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Macro Mondays - Redux 2021
Pick 2 themes from 2021 and combine. I have:
Gift from 4 January
Ribbon from 18 January
HMM... the macromonday theme for 12/14 is high key. i acquired a set of vintage angels which went to my BBF who has a collection of them, especially on her tree. before they were gifted to her though, i took pictures of them. will put an establishing shot in the first comment box but she is about 2 and a half inches (6cm) tall
The pathway and Road to the Estuary walks and views of Portmeirion and surrounding views of the area.
Ynys Giftan Island
Talsarnau, Gwynedd,
LL48 6EN
Ynys Giftan Island
Ynys Giftan Island is situated in the Dwyrd
Estuary in a rural location overlooking the
picturesque town of Portmeirion and provides
panoramic views of stunning coastline,
mountains and the Irish Sea. The Island is
approximately 3 miles from the popular town
of Harlech and 10 miles from the town of
Porthmadog. It is accessible by boat at high tide
and at low tide by foot, tractor or other suitable
vehicle for traveling across the Estuary.
One of only 43 of Britain’s unbridged tidal
islands, Ynys Giftan is in the wide Afon
Dwyryd estuary near the village of Talsarnau
in Gwynedd, North Wales. The Island has been
unoccupied for many years and has a unique
history. It is said to have been gifted to the
current Lord Harlech’s ancestors by Queen Anne
in the early 1700s, hence it became known as
Ynys Giftan (‘Anne’s Gift Island’).
Before becoming a violinist, Alice attended circus school and was particularly gifted at contortion.
Life demands that we look far ahead and make the right choices, even if they are difficult.
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Now I am set free
My mortality gifted in trust
A leap of faith into the void
Eternity waits beyond the abyss
My blood and breath have gone from me
But I am more than just a man on a tree
My passion is spent
My journey nearly complete
I have cracked open the sky
And a new age begins
It will be with you
Despite your sins
There is no going back
And I know I must treasure this time
As there is now only forwards
And to love you was my dearest wish
It makes it easier to now approach fate
And my death with only a traitor's kiss
There is just this single work today, because what could I possibly follow it with. Interestingly, this is an iPhone image, and not my usual practise. I use my iPhone for reference shots usually. I did not have my camera this day, not expecting to pass by Wilmington in Sussex, UK, but events meant that I did, and I stopped because I needed to. The light was just so, so I took the shot.
I returned, many times, with my camera, but could never repeat it. And you never can, can you? And is that not perfect in the end? He has gone. Whatever I do, even now, would not be the same. The light was perfect, the sky was brilliant, I was there at the right time in exactly the right place.
So here it is, my work for Good Friday.
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I was recently thinking about some of the beautiful outfits I've been given as gifts during the past year by some truly special people I know in Second Life. So then I decided, perhaps a nice way to show how much I appreciated and enjoyed these clothing gifts would be to take some pictures of me in the outfits, and post those pictures here on Flickr.
This darling ensemble was from my friend Tabby. It's a risqué little number, but I love it!
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mOdel ву: my ( hanD
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Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727-1759) was a gifted and creative physician and botanist. He is best known for his precise and ground-breaking work on the anatomy of the human eye, and two muscle structures in the eye are named for him, the so-called Zonule of Zinn and Zinn's Circles. But he was also a botanist and the first to describe a Zinnia under the Latin descriptive Rudbeckia foliis oppositis. In Mexico whence the plant hails it was called 'mal de ojos', hard on the eyes because of its brightness.
Zinn and great Linnaeus had a lively correspondence. Among the many topics of their mutual interest was the 'movement' of plants such as that of Mimosa pudica. Zinn had experimented with that plant in order to understand its mechanism. Linnaeus had done the same and he expanded his experiments to the opening and closing of flowers. He found that such movement is often governed by the time of day. Thus he allowed for the construction of a so-called Horologium florae, a Flower Clock (1751), with flowers planted in such a way that you could tell time by their opening and closing.
Saddened by Zinn's early death, Linnaeus named the Rudbeckia his friend had so fully described: Zinnia.
The memorial fountain was gifted to the people of Sydney by the children of Lewis Wolfe Levy in 1889. It is made of polished red and white granite and features a bronze figure. It was placed at the Domain entrance to the Botanic Gardens and was prepared at the works of Messrs Freeman, Penryn and Cornwall. The figure, a water nymph in bronze, was cast by C. B. Birch.
Lewis Wolfe Levy (13 June 1815 – 25 January 1885) was an English-born Australian businessman and politician. He was born in London, the son of merchant Benjamin Wolfe Levy and his wife Martha née Levy. He migrated to Sydney in 1840 and established himself at Maitland, before moving to Tamworth. There he took over an established store and went on to make it into one of the most significant businesses in Tamworth. In 1849 he formed a business partnership with his cousin Abraham Cohen. He was also a gold buyer during the gold rush period in the 1850s. He died on 25 January 1885, survived by his wife and thirteen of their children. His estate was valued for probate at over £245,000. Most of his estate was left to family and friends with £3875 bequested to various charitable institutions. 10599
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Watercolor Art paintings that our daughter drew and attached to the gift wrapping on our Anniversary gifts.
