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Macro Monday
Theme: EDC ( Everyday Carry )
Excluding Wallet, Keys
and mobile phone.
Size: Less than 3x3 inches
View enlarge to see the filtration fibre patterns.
This subject would not be an EDC during pre-Covid time in most countries. Maybe so in some Asian countries like Japan and China.
But now it is an EDC. One you feel uncomfortable not having when you leave home, ie A Mask.
I crunched this mask up with a paper clip and hang it in front of a table lamp with an incandescent LED globe.
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My latest astro image, an interesting region of the sky in the constellation Cassiopeia, this includes the Lobster Claw Nebula, The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635), the open cluster M52 and the Northern Lagoon Nebula (NGC 7538)
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DADDY: "Are you settling in well, Edgar and Benjamin?"
EDGAR: "Oh yes, Daddy!"
BENJAMIN: "Thank you Daddy!"
DADDY: "That's good, my darlings! I am pleased to hear that."
BENJAMIN: "It's especially lovely when we get to take tea together."
EDGAR: "And enjoy such delicious macarons!" *Licks lips with cute little pink bear tongue.*
BENJAMIN: "Grumbly tummy, Daddy! Grumbly tummy!" *Rubs tummy vigorously.*
EDGAR: "Grumbly tummy, Daddy! Grumbly tummy!" *Rubs tummy vigorously.*
DADDY: "Oh dear!"
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 17th of January is "plush toys", which is the perfect theme for me, as I have a lovely collection of soft plush bears who quite enjoy being in front of my camera and under my lens. Both made by Merrythought Bears in Ironbridge, Shropshire, Edgar and Benjamin are the two latest additions to my ever burgeoning bear family. I hope you like my choice of bears for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile.
This beautiful Willow Pattern nursery tea set was made in England by the Shell China Company in the 1920s. It features four cups and saucers as well as a tea pot, coffee pot, milk jug and sugar bowl. Each piece is gilt edged and decorated with the Willow Pattern in blue, just like the life-size equivalent. It has two sister sets: a 1920s Shell China Company nursery rhyme tea set that I was given as a gift some years ago by a close friend who knows I collect nursery ware and children’s tea sets and a faerie tale set from the 1930s Shell China Company faerie tale tea set that I have built up from various sellers over time.
Handmade at Merrythought in England from warm-gold tousled mohair plush, Edgar is a cheerful companion who has terracotta pure cotton velvet paws, and wears a delightful floral cotton bow tie. He is number 2 of a limited worldwide edition of 200.
Benjamin is made by Merrythought in England too. A friendly character, he has been handmade from soft, caramel-coloured mohair plush featuring a chocolate-coloured base that beautifully complements his pure wool felt paws. He wears a traditional, satin-lined waistcoat made from the finest British tweed and secured with brass studs. He is number 110 of a limited worldwide edition of 150.
just created this adorable look with my latest skin release ND/MD EWA.
Im wearing Lelutka Avalon head w. Legacy Perky mesh body.
ND/MD Vinx shape available
Hair from Monso
Stylecard included w. Shape!
The second time I've caught this service and a better location and shot than first attempted. I first visited here yesterday and thought it would be a good spot for this train and alllow me to catch the 56 shortly after. Even this spot isn't long enough for the train.
The latest variety of daffodils to bloom in my garden. For the first time I can remember, my earliest daffodils are still looking great. In past years, shortly after they would bloom, we would get very hot Santa Ana winds that would just decimate the flowers. This year, some of us are complaining that it's cold, but not the daffodils.
this cute guy will hang out on the screened in porch for the season - looks nice from the front yard
It's that time of the year again. Hiawatha #336 arrives Chicago behind the class Amtrak B32-8WH which is subbing for a Charger that shit out a few days prior. The searchlight installations at the east end of Morgan Street were installed in the early 1980s.
Real estate development has exploded in the West Loop over the past decade. The Fulton Labs on the right were completed last year, and 345 N. Morgan on the left was completed a few months ago (still under construction when this picture was taken). The latter was built by Sterling Bay which is also overseeing the redevelopment of the former ADM flour mill. What you see here is only a fraction of what's to come to the West Loop in the next few years.
Colourful scooters - Alicante, Spain
As many of you may already know:
Mods and rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of the early/mid 1960s to early 1970s. Media coverage of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youth, and the two groups became widely perceived as violent, unruly troublemakers.
The rocker subculture was centred on motorcycling, and their appearance reflected that. Rockers generally wore protective clothing such as black leather jackets and motorcycle boots.
The mod subculture was centred on fashion and music, and many mods rode scooters. Mods wore suits and other cleancut outfits, and preferred 1960s music genres such as soul, rhythm and blues, ska, beat music, and British blues-rooted bands like The Who, The Yardbirds, and Small Faces.
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#6, the eastbound California Zephyr, splits a pair of DRGW-era intermediates near Cisco, Utah behind a P42DC in Phase 7 livery leading.
Wearing the latest blue and white paint scheme, a westbound Conrail piggyback train with four engines up front gets their signal from the operator at ALTO and starts their journey westbound over the mountain.
CR 3370. Altoona, PA.
August 1979. Photpgrapher unknown.
Adam Klimchock collection.
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Latest face, so effortless
Your great arrival at my eyes,
No one standing near could guess
Your beauty had no home till then;
Precious vagrant, recognise
My look, and do not turn again.
Admirer and admired embrace
on a useless level, where
I contain your current grace,
You my judgement; yet to move
Into real untidy air
Brings no lasting tribute -
Bargains, suffering, and love,
Not this always-planned salute.
Lies grow dark around us: will
The statue of your beauty walk?
Must I wade behind it, till
Something's found - or is not found -
Far too late for turning back?
Or, if I will not shift my ground,
Is your power actual - can
Denial of you duck and run,
Stay out of sight and double round,
Leap from the sun with mask and brand
And murder and not understand?
~ Philip Larkin.
SCT intermodal 3MB9 works around Goondah curve with CSR016 and CF4430 hauling dead attached C’s 502/503/508.
SCT transferred the C class from Western Australia after a period on hire with Watco, they would be detached at Goulburn before being forward to SSR’s Cootamundra depot.
Southern Shorthaul Railroad has added the former Railfirst C’s to their ever growing locomotive fleet.
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N537CA, a Boeing 747-446F, on approach to runway 24R at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario.
The freighter was arriving as NCR685 (National Air Cargo Holdings, Inc., doing business as National Airlines) from Anchorage, Alaska.
CA = Christopher Alf, the company's founder.
Serial number 33749 began its career as JA402J with Japan Air Lines Cargo on October 26, 2004.
It was repainted in National's latest livery in July 2023 and is one of the few aircraft that wears it.
Latest release from Ahlure currently @ Designer Showcase
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Nothing better than a warm sunshine filled afternoon in the freshly bloomed flowers. Warm breeze in the air, and bird song everywhere.
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One of my latest self portraits, taken a couple months ago. My partner Kris and I wandered the foggy beaches of Pacific Rim National Park for hours, looking for the perfect drift wood/log/root system I had in mind for this creative vision. I think Kris was slightly annoyed every time he triumphantly found a big tree or tangle of roots, only for me to comment "still not big enough" and kept trudging onward into the foggy abyss. 😂 But alas! The search paid off - after a few miles of walking seemingly nowhere, as we couldn't see more than a few meters ahead through the fog, I finally saw these towering tree roots reaching toward us out of the void. It was perfect. After a few test climbs to make sure the old roots would hold, I set up my camera, put on the red dress, and climbed up to mimic the old gnarled roots, reaching into the void.
Do you see a story in this image? What does it tell you?
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