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Nobledoll Rhubarbe in grey skin Elf version
She will come nude. She was made from Asella for us, years ago. She has no yellowing.
Price for her is : 530 USD + shipping.
Layaway of 2-3 months is okay, but if you take layaway you have to pay the pp fees.
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Fairyland Pukifee Pukisha in ns
she will come nude. With original box and human parts as well. She has no yellowing.
Price for her will be 215 USD + shipping
Layaway: 2 months max, but if you take layaway you have to pay the pp fees.
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Soom Silky in light violet
SOLD
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Alchemic labo Unoa Lusis 1.5
she will come as pictured! With a blond wig, her eyes, and the dress with headlace. Her Headback is from buff. She is also yellowed. It looks even to me, but the seamlines are a bit darker. She will come with her original box.
Price for her will be 425 USD + shipping
Layaway: yes 2- 3 months. If you take layaway you have to pay the pp fees.
All Items/dolls will be shipped from Europe. From Luxembourg .
Don`t ask for Trades or Splits ! We do not split or trade anything.
If you have a question or want to buy it, please contact us via pm . Thank you ^^
Will be busy printing and framing in nice large, matted formats and frames and museum glass! Five of these photos will be printed on 40" x 60" floating wall mounted metal sheets! I think I know which--will share photos of the photos hanging on the walls!
And I am mounting some on plexiglass/acryllic--front mounting them! Some I am printing on lossy fuji-crystal archival paper too, and then front mounting 40"x60" versions to plexiglass--will send photos!
The secret to HDR photography is that you want people to say, "Woe dude--that's unreal!" And not, "Dude--that's not real!" "Unreal" is the word they use when they're trying to figure out the photo--what makes it cool--is it a photo? Is it painted? How'd it come to be--how'd you bend the light that way? "That's not real," is what they say if you have the saturation/HDR/ etc. turned up too high. :)
Some (almost) final edits for my Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" whihc is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
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Nikon D800E / D800 HDR Anelope Valley Ghosts in Slot Canyonfor Gallery Show!
Yay! I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Journey Mythology--behind the photography!
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 300,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscaps Shot with Nikon D800E: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Journey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's journey of your own making!
These were shot with Nikon's best D800 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
Rather large HDR (high dynamic range) photo--you can see great detail both near and far! View the detail at full size!
The Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens rocks!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
All the best on your epic hero's journey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
The Delicate Arch in Arches National Park Utah! Nikon D800E Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography for Los Angeles Fine Art Gallery Show !
Zion National Park Utah! Nikon D800E Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography for Los Angeles Fine Art Gallery Show !
Yosemite! Nikon D800E Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography for Los Angeles Fine Art Gallery Show !
Yosemite El Capitan Reflected in the Merced River! Nikon D800E Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography for Los Angeles Fine Art Gallery Show !
Yosemite El Capitan Reflected in the Merced River! Nikon D800E Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography for Los Angeles Fine Art Gallery Show !
Yeah... LEGO Fire trucks kinda suck eh?
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Thank you Isaac and Ryan for your kind donations and making both this kid (me) as well as other kids very happy this holiday season :)
Over the past year I have been incredibly lucky to cross off many LEGO "must dos" off my bucket list, and one of them was to partake in Creations for Charity - both as a donor (1) (2) and as a purchaser.
Going into the purchase phase I was out to get what I would consider 'iconic' builds of my favorite builders I was very lucky that Ryan put up his crate, it might not have been his most iconic build, but it's iconic to me - as I believe that was the first ever build I saw of his...
And well ... I kinda twisted Isaac's arm to give up one of his prized Firetrucks (And yes you can still borrow this for shows...)
Cheers guys.
Northern Cardinal
The male Northern Cardinal is perhaps responsible for getting more people to open up a field guide than any
other bird. They’re a perfect combination of familiarity, conspicuousness, and style: a shade of red you can’t
take your eyes off. Even the brown females sport a sharp crest and warm red accents. Cardinals don’t migrate and
they don’t molt into a dull plumage, so they’re still breathtaking in winter’s snowy backyards. In summer, their
sweet whistles are one of the first sounds of the morning.
Songs
Both male and female Northern Cardinals sing. The song is a loud string of clear down-slurred or two-parted
whistles, often speeding up and ending in a slow trill. The songs typically last 2 to 3 seconds. Syllables can
sound like the bird is singing cheer, cheer, cheer or birdie, birdie, birdie. Males in particular may sing
throughout the year, though the peak of singing is in spring and early summer.
