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This log, located on the bank of the South Pond at the Metcalf, is a popular resting spot for the various ducks and geese that frequent the Pond...
these log pencil cases made by Tati Schmidt are now available for sale at highinthebay.bigcartel.com
Unfortunately, I'm not 100% sure of the location of this saw mill. My GPS wasn't working when I took this photo. I'm pretty sure it's somewhere between Fort Saint John and Whitecourt.
In a rather strange LMS style livery, Class 50 no.50017 passes Narroways Hill Junction, Bristol with a Northern Belle Special from Bath Spa to Manchester on the 22nd July 2000.
I have never gone out of my to take to pictures of 'Logs' but this came along between the Brush on 1M38 and 1M25 so I pressed the shutter. Little did I know that it would be a rare shot as this loco worked only on a few occasions on the mainline in this livery. The overgown 'siding' to the right is the Severn Beach passenger branch!
Log bowls by Loyal Loot Collective, Canada.
Stubbskålar från Loyal Loot Collective, Kanada. Tillverkade av överblivet material vid träfällning, svarvade och lackade.
Water surges by with incredible force, but not enough to take this log any further down the river than right here. Maybe later in the season with some heavy rains, it will be enough to get this log a bit further downstream.
A shorter, longer exposure.
:-)
Here we go again with an extract from the first half of August 1971
This offering is mainly from attendance at ATC annual camp which in this case was at the then RAF Bicester in Oxfordshire which was an MU (Maintenance Unit).
Noted out on the airfield was Handley Page Hastings WD490 along with ten of Oxford University Air Squadron's Chipmunks. More would be noted as the week went on.
One hangar was a veritable treasure trove containing various historic RAF airframes - not least the Avro Lancaster R5868 which had been on Scampton's gate and that ended up on display in the RAF Museum at Hendon.
David Cains' father photographed her when at Scampton here: www.flickr.com/photos/ayronautica/34227341423/in/photolis... )
No less than seven Spitfires were there too - some will ring bells with those of you that keep an eye such gems, not least K9942 - now in the RAF Museum at Cosford ( Chris England saw her at Abingdon for the 50th Anniversary of the RAF: www.flickr.com/photos/chrisengland/18273520700/in/photoli... )
Lightning F.6 XR752 was also there - roaded in as Bicester was a grass field - not sure why it was there now but it returned to service not long after (see: Les Rodgers superb shot of here here:
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A 'Red Arrows' painted Gnat T.1 XM693 was also in there but it was never a 'Team' member afaik.
A trip out to Old Warden found many of the airframes that still exist and some that are now back in the air, one being Sea Hurricane Z7015 (seen moire recently after rebuild: www.flickr.com/photos/29288836@N00/40152503003/in/photoli... )
plus Spitfire PL983, and the Comet Racer G-ACSS, then non-flying but since painstakingly rebuilt to fly as here: www.flickr.com/photos/29288836@N00/21379718863/in/photoli...
The wonderful Bristol Fighter D8096 was also there
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On the 2nd of August we were out on the airfield taking Air Experience Flights in Chipmunks when overhead flew Royal Navy Fairey Gannet T.5 XG882 (incorrectly logged as 382)
(See Simon Brooke's photo here - though she's in a sorry state but still alive: www.flickr.com/photos/133813370@N04/50136638778/in/photol... )
Later on we went by RAF coach to nearby RAF Upper Heyford for a visit to the USAF's 20th TFW where we were shown around the Hangars, the Control Tower and taken by coach around the perimeter track to view then then 'new' USAF F-111E's Aardvarks - then mostly parked outside as in those days the HAS Shelters had yet to be built!
Sadly no photo's were allowed on base bar those taken from the Tower but eight years later I caught 68-0023 at a Greenham Common show: www.flickr.com/photos/29288836@N00/15660471069/in/photoli...
On that visit - immaculate USAF Convair 51-7901 was parked near the Tower: www.flickr.com/photos/29288836@N00/15089277107/in/photoli... and their base SAR Flight Kaman HH-43 Huskie 62-4535 was also seen (Carl Ford caught her there a year later: www.flickr.com/photos/53277566@N06/23043581636/in/photoli... )
As can be seen from the log - a full compliment of 'Swingers' were seen that day and of note are the tail codes used then: JR, JS and JT each for the three Squadron's assigned. They were eventually replaced by the common and representative code 'UH'.
