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Happy New Week, dear friends !!
"Sofie or Catoo?", that's the question for Donald Duck ;-))
Streetart, some where in Maastricht, The Netherlands
Artist unknown
...does what he wants ;-)))
This handsome bald eagle has a mind of his own and probably just needed a vacation...
Since May 10th, the bald eagle, Donald, had been on his way north... Last weekend, he was "picked up" again in Cuxhaven and is now back home in Berlebeck.
It's a bit of a pity for him that he already has to go home again.
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Have a wonderful new week!
Donald Duck
Ma proposition pour le prochain Macro Mondays sur le thlème "bird'
Cette figurine de Donald en plastique m'a été offerte quand j'avais... quatre ou cinq ans ! C'est à dire en 1959 ou 1960.
C'est l'un des rares objets de ma petite enfance qui orne encore ma vitrine à souvenir.
La tête mesure 24mm du dessous du bec jusqu'en haut du bonnet.
Donald est apparu en 1934, son nom complet est Donald Fauntleroy Duck
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This plastic Donald Duck figurine was given to me when I was... four or five years old!
That is to say in 1959 or 1960. It is one of the rare objects from my early childhood which still adorns my souvenir window.
The head measures 24mm from below the beak to the top of the cap.
Donald appeared in 1934, his full name is Donald Fauntleroy Duck
EF100mm f/2.8 L IS USM + tubes allonge 68mm
Stack de 49 images capturées avec Helicon Remote et assemblées avec Helicon Focus
"Macro Mondays"
"Bird"
Portland and Western's Rock Train rolls north on the former OE near Donald, Oregon behind the usual suspects: an ex-ATSF GP39-2 and an ex-SP SD9E, which religiously trails on the Rock Train.
First time I think seeing one of these, thanks to Donald and Charlene for pointing it out.
Bee-flies are fascinating insects that have mastered the art of mimicry. These agile, fluffy, flying creatures look similar to bees, but they are in fact flies. They have only one pair of wings, whereas bees have two, and their most unmistakable feature is a long, straight, straw-like tongue, known as a proboscis.
One of the first bee-fly species seen in spring is the dark-edged bee-fly (Bombylius major), common across Britain and a frequent garden visitor. It has yellowy-brown hair, a long tongue, and darkened wing edges that extend halfway across each wing.
Bee-fly behaviours
One peculiar behaviour displayed by the bee-fly is its slow-moving hover where it lightly touches the ground. It keeps its legs slightly grounded, while slowly and gently brushing the surface with its abdomen – if you look closely, you can see the abdomen creates movements in the sandy surface. This is because the bee-fly is scooping up sand and mud to coat its eggs for camouflage.
This camouflage is important, as bee-flies will lay their eggs in unsuspecting solitary bee burrows, hovering over the burrow entrances before catapulting their eggs inside. As the eggs hatch, the bee-fly larvae spend their time maturing in the nest, eating up the pollen stores that the solitary bees have left for their own young. Although this sounds like bad news for the bees, a healthy population of bee-flies means that you have a good population of bees.
Donald Mitchell Healey (DMH to friends and fans) was, by all accounts, one of the truly great characters of the motor industry. A pilot in World War I, DMH took to motor racing and rally in the '20s. By the mid-1930s he was designing and driving rally cars for Triumph, and won several important international events. When war broke out in 1939, he devoted himself to the war efforts.
At the conclusion of hostilities, DMH and family (especially his sons, Geoff and Bic) resumed making sports cars, this time under the Healey name. Their first effort, the Healey Silverstone, had an advanced chassis design and simple, aerodynamic bodywork. Lacking the resources (spelled "cash") to develop their own engines, the Healeys used the interesting and reasonably sporting Riley 2-liter twin-cam OHV engine. (Yes, you read that right: two cams, down in the block, each operating a separate bank of pushrods working the rockers of overhead valves.)
But like all racers, DMH wanted more power. The biggest news in the motoring world in those days was the 165-bhp Cadillac OHV V8, a comparatively light-weight and high-revving engine with great low-end torque and tremendous potential for making a light, good-handling chassis go very fast. DMH built at least one prototype, using a privately purchased Cadillac V8, which fitted nicely into the Silverstone chassis. (I have been fortunate enough to see this car. And again, that's not "one of these cars," it's "this one.")
So DMH took a steamship from England to the U.S., intending to strike a deal with Cadillac for several V8 engines.