Calls
Scientists have described at least 16 different calls for the Northern Cardinal, but the one you’ll hear most
commonly is a loud, metallic chip. Cardinals make this call when warning off intruders to their territory, when
predators are near, as females approach their nests, and by both sexes as they carry food to the nest or when
trying to get nestlings to leave the nest. When one member of a pair is about to feed the other, either bird may
make a softer took note.
Cool Facts
Only a few female North American songbirds sing, but the female Northern Cardinal does, and often while sitting
on the nest. This may give the male information about when to bring food to the nest. A mated pair shares song
phrases, but the female may sing a longer and slightly more complex song than the male.
Many people are perplexed each spring by the sight of a cardinal attacking its reflection in a window, car
mirror, or shiny bumper. Both males and females do this, and most often in spring and early summer when they are
obsessed with defending their territory against any intruders. Birds may spend hours fighting these intruders
without giving up. A few weeks later, as levels of aggressive hormones subside, these attacks should end (though
one female kept up this behavior every day or so for six months without stopping).
The male cardinal fiercely defends its breeding territory from other males. When a male sees its reflection in
glass surfaces, it frequently will spend hours fighting the imaginary intruder.
A perennial favorite among people, the Northern Cardinal is the state bird of seven states.
The oldest recorded Northern Cardinal was a female, and was 15 years, 9 months old when she was found in
Pennsylvania.
Habitat
Open Woodland
Look for Northern Cardinals in dense shrubby areas such as forest edges, overgrown fields, hedgerows, backyards,
marshy thickets, mesquite, regrowing forest, and ornamental landscaping. Cardinals nest in dense foliage and
look for conspicuous, fairly high perches for singing. Growth of towns and suburbs across eastern North America
has helped the cardinal expand its range northward.
Food
Seeds
Northern Cardinals eat mainly seeds and fruit, supplementing these with insects (and feeding nestlings mostly
insects). Common fruits and seeds include dogwood, wild grape, buckwheat, grasses, sedges, mulberry, hackberry,
blackberry, sumac, tulip-tree, and corn. Cardinals eat many kinds of birdseed, particularly black oil sunflower
seed. They also eat beetles, crickets, katydids, leafhoppers, cicadas, flies, centipedes, spiders, butterflies,
and moths.
Nesting
Nesting Facts
Clutch Size
2–5 eggs
Number of Broods
1-2 broods
Egg Length
0.9–1.1 in
2.2–2.7 cm
Egg Width
0.7–0.8 in
1.7–2 cm
Incubation Period
11–13 days
Nestling Period
7–13 days
Egg Description
Grayish white, buffy white, or greenish white speckled with pale gray to brown.
Condition at Hatching
Naked except for sparse tufts of grayish down, eyes closed, clumsy.
Nest Description
Males sometimes bring nest material to the female, who does most of the building. She crushes twigs with her
beak until they’re pliable, then turns in the nest to bend the twigs around her body and push them into a cup
shape with her feet. The cup has four layers: coarse twigs (and sometimes bits of trash) covered in a leafy mat,
then lined with grapevine bark and finally grasses, stems, rootlets, and pine needles. The nest typically takes
3 to 9 days to build; the finished product is 2-3 inches tall, 4 inches across, with an inner diameter of about
3 inches. Cardinals usually don’t use their nests more than once.
Nest Placement
Shrub
A week or two before the female starts building, she starts to visit possible nest sites with the male following
along. The pair call back and forth and hold nesting material in their bills as they assess each site. Nests
tend to be wedged into a fork of small branches in a sapling, shrub, or vine tangle, 1-15 feet high and hidden
in dense foliage. They use many kinds of trees and shrubs, including dogwood, honeysuckle, hawthorn, grape,
redcedar, spruce, pines, hemlock, rose bushes, blackberry brambles, elms, sugar maples, and box elders.
