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This frozen parade float features a giant rotating snowflake that turns as the wheels move! It’s accompanied by waving yeti, a polar bear, a snowman, and an ice queen. And what better way to pull an ice-themed float than an ice cream truck!
I built this for @lolugclub’s parade float challenge, and I was inspired by the 70804 Ice Cream Machine and the collectible minifigures.
These are 4 to 5 inches long and close to that in diameter. They are attached to fishing nets to keep them afloat.
Color photograph of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8053 float in the 1991 Fourth of July Parade in Hingham. Float celebrates the soldiers who served in the Gulf War/Operation Desert Storm. A papier-mâché soldier in desert camouflage rides a camel. He holds an American flag in his right hand and the camel's reins in the left. The camel has a sign on its side reading "Riding the Storm."
In the collection of the Hingham Historical Society [PH258].
Last night my youngest was having a slumber party with one of her best friends. They were all set up in their usual slumber party places, when the slumber party had to come to an end. Nobody was bad, nobody did anything wrong..... her sweet friend has type 1 diabetes and her insulin pump stopped working. It was such a bummer. Luckily, my little sweet friend's daddy is a Battalion Chief for a local fire department, so he came over to help us out until mom could come and get her.
My sweet friend was diagnosed with diabetes four years ago. Her mama is one of my besties too, and to watch them navigate this life changing disease has been beautiful, amazing and painful all at once. I was up most of the night with great hope. Hope for two people that I love like they are family. Hope for a cure.
---- the "living float" of city of Randazzo (Sicily), that evokes the mystery of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven ----
---- la “vara vivente” della città di Randazzo (Sicilia), che rievoca il mistero dell’Assunzione di Maria in Cielo ----
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in the Sicilian city of Randazzo, is Celebrated in mid-August day, hits principal feast of the "living float" that evokes the mystery of the faith of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven with soul and body, for this reference She is call Mary Assumption; the feast may be originated around the sixteenth century; the "vara" (Sicilian name Refers to "float"), it's a "votive machine" about 20 meters high, made of a structure in iron and wood, decorated with gilding, mirrors, colored coatings, Whose allegorical meaning Seems To have inspirations from the figures reproduced in a painting by John Caniglia of 1548 (you can admire it inside the Crucifix chapel of the Basilica of St. Mary in Randazzo), machine consisting about several plans and rotating, with hand-operated mechanisms, and making reference to the rotation of the heavens of the medieval conception. The first low part of the "machine-float" is the Tomb of Mary, full of flowers, but as She got to the Sky also with Her Body, it's an empty tomb, a bit higher up we find St. Thomas in prayer, still more on we find St. Michael the Archangel with a sword, surrounded by singing Angels; on the highest level it finally takes place the Virgin Mary. Various "young actors", present on float are children of various age, which intone chants turned to Virgin Mary, each with its own role, each surrounded by a iron structures for own security. Up to 1960 different "human figures" were all male, included Maria Assunta; in ancient times the fast of the children was strictly Observed (even now, more for practical reasons to stay on the float, Which for devotional Reasons); in ancient times the float at the end of the procession was always assaulted from the faithful, taking with them the precious souvenirs of the event, considering That like relics; to the end of the 18th century the traditional feast He had a decline, abolished in 1795, then restored in the Second Half of 1800, again suppressed the first in 1911 for the raging cholera, then to the events linked to the First and Second World War, than the feast started again in 1952, at first once every 5 years, then every three years finally annually since 1973. During the trip the children receive from Inhabitants leaning out of windows and balconies, candies, biscuits, sweets of various genre, so this "rain of sweets" shows a more happy and picturesque manifestation, but so the children "are distracted" being from "hanging" in several meters from the soil (likeably who is finding down, he may be "bombarded" by a shower of candies and chocolates).
P.S. This last 2018 edition was not held on August 15th due to bad weather; the event was postponed to 25 August 2018, started regularly, was subsequently interrupted, as one of the four wheels of the vara was blocked right at the end of the path, causing a considerable effort by the devotees, to be able to bring it back. The photographs were organized and posted without taking into account the temporal chronology of what happened during the event.
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nella città siciliana di Randazzo, si celebra il 15 agosto, la sua principale festa, della "vara vivente" che rievoca il mistero di fede dell'Assunzione di Maria in Cielo sia in anima che in corpo, per questo riferimento viene chiamata Maria Assunta, festa che sembra abbia avuto origine attorno al XVI secolo; la "vara" (nome siciliano riferito al fercolo), è una “macchina votiva” alta circa 20 metri (in passato era ancora più alta) composta da una struttura in ferro e legno, abbellita da dorature, specchi, rivestimenti colorati, il cui significato allegorico sembra ricalcare i motivi ascensionali riprodotti in un quadro di Giovanni Caniglia del 1548 (dipinto che si può ammirare nella cappella del Crocifisso della basilica di Santa Maria, in Randazzo), macchina costituita da diversi piani sovrapposti ruotanti, con meccanismi azionati a mano, che fanno riferimento alla rotazione dei cieli di concezione medioevale. Alla base della “macchina-vara” c’è il sepolcro di Maria, pieno di fiori ma, poiché Ella è salita in cielo anche col suo corpo, tale sepolcro è vuoto; un po’ più in alto troviamo S.Tommaso in preghiera, ancora più su troviamo S.Michele Arcangelo con in pugno la sua spada, attorniato da Angeli, sul livello più alto infine prende posto la Vergine Maria. Le varie figure, presenti sulla vara sono bimbi di varie età, dai più piccoli ai più grandicelli, che intonano canti rivolti alla Madonna, ognuno col proprio ruolo di figurante, ognuno cinto da una struttura in ferro che lo assicura alla macchina votiva: fino agli anni ’60 i vari personaggi erano tutti di sesso maschile, inclusa Maria Assunta, il digiuno dei bimbi era rigorosamente osservato (anche adesso, più per motivi pratici di permanenza sulla vara, che per motivi devozionali); in passato la vara alla fine della processione veniva presa d’assalto dai fedeli, che letteralmente la spogliavano, portando con se un prezioso ricordo della manifestazione, considerandola al pari di una reliquia; alla fine del 18° secolo la tradizionale festa ebbe un declino, soppressa nel 1795, poi ripristinata nella seconda metà del 1800, nuovamente soppressa prima nel 1911 per l’imperversare del colera, successivamente per le vicende legate alla prima ed alla seconda Guerra Mondiale, la festa riprese vita solamente nel 1952, dapprima una volta ogni 5 anni, poi ogni tre anni, infine annualmente dal 1973. Durante il tragitto i bimbi ricevono dagli abitanti affacciati alle finestre ed ai balconi, caramelle, biscotti, dolciumi di vario genere, che ripongono a mò di bottino dentro delle sacche di tela, delle quali ognuno è fornito: questo da un lato rende ancora più gaia e pittoresca la manifestazione, dall’altro lato i bimbi “vengono distratti” dal trovarsi “appesi” a svariati metri dal suolo (simpaticamente chi si trova sotto, può venire “bombardato” da una pioggia di caramelle e cioccolatini, e parlo per esperienza personale :o)) …).
