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When my mom died on Christmas day, just 3 months ago, after an 18 month battle with ovarian cancer it was hard to make the thousand mile drive with the family down to Alabama, knowing what I'd be facing. The loss of my mother.
As we drove for almost 17 hours, my mind flashed over the years of my childhood and my adult days of going "back home." And oddly enough, the one thing that was part of all of that was this pink comb that belonged to my mom.
We are not sure of its origin. Mom thought she got it from my dad's mom (her MIL)... Dad thinks they may have bought it when they first got married. No one is quite sure. But what I do know is that its older than I am. Its combed my hair thousands of times. I have vivid memories of sitting in the floor on Sunday nights after a bath, eating grilled cheese sandwiches in the living room floor (picnic!!!!). I would nibble, we'd watch Wild Kingdom and the Wide World of Disney (70s!!) as a family and my mother would comb out my long blond hair.
I asked Dad for the comb just a couple hours after we got down the day after Christmas... the day after mom died. And it came back to Pennsylvania with me. It now combs the hair of my family. Its had long service and shows signs of miscoloring and a couple broken and bent teeth. But its my treasure. Its my mom.
Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Weaving comb.
Bone/Antler.
The weaving comb is decorated with animal and circle and dot ornamentation.
Grave find, Björkö, Adelsö, Uppland, Sweden.
SHM 34000:Bj 644
We enjoyed seeing the Comb-crested Jacana or Lotus birds walking on the Lotus and Salvinia leaves on the South Alligator River, Kakadu National Park.
The Comb-crested Jacana males build a nest, incubate the eggs and care for the young. The female may mate with a several males.
Photo: Fred
i tried to spend as much time as possible without taking care of my hair. no shampoo, no brush! i had lots of free time as a result to do MORE selves in the mirror:-)
this is what it looked like the day before i cracked and washed and brushed my beginnings of dreadlocks. it was getting itchy anyway...
Mom bought a honey comb from a local beekeeper and brought some over so that I could make biscuits and she could eat it together. She was feeling nostalgic, b/c her dad raised bees when she was a kid.
Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
A couple of shots from above Combs stitched, couldn't seem to get it right when I first took them but decided to have another go!
Weaving comb.
Antler.
Copy of SHM 34000: Bj 644. Björkö, Adelsö, Uppland, Sweden.
SHM 33140:67
See also: kulturarvsdata.se/shm/object/html/450242
This is one of the photos I took of Andrew Combs (www.andrewcombsmusic.com) during and interview for The Jitty before his concert at The Glee club in Nottingham: www.thejitty.com/articles/andrewcombsinterview
Description: Comb graves in Albertson Cemetery, Fentress Co., Tenn. Picture taken in 1979.
Date: August 13, 2012
Creator: Dr. Richard Finch
Collection name: Richard C. Finch Folk Graves Digital Photograph Collection
Historical note: Comb graves are a type of covered grave that are often called "tent graves." The length of the grave was covered by rocks or other materials that look like the gabled roof or comb of a building. They were popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is conjectured that these graves were covered to protect them from either weather or animals, or perhaps both. While comb graves can be found in other southern states, the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee has the highest concentration of these types of graves.
Accession number: 2013-022
Owning Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
ID#: Riverton Q - Albertson Cem near Gould Hollow 1979-1
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The Ohio Valley Summer Theater ( ovst.org/ ) is performing The Sapphire Comb at Arts West in Athens, Dec. 9 - 11, and we were lucky enough to get a quick preview yesterday afternoon. Great acting, action and really wonderful colors...all the funner to photograph!
My mum bought this comb in the late 1970s and I discovered it in her house several years ago, still sealed and in the bag with receipt. 19 New Pennys paid to Boots of Nottingham.
A Comb-footed spider I found in my garden
This is potentially one of the dangerous spider species in South Africa, but yet is is one of the most beautiful spiders I have seen in quite a while. Though not as impressive as a big tarantula or baboon spider, and not as extravagant as a kite spider it is still one of the most beautiful spiders that I have seen.
The blue legs is most probably due to a recent molt.
Couldn't resist a bit photoshoppery on this wet Sunday afternoon - a nice piece of wild comb cut out from the background with some 'bevel and emboss' blending...
Comb, fragmented.
Bone/antler and iron.
Grave find, Björkö, Adelsö, Uppland, Sweden.
SHM 34000:Bj 20
Venus Comb Murex Sea Shells .
Murex pecten.
Murex ternispina.
This seashell is common to the Indo-Pacific region. Resembles the skeleton of a fish. No one knows the exact reason for the needle-like spines of this mollusk. Scientists have theorized that the spines are a protection against fish and other mollusks, and that the spines prevent the mollusk from sinking into the soft, sandy mud where it is this seashell is commonly found. Measures approx 3"-5".