Ground Forager
Northern Cardinals hop through low branches and forage on or near the ground. Cardinals commonly sing and preen
from a high branch of a shrub. The distinctive crest can be raised and pointed when agitated or lowered and
barely visible while resting. You typically see cardinals moving around in pairs during the breeding season, but
in fall and winter they can form fairly large flocks of a dozen to several dozen birds. During foraging, young
birds give way to adults and females tend to give way to males. Cardinals sometimes forage with other species,
including Dark-eyed Juncos, White-throated Sparrows, other sparrow species, Tufted Titmice, goldfinches, and
Pyrrhuloxias. They fly somewhat reluctantly on their short, round wings, taking short trips between thickets
while foraging. Pairs may stay together throughout winter, but up to 20 percent of pairs split up by the next
season.
Conservation
status via IUCN
Least Concern
Northern Cardinal populations slightly increased between 1966 and 2014, according to the North American Breeding
Bird Survey. Partners in Flight estimates a global breeding population of 120 million with 77% living in the
U.S., and 22% in Mexico. They rate a 5 out of 20 on the Continental Concern Score and are not on the 2014 State
of the Birds Watch List. The expansion of people and their backyards over the last two centuries has been good
for cardinals. However, habitat loss in southeastern California, at the edge of the cardinal’s range, may cause
the disappearance of the cardinal population there.
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Northern saw whet owl watches intently for it's next meal. Every year many of these diminutive owls undertake a treacherous migration south from their breeding grounds in the boreal forest to areas with less snow cover and more rodents. They must run a gauntlet of predators that await. Many are killed by vehicles and collisions with building windows, guy wires, windmills etc. For the newly fledged it's their first time away from the protection of their heavily forested homeland. Unfortunately for them bird banders have blocked their ancestral paths with mist nets. The helpless owls become hopelessly ensnared and are left dangling for hours under the threat of being killed by barred owls that are attracted to the incessant loud speaker calling the saw whet in to the trap. It's a dinner bell for predators. Next they are extracted from the net by volunteers and dropped into a filthy cloth bag and hung on a coatrack until the banders get around to handling them. They are then stuffed headfirst into an empty orange juice can, weighed and examined under bright lights by banders forcing their wings to spread. A metal band is then clamped around a leg with pliers. Then they are tossed unceremoniously out the window, shocked and disoriented. Many fall prey to barred and other larger raptors or simply languish in the bushes too afraid to move on. Every morning turkey vultures gather to clean up dead birds. For some reason this horrible practice is condoned by the Canadian Wildlife Service on land designated a Nation Wildlife Sanctuary. The blatant hypocrisy is dumbfounding. Only a insignificant number of banded birds are recovered, many likely die of stress from the rough treatment. As an avid wildlife photographer I hear constant compplaints from the birding community about "unethical" behavior such as getting too close, feeding, and playing bird calls, yet the bird banders are deified as saviors of bird populations. One woman told me there wouldn't be birds if it weren't for banders! There isn't a justifiable reason for this cruelty as Saw whet aren't a species of concern to wildlife managers. The Ontario Government has topped up the onslaught by permitting huge numbers of windmills to be erected directly in the path of migratory birds. This done under the guise of The Green Energy Banner. The banner has blood stains all over it. As for the bird banders, they are scared the general public will become aware of this abuse of wildlife and loose their jobs. The chief bird bander of Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory punched me in the head and grabbed at my equipment when he saw my camera set up to photograph saw whet owls. What's he trying to hide?
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So this is my entry for the Get Pushed Group Round 8 where I was paired with Rick go visit his stream if you haven't already ! Rick set me the following Push:
I know you did an entire project of self portraits ....BUT... What I think would be interesting to see is your take on a portrait in the style of the Hollywood Movie stars of the 1930's or 40's. Paying close attention to the lighting, which in my opinion was as equally important as the person being photographed. Black & White naturally.
My response was of course 'yes' as I had been thinking of doing something movie star related but was nervous of putting myself out there and comparing myself to a movie ster....which of course I am not !!! So I have researched and researched and researched....exhausted sigh....they hair seemed to be the main issue as a tight curly perm or set in waves seemed to be the order of the era !! That was until I came across the so so beautiful Gene Tierney with the photograph I have tried and her hair back with bumps and waves at the front which my hair is naturally.
Light was the next hurdle so I plonked myself in front of my window and hoped for the best...I think this is ok even if I look a little startled ! This is definitely one of the hardest selfies I've done and has been another excellent Push...thank you Rick for Pushing me to do this, I do hope it is what you were imagining !
Also entering for:
Happy Sliders Sunday
Day 261/365
Hollywood BAM [23/52] almost half way there !