A pair of USAF Flying Club Cherokees were also noted N8557 & N441J
Two days later and we visited RAF Brize Norton where nine Royal Air Force Air Support Command BAC VC-10's including XV106 which I saw at Dulles sixteen years later: www.flickr.com/photos/29288836@N00/49713608873/in/album-7...
plus twelve RAFASC Bristol Britannias including XM497 (The RAF Museum at Cosford has one painted as '497' but in reality it's an ex Civvie machine that I noted there in 2001:
www.flickr.com/photos/29288836@N00/14228263998/in/photoli... )
along with three Short Belfast transports which were all strewn around the Airfield or on the Terminal Apron.
Belfast XR367 provided some Air Experience for us that day where we spent nearly 3 hours bashing the Brize circuit - seated in a small passenger deck that was immediately behind the cockpit and being invited up to view the proceedings - we got stand behind the crew who were busy flying this Leviathan where it was quite something to experience the view from that vast cockpit!
Unfortunately, not so much so for the remainder of the cadets who'd been installed in a pallet of seats situated in the main cargo hold, between the main undercarriage where the wallowing nature of the fuselage turned many of them 'green' round the gills after a matter of just a few circuits!
(here she is two years before taken by Adrain M.Balch - from Dave Haines collection: www.flickr.com/photos/egbj/5619814695/in/photolist-2hLR9j... )
Avro Shackleton MR.2 WR955 was seen there which may have been on the dump?
The 4th saw us back doing AEF at Bicester and a USAF F-100 Super Sabre coded LT from RAF Lakenheath was noted over in Heyford's circuit. A trip in a 'Chippie' took me out cross country for an approach and overshoot at RAF Halton where outside I spotted various Instructional Airframes - amongst them - eight Sea Vixens, a number of Jet Provosts, a Canberra and a Hunter and no doubt the Comet was also seen but not noted on that trip.
RAF Hercules XV308 and a USAF HC-130H 65-0983 were noted in the area (Jim Leslie caught her beautifully Stateside the latter just 4 years later: www.flickr.com/photos/jimandtina99/31870787090/in/photoli... )
and then on the 6th - as senior NCO at the camp I pulled rank and wangled myself yet another ttrip to Heyford where I filled in several gaps of 'missing' F-111's from my previous trip!
Heading home by a fellow ATC member's VW Beetle we stopped at Heathrow where Gulfstream II N375PK was noted along with Malaysian Singapore Airline's Boeing 707 9N-BBB
At Gatwick we found Aviognex's Tupolev Tu-134 YU-AJA and then a few days later it was back to work at Heathrow via Gatwick where Caledonian Cargo B707 G-AYZZ was noted ( Carl Ford caught her there: www.flickr.com/photos/53277566@N06/16403356436/in/photoli... )
along with Gulfstream II N205M, 5Y-AHE Cessna 337, DC-8 N4906C and Westland Whirlwind G-ATIU
tbc.....
Five friends sat on a log at the end of Talapus Lake and looked at the lake. I spoke with them as they started to leave. They said this was their first hike. They were feeling quite adventurous and proud of themselves. I hope they got bitten by the hiking bug and keep coming back for more.
Our Daily Challenge 25-30 November : Makes me Happy.
I just love a real fire in my room in the evenings. I was taught how to make it and use only one match as a small girll, a skill I still have. The secret is to always have the chimney swept in the summer to maintain a strong updraught and safety.
What I thought would only take a long weekend to make has turned into a saga lasting months and months
Well, I still had a chair, which I wanted to alter, left over from the 'Covered in Knitted Carrier Bags Project'............... (Look Right at the small images) .
There was to be NO financial outlay.
I decided on a 'Made from Logs, Cartoon-Like Chair' using wrapped and sewn, recycled wool ....Yes I know....as you do !
So I set about binding the chair to effect a log-like appearance.
This took f-o-r-e-v-e-r.
Eventually i decided on the barks to imitate.
I could go on but let's just briefly say , birch and holly, for example.
Then, for the detail, I stitched knots, rings, eyes and faults. Again forever....
I don't know if it will ever quite be finished. When i look at it I think ........
I'll just introduce a scar here or a random sawn off branch there.
I don't know why either and I don't know if it's worth doing but I'm driven !!
Start the year as you mean to go on.
Another curved Log Cabin design. This little quilt is about one third of a design by Georgia Bonesteel. Many of the logs finish at half an inch, which is why I only did one third of the design :) This one is hanging right here next to my computer!
{Log of CT-7869, “Greeves”}
-Location Unknown, Time and Date Unknown
-Weeks passed in the Void–which is the name that Cesigam gave it–and we were training. It had been so long that our hair was starting to grow, and now Trez and I both sported thick brush cuts and Renner had shoulder-length, messy hair. It had been a long few weeks, and I was beginning to forget things from before we entered here.
For what, exactly, we didn’t know; he wanted us to become “one with the Force”, and to “learn to master it”. Renner was actually doing pretty well, as was Trez, who actually wasn’t that bad of a guy.
