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Hello everyone,
I need your help! This darwing above took me more or less 5,5 hours to draw (not sure if that’s slow or not). This is a free commission for my friend. I’m thinking about taking paid commissions but I still can’t figure out prices. So here is my question to you. How much would you be willing to pay for a sketch like this? This is just an example.
Thanks in advance!
The squirrels and chipmunks help the ground-foraging birds (mainly Juncos and Jays) to clean up the spilled seed from the feeders. I enjoy watching them handle the small seeds... their finger dexterity is amazing! This guy is as close as that allowed by my tele lens (~6 ft.). I often have to retreat to achieve focus... after many years, these engaging rodents are now totally accepting of my presence and often crawl across my boots! I actually believe the pups learn this trust from their parents... the kids are usually even more accepting!
IMG_2314; Posing for a Portrait
Noi viviamo molto vicini. Quindi il nostro scopo della vita è aiutare gli altri. E se non potete aiutarli, almeno non fate loro del male.
-- Dalai Lama
Le mani che aiutano sono piĂą sante delle labbra che pregano.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
Do either of these girls have Saran? I couldn't tell by sticking my fingers in the back of the box, LOL. So I ended up picking them both up and if one or both of them don't have saran, I send 'em back. :)
UP 8939 is getting ready to pull forward onto the main line and have the two manned helpers attach to the rear for the climb up the Cascades.
Do you think he is angry with me?
Thank you all very much! This picture made it to Explore # 97 on dec.14 2006
Can anyone help with the ID of this one - After spending to long trying to ID it time to ask the experts.
My first thought was that it was a Ford GT Mk.2, track day version of the 2nd generation GT, but there are aerodynamic differances, the 0404 registration would alo hint at being the $ 1.7 dollar GT Mk.IV version of the same, but that looks way to different.
So if anyone can put this to rest, i would appreciate it. Shot 05.06.2021 at the June Bicester Scramble
Diolch am 82,106,519 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mae pob un yn cael ei werthfawrogi'n fawr.
Thanks for 82,106,519 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.
Shot 05.06.2021. at Bicester Heritage Centre, Bicester, Oxon. 146-238
One of about 20 Galapagos sharks circling the cage I was in on Oahu's north shore near near Haleiwa. Diving with the sharks is the most exhilarating things I've ever done. They truly are awesome creatures to watch.
This was my first attempt at underwater photography, and it was kind of difficult. Since I was only snorkeling, I didn't have any weights on to keep me stable, so I was being bumped around a lot by the current. It was also my first time using this particular camera....it also didn't help that my mask kept fogging up!
Easily a 18 inches tall. Was seen at Kitpopeke on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. It was 20 feet from the waters edge hunting ghost crabs.
Even in the mountains of West Virginia, it got VERY hot Memorial Day Weekend... So after a good walk, Pogo was pretty toasty! Conveniently, we found a nice, cool cistern to dunk him in!! (much to his dismay...) ;-)
Need help with identifying this bird. I want to say it is a lesser yellowlegs since there were both species present this morning. The bill is throwing me off, i have never seen a lesser yellowlegs with a bill like that. If anyone knows, i would appreciate it if you would let me know, Thanks!
In March 1943, about 1,000 international people living in Shanghai were interned in Chapei Civil Assembly Centre by the Japanese. As the war progressed, food rations became smaller and less varied. Many people living in the camp were helped by people living in Shanghai from countries which were neutral during WWII, like Sweden. Also Chinese employees from foreign companies sent their former colleagues food.
This photo shows a label of such a food aid package, sent by the Swedish family Asker, to the Dutch family Hennus. Mr. C.G.C. Asker worked for the Maritime Customs Service of China (as per Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China 1854 –1949 Part Three: Semi-Official Correspondence from Selected Ports by Professor Robert Bickers, University of Bristol).
The text reads:
"DONOR: Mr C G C Asker, Swedish ...
1300 Rue Lafayette
CONTENTS:
Milk powder, 12 ozs
Jam, 1 tin 12 ozs
Sugar, 2 lbs
Margarine 1 lb
Peanuts 2 lbs
Tomato sauce, 1 bot
Cocao cubes 1 pkt
Fruit drops, 3 pkt
BENEFICIARY:
Master M F Hennus, Netherlands, C.829
CHAPEI CIVIL ASSEMBLY CENTRE
4th Febr. 1944"
Chapei Civil Assembly Centre was liberated on 15 August 1945, 76 years ago today.
