5/20/2023 0 Comments Growing up skipper nakedIn celebration of her 57th birthday, here’s a look back at some of the major ways Mattel has tried to reinvent Barbie - the weird, the politically incorrect dolls as well as the ones that hit the mark.ġ963: Barbie sleeps over and has a diet plan In the nearly six decades of Barbie’s reign as a global cultural icon, little girls and beauty standards have evolved, and Mattel (MAT) has tried to remake Barbie to keep her relevant, but sometimes failed miserably. Check out her blog for interesting information about trees from all over the world.Introduced at the New York Toy Fair on Maas a teenage fashion model from a small town in Wisconsin, Barbie was supposed to represent the idea that women had choices, to tell “the little girl could be anything she wanted to be,” her creator, Ruth Handler, has said. Thanking Pat of The Squirrelbasket for graciously hosting this fun meme about trees. Perhaps there will be seedlings to show you. I’m a little surprised that more of them haven’t drifted or dropped to the ground yet, in preparation of spreading Shed’s genetic material, but I’ve seen a couple of mushed balls on the ground and in the compost bin.īy next month, there should be many exploding seed balls (as a neighbor once described them), raining down on the Earth in and around my gardens, preparing to create new trees. Seed balls dangle in the winter chill, decorating the foliage-empty tree. I guess adaptation and genetics win again. ![]() My Sycamore isn’t planted in a floodplain, nor does it grow in particularly soggy soil. A last explanation of Sycamores’ penchant for peeling is that because Sycamores photosynthesize through their limbs, the shedding bark allows for a longer season of photosynthesis and therefore,there is rapid and continual growth. Another theory is that there are more issues with fungi and other wet-feet problems precisely because Sycamores grow naturally in wet and heavy soil types and the bark exfoliates as a protective measure against disease problems. Also, Sycamores are happiest when they grow in wet bottom-lands, so it might be that the tree employs more transpiration throughout and therefore, the bark sheds more than many trees. Some sources suggest that because Sycamores grow quickly and the epidermis of the tree is rigid, that it sloughs the bark to accommodate rapid growth. ![]() Peeling bark showcasing subtle colors is a signature visual quality of Sycamore trees, but I’ve read that it’s not entirely clear why the bark peels. The pallid bark becomes smoother and more prominent toward the canopy. The outer-bark is rough along the bottom of the trunk, with revealed patches of pale/grey/beige bark underneath, ![]() Sycamore wood is used commercially for butcher blocks, boxes and crates, as well as some furniture, but reportedly course and hard to work with. I suspect that the West Coast trees in the Sequoioideae family out-girth the Sycamore by a smidge. …the elegant, winter-white bark is especially gorgeous.Īccording to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the American Sycamore has the largest trunk diameter of any Eastern North American native hardwood tree. I suppose that bare-n-naked (or nekkid, as we’re wont to say here in Texas) is expected during dormant winter months. As I join with tree followers everywhere in admiring trees, not much has changed with my American Sycamore, Platanus occidentalis, since January’s report.
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