Happy Me Again Monday -Mood
EDIT: Re-entering for Me Again Monday for the best of 2012 and definitely my fave Selfie so far
Thank you so much for your views, comments and if you like faves, all are very much appreciated :o)
This was the highlight and reason for my Southern Arizona Adventure 2024. This is stage 8 of 9.
I was lucky to secure permits for the once monthly photography tour of Kartchner Caverns. Kartchner Caverns State Park strictly forbids any cameras or cellphones in the Caverns. Except for one trip per month for 12 to 15 photographers currently $125. I planned a 4 day 3 night road trip around Southern Arizona anchored by my Kartchner Cavern permit.
I was expecting dark conditions. The State Park turned on all the lights in the Big Room. They don't like turning on all the lights since can cause an increase in algae. This is the reason they only have one photography tour a month.
I found myself adjusting my histograms to not clip the highlights. Adapt, Improvise, and Overcome. Next time I am going to bracket my shots. I almost wish I had brought a ND filter or tried a handheld GND filter.
I don't know speleothems so I won't even try to identify. If anyone can help me with the identification, I will appreciate it.
www.nps.gov/subjects/caves/speleothems.htm#:~:text=The%20...)%20when%20needed.
The features that arouse the greatest curiosity for most cave visitors are speleothems. These stone formations exhibit bizarre patterns and other-worldly forms, which give some caves a wonderland appearance. Caves vary widely in their displays of speleothems because of differences in temperature; overall wetness; and jointing, impurities, and structures in the rocks. In general, however, one thing caves do have in common is where speleothems form. Although the formation of caves typically takes place below the water table in the zone of saturation, the deposition of speleothems is not possible until caves are above the water table in the zone of aeration. As soon as the chamber is filled with air, the stage is set for the decoration phase of cave building to begin.
The term speleothem refers to the mode of occurrence of a mineral—i.e., its morphology or how it looks—in a cave, not its composition (Hill, 1997). For example, calcite, the most common cave mineral, is not a speleothem, but a calcite stalactite is a speleothem. A stalactite may be made of other minerals, such as halite or gypsum.
Classifying speleothems is tricky because no two speleothems are exactly alike. Nevertheless, speleologists have taken three basic approaches: classification by morphology, classification by origin, and classification by crystallography. All three of these approaches have their problems (Hill, 1997), so cavers often take a more practical approach that primarily uses morphology (e.g., cave pearls) but includes whatever is known about origin (e.g., geysermites) and crystallography (e.g., spar) when needed.
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The Kartchner Caverns, rated one of the world's 10 most beautiful caves, is an eerie wonderland of stalactites and stalagmites still growing beneath the Whetstone Mountains 40 miles southeast of Tucson.
The limestone cave has 13,000 feet of passages and hundreds of formations built over the past 200,000 years, including some that are unique and world-renowned. It's a "living cave," with intricate formations that continue to grow as water seeps, drips and flows from the walls and slowly deposits the mineral calcium carbonate.
The caverns were discovered by amateur spelunkers Randy Tufts and Gary Tenen in 1974 on land owned by the Kartchner family. They kept the cave a secret until 1988, when the Kartchners sold it to the state to become a state park.
The highlights of the Big Room tour are a stretch of strawberry flowstone, which has been colored red by iron oxide (rust) in the water, and a maternity ward for 1,800 female cave myotis bats, with black grime on the ceiling where the bats hang and piles of guano on the floor. Visitors who look closely will see a bat's body embedded in one of the cave's formations.
Though not all are available on the tours, the caverns' unique features include a 21-foot, 2-inch soda straw that's one the world's largest (Throne Room), the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk (Big Room), the first reported occurrence of "turnip" shields (Big Room), the first cave occurrence of "birdsnest" needle quartz formations (Big Room) and the remains of a Shasta ground sloth from the Pleistocene Age (Big Room).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartchner_Caverns_State_Park
Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a show cave with 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of passages.[1] The park is located 9 miles (14 km) south of the town of Benson and west of the north-flowing San Pedro River. Long hidden from view, the caverns were discovered in 1974 by local cavers, assisted by state biologist Erick Campbell who helped in its preservation.
The park encompasses most of a down-dropped block of Palaeozoic rocks on the east flank of the Whetstone Mountains.