On the way he met George Romney, president of the Nash Motor Corporation based in Kenosha, Wisconsin. George and DMH hit it off from the start, and Romney said that if things didn't go according to plan, he should look him up.
Well, Cadillac didn't give DMH the time of day—too busy (and too important) to sell motors to some tinkerer. DMH decided that rather than make the trip a total loss, he should look into the Nash connection.
Well, Romney was as good as his word, and a deal was struck not only for engines, but for some development of a sports-racing car. The Nash-Healey ended up taking 3rd overall (behind two Mercedes 300SLs) at the 1952 24 Hours of Le Mans—an amazing achievement for a six-cylinder pushrod block, in spite of Nash's disappointment at not winning against the highly developed twin-cam racing engines.
The final piece in the puzzle was the acquisition of bodywork from Pininfarina, Italy's premiere coachbuilder at the time (and my own Pininfarina car is at my elbow, urging me to delete "at the time").
500 Nash-Healeys were built, in coupe form as shown here but more popularly in a roadster. The five cars shown at Forest Grove therefore represent one percent of all Nash-Healey production; no one at the concours knew how many still remain.
Classic film buffs may recall the original Sabrina, with Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, and William Holden. Bogart is the sober-sided chairman of the board of a wealthy family's financial institution, and younger brother Holden is the fast-living cad who romances Hepburn. The car in which Holden drives her home from the train station is a Nash-Healey roadster.
Oh, and about that title: In 1959, DMH tried again to secure V8 power for his sports cars, and once more crossed the Atlantic, this time to meet with his longtime friend and fellow racer Carroll Shelby (who had just won the 24 Hours, driving an Aston Martin). DMH got the same response from Chevrolet as he had earlier received from Cadillac, and furthermore was chastised by British Motor Corporation (BMC) management for attempting to go outside the firm's own engine sources. So sadly, Shelby had to look elsewhere for the Anglo-American hybrid he was working on... a little car known as the Cobra, and a story that might have started as early as 1952 if General Motors had not already perfected the art of sticking their heads up their uncommonly tight fundamental apertures.
Donald the Muscovy duck has developed quite a bond with me. He responds to his name and will come to me when called. He goes through quite a ritual of bobbing his head up and down, hissing and making a grinding teeth like sound and unlike the other ducks doesn't mind being touched. I'm starting to think this is some sort of mating ritual...perhaps he sees me as an overgrown duck.
I found Donald and his duck at a goodwill store sitting on a shelf. I loved his sou'wester and mac, a style much more fitting to Cornwall than New Mexico.
He was just a couple of dollars and at last I've found an occupant for the little chair we recycled a couple of years ago.
I don't think I would've called him Donald but that's his name on the label.
Dane County, Wisconsin
This rock outcrop exists because it lies in the driftless region of Wisconsin untouched by the glaciers of the Ice Age.
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Donald MacArthur Ker is the author of "The Differences Between Women and Men at Funerals in Lethen Nairnshire" and other poems.
Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. AB800 with gridded HOBD-W overhead. Triggered by Cybersync.
Australian 20 cent coin
"The Don" is acclaimed as being the greatest achiever in any competitive sport during his cricket career spanning over 25 years in the 1920's-1940's. Known to be the greatest batsman of all time Donald George Bradman was born August 27th 1908 and passed away peacefully on February 25th 2001 aged 92 years.
It was February 25th 2001 when Sir Don passed away and by late March the Prime Minister had announced an official coin programme honouring the late cricket legend. A celebration of his life and achivements in conjunction with the Bradman Foundation, 3 coins were produced,20 cents,$5 and $20 coins.
This P43 Explosives Van is located in the Donald Lions Heritage Train Park. Vans such as this were constructed 1953-1959 at the Newport Workshops and were typically used to transport goods to and from the ICI plant at Ardeer. When loaded with explosives, departmental regulations required "safety" wagons coupled between the loaded P vans. These vans were also seen on the Stawell line delivering explosives to the mines and on the Mildura line carrying detonators. They were painted a much brighter shade of red than the usual VR freight red.
Donald Duck is one of my favorite Disney characters! I just had to build him with LEGO parts one day.
I started about a year ago designing Donald's head, but I couldn't get the eyes right. Later that year two new parts appeared: the quarter tile in light aqua and the half circle tile in black. These were just perfect to make the eyes! Thus, months later, I could finish Donald's design.
When Donald was finished I thought it would be fun to build his girlfriend Daisy as well. She proved quite a challenge with the limited part variety in bright pink and medium lavender.
I am very happy with the result. They just look so cute together!