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These cookie cutter was made more than 30 years ago to my grandma. Unfortunely I don´t have the cookies wich I made with other colors like yellow, pink, orange and green.
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.
The Stone Cutters Kitchen
Co. Clare, Ireland.
I loved everything about this place the decor was cute and inviting. The only complaint was that there was only one vegetarian option and it had a thick top layer of blue cheese, which I hate. To be far, the bottom part was good!
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'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!
These three are going to Cutters, an exhibition in Ireland next month. Real happy to be involved. Over 50 artists.
Lismore on Wilsons River. Population 28,500.
A pastoral leasehold was taken out by William Wilson in 1845 with the name of Lismore taken from a small island in a Scottish loch. The station occupied 36 square miles (23,000 acres). In 1845 Wilson built a homestead for his wife and family near the Wilson River which meanders through Lismore before joining the Richmond River at Coraki. Across the river from Lismore station was Tunstall station taken out by Augustus Leycester and Robert Shaw and downstream was Gundurimba a tiny settlement created by red cedar cutters. The red cedar cutters came from 1842 and soon a camp was established here. They had government licenses to fell red cedars and float them down stream to the saw mill at Ballina. Lismore station was stocked with cattle which was boiled down into vats of tallow. Both the tallow and hides were shipped down river to the coast and on to Sydney. A government surveyor visited Wilson at Lismore station in 1855 and he surveyed a town. With Wilson’s help they named the main streets and land sales began after the town was gazetted in May 1856. Soon the small village had a hotel, a sawmill and a few houses. Next came general stores, a blacksmith, a Post Office and a school. The Robertson Act of 1861 allowed selectors to select land before survey from the leaseholds of the pastoralists and land selection and clearing began in the late 1860s and the town progressed. Maize was grown on the small properties but in the early 1870s sugar was introduced as the river provided cheap transport and the climate was suitable. Soon Lismore area had several sugar mills with the main one at Broadwater built in 1881 for the Colonial Sugar Refinery Company. There is still a sugar mill there and the Richmond River district of NSW still has 16,000 hectares (30,000 acres) under sugar cane. The Ballina sugar mill produces about two million tons of crushed cane each year.
By 1879 the town of Lismore had a population of 500 and was declared a municipality. (The population reached 4,500 by the time of Federation in 1901.) Anglican and Catholic churches were built in the 1870s as well as banks, a Courthouse and a government wharf. The first local newspaper was published in 1876. The first bridge across the Wilson River was erected in 1877 followed by more bridges in 1883 and 1885. The first Council Chambers were built in the mid-1880s and a gas works in 1888. The grand Post Office was constructed in 1897 and a railway line opened from Lismore to Murwillumbah in the 1890s linking the town by rail to Grafton and the line was extended west to Casino in 1903. From 1930 the town had rail access to Brisbane via Casino and Kyogle. The railway was important to the growth of the dairy industry from the late 1890s but this industry expansion was based on the success of Paspalum dilatatum grass which was introduced in the 1890s. Butter factories soon followed and by the 1950s 1,000 dairies supplied the dairy factories. At that time Lismore had a Peters ice cream factory. Dairying is still a major industry with a dairy factory in Lismore that can produce milk, cheese, yogurts, ice cream and milk powders. Apart from dairying and sugar the Lismore district was a major producer of bananas with over one thousand growers in the 1950s. The Richmond River region still has over 500 banana farmers who mainly produce niche market bananas- Lady Fingers, Goldfinger etc. These days the region produces avocados and macadamia nuts (600 growers) at Dunoon and on the Alstonville plateau. The North Coast area produces about 70% of Australia’s blueberry crop. Lismore has a population of 29,000 with over 43,000 in the district. The annual rainfall is 1,100 mms ( 52 inches).
Some interesting buildings in Lismore starting in Molesworth Street include:
•City Hall. Built in 1965. It was totally refurbished and updated in 2013 and the architect for that, Dominic-Finlay-Jones won three awards for his work.
•The Medical Clinic. Originally built 1906 as a residence for a local doctor. Two storey, faux bay windows etc.
•Memorial Baths. Built in 1928 as a memorial to the soldiers of WW1. Gardens contain war memorials.
•Former Council Municipal Offices. Built in 1928 in the inter war classical style with good decoration and Art Deco detail. The façade is broken into narrow bays by tall windows and a parapet hides the roof line.
•The Band Rotunda in the park. Erected in 1914 in federation style.
•The fire Station architect designed and built in 1908. Parts have been modernised and it has lost its Arts and
Crafts style. In the park beside it is the Queen Victoria fountain erected in 1898.The quaint building next to it
was the Art Gallery from 1954 till recently. Building erected 1908 as a saving bank.
