Category: Photo Journals
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FW’s Cucumber Page (Southern Autumn 2021)
I saw my first (male) cucumber flower today, and thought it’s a good opportunity to document the growth of an organism that remains a strong contender the title of “Most Productive Organism in My Room“.
Of course, if somebody determines that I am worthy of an ICBM strike or explosive seashell, those photos might disclose my precise location too.
May 18 2021, First Flower
April 24 2021, Support Structure Established
April 7 2021, Transplanted into a Dedicated Medium-Sized Flower Pot
March 12 2021, Seed Germinated in an Office Flower Pot During Previous COVID-19 Lockdown
Early days
For this period the plant lived in an old iPod box. Minimum care was provided except for occasional movements chasing the sun when I am in office.
Also for the first while I thought it was a watermelon … after the first two real leaves developed, I thought it was rather a pumpkin.
First day back to office after lockdown 
Gaining Momentum
In April I bought for the plant a small pot and applied to use the university’s compost.
First night in “big” pot 
Moving back to department 
Living at department of physics. 
Cucumber with my peas and failed brogle.
A time lapse over a few hours on April 7.
Amateur botany and biophysics musings
The tendrils have been captivating my mind every morning I checked on them … A complex mechanism of hydraulics and hormonal regulation, I vaguely understand.
Recent Productivity
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[Lux] #ThatWanakaTree, Day to Night
Finally.
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
Walt Whitman
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars. -
[Lux] Beginning of 2021 in Abel Tasman National Park
My first proper LMC photo. 
A ray of sorts being very close to us. 
Glow worms at dusk 
A friendly insect 
Kiwi leaf voronoi
My first visit to this area was 360 days ago. Before the following becomes too much of a trite thing to say, I thought of the future quite differently back then. I’m happy with the current path via which things unfolded, of course.
Yourong Frank Wang 