Jul. 1st, 2008

urbpan: (PART OF EVERYTHING)
One of the lj communities I belong to was created/is maintained by Russian speakers. I translated the profile page using Babelfish, to see the community rules. This is what I found.

Important conditions for the participants:
- laying out strange works, it is necessary to compulsorily indicate the author of photograph (or figure).
- not to lay out anything, except pictures on the assigned theme.
- to lay out only the pictures, which you greatly please, but not all contract. The pictures, whose contemplation causes to the supervisor of suffering, will be removed.
- since association is created specially for facing of pictures, it is better to manage WITHOUT the option Of lJ-cut
- anyone who will ask another participant in the association to use the option Of lJ-cut, will deprived of possibility write in the association, as soon as this request will fall on eyes to supervisor. If to you one time it transported, and supervisor flapped your criminal request, this does not mean that to you without fail it will transport following time.
- to me here clever people prompt that for retaining world harmony it is necessary that the photo would be not more than 460*600 of pixels and not heavier than 500 KB. Give so let us agree.


Russian syntax must be really interesting, or this writer must have an idiosyncratic writing style.
urbpan: (Deer?)
As I was coming home for lunch to walk the dogs I saw a deer in Boston. I was on the Jamaicaway, and the deer was in Olmsted Park by Leverett pond.  It was an adult with no antlers, and it was running in an apparent panic.

This is a first for me; I get to add white-tailed deer to my catalog of Boston wildlife.  I knew that they were often seen at the Boston Nature Center, but this is my first time seeing one in Boston.  This is a touch closer to The City, about three miles from Kenmore Square.  (In the past I've joked about the encroachment of deer into cities by saying that I don't expect to see deer in Kenmore Square, but in some outer city parks.  Kenmore Square, in case you don't know, is famous as the location of the Citgo sign you can see on televised Red Sox games.)  I'm sure this deer was outside of its normal range and I won't be shocked if I see its carcass in the middle of the J-way on the way back to work.  But I consider today a landmark of a kind--my first Boston deer.

(You may remember my first urban deer from my trip to the Pacific Northwest.)
urbpan: (morel)

I didn't see that deer splattered on the road anywhere, so I suppose it hopped off safely into the woods.  We walked the dogs around Leverett pond this evening instead of the Riverway, so I got to see how dense that little patch of woods really is.  A small herd of deer could survive unnoticed, until someone's off-leash dog terrorized them.

On the way back home we noticed a couple of Asian women collecting something from the margin of the path.  This was back in the more urban part of the park, almost in the Longwood Medical Area.  They were picking something from the grass and putting it in a plastic shopping bag.  At first I assumed they were mulberries, but then I realized the ladies weren't concentrating under mulberry trees.  As we passed them I got a better look and saw that they had almost filled the bag with mushrooms.  I couldn't tell what species they were, but I hope those ladies know what they're doing.

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