Thank you Al and Tony. As a young man I once wondered if one of the aromas I associated with spring was the thawing of frozen pet poo as this was in the time I was unaware that collecting of such was fashionable. I was stunned by the milkweed that looked like a cactus. How they figured that out must be quite the story.
Thanks Tony and Al for once again chronicling one of the disappearing phenomena of our changing earth. In a few decades we may not be able to go visit Chicago and see the gray sludge for ourselves, so this video will hopefully serve as an invaluable record to any of our potential descendants and/or future alien archeologists.
Botany or death hat is awesome! So isnt my 'grey slush' though. Love the sponsorships and Al is an amazing on scene reporter, always willing to sacrifice himself in the concrete jungle for us
Yo Tony, the disk of hairs on the Stipagrostis ciliata is an ant barrier to protect the seeds kinda like the things they put on bird feeders to keep the squirrels off.
Ahh yes that wonderful time of the year when the lawn yields up it's collection of the neighbors canid's cantilevered offerings in counterpoise to the crocus.
Ahh yeah!! Thanks big Al for the descriptive tour of Chicago sidewalks, and grey slush, besotted with diesel fumes. Loved the feature presentation! (Just needs some German techno lol.) Cheers, from Southern Oregon.
That grey slush part strangely made me miss Chicago. The Namibia area stuff- I watch another channel of some guys who constantly rescue seals from fishing and other human trash that gets wrapped around them or sometimes even tangled through their mouths and around their bodies. Ironically those same ships and trawlers trashing the sea and decimating the fishes' populations can be seen in the background. Yes, I used the word fishes rather than the typically accepted fish, purposely.
good work Tony and Al great day for grey slush especially on Ashland ours has condoms and cigarette butts in it . If you really want to see dog poo sludge go over to d'angelo park on ida b wells dr. There is mounds of it a foot high really aromatic especially for the residents of those 3000 per month apartments next to it. and as a bonus you get to smell all that toxic fumes from the traffic comming off the eisenhower. Those are some great plants from africa ever see an african strangler? i mean in africa .Keep up those great money shots and make taylor street proud.
[🌼Patreon Early Access] 🤣 We have it here in upstate NY too... quite treacherous for people on bicycle or foot if the sidewalk cleaning machine wasn't able to clear it all such as this last ice storm that we just had... I saw somebody with an electric wheelchair trying to use the sidewalk and got stuck. I don't even know why they would attempt it anyone could clearly see that it's barely navigable even on foot. I have a fat bike with big huge 5 inch wide studded tires, and even I resigned myself to the dangers of the street shoulder... there was no way those little dinky wheels were ever going to do anything but get stuck in a frozen footprint.
Saw this on Patreon but it took a few days to formulate my appreciation of Al's commentary on Chicago gunk. Living in the south now, I'm amazed to find actual white, though fake, snow. How I don't miss climbing over grey heaps of funk for months of the year! Thanks for your service Al! Found another CPBBD fan in one of my on-line gardening groups. There's a group I can share these with!!!
I remember all that time I spent avoiding looking at the sand, exhaust, clumps of frozen dog poop in the garbage strewn gutters of early spring in Chicago. Your two are so funny. I live in northern Wisconsin now and we get dumped on with instead of Lake Michigan inspired snow but Lake Superior lake effect snow. Not very crowded here. So, snow stays pretty white.
Youse boys is knocking it oudda Da pawk, seriously liking the fun yet philosophically complex lexicon, and the plants are making my jaw drop... Love the way you contend with that German techno house crowd 😂
My friends grew some weed next to a tomato plant and as you might imagine, the weed ended up tasting like the tomato plant. Took me a while to figure out what was going on there. It was the glahands.
Seeing these strange life-forms is bliss-inducing and I'd call the wonderment over the beauty of nature, from the very largest to the very tiniest, as spiritual as it is scientific. The volume of Al's videos tend to be so low I tend to use a equalizer to boost it, then the volume on Joey's videos tend to be high so I decrease it a bit . Similarity, one is as much an expert of trash as the other is an expert on treasure? ...
That half frozen drizzle has the abrasive qualities of a solid particle, but the aerodynamic properties of a liquid droplet so it kicks your ass real hard
Tony, thank you for this really nice t shirt. Im keeping it for a dress shirt. A little about my back ground. Its in agriculture,forestry, and aquaculture. I grew up on a small family Nicotenacia farm up here as obsurd as that sounds these days.i was helping to look after row crops when i was ten years old. Thats a life time ago for me now it seems. The gateway into the world of nature came to me threw the Salvelinus fontinalis. I find it very interesting seeing the issues with agriculture and the natural environment 8n other places besides here. Its really bad here, all someone like you would have to do is look at a topo of my area. All the best to you and i hope you dont mind me taking in your material, im learning alot Chow
Al: *metaphoric comparison of garbage in polluted slush with the hidden unsavory elements of the human ego* Tony: "YOU SEEIN' ANY DAHG SHIT DOWN DERE??"
Tony I went to get a sandwich yesterday while wearing your "Department of Unauthorized Forestry" hoodie and the kid making my #7 says " I gotta ask.. what is the Department of Unauthorized Forestry? Is that just _birds_ ?" I laughed of course and explained your channel.. but his assumption of birds really cracked me up til I realized birds really ARE the DoUF.. naive me..
No, I did NOT know the Milkweed family has succulents. How bizarre. And wonderful all at the same time. It deserves a song all to itself, well done. If you were more mainstream, that song could be your opening ... credits? Or whatever tf it's called in a video.
@@katiekane5247 I decided to go back to my 3rd grade science class and revisit the concept of the suns rays and dark objects and how they absorb light. Air temp and temps above dark objects are differential in the day time. Call me a dunce for not remembering that lesson.
Thanks for the gomphocarpus footage you filmed up by the Nambian border from this South Africa Series. I had no idea asclepias wasn't the only game in town. Maybe they are related but botanists split the two more recently to reflect some genetic differences. Who knows, 10 years down the road gomphocaprus is gone and its just asclepias...
When I lived in Montreal in the early 1990s we called that first big melt in the spring "The Shit Melt". All would be revealed from a long winter of lazy dog owners. heheheheheh Brilliant video. Such relatable nihilism.
14:50 looks halfway in between a poppy and a thistle 19:02 that looks like a seabed, that plant probably was a sponge or a sea anenome a long time ago.. the flowers look like datura, or a stinkhorn mushroom 22:21 that looks like a limestone brick behind that possible obsidian, straight lines from drill holes or blasting cap? 23:17 Ephedra relative? (Euphorbia?! Pencil cactus?!) Different flowers mean different things but I have noticed yellow flowers have alkaloid presence a lot.. also that wax could be yeast, which is another indicator. And slightly different soil types can cause a lot of this broad biome adaptation..I think, and would explain why surrounding plants look similar, though seemingly unrelated. There's probably a lot of phosphorus in the soil from fish guts. Looks pretty rudimentary on an evolutionary scale, the area is probably just now showing signs of life after being a barren decomposing wasteland for a long time.
Well after that news update I've changed my mind about bitching over the five feet of snow that's just now melting down to where we can see the road, or the snow that's coming in two days here a few miles outside of Yosemite.