•Opposite is the Commonwealth Bank. Built in 1931 with classical façade, Corinthian columns and recessed entrance. Next to it is Molesworth House. A former state government building built in neo Georgian style about 1928. Stucco with three arched entrance doors, Georgian symmetry and box like appearance.
•The former Post Office designed by Walter Liberty Vernon in 1897. Closed as a Post Office in 1992. Built in federation style in brick with coloured bricks to define bands. It has a rare metal topped tower and clock.
•The Commercial Bank of Sydney built in 1930. Now a Westpac Bank. Built in stone, pilasters on façade etc.
•On the next corner is the Australian Joint Stock Bank 1876. Bought by T & G Life Assurance around 1910. A two storey Italianate building with a three storey tower. Fine wrought iron gates and colonnaded entrance.
•Continue along Molesworth St and turn right at Zadoc St. On the left is the Courthouse. The Colonial Architect James Barnet designed it in typical Courthouse style in 1877. It was completed in 1883. Three arches and imposing gable/pediment façade. One of the few Victorian era buildings in Lismore.
•Opposite is the former rectory built in 1893 with double bay windows. Next to it is St Andrews Anglican Cathedral. A small woodmen church was built here in 1871. This cathedral was built in stages. The nave was built in 1904 designed by architect Charles Rosenthal. The transept and chancel behind the altar was designed by architect Frederick Board in 1913. Built in neo Gothic style but with Romanesque rounded windows, English bond brick work and metal spire on tower.
•Turn left for the current rectory at 9 Keen St which was the original police station.
•Turn right here into Leycester St. Here is St Carthages’ Catholic Cathedral. It was built between 1892 and 1905 and is the largest church in Lismore. The architects were Wardell and Denning. The roof is steeply pitched, the transepts have gable rooves and the façade and tower are impressive with a giant rose window. Nearby is the presbytery and convent. Turn right here into Dawson St and take next turn right back into Zadoc St and left again at the Anglican Cathedral back into Keen St.
•Next corner left is the Methodist Church now Uniting. The architect was Frederick Board again and it was built in 1908. A Romanesque style church with rounded windows and inset work to extenuate the vertical lines of the two bell towers. Church hall 1915.
•On the diagonal corner is the Gollan Hotel. Originally the Imperial Hotel of 1890. Rebuilt in 1934 as the Gollan. Queen Elizabeth stayed overnight here in 1954 on her first Australian royal tour.
•Next left is the former Lismore High School built 1902. Colonial Architect Walter Liberty Vernon designed it in Arts and Crafts style with rough cast gables, small round windows, two tone brick work etc. Now the Conservatorium of Music and the library.
•At the rear is the Regional Art Gallery admission $5. The collection began in 1948 with gallery opening in 1954. In 2015 a $500,000 grant from the Margret Olley foundation converted the old High school to a gallery. Total project $5.8 million. The collection includes works by Olley, Lloyd Rees, Theo Proctor, etc.
• Next corner left is the former Church of Christ more recently a bookshop. Local architect Fredrick Board designed this unusual church in 1923. Note the terracotta tiles and the Spanish Mission style appearance from the side. It has rounded Romanesque windows but stucco rounded cupola on the corner and cream stucco sun ray lines in the red brick - a striking Art Deco feature.
•The last non-commercial building here is St Pauls Presbyterian Church. The architect was Frederick Board who designed this in 1907. In the neo Gothic style with buttresses, a single tower, quarto partite window on façade with six small round windows above it. A very decorative church. A fine spire with vents in the tower.
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.
CUTTER "love will tear us apart"
aerosol, yarn (X-stitch), marker (shadow & highlight) on canvas 60x60 cm
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! =)
Cheers to Friday and the weekend ahead!
The Cutter is a hand tool used to cut peat from less wet, shallower bogs. This means the peat it reveals is drier and therefore more easily burnt producing a whisky that has a medium-heavy smokiness, in this case, with a phenol content of 20.5 ppm. ~ ancnoc.com/whiskies/archived-collection/peaty/cutter/
Whisky-tasting Day / Social Distancing Day 230, 10/29/2020, Sunnyside, NY
Panasonic DMC-G2
LEICA DG SUMMILUX 25/F1.4
ƒ/1.4 25.0 mm 1/60 200
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
...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
a leaf cutter bee (Megachilidae) with a artistic sense for exterior design, using petals!
watching the bees, I was able to see that the bits of petal were being cut from some red pelargoniums in pots just a few metres away. The petal pieces fade quickly to pinky-orange as they whither and fade.
That reminds me of a song!
Cocteau Twins - Pink Orange Red
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.
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.