***Gift: something given to another....
***Gift: a personal attribute
Artistb credit: DLJohnson
I brought my Passion Flower plant indoors... and she gifted me with this beautiful flower!!!
I've had this plant for at least 8 years!
The SNCB/NMBS/B-Logistics Alstom HLE 13 is one of my favourite locs and this is my first photo of it. With the luck of a beginner, I was gifted with a spotless clean 1333 and from the elevated spot, I could see the red roof and white pantographs - very much like when the loc has left the factory. The freight train has been routed via the famous spot place in Hennuyeres by exception on this Saturday afternoon.
This photo was given to me today. It's a scene from the Metrics Cheerleaders Saturday practice, which I attend whenever I can.
I like this photo so much that I wanted to share it. Many thanks to Shawn for taking this picture.
A close friend gifted me slips from her plant a couple of years ago. This is the first time it has bloomed. She has since passed away and would be happy to see that it is blooming.
Often confused with the Christmas Cactus. The Thanksgiving cactus has pointed, claw-like edges on segments where the Christmas cactus has notched edges on segments that are smooth and rounded.
Bodnant Garden, Conwy.
Bodnant Garden, Autumn.
Bodnant Garden (Welsh: Gardd Bodnant) is a National Trust property near Tal-y-Cafn, in the county borough of Conwy, Wales, situated overlooking the Conwy Valley towards the Carneddau range of mountains. Founded in 1874 and developed by five generations of one family, it was gifted to the care of the National Trust in 1949.
The garden’s founder, Henry Davis Pochin, was a Leicestershire-born Victorian industrial chemist who acquired fame and fortune inventing a process for clarifying rosin used in soap, turning it from the traditional brown to white. He became a successful businessman, mayor and JP. Pochin bought the Bodnant estate in 1874 and employed Edward Milner, apprentice to Joseph Paxton, to redesign the land around the existing Georgian mansion house, then just lawns and pasture. Together Pochin and Milner relandscaped the hillside and valley, planting American and Asian conifers on the banks of the River Hiraethlyn to create a Pinetum, and reinforcing stream banks to create a woodland and water garden in the valley, in the style of the garden designer of the day William Robinson in his book The Wild Garden. In the upper garden, Pochin and Milner created the Laburnum Arch and glasshouses, to house exotics. Pochin also built The Poem, the family mausoleum in an area of the Shrub Borders.
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For Macro Monday's "Wrapping" Theme
This is one of those spangly ribbon/bows you simply stick on top of a present. They are life savers! Let me explain why.
I believe there are two types of people in this world; those who are wrapping-gifted (not rapping gifted necessarily), the category A wrappers, and then there are those like me, severely wrapping-challenged would be the PC term. Wrapping is like some impossible dark mysterious art to me. It starts with the paper….
Possibly my 30 year old scissors are blunt, or maybe it’s the $1 rolls of wrapping paper I buy from The Reject Shop. (Yes, there is actually a shop here called that. I’m not sure if the name is aimed at the products or the customers like me 😉) Don’t see the point of spending money on paper that will be thrown out in a few days’ time when it could be better spent on something to benefit humanity, like camera equipment 😊 Anyway, I see the Cat A’s cut paper with perfectly straight edges, seemingly easy. Mine looks like I have hacked at it with a wood saw while drunk & blindfolded! And that’s if it doesn’t rip, which it inevitably does. Then there is “the wrap”, horrifying ordeal. How do people make origami swans when I find it next to impossible to fold a piece of paper around a perfectly symmetrical rectangle box? (My family only get rectangular presents, they are hard enough to wrap, any other shaped present is out sorry) This results in one of two outcomes generally. The first being the paper doesn’t quite reach around the present somewhere. In this case you have to stick a “band-aid patch” of paper over the gap. I generally try and use the same paper so it’s not so obvious. You are welcome for that tip 😊 The other outcome is you misjudge the amount of paper needed and you need to wrap it around the present about 4 times. The present is generally looking like a mutant pinata at this stage, On to the next battle, the dreaded Sticky Tape.
I’m sure they pay scientists money to make sticky tape rolls with no discernible edges. They should call it Salvador Dali tape! After spending an hour on average trying to find the edge of the tape I generally give up & try to find someone fingernail-gifted who magically always seem to find the edge in seconds. It's usually at this the fingernail-gifted one will say something like "for goodness sakes give it here & I'll do it; a 5 year can wrap better than you" If that doesn't work and you have to do it yourself, like for example if it's the fingernail-gifted one's present, then handy hint - stick half a dozen pieces of tape on your arm for ease of access,
Then, the Final Wrap. Unless you were born double-jointed, or are a contortionist this is tricky. It’s like that old of game of Twister. Right hand – yellow, or edge of the wrapping, left leg - top of present to hold it still. Nose on top of present holding paper in place. Whatever appendage you have left to get a bit of tape off your arm. Even smarmy Cat A, fingernail-gifted contortionists must struggle here. You pull the tape off your arm, ignoring the pain as it rips your arm hairs out (your arm may be numb anyway from the unnatural positions it it’s been in from Wrapping Twister) If you actually manage to get a piece of tape onto the paper before it sticks to itself and is completely useless, you start feeling like you might be starting to see the finish line in sight. The hairs from your arm stuck to the sticky tape give the present an authentic, artistic look I reckon, a personal touch. The game continues, left hand green, right foot present, now using mouth to get tape off the arm.
