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Early one morning last week my partner in small crimes and I stopped at a Kwik Trip convenience store on our way out of town, bought an apple fritter (wife) and a couple of cherry turnovers (wife’s friend) to go with our thermos of coffee and took off to mosey through some sparsely populated areas of Kanabec County.
Minnesota has some varied topography and one of our favorite drives is through rolling landscapes with large trees, tall grasses and dotted with wetland ponds.
Spurred on by the false energy provided by a sugar high and caffeine, we passed this unusual looking barn and old silo set just off a gravel road. I slowed to a stop and reversed back to an opening at the beginning of the farm lane to get a better shot. If I was braver, I would have driven up and walked around the barn to get photos of it as the uniqueness of its structure topped off by the tin cupola stirred my interest.
But it was the silo that held my attention. Unless I am mistaken, this is a rare century-old Hoop Silo that appears to have successfully weathered the passing of time.
When silos first became prevalent in Minnesota in the late 1800s, they were built with wood. The initial style of building square silos gradually evolved to round ones like the one in the photo.
But inherent in wooden silos that were not round was the prevalence of silage spoilage in the corners as well as an inability to make wooden silos airtight to keep the silage from freezing solid in the winter. As ceramic and cement silos were introduced, interest waned in wooden silos and few remain today.
Hoop silos were also not too popular as they required a slow, meticulous building process. Long planks of wood that matched the diameter of the silo were first soaked in water and then bent horizontally around a frame and allowed to dry which created a large hoop.
The silo walls then were built from these circular hoops that were stacked together. One method of constructing hoop silos had these round hoops spaced about 3” apart and layers of tongue-and-groove flooring were nailed on both the interior and exterior of the hoops and held together by metal bands on the exterior. These metal bands had to be adjusted periodically to keep the silo upright.
Because of Minnesota’s challenging winters and the need for cattle feed throughout the winter, silos quickly became very popular. By 1895 there were an estimated 50,000 small silos in our state and by 1903 that number had increased to over 300,000. When concrete silos took over, the size of silos increased so that the total number of silos in Minnesota by the Great Depression had dropped to less than 40,000.
(Photographed in Kanabec County, MN)
This hooper was one of several street performers at this years first 'First Friday Art Walks' in Portland, Maine. I took lots of photos and I hope some good ones. The main event was a parade of music along Congress Street led by violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain best known as DBR. More to come.
Strobist - Exposure set manually at 1/125 and f18, and one Speedlite EX430 II on full power handheld off the camera and fired using the ST-E2.
Macro set up -extension tubes - aperture stopped down to f18 then pressed down DoF preview button while removing lens to keep the aperture stopped down prior to fitting the extension tubes.
On Explore : Highest position: 250 on Saturday, August 8, 2009
A re-post from one year ago. I am in the midst of a much delayed task of setting up backup for my photos. It is amazing how long it takes to backup 4 tb of data--think days.
This is Nikki Hunt of the Nikki Hunt Band doing one of her many 'hooping' routines as part of her band's two hour performance in Winthrop, Maine at Norcross Point Playground. See my short video of part of this performance with four hoops. To clarify, her hooping was only on one song; she is the featured vocalist for her band. Hooping is an added attraction.
Her band does covers and is very good with a tight sound and good audience appeal
Hooping (also called hula hooping or hoop dance) generally refers to manipulation of and artistic movement or dancing with a hoop (or hoops). Hoops can be made of metal, wood, or plastic. Hooping combines technical moves and tricks with freestyle or technical dancing. Hooping can be practiced to or performed with music. In contrast to the classic toy hula hoop, modern hoopers use heavier and larger diameter hoops, and frequently rotate the hoop around parts of the body other than the waist, including the hips, chest, neck, shoulders, thighs, knees, arms, hands, thumbs, feet, and toes. The hoop can also be manipulated and rotated off the body as well. Modern hooping has been influenced by art forms such as rhythmic gymnastics, hip-hop, freestyle dance, fire performance, twirling, poi, and other dance and movement forms.
Hooping is a physical dexterity activity that has been described as a part of flow arts, and a form of object manipulation. It is sometimes described as a form of juggling. [Wikipedia]
At the carnival parade in Mödling near Vienna
I can still vividly remember my young teenage aunts trying out hula hoops in the courtyard of my grandparents' house at the end of the 1950s, when I was still at kindergarten or had just started school. Hula hooping was all the rage at the time and my young aunts were very open to anything that was modern.
ODC-Starts With The Letter H
We were out quite early this morning to play with Shizandra. We were trying to beat the heat. It's going to be 91'F here today, whew!
I made this clock using Ali's tutorial: www.asquaredw.com/2011/02/embroidery-hoop-clock-tutorial....
blogged @ www.dreamfctry.blogspot.com
ODC-Vivid Colours
The backyard is covered in colourful maple leaves. The sun was shining so I had to get out and take some photos before they all fall off the trees.
Another snippet of'Hoop-La' by Alice Aycock.
'Beyond Limits 2014', Chatsworth, Derbyshire, UK.
My Chatsworth album.
