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The sentinel

Luis — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:31:28 +0000

Our pet feline taking care of the house from the roof.

New year flowers

Luis — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:33:20 +0000

Simple flowers in my backyard.

Calm

Luis — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:41:39 +0000

A moment to think and relax (Kyoto).

Space invaders

Luis — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:04:28 +0000

Jellyfish in Newport’s Aquarium (Oregon).

Slide

Luis — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:18:21 +0000

It is a long way down the slide. Auckland Zoo^§.

Drylands

Luis — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:07:07 +0000

There is a substantial amount of land with low rainfall–say between 500 and 900 mm of rain per year. Usually, this land is allocated to low productivity uses, for example sheep farming. Could we use durable wood, drought tolerant eucalypts? We could then have diversification of land use, alternative products and even additional carbon sequestration.

When we say dry it looks like this:

Drylands in Marlborough.

I would say that it is certainly worth a try; more precisely, a proper try. There is a history of half-hearted attempts in the matter, so if we are going to have a go, better we do it well or not at all.

Eight years is nothing

Luis — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:20:22 +0000

The screenshot shows the ‘State of the Surname’ as of 2001. Eighty-five hits for Apiolaza, most of them referring to my papers and emails to groups.

Google search for 2001.

Repeating today the search, we get a dramatically different answer^§.

Seal in Kaikoura

Luis — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:49:02 +0000

Last week we did a short trip to the Northern part of the South Island. We spent the first day mostly in Kaikoura, where the best part was visiting the Seal Colony. The best part was jumping between rocks with my sun, trying to get closer to the seals.

Seal on holidays, Kaikoura, New Zealand.

Seal colony [maptype=G_HYBRID_MAP]

A quiet moment

Luis — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:18:51 +0000

A quiet moment in Santiago’s cathedral. Almost five hundred years in the same spot, although it is like ‘my granfather’s axe’: it has been destroyed and rebuilt a few times.

Santiago’s cathedral.

Cathedral

Compression wood

Luis — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:42:51 +0000

A beautiful example of compression wood induced by tilting a Pinus radiata tree.