#lumbering

[thatsbelievable]

[animalworld]

SICHUAN TAKIN (like rockin’) Budorcas taxicolor tibetana Male (top) and Female (bottom) Also called GNU GOAT or CATTLE CHAMOIS :) Los Angeles Zoo, Los Angeles, California USA ©Laura Quick

The takin, is a large lumbering-looking species of ungulate of the subfamily Caprinae (related to goats) found in higher elevations over 14,000 feet (4,300 meters) in the eastern Himalayas. When it comes to food, takins eat almost any vegetation from leaves of evergreen rhododendrons and oaks, willow and pine bark, bamboo leaves, and a variety of new-growth leaves and herbs.

They can easily stand on their hind legs, front legs propped against a tree, to reach for higher vegetation. Takins have adaptations that help them stay warm and dry during the bitter cold of winter in the Himalayan Mountains.

A thick, secondary coat is grown to keep out the chill.

They are surprisingly nimble when speed is necessary on steep and rocky terrain. 

The large, moose-like snout has large sinus cavities to warm up the air a takin inhales before it gets to the lungs. Without this adaptation, takins would lose a large amount of body heat just by breathing.

They have oily skin. Although they have no skin glands, their skin secretes an oily, bitter-tasting substance that acts as a natural raincoat in storms and fog. Streaks of this oily stuff can be seen where takins rub.

They also have an odor that smells like a combination of horse and musk.

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[luckymill-blog]

@lumbering

Charles has stumbled into a most unfortunate fate. In this case, that fate is a wooden, gum-spotted wall and the stumbling is very literal.

He enters Sir’s office, face sheepish, speckled in pink spots: one a stretched out taffy tentacle on his neck like he tried to pull it off, one on the knot of his tie, two on his coat lapel, and one on his shirt collar.

          “Ah, oh, forgive me, I seem to have gotten myself into a, ah--”

           “--sticky situation.”

He gives an embarrassed smile at the whole ordeal and a puff of air exits through his nose with such a lack of exuberance that does not merit the use of the technical term ‘chuckle’.

[eopederson2]

Log Boom, Commencement Bay, Tacoma, 1974.

Log booms were once a common sight on the waterways of the Pacific Northwest. Logs were moved down rivers in booms, and once at waterside mills along fresh water, or in this case salt water, they were stored for eventual processing into lumber. Now those few log booms which still exist are more linked to recreation.

[thewondermentofillustration]

Winslow Homer - Lumbering in Winter (Every Saturday, Vol. II, New Series), 28 January 1871, Wood engraving Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is an American landscape and seascape painter and printmaker who is mostly self taught. Homer began his career as a comercial artist. He worked as an artist correspondent during the American Civil War.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"OLD-TIME LUMBERING OPERATIONS CARRIED ON IN TOWN," Toronto Star. May 14, 1935. Page 10. ---- Oakville has been the scene of old-time lumbering operations during recent months as the bush on the A. S. Forster estate has been cleared of all large timber. All trees over eight inches in diameter have been felled and cut up into lumber, railroad ties and slabs, the dead wood being turned into cordwood. The ring of axes, rasp of saws and buzz of the sawmill have been familiar sounds as huge trees fell and were hauled over sawdust roads to the sawmill erected on the property. In (1) are George McTaggart (left) and George Hilton, both of Oakville, with their cross-cut saw, busily biting into a huge log destined for cord-wood. Fred Forbes (2), is making short work of another log.

[tenth-sentence]

These lumbering Europeans were easy to avoid and, mercifully, only two palawa were killed and two captured.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr