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Usually at seasons end, the navigation season is kept open through the hard work of the USCGC Spar assigned out of Duluth, however this year instead brought a change in requirements that gave photographers an uncommon treat. While the Spar would have been acting as an icebreaker here, her sister ship USCGC Sequoia was having issues on the lower lakes and would therefore have to call on the Spar to perform the last ATON missions down there.
With the Spar out of town though, it would be up to the heavy duty USCGC Mackinaw to hold down the fort as she sailed up from Cheboygan, Michigan to keep our harbor channels open until the season ends. Normally assigned to her namesake region, this heavy icebreaker is really one of a kind with her dedicated icebreaker status instead of being mixed use like the Juniper class cutters like the Spar and Sequoia, so the Mackinaw’s bright red hull sure is a nice treat on an otherwise overcast day.
Built as Admiralty Cutter No. 438, she was first appropriated to HMS Espiègle, a Cadmus-class 10-gun screw steel sloop, before transferring to the hospital ship HMHS Maine. With the Maine she was used to support British troops in both the Boer War (based in Cape Town) and the Boxer Rebellion in China. In June 1914, shortly before World War I commenced, the Maine was ran aground in fog off Mull on the west coast of Scotland and was wrecked. SC 438 was recovered and sent to Portsmouth Dockyard. She was decommissioned in the 1920s and converted to a motor cruiser.
Around 1974 her derelict hull was acquired by Dr Roger Stevens of Yelverton, Devon. The hull was restored and a new steam plant fitted and recommissioned around 1997. She was acquired by Peter and Tim Hollins in 1999. Original design drawings, specification and steam trial records were found and the cutter was restored by the owners to her original configuration. The engine was replaced (with one identical to the original) at the Maritime Workshop in Gosport. The cutter was again recommissioned in Portsmouth Harbour in 2008.
Named Mischief, she is 23 feet in length with a beam of 6 ft 6 in and a draught of 2 ft 3 in. She has a double-skin teak hull and was originally completed in 1987 at the Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. at Blackwall in London.
Having been built in the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, she is seen here participating in the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. Her crew (as opposed to guests) are wearing uniforms from the Victorian period.
Leaf-cutter ants at the Parque Nature Metropolitano, Panama City 22 Apr 2025. The rainy season has begun and the ants need to feed their fungus.
How to make stand mixer cookies with a skull cutter
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Whoo's a Great Teacher? You Are!!
The 3rd and last Cookie boxed set for this school year. Not the best photo - sorry for the glare but I didn't position this one properly with the lid off .
Again have to thank Callye for showing me how to A/ make a graduate cookie, and B/ that tulip cutters make cute owls!!
C - you're the greatest (cookie) Teacher!
HMM- an "also ran" for the theme of cutters
methinks the tiny cup-like 'grooves' are there so that the item that has been cut will release itself from the blade more easily, as these are kitchen scissors
I've been disappointed that I haven't had any Megachile Leaf-cutter bees using my garden "bee-hotel" this year. Over the last couple of days though, a couple have been investigating holes. This one has been busy clearing out all the material from one of last year's nests and seems to have taken up residence. I've only got a "head-shot", but those mandibles are very leaf-cutter-ish! Even so, it could be Osmia leaiana. I've had several of those nesting here.
Letter (envelope) opener
This week's Macro Mondays (9th March) is the theme "Cutter". The series of shots here are my thoughts and working shots ... not necessarily my final choice.
I'm so excited about my new cutter from my newest cookie friend Lila Loa!! I have been admiring her work and she sent this cutter to me!! So exciting to have a new shape to add to my centerpiece cutters! THANK YOU SO MUCH Lila - I LOVE it!!! I'll think of you every time I use it!
These cookies go to the staff that are helping with the 40th birthday party! They will be put in cellophane bags tied with raffia!
...presumably?
I have been hanging around looking for the owner but not seen her. She must be good at staying under my radar
The leaves look like bramble leaves to me but not sure
I have 4 "bug hotels" but generally i only see mud type cappings from mason bees and potter wasps (i do see the potter wasps going in and out)
so this one was a nice surprise to see.
Protex - Private Lives
Arriving again with chunks of leaf, and attempting to build a nest high up in the brickwork, couldn't get a close-up shot.
Three of the pilot cutters taking part in the Bristol Channel race. Most of the boats taking part are originals that are over a hundred years old. I think the boats in this shot are the Mascotte, Alpha and Olga.
At Elephant Rocks state park in Missouri you can see names of master stone carvers. Once an employee of this former quarry became a master stone cutter he had the honor of carving his name on top of the big rock.
Known only as the "Gentleman Privateer", the captain of the Rover has arrived with his cutter and crew in Terra Nova...
Pretty similar set up to what most of you cookie bakers have, I think. Some people may look at all those boxes and think I have enough cutters to last a couple lifetimes, but of course I always have more on my "wish list!"
(The boxes are normally on a shelf in my garage, but I pulled them out recently to further organize them.)
Check in on my blog this week I'll be having two different cookie cutter giveaways! As if any of you need MORE cookie cutters! =)
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Taney actively served for over 50 years and has been in combat in World War II, the Vietnam War and patrolled for drug interdiction and fisheries protection. This historic ship is also participated in the search for Amelia Earhart in 1937. I used my Lensbaby Fisheye lens for this Baltimore, Maryland, shot.