California Digital Newspaper Collection, Vestkusten, Number 39, 28 September 1944:
"SWEDEN PRAISED FOR ASSISTANCE IN BRINGING AID TO WAR PRISONERS. By Dr. I). A. Davis, Associate Executive Director, Y. M. C. A. Worlds Committee,
Sweden and Switzerland, spared the horrors of warfare, are doing their share to lighten the burden of war victims. These two neutral countries are cooperating with the War Prisoners Aid of the Y. M. C. A., with headquarters in Geneva and New York, in sending material aid to war prisoners and civilian internees in Europe and the Far East. The rights and privileges of more than 6,000,000 prisoners of war confined behind barbed wire throughout the world are protected by the treaty called “The Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War,” signed by 47 nations on July 27, 1920. Among other things the Geneva Convention specifies that various welfare organizations may have access to war prison camps to render certain services to prisoners; thus War Prisoners Aid, under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. World’s Committee carries on its stimulating programs of educational, recreational and religious activities among war prisoners, regardless of race, creed or nationality. The role that Sweden plays in this important services are manifold, for giving financial support as well as supplying materials for leisure-time activities. They provide also a large percentage of the personell necessary. From Sweden comes books, writing materials, lumber and other materials hardly found now in other european countries and piany of the neutral secretaries are permitted to visit war prison and internment camps. “We sail never forget what your Swedish colleague, Hoffman, did for us in England,” said a German prisoner of war to Gunnar Celander, Swedish representative of War Prisoners Aid, during a recent prisoner of war exchange between Germany and England, through Sweden. Boatloads of German prisoners from Canada, U. S. and .England, and British prisoners from Germany, docked at Trelleborg and Goteborg, while they transferred to boats waiting to take them home.
The Swedish Y. M. C. A. and Red Cross Lottas, Swedish rail roads and welfare organizations assumed a large portion of the responsibility of looking after these men— most of whom were invalided and blind during their short stay in the country. Food, travel facilities, reading matter, games, gramophones supplied with records of German and British music were made available to make the men comfortable. Crown princess Louise visited the prisoners, with representatives of the Swedish government, who officially welcomed them. Mr. Celander reported “We Swedes are happy that it was the privilege of our country to arrange this exchange of prisoners in the spirit of conciliation and kindness in the midst of the fire of conflict. I longed to share with the entire Y. M. C. A. and its secretaries the memory of the happy faces these homeward-bound prisoners and their many proofs of gratitude. All these men can testify that we were able to serve them in of their liberation. That is the highest reward and greatest encouragement for our work.” In Stockholm a War Prisoners Aid office is under the able leader their capacity as well as in' these days ship of Hugo Cedergren, Associate Director of Y. M. C. A., and National Secretary of the Swedish Y. M. C. A. Mr. Cedergren, who has visited prisoners in Europe, U. S. and Canada, said recently in America: “The spirit of prisoners is excellent. I can say that honestly from my own experience. The treatment they are receiving is correct and good.” Mrs Ceder gren is the daughter of Prince Oscar Bernadotte, brother of King Gustaf. He is honorary president of the Swedish Y. M. C. A. Pastor Carl-Erik Wenngren of the Stockholm Diocese, Associated National .Secretary of the Swedish Y. M. C. A., is now in U. S. as a neutral representative of the Ecumenical Commission for Chaplaincy Service to prisoners of war, of the World Council of Churches, and as a representative of War Prisoners Aid of the Y. M. C. A. He is visiting camps throughout America carrying the message of the church, especially to German prisoners, conducting services and other functions of a minister. Gunnar Celander, Henry Soderberg, Gunnar Janssen, O, M. Carlman and Erik Berg have been recruited from Sweden to visit war prison camps in Germany, while Bengt Hoffman carries War Prisoners Aid service to allied fliers detained in Sweden in compliance with neutrality laws. Civilan internment camps in France ares visited by mr. and Mrs. Hemming Andermo. The Swedish representative in India is Fredrik Franklin. (In the Philippine Islands, aid to prisoners of war and civilian internees is carried on under a neutral committee of Swiss, Irish, Danish, French, Belgian and Norwegian citizens, headed by Swedish Ex-Consul Helge A. Jansson, in Manila, and appointed by W. J. K. Bagge, Swedish Minister to Japan, since July 1942, chairman of neutral citizens, responsible for Y. M. C. A. services to prisoners and internees in Japan and Japanese-controlled areas. All contact between War Prisoners Aid and Japanese government are made through Stockholm. Through Minister Bagge, War Prisoners’ Aid received the first complete information about aid work in the Philippines. Final permission was given by the Japanese for the YMCA to purchase monthly in the Philippines sorely needed relief supplies for shipment to camps there in which Allied prisoners are interned. War Prisoners’ Aid service to allied war prisoners and civilian internees in Japan and Japan-held territory other than the Philippines is headed by I. P. Troedsson, Swedish Consul to Japan, assisted by N. E. Ericson of the Swedish Legation in Tokyo, under supervision of Minister Bagge. Swedish representatives of War Prisoners’ Aid make regular visits to camps in Japan are B. Gawell, John Anderson, A. Swensson and O. Pettersson, C. G. C. Asker works in Shanghai, and in Thailand, War Prisoners’ Aid service is carried to prisoners of war by F. Ehnstedt, Swedish Consul there. N. Arne Bendtz, with headquarters in Chungking, is in charge of War Prisoners Aid Services in Free China. He was responsible for taking aid not long ago to the more than two hundred German and Italian Catholic Fathers who had been interned for more than a year in the Honan Province. Traveling hundreds of miles over famine-stricken war-ridden country by car, rickshaw and on foot, climbing bleak, rugged hills, fording gushing streams, enduring scorching heat, mud and a plague of locusts, Bendtz finally reached his destination and found that the missionaries were living in dilapidated buildings, lacked essential food and clothing and faced grave financial difficulties. “For about three weeks I lived among these Catholic missionaries sharing their daily life, which I shall never forget,” wrote Bendtz in his report to Geneva. “They had suffered a lot during the past year and we came, as one said, “like an angel from Heaven, to soothe and comfort their sorrowful hearts.” “They had not met another foreigner since internment, and the concerts and speeches made in honor of the War Prisoners’ Aid representative were visible tokens of their gratitude.” Solutions to many problems facing War Prisofters’ Aid of the YMCA, a participating agency of the National War Fund, in its service to prisoners and civilian internees in Europe and the Far East, are greatly facilitated by the cooperation of Sweden.