Then suddenly, with much amazement, you realise you are done! Your body starts to slowly bend back into its normal shape. And the wrapped present is there in all its glory! Looking like a FedEx package that has spent the last 10 years on a desert island with Tom Hanks. You proudly put it under the Christmas tree amongst all the other Cat-A wrapped presents. I always feel quite attached to them by now after all we have been through together. Your special enemy-become-friend present, now called Wilson. And the beauty is no one will guess it’s your present! Although the hairy rectangle bandaided looking pinata may give the more astute ones a clue 😉
Happy macro Monday, and happy wrapping out there !
Our incredible canine companion gifted to us by his previous owner seen here keeping a close eye on me while taking photos.
We are fortunate to have been given this thoughtful creature who had saved John (his previous owner).
This dog was John's PTSD dog and watched over John so that he could now feel safe and relax after his traumatic military service having lost three friends during one Christmas period from his military unit.
John was understandably after this experience struggling with the loss of his Australian brothers in arms.
John's commanding officer wisely advised John after this experience to get a dog as a companion as he feared he may end up dead.
So a few months after this advice John went to a dog rescue center and was not sure what sort of dog he needed when a little nine month old Boofy came over to John with his then tortured soul.
Boofy looked into John's eyes, wrapped his little front puppy legs around his arm and would not let go and John realized he had found the right dog and canine soul brother and left with young Boofy after paying some veterinary fees and doing the new ownership paperwork.
9 years later John collapsed from an infection in his house. Boofy refused to let John go to sleep as he sensed he would possibly not wake up again.
Boofy ended up jumping on John as he lay on the floor to stop him falling asleep and finally John realized in his daze that he had to phone for an ambulance for help and he then passed out.
The ambulance guys had to break into John's house and Boofy led these guys to John.
Subsequently when John woke up in hospital
he was very aware that he had been asked in effect to phone for help before being allowed to pass out as the Doctors had told John he was definitely about to die from sepsis.
This dog is an Australian cattle dog X German boxer cross.
You may notice the Bentley star on his forehead.
My son and nephew are proud to call this wonderful creature their wolf brother.
Boofy can now relax with our family where he just wanders around the garden at will and bothers the birds and lizards, just doing doggy things in his later years now and enjoys our family outings.
John, his previous owner phones up regularly to ask how Boofy is going and we send John photos.
He is very happy that Boofy can just be a dog and relax and not feel obligated to care for John now and that in itself is a sign of incredible strength and compassion on John's behalf.
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Maas Vlakte 2 Port of Rotterdam
AIS Name EVER GIFTED
Type Container ship
Flag Singapore
IMO 9786827
MMSI 563068900
Callsign 9V5825
Year Built 2018
Length 399 m
Width 59 m
Draught Avg 13.4 m / ...
Speed Max / 24.2 kn
Deadweight 198886 tons
Gross Tonnage 219352
AIS Class A
Cargo Capacity
Capacities
TEU: 20,388 incl 1500 ref C
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Gifted to the city in 1879 by the master brewer, MP and philanthropic giant, Michael Bass.
Yep, you don’t get those qualities in politicians these days.
Sold off by the cash-strapped city council (probably due to underuse, thank you internet), it’s now a wedding and function venue. At least it’s not a tattoo parlour or a vape shop.
St. Martin of Tours Parish
Diocesan Shrine of Mahal na Poon ng Krus sa Wawa
Bocaue, Bulacan
Thank you Jerome de Jesus of Plumaria Sacred Vestments, Noy Viudez and Tina Asiado.
Special thanks also to Ronillo Mariano for the tassels you gifted the Blessed Mother! :-)
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The Holy Family Sculpture
New Post Chapel
Ft Sill, OK
***Note: Clarity edit in Flickr Photo Editor
Larry's Creek near Salladasburg, Pennsylvania
I couldn't tell if these shots were turning out okay until I got home and put them on the computer, and increased the light. Then, wow! I'm so glad I didn't get discouraged by my dark display on my camera.
This is the best year we've had for colorful leaves for quite some time...at least since I discovered photography and was gifted with such wonderful equipment.
Thank you, Guardian Angel! :D
Head jewel: :: ANTAYA :: Head jewelry "Amira" (at The Epiphany)
Head: Lelutka Avalon
Skin: Poema RAHRA - JUSTINE
Hair: TRUTH Kaijah (VIP group gift)