P.S. Questa ultima edizione 2018, non si è svolta il 15 di Agosto a causa del maltempo; la manifestazione è stata così rinviata al 25 Agosto 2018, iniziata regolarmente, è stata successivamente interrotta, poichè una delle quattro ruote della vara si è bloccata proprio sul finire del percorso, causando un notevole impegno da parte dei devoti, per poterla riportare-trascinare indietro. Le fotografie sono state organizzate e postate senza tenere conto della cronologia temporale di quanto avvenuto durante la manifestazione.
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my float never moved from that position. fished nearly everyday for a week didnt catch a thing. I even used garlic flavoured luncheon meat .
The pool's open until 10:00 on Friday, and it looks really cool when someone floats around by the light. This photo was not altered in any way.
Dedicate to my Bright friend.
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LaSalle Barge and Dock Co. car float #102 has arrived from the 59th Street Yard on the far side of LaSalle Harbor. The tug has pulled away and a dock worker is releasing the jacks which held the cars in place on the float.
NAPM's East LaSalle job will unload and then reload the float; a few hours from now another tug will arrive to take LSB&D #102 back to 59th Street.
Photo by NAPM member Mark Mathu.
Visit the club on-line at www.napmltd.org.
Parade float in the form of a swan passing the Singer store at 225 Front Street in Belleville, Ontario. A note on the back reads "Dec. 1957".
Part of a collection of photographs relating to Roy Wardle, a firefighter in Belleville, Ontario.
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It is amazing that these autumn leaves have so much color....thank you all for the lovely comments on yesterdays photo..but still feeling under the weather and will try and catch up as soon as I can..
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AUTUMN CAME
By ripping cheeks,
with cold breeze,
with twitter of sparrows,
Autumn came!
Autumn came to cover
shivering earth
with colorful leaves carpet!
Autumn floats like
sun's epitaph
Autumn echoed like
farewell song of birds
in the evening!
Autumn touches the
breath of last leaves
on the verge of falling
with warmth!
Autumn challenges the
confidence of the tree
who hides buds in the heart
Mula Veereswara Rao
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Sonbahar Yaprakları
sonbahar yaprakları
hüznümdür hergün
sanki gözyaşı
sonbahar yaprakları
sonbahar yaprakları
dökülen birkaç damla yaş
seni bana hatırlatan
sonbahar yaprakları..
East Float
The photographs today include photographs of East Float including some from short jetties along Tower Road.
East Float dock, as I explained yesterday, extends inland from Tower Road towards West Float dock.
Beside East Float, on Tower Road, the photos show the Central Hydraulic Tower and its door. This tower is a 110-foot high, derelict pumping station and hydraulic accumulator that provided hydraulic power for the docks at Birkenhead. Completed 1863. Bombed during WWII, it was repaired but eventually closed. The tower is now being restored.
One of the photos shows the wreck of a ship close to the hydraulic tower. The wreck of the RV Sarsia is partially submerged and derelict in the East Float dock. It seems that the boat was built in Devon in 1953. She was a Marine Biological Association’s survey/research vessel in the 1960s, was sold in 1981 and was taken to West Africa and used there as an oil survey boat until 1986 when it returned back to the UK. She has been left here in the docks ever since not long after that.
Finally today, some of the photos show the new homes being built on the Dock Road side of East Float. I will be posting some more photos of that new-build tomorrow.
We had seen Beaches pool floats last time we were here, but didn't see any this time until just now, the very minute we were heading to the van to take us to the airport.
Cheerilee + Soda Float
(Root beer scented)
They don't sell A+W here in England, Don’t worry I've found a local stockist Soda Float satisfies my sensual urges if they sell out!! Lol
A milk float dressed up as a fire engine for Blaze Entertainment, taking part in the 2010 Lichfield Bower procession.
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So yeah, I recently found out that I have a registered 'eye condition'. I always figured it was just microscopic dirt on my eye or something. Oh well, it doesn't bother me much and they only rarely even show themselves, still a bit surprising though...
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So yeah, this isn't LEGO. Sorry for that. I probably won't be building much for a while since I have this to sort out, as well as having to work on a huge-ish history assignment. :/
I am, however, hoping to get a mech done in time for Mechahub's for Armored April and then find time for some bigger MOCs again (which has been a while, August last year, actually).