Swedish representative of Y. M. C. A. War Prisoners’ Aid, Henry Soderberg (center), talks with prisoner and German camp official in war prison camp somewhere in Germany."
Courtesy Hennus family archives
Mr. Grigsby wasn't the only one to help sling BaRF on Thursday.
[SOOC, f/1.4, ISO 1600, shutter speed 1/400, -1/3 EV]
I have been going through my Nashville photos again this week, the flooding of that area a month after our visit there was just devastating. Not a lot of media coverage on this catastrophe since the oil spill and the unsuccessful car bomb in Times Square were more prominent on the news stations.
I can't find my Flower!
For my friends with the White stuff, or gray stuff,
or anything that does not resemble Spring ...
This little pocket of Sunshine is for You.
Happy Vernal Equinox, ya'll.
Well after our eventful couple days it worked out perfect to have Holiday help from our elves :D
(I'm so glad I made this prop in November and had a free moment this morning for pics)
I don't always (ever) return my doll's heads to their rightful bodies, so I just throw them into a storage container until I use them again.
Does anyone have better solution as to how to store my heads? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks,
Dia
these elephants looks old and forlorn, they faithfully ferry tourist up the hill top fortress daily, that day they stop operating by 10am as the heat is getting to stiffling 43C by then
"I just want to write you a letter. I have to be very honest with you right now. I don't really know how to say this... "
I wanna believe
But I'm having a hard time seeing past what I see right now, I see right now
I wanna be free
But when I try to fly I realize I don't know how, no one showed me how
Wish I could see that this mess I'm in will really work out for my good, you said it would
So, if you can hear me, can you give me a sign cause I don't feel you like I should, please if you could
My faith is almost gone, I can't hold on much longer, take this cup from me
Help me Believe
Can I believe
Let Me believe
I wanna believe
I'm no good on my own, please give me another chance
It's hard to believe in what I can't see
To give you my will cause you're what's better for
You can look in my eyes and see I wanna believe, believe, believe, believe
(I want you to know)
I wanna believe
If I never hear I'm sorry I can let it go, gotta let you go
Cause, it's killing me. Jesus you know how it feels cause you've been hurt before, don't wanna hurt no more
I'm trying to hear you speak, but my heart is growing weaker, take this cup from me
Help me Believe
Can I Believe
Let me Believe
I wanna Believe
I've been here before and can't take that hurt again
It's hard to believe in what I can't see
To give you my will cause you're what's better for
You can look in my eyes and see I wanna believe, believe, believe, believe
Believe
Believe
I wanna believe when I close my eyes on this side I'll wake up with you, more in love with you
And, and finally, you will say my race it is over and my work is through, cause I believed in you
I know dark nights will come and some days there'll be no sunshine and you're too far to see
An ex PRR SD-45 and an ex EL SD-45-2 pushing a mixed freight up the hill at Benny, just east of Gallitzin, PA. February 15, 1981
The Santa Helpers II collection is here for the December round of the Arcade!
I hope you enjoy! ❤️️
â—¦ 15 Commons
â—¦ 3 Rares (1 is an avatar)
◦ ✅modify ❎copy ✅transfer
â—¦ Materials Enabled
Event Location: đź“Ś The Arcade (opens at midnight December 1st!)
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‼️ After the event ends, this gacha will be available for play at our in-world store, along with the other collections from previous rounds.
Store Location: đź“Ś Mutresse
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I am going to try to add an original Mandala each day. It helps keep me calm at my age !
This will be on top of the photo and graphic image each day. The Mandala will be an extra graphic.
I make my own black black and white backgrounds that I then painstakingly fill shape after shape with a different frame. If anyone wants to use these background I can send a set of those direct to you. Contact me by email.
Mindfulness rules OK !
( look through the Mandalas Gallery )