The Photo Picture with a Billion Views
The default windows XP back drop image is the most viewed photo in the World. The photo was taken by National Geographic Magazine Photographer, Chuck O’Rear, who was paid a huge undisclosed amount by Microsoft. The photo was taken as Chuck drove on Highway 121 in California’s Sonoma Valley when the landscape caught his eye. Chuck immediately parked his car and took out his camera and took a snap through the fence. The site is a vineyard, but at the time, the area had been devastated by the Phylloxera bug that lead to all the vines being removed, hence revealing green rolling pastures that nearly all of us have come to recognise as the bliss background image that braces PCs all around the World.
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How to Grow Sugarcane Successfully
Growing sugarcane is not that difficult to accomplish, that’s if you know the secret!
Buy a piece of sugarcane from your grocery shop. The secret is buying that is greenish brown in colour (this also depends on variety!). Make sure that the piece of cane has at least two nodes
Apply grafting wax to the top end of the cane to prevent disease and rot.
Plant the cane stick in a pot that is prepared with potting compost and has been watered down lightly.
Place in a warm area as that’s sugarcane preferred conditions, and water from time to time so that the plant does not dry out.
Wait patiently for about two or three weeks. Here is my sugarcane plant after a month with a ratoon (stalk) in my kitchen in London. For those who don’t know, the outside temperate in the last month must be averaging about 5 degrees Celsius (41 degrees Fahrenheit). My Photos:
If you followed the above and found success please send me your photos with you name and location and I could publish them on this site. Good Luck!
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