The caverns are carved out of limestone and filled with spectacular speleothems which have been growing for 50,000 years or longer, and are still growing. Careful and technical cave state park development and maintenance, initially established by founder Dr. Bruce Randall "Randy" Tufts, geologist, were designed to protect and preserve the cave system throughout the park's development, and for perpetuity.[3]
The two major features of the caverns accessible to the public are the Throne Room and the Big Room. The Throne Room contains one of the world's longest (21 ft 2 in (6.45 m))[5] soda straw stalactites and a 58-foot (18 m) high column called Kubla Khan, after the poem. The Big Room contains the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk. Big Room cave tours are closed during the summer for several months (April 15 to October 15) each year because it is a nursery roost for cave bats, however the Throne Room tours remain open year-round.[8]
Other features publicly accessible within the caverns include Mud Flats, Rotunda Room, Strawberry Room, and Cul-de-sac Passage. Approximately 60% of the cave system is not open to the public.[9]
Many different cave formations can be found within the caves and the surrounding park. These include cave bacon, helictites, soda straws, stalactites, stalagmites and others.[12] Cave formations like the stalactites and stalagmites grow approximately a 16th of an inch every 100 years.[13]
Haiku thoughts:
Beneath earth's cool veil,
Stalactites in silence grow,
Whispers of stone deep.
Kartchner
Southern Arizona Adventure 2024
can I go too?
what do you mean I’m staying home?
I’m packed up and off to St Louis until next Saturday evening. going to miss my Ella
will catch up in the group on my return, have a great week everyone
Ella trivia: this is the first to@w she’s not going with me fir me week long annual April trip and she’s not pleased
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For today’s Guy Wulfrunian photograph, we have moved to one of the depots acquired by West Riding in 1950 when they took over local rival Bullocks & Sons. Featherstone depot was closed in the 1980s but is the location where we find a vehicle that was intended to have been supplied to Johannesburg Municipality in 1962 as their fleet number 976.
It is a demonstrator for a tri-axle high-capacity replacement for earlier conventional Arabs. Unfortunately for Guy, there was an extended dock strike at Southampton and the vehicle was trapped inside the docks for over four months, during which time, the operator had a change of mind and when it eventually arrived in South Africa, the customer refused to accept it, saying that it had arrived too late. It was returned to the UK later that year.
Commenting on the fiasco at the time, Sidney Guy, who had retired from the company in 1957, called it “an embarrassment”.
In 1962, the UK’s new Construction and Use regulations allowed buses up to 36’ to use the roads, so Guy sent it north to the Crossgates factory of Charles H Roe, who had built the body, to have the destination aperture altered and to have it re-painted it into the livery of the West Riding Automobile Company of Wakefield. West Riding was already a committed Wulfrunian customer, so they had agreed to take it for evaluation.
On its return to the UK, it had been registered in Wolverhampton as 7122UK but, on arrival in Wakefield, it was given the cherished registration number from West Riding’s Chief Engineer Ronald Brooke’s Rover P4 company car, FHL104. It did not carry a fleet number
After only two weeks use at Featherstone depot, and after two serious incidents where various items of street furniture on bends and corners were knocked over, the recognised trade union refused to allow further use of the vehicle so it was towed ceremoniously to Belle Isle depot where it languished for a few months before being dismantled for parts.
What a waste.
For our anniversary, we dined at the Oasis Restaurant in Austin, Texas. Fortunately we had a warm evening to enjoy front row seats of an awesome sunset.
St Michael, Woolverstone, Suffolk
It was a crisp, bright morning towards the end of November 2016, a perfect day for a bike ride. I headed out of town onto the Shotley Peninsula, the first stretch of my journey necessarily along the horrid main road which runs along the south bank of the Orwell. I soon came to Woolverstone, which you can see at once was rebuilt as a late 19th Century estate village. A narrow lane runs between fields and copses northwards to the church of St Michael sitting on its mound above the river.