Letter (envelope) opener
This week's Macro Mondays (9th March) is the theme "Cutter". The series of shots here are my thoughts and working shots ... not necessarily my final choice.
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Day 40 of Project 365 (Feb 9th)
Danbo had a little accident with a box cutter.
Strobist: Alienbee B800 with radiopopper JrX on Danbo's upper right with shoot through umbrella. Bare Canon Speedlite 430ex II on left with no modifier, triggered with RadioPopper JrX.
Behind the scenes below.
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Engagement 3,700+
2022 - Partially Rebuilt for Creta Cargo Group ( Greece )
Listed as ORION entering service in the Aegean Sea
Calmac Car Ferry 'Saturn' (IMO 7615490) plied the environs of the Firth of Clyde for almost 34 years on several routes. Along with her two half-sisters Juno & Jupiter , there were known as the Clyde Streakers because they were designed with three vehicle ramps each and were also very much faster than the previous generation 'ABC' ferries , giving a faster turnaround at piers and linkspans.
Saturn herself retired into 'mothballs' at the end of August 2011 and stayed static at Rosneath Jetty. Whilst most Clyde maritime watchers thought she would follow her sisters to the cutter's torch , she defied this fate in being purchased by Pentland Ferries Ltd for further use up in Orkney and eventually sailed from the Clyde
Listed as ORCADIA > 2015-2021 ( 6 Years )
2023 - TO WEST AFRICA
After a relatively short time in Greece (2021-2023) she sailed for Lagos Nigeria being Listed as ORION K. arriving there on January 18th 2024
How we suffered grief and pain
On the banks of the Barron cutting cane
We sweated blood we were as black as sin
And the ganger he put the spur right in
Old folk song, author unknown
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Just had the thought that this photo could also represent "The Summer of the 17th doll", a play by Ray Lawler about cane cutters.
This is one of the top cutting horses in the nation.
Softbox camera right. Strobe behind horse at some distance.
COOKIE CUTTER ROW ~ Saint Joseph. Missouri USA ~ Copyright ©2015 Bob Travaglione ~ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Afternoon as the sun's on it's way done to stop down and take a shot of the calm waters of the Port Lincoln Marina.
On a sunny day in June, Portland's Eastern Promenade is a great place to be. There are cool breezes, plenty of grassy hillsides for a picnic and even beaches, for those who don't mind water temperatures in the high 50s. In this scene, the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company's excursion train is pictured crossing Cutter Street, which leads to a public parking lot with bathhouses for the beach-goers. On the point is Bridgton & Saco River #7, which is the museum's largest operable steam locomotive. Because this short, 1.3 mile line does cross public roads, this railroad is FRA-regulated and all steam locomotives which operate here are required to have current FRA Form 4s. This image was captured in 2018, not long after the #7 returned to service, after a lengthy restoration process.
Meat Cutters at the Super Fresh Market I worked at paused to let me take this shot in 1985. When this store opened in 1975 as A&P it had an overhead meat rail for forequarters of beef, it entered the cooler through the opening over the door in the background.
One of my first duties here was cleaning the meat room at the end of the day.
My bee hotel is very busy at the moment, but this one has decided to line a hole in a plant pot. If it's still at it tomorrow, I'm going to try for a sharper shot.
Whilst watering some pots in the garden a green flash caught my eye, I turned to see a piece of leaf disappear into a small pot. I watched and saw a leaf-cutter bee emerge from a hole in the soil of the pot. It kept going in with leaf pieces. I left that pot alone and got a camera out but it didn't show up again. A few days later I noticed a small pile of soil beneath another planter that was on my bench, I examined the planter and found a hole in the liner and saw the bee going in and out with leaf pieces! Today I saw the bee again and decided to have a closer look at the first pot, then pulled the plant and soil out in one piece and found the folded leaf pieces close to the edge. How exciting to see this and them still intact. I will leave well alone and keep camera at the ready to capture the bee. Here are some photos.
The Detroit Recycling Center is playing host to this year's Re Bull Creation contest. The teams are hard at work, in the middle of their 72 hour competitive build. I got to wander around and watch the action for a while today. Some crazy cool stuff is getting created. I can't wait to see the finished projects!
More to come.
Leaf cutter ant (Acromyrmex sp.) from the Yetu Rapids near Chenapau, Guyana. Photographed for Meet Your Neighbours.
There are seven species of leaf cutter bee in the UK. I think this is one of the two commonest, the patchwork leaf cutter bee (Megachile centuncularis).
This triptych, taken in my garden, illustrates a neat semicircular cut to a rose leaf caused by a bee, a female bee carrying a section of leaf to her nest site, and a bee (perhaps the same one although at least two are using this site) hovering outside. The damage they cause to plants is trivial, likely to bother only those who grow plants to show them. They are great pollinators and so should be a welcome visitor or resident in any garden. They are very welcome in mine.
The nest is under a succulent plant in a pot in the garden. The leaves used in its construction will be glued together, an egg laid inside and a store of pollen left for the grub which will pupate in the autumn, hibernate over winter and emerge in late spring next year.
Leaf cutter Bees have found a place to lay their eggs between old floor tile and a polystyrene sheet
On the 23rd of October 2016, Sian K1tt3h and I got to put a shoot together which we had been planning for a while.
Massive thank you to Matt, who helped assist us.
Staring Sian as Tuesday Cutter, from The World Went Dark LARP.
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