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didn't get as many decent shots on this trip as I'd hoped mostly due to spending an awful lot of time hanging over the side puking up and having westerlies and strong tidal currents so we couldn't get to the Brest boating regatta. But hey I got the Roscoff ferry back and didn't puke once!!!
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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
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.
Arriving again with chunks of leaf, and attempting to build a nest high up in the brickwork, couldn't get a close-up shot.
Known only as the "Gentleman Privateer", the captain of the Rover has arrived with his cutter and crew in Terra Nova...
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
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! =)
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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.
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
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
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.
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.