The setting is idyllic. The great pile of Woolverstone Hall, today home to Ipswich Girls High School, stands beside it, and above me the jackdaws chattered in the skeletal trees, the fields were full of sheep, the damp woods full of the cries of pheasants. Woolverstone Hall was built in the 1770s by John Johnson for William Berners. Johnson had been the main architect of the Berners Estate, an area of London known more commonly today as Fitzrovia, and the fabulously wealthy Berners family took up residence in this remote Suffolk spot above the Orwell. They paid for George Gilbert Scott's restoration of the 1860s, which is pretty much all that can be seen of the church from the south apart from the tower, but in the 1880s they did rather more. James Piers St Aubyn, one of the most famous architects of the day, was brought in to expand the church massively towards the north, and when you enter you see that the effect is really that of two churches side by side, separated by a fairly low and rounded arcade. The new part was designed to be used for shadowy, incense-led worship, and although that tradition has long gone it is still the main part of the church today.
The wealth of the Berners family means that the restoration was overwhelming, but the quality of it is high. And in any case, there are few medieval survivals anywhere on the Shotley Peninsula. The only old object here is the font, and it is a curiosity. On the face of it, the style is that of a typical East Anglian font bowl, lions alternating with angels, but the carving is quite unlike anything I've seen elsewhere, the crouching lions shown in profile. Pevsner calls the carving 'crude', which is not untrue. Was it done by a local hand, perhaps? It has been reset on a modern stem with upright, alert little lions, 19th Century but much more in the East Anglian medieval style.
The glass is also generally of high quality, or at least expensive, and to various members of the Berners family. Heaton Butler & Bayne's rather alarmingly yellow Saints Martin, Agnes, Margaret and Augustine, installed as a memorial to Archdeacon Henry Berners and his wife, stand proudly in an overwhelmingly wide south nave window which works externally as a kind of optical illusion, making Scott's nave appear wider than his chancel, which it isn't.
The same firm provided the east window in St Aubyn's north aisle to John and Henrietta Berners, which depicts the crucifixion flanked by Joseph of Arimathea, the Blessed Virgin, St John and St Mary Magdalene. It is interesting to note, given the not uncommon conflation of their imagery in medieval times, the similarity between the figures of St John and St Mary Magdalene. The studio might almost have been working from the same cartoon. Both the windows were installed in the 1880s under St Aubyn's direction.
There was once an earler 19th Century window at Gilbert Scott's east end, of which the upper tracery survives, but the main lights were destroyed by blast damage during the Second World War, a not uncommon fate for church windows on the Shotley Peninsula - indeed, the church in the neighbouring village, Chelmondiston, was completely ruined. The 1947 replacement, by AL Wilkinson, depicts Christ the Saviour of the World flanked by St Michael and St Gabriel.
The High Church, even Anglo-catholic, enthusiasms of the Berners family may be judged by Woolverstone House back in the village, which was built for a community of Anglican nuns based at St Peter, Kilburn. It was intended as their retreat house and school, and the architect was Edwin Lutyens. Today it is a private house, but the church is now open every day. When I'd first visited every Suffolk church in the late 1990s I had found it locked. Coming back in 2006, the interior was full of scaffolding, and I couldn't go in. Curiously, the avenue of yew trees which lined the path up to the south porch at that time have now been reduced to stumps. Despite St Michael being barely five miles from my house, it had taken until this idyllic crisp, sunny day in late November 2016 for me to get back there, discover this, and explore the inside for the first time.
It was time to head on to Harkstead. The view from the south porch back up the hilly lane was breathtaking in the low winter sunshine. I stepped out, wandering down to the east to look across to the Hall. The Berners family sold it as part of the Estate in 1937, assuming that it would be demolished for farming land, but after a period of requisition by the army during the War the Hall was bought by the London County Council for use as a boarding school. It was intended both for children taken into care and also for those whose parents were working overseas, an odd combination, but people seem to have happy memories of it. The writer Ian McEwan is a famous ex-pupil. The school closed in the 1980s; its massive library was broken up, and you still regularly come across items from it in Suffolk's second-hand bookshops. In a grand sale in the Ipswich Corn Exchange shortly after the closure, I bought the school's copies of McEwan's books for 50p each. The Hall lay empty for several years, until the Girls High School moved out here from central Ipswich, and restored it to something like its former glory. The jackdaws which inhabit the great 19th Century water tower which stands beside it wheeled above my head as I cycled back to the Shotley road.
I took this picture in advance especially for Marmalade's birthday ^_^
Here there is someone who wants to give you something... Espero que hayas tenido un día genial. Sabes que te deseo lo mejor ;D y que todo te vaya llegando poco a poco ñ_ñ Wiiiii~~
For my good Flickr friend Mag, who had a terrible accident. She's in coma now, fighting for her life.
for umbrella collective show
made with grosgrain ribbon and vintage christmas stamps, a set of 6 with glassine envelopes, they are packaged in a felt envelope with a leaf trim...