One of our training exercises involved fighting with lightsabers (how Cesigam managed to get those, I do not know) and we would fight in a valley with these massive white pillars and bridges, and Cesigam would be at the top. We would have to get him and force him down. What usually happened, and was happening today, was that we would all go for him; Renner and Trez would get up first, and fight him, while I would trail behind, then when I did get up Cesigam would knock me back down after a couple minutes.
Let me pause for a minute and tell you a few things. Okay.
The first thing is Cesigam’s story. He was a Jedi master, one of the most honoured ones of his day. There was a war going on, and he was sent to the planet we were fighitng on–I can’t remember the name offhand–and he felt a prescence in a cave. He went into the cave, expecting to find a Sith Warrior, and instead was sucked into some realm, the place he called the Void, where he had been for the last thousand years. In that time he had explored many places in it, and came to the conclusion that he was alone, except for some animals.
According to him, he could manipulate it, make it look like anything he wanted–he had full control over anything inside it, but he could not leave. Renner, Trez and I didn’t have that same power, possibly because the Sith never expected others to come in. Time didn’t affect Cesigam, so his hair didn’t grow past his shoulders, and he still looked young. He would help us shave off our beards, and told us that, eventually, our hair would stop growing.
The second thing is that he trained us in the Force. I was terrible, but Trez was good–which I expected–and, surprisingly, Renner was astonishing. He would, out of nowhere, leap into the air and twist around, spinning his lightsaber as if he had been a Jedi his whole life; which he might have been. I had noticed things about him; he looked slightly different from all the other clones, as if he had different DNA in him. That could also explain his ability to use the Force. He was acutally dressed in Jedi Robes like Cesigam, and not the mock ones Trez and I had.
“Everyone has it in them,” Cesigam reminded us that particular day of training. “You just need to unleash it.”
Anyways, we were fighting again on the pillars. Cesigam went up first, the signaled for us to follow. We began scrambling up, jumping from pillar to pillar. Once in awhile, I’d get lucky and find one with a bridge connecting it to another pillar, but I was still behind.
Trez made it to the top first, landing on a bridge near the place where Cesigam was. Trez stood there, while Renner leaped onto a pillar slightly below Cesigam. At this, Trez took off running, and Cesigam caught him unexpectedly and used the Force to push him back, almost knocking him off the bridge. Trez grabbed hold of the edge and dangled there. Renner jumped up behind Cesigam and swung his lightsaber; Cesigam blocked him just in time. Renner ducked down and rolled behind him, then popped up and flipped over Cesigam. Now he was just showing off.
I made it to the top and nervously activated my lightsaber. Cesigam dealt with Renner, kicking him squarely in the face and almost pushing him off. Renner jumped back onto a lower pillar to regain his bearings.
Here we go. It was just me and Cesigam. He sprinted at me, and I hit his lightsaber with mine. Behind him, I could see Trez beginning to stand up; he had climbed back onto the balcony.
Cesigam aimed a kick at me, which I blocked with my gauntlet; I had let some of my armour on, I wasn’t going to be completely unprotected. I swung back at him and he swerved out of the way, pushing me so that I fell down, down to a lower pillar. I landed on my shoulder and yelped with pain. I think it was dislocated. I looked up and saw Renner going at it again, twisting and swashbuckling and ducking. I felt a little jealousy; I had worked harder, hadn’t I? And I still couldn’t do it.
I turned on my lightsaber and jumped to one pillar, then the next. Soon I was at the top again. Cesigam had just kicked Renner off the bridge–literally–and was fighting Trez. I uneasily jumped onto the bridge and came up behind Cesigam. He turned, but it
was too late. I grabbed his shoulders and threw him off the bridge. I had defeated him.
He looked up at me from the pillar he had flawlessly landed on and grinned.
“We’ll make a Jedi out of you yet!”
END OF LOG
Thank you for reading! As always, the other entries can be found in my stream or in a folder titled "Sarlacc Company".
No it wasn't a typo! The nature walkway in katariinanlaakso in turku is made of logs cut in half. The walk is really soothing to walk and really beautifull both in the summer and winter. (I have a shot of it at summer too if you look a bit down) This day though it was a tad cold i must say. -20 Celcius is pretty cool..
what rolls down stairs?
falls over in pairs?
runs over your neighbor's dog?
what's great for a snack?
it fits on your back!
ITS LOG, LOG, LOG!
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I usually buy a Yule Log cake from our local bakery, sadly they didn't make them this year, so I had to make one myself.
Now I don't know if the boat was tied to the log in some way, but they looked pretty good in the water together. Maldon, Essex.