Samantha framing herself perfectly in this slightly long exposure effort.
Strobe work: Nikon SB-910 camera left from roughly 45 degrees and SB-900 behind Sam at about 45degrees. Both triggered with Phottix Odins and set on rear curtain flash.
for video see www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT6ONfXxGf4
For Sarasota videos see: www.areaguides.com/sarasota-beautiful-people-and-events
For lots of Hoop Dancing videos see: www.areaguides.com/hoop-dancers
Another testing shot with the dx7360, taken a while back but just salvaged off a drive I had since removed.
La foto no les hace justicia, pero bueno...
Por una cosa o por otra, aunque me encantaban estos pendientes me daba pereza ponerme con ellos... hasta que ayer, por fin me decidi! Como se que soys unas cuantas por ahi a las que tambien os cuesta poneros con ellos animaros, que se hacen muy rapidito y son muy agradecidos!
El que lleva los tupis Ruby fue el primero, hasta que no llegue el pedido se queda sin pareja...
Voorhout, NL
Some background info (translated from the Wikipedia):
"Hoop Doet Leven (=Life is Hope) is a polder mill in Voorhout. Originally, this ground sailer was located in Rijnsburg, where it was built for the drainage of the Kamphuizen polder. The mill has an iron paddle wheel outside the mill, which is half covered.
Due to the expansion of the Flora flower auction, there was no room for the mill. In 1999 the mill was therefore moved to the polder Elsgeest, where it was put into operation on 11 November 2000. The mill now binds the Elsgeest polder on a voluntary basis. Remarkable detail: Hoop Doet Leven became the property of the Rijnlandse Molenstichting when the mill hung half a meter above the ground. At that time, the mill was no longer real estate and was therefore subject to a more favorable tax rate.
The mill has the status of a national monument. Hoop Doet Leven can usually be visited on Saturdays between 12:00 and 15:00."
Project: 100 Windmills - This is number 3
Bit of a plain evening sky, I should cycle back there when there are more interesting clouds maybe.
At the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
The Hooper Strait Lighthouse, now standing on Navy Point, was originally built in 1879 to light the way for boats passing through the shallow, dangerous shoals of Hooper Strait, a thoroughfare for boats bound from the Chesapeake Bay across Tangier Sound to Deals Island or places along the Nanticoke and Wicomico Rivers. As a “screwpile” lighthouse, it is built on special iron pilings which were tipped with a screw that could be turned into the muddy bottom for a depth of 10 feet or more. The Museum’s lighthouse is the second lighthouse constructed at Hooper Strait – the first one was destroyed by ice in 1877.
In the 1960s the Coast Guard had taken to removing the houses from the old screw-pile lights in order to cut maintenance costs and avoid vandalism; a skeleton tower would then be erected on the old foundation. The Hooper Strait Light was slated to be so treated in 1966, but the newly founded Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum arranged with the Historical Society of Talbot County and the federal government to have the light moved to its campus instead. The light was sliced in half at its eaves, and the two pieces of the house were barged to St. Michaels, where they were reassembled on a newly constructed foundation on Navy Point. This was the first successful preservation effort of its kind in the bay, laying a precedent for the removal and preservation of the Drum Point and Seven Foot Knoll lights. The light remains a showpiece of the museum and a landmark on the St. Michaels waterfront.
cbmm.org/exhibitions/permanent-exhibitions/hooper-strait-...
The Museum is well worth a visit. Yesterday we met some folks vacationing in the US from the Netherlands- they were fascinated by the lighthouse, if not so much by our heat!
Hoopers Island Lighthouse was built in 1902. It is 63 ft. high, with a range of 9 miles. This lighthouse is known as a "sparkplug" lighthouse, with its round tower. The lighthouse contains a watch room and a lantern on top. In the 1930s, a fog horn was added to the lighthouse to help make its presence known to mariners. The lighthouse was not automated until the 1960s. The lighthouse currently uses a solar-powered lamp because the original Fresnel lens was stolen in 1976.
The orange color on this eggplant background is a cotton lame, it has iridescent gold threads in the weave lending a beautiful sheen to this quilted fiber art piece framed in a fabric wrapped embroidery hoop.
The technique used to make this is called reverse applique, which means the shapes are cut out of the black fabric and the patterned fabric is placed behind it. A layer of batting is put behind it all and then machine stitched around all the shapes with the beautiful sheen of rayon embroidery thread.
Stitching this panel for the embroidery hoop was really very enjoyable. I loved embroidering all the different patterns on the flower pots and tried to imagine what such a collection would look like in real life! It is a pattern by Bustle and Sew from England. I also learned a few new stitches!
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Diese Stickarbeit hat viel Spaß gemacht. Am meisten haben mir die verschiedenen Muster auf den Blumentöpfen gefallen. Hab mir versucht vorzustellen wie eine solche Kollektion in Wirklichkeit aussehen würde. Das Stickmuster stammt von Bustle and Sew aus England. Nicht nur hat es Spaß gemacht, ich habe auch noch einige neue Stiche dazu gelernt.
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This is where we grow all our delicious goodies that we eat all summer, yum!