This is for you today .....
তোমায় দিলাম আজ ......
Do we need a Valentine day to give a Rose?? Its for you .... any day any time...
Thanks In Advance for not Inviting me to any Group and Attaching Graphics to this picture as a part of your comments. I appreciate your comments and Favs if you like it.
Bagpiper at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial before the start of the United for Blue rally.
Washington, DC / April 2, 2016
Singage for Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery. Located at 137 East Houston Street. Yonah Schimmel and his wife began selling knishes from a pushcart on Coney Island in 1890. The store on East Houston Street opened in 1910. Manhattan, New York City. 2025.
Ricoh GRIII
Justin
This is one of the two fans that the late Margo gave me for Christmas a dozen years or so ago at one of Vanity's famous and elegant parties. Leslie Anne gave me the juice from her cabbage so I could make soup with it.
A new project for Alicia who want something around my Little Red Riding Hood... So I plan to make a new variation of this theme, with a lot of assorted machine embroideries by combining some designs.
This set will include a dress, a corseted over-dress, removable puffed sleeves, a jacket, a petticoat and socks.
See you soon!
I used to make these "Dream Giftset" photoshoots for fun, but I am refocusing my collection and it was a great way of getting some farewell playtime with the ladies.
The luggage and the matching purse have some wear and tear. GP Eugenia has been swapped into a FR2 body.
For our last full day in Ireland, we took the advice of one of my wife's online knitting contacts are boarded a ferry for the Aran Islands, specifically Inis Mór, the largest of the three. The Arans are notable as being one of the few places remaining where Irish Gaelic remains the official language (I'd wager that nearly all the residents speak both English and Irish, but Irish is the language taught in schools and spoken casually by the locals.) It's a remote, rugged place, but that appeals a lot to me—much like Connemara, I thought it a very beautiful place.
A little reading beforehand convinced me that, with the kids in tow, a bus tour of the island was the most appropriate way to see things, since we only had the one day. While it did limit my photographic opportunities a bit, what with scheduled stops, we were extremely happy with our tour guide, Michael Faherty of Faherty Tours, himself a member of a long line of Inis Mór residents. He was very friendly, informative, quite funny, and more than willing to answer not only my questions, but the battery of questions my kids peppered him with.
One of the big stops was the prehistoric Dún Aonghasa stone fort, which sits on the 100-meter-high cliffs over the Atlantic uphill from the village of Cill-Mhuirbhigh (Kilmurvy). The fort dates to 1100BCE. This is one of the more prominent cliffs seen looking east from the fort, and, unlike the Cliffs of Moher, you can get right up and personal with the cliff (apparently, there have been cliff diving competitions here in the past.)
Nikon D7000 w/Nikkor 18-300mm @ 25mm, 1/180s @ ƒ/16, ISO400. Color finishing using a combination of Nik Viveza and Aperture.
For her month in Bee Unique Bee Knotty Elizabeth asked for blocks made in the theme of "Hanging Quilts" (inspired by a theme used in the Ringo Pie Bee, "Quilts on a Line.") She provided each of us a piece of Kona Snow to use as the background and asked for a 14.5" (unfinished) block.
Elizabeth indicated that the hanging quilts could be hanging on anything. I fear I might be stretching the theme a bit too much but, inspired by The Walking Quilted group, I decided to make a block showing someone holding the quilt with just her feet and hands showing.
For the mini quilt I knew that I wanted to make a tiny version of my most recent finish, City Green. I used the scraps from that quilt and it took me three tries to get it right (I had to abandon the idea of putting the super skinny sashing in between each block once I realized that was insane.) The quilt is about 5" square. The individual squares are 1/2" finished. I sewed the quilt together, turned under the edge and then appliquéd it to the block using a tiny zigzag. All other appliqué is raw-edge.
For the trees I used the same technique that I used for this mosaic tree block. Everything was temporarily attached using a washable glue stick and then I used a tiny zigzag stitch to appliqué everything. I added the pink bird because I thought the the block needed a pop of something that wasn't green.
PS. The quilt holder isn't unclothed -- it's summer time so she's wearing shorts!