives you headaches + no caffeine:





eagle fern .. hundreds or thousands of these in one spot, looks awesome .. here's just one:





coccothrinax miraguama. this has TONS of bees on it. was nuts. apparently this is going to be a big palm tree:





quercas incana. apparently this is going to be a big oak tree:





nageia nagi aka asian bayberry: (edible oils from berries/leaves potentially)





persian silk tree. this one was epic, felt like silk!!!!





seagrape:





african oil palm. the principal source of "palm oil", cool !





golden thryallis, intense yellow flowers from spring to frost:





manchineel aka "little apple of death" .. god damn. toxic as fuck fruit:

When ingested, the fruit is reportedly "pleasantly sweet" at first, with a subsequent "strange peppery feeling ... gradually progress[ing] to a burning, tearing sensation and tightness of the throat." Symptoms continue to worsen until the patient can "barely swallow solid food because of the excruciating pain and the feeling of a huge obstructing pharyngeal lump





strangler fig .. uh the info about strangler figs is kinda nuts.





devil's ivy:

Kipchoge aka Run God is all about the farm life

several minutes into the vid.. he's got alot of stuff growing:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCTftq7UCK8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCTftq7UCK8</a>





https://www.bbc.com/sport/av/africa/52004829

"every day after the morning run, i come to the farm and spend some time here"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSjslDcpzug

5:12 in .. for every1 who trains w/ him at his camp, they plant a tree in their name on his farm.

some older photos: Cheptegei's farm

So apparently he got a 54.5 inch running vertical on the vertec 

yea i wanted to post the vertec clip & forgot. eeh.

not sure how's it 54.5 based on the rungs he hits & his reach but.. dude does get way up.

yeah its actually been reasonably well managed at my hospital(massive expansion of ICU/ventilator availability + staffing this with adequately skilled people) and my area isn't the worst hit (but up there after london). but saying that we are openly starting to struggle now, staff are tired and being asked to learn new skills quickly i.e. nurses learning how to be ICU nurses on the job basically. people are walking around with their face bleeding from open sores from the PPE also, its grim.

nobody has seen anything like this before, its killing 50% of ICU patients according to latest data here and in a brutal way with patients totally isolated from their loved ones surrounded by people in space suits.

at the moment i'm failing fit tests for the masks available so i'm currently not in the covid land (having sacrificed my beard of over 5 years), which is actually frustrating because working in that environment with all that equipment is really physically demanding and not being able to help the team sucks. Now moving onto the 'rest week' of our fixed rota designed to stop us all just completely burning out. Hopefully the weather is going to stay nice and can get some nice peaceful socially distanced runs in.

stay safe everyone.

fu*k. respect to you & your team/colleagues, that is some crazy stuff.

stay safe man.

Today 15km bike ride home from work + 7.4k easy run at dusk

Going to be taking things very easy with training over the next few weeks with lots of easy runs. looking forward to it really, i've been putting my body through gym workouts consistently for years so maybe its time for a break other than some body weight stuff. hopefully not gonna lose too many gains.

Anyway -

yea man take it ez for a bit.

pc!

2020-04-10:

bw = 145

remember that horn worm i posted weeks back? it turned into a giant moth.

incredible. blew my mind when i saw it, it's enormous.

this photo is the moment i saw it trying to 'escape' the container.





also ig post with some of the old photos of it as a horn worm:

Kamworor's farm (half marathon WR holder):

I love spending time on my farm during these days.

Easy afternoon touring my small forest,whoever plants a tree saves life!

Checking trees to plant this season, he who plants a tree plans life.