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Flickr changed the look of its page some weeks ago but promising both versions would be available so we can choose. For Admins of groups this was important... to be able to choose because the new version makes life of Admins to look after groups cumbersome! Flickr of course sacked the former version totally and there is no hope it would be reversed. Looking after groups is a hobby but it should not be a complicated chore! As it stands as of today....it has become a task with lots of time involved if you aim for a good managed group.
Flickr is probably not interested in an active-group-activities.... but rather in : shoot - post - fave or not - run!
Why not go to FB or Instagram instead.....??
Under these new Flickr circumstances.... I shall not put all my effort in running groups. I will check the waiting list and according to the group's rules accept/decline photos.
I will NOT anymore invite photos.... if you feel like contributing to a group, pls do so.
Frustrated about broken promises by Flickr :-(
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Looks like a bit of mending is in order?……
#ANSH scavenger1 loose ends…..
Here I go being very literal again!
Technically speaking, your camera lens isn't truly broken in until it has been kissed by an alpaca. Today at LooseEnds Alpaca Farm. Her name is Sonya.
Still working on tying up some loose ends, and coming to the realization that I'm probably never going to get completely caught up with everything that needs doing.
To those who have asked, (thank you!) I am doing well, just very-very busy with "stuff" on the home front. Hope all of you are doing well, too, and have a wonderful rest of the week!
And now... I'm off to hopefully get my dinner cooked before American Idol comes on.... Gooooo Adam!!!
Last week, I was privileged in learning how to make a ribbon skirt. I haven't touched a sewing machine since junior high school. and it showed. Four hours wasn't long enough to complete this project so I will have to return to complete it.
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Come, ride with me. I know where you've never been.
Seen at Mehta Motors in Elmhurst, IL
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This is a crochet stitch called the cat stitch! I thought I'd try a few rows to see how it would look. It really DOES look like rows of cats! It was fun to pick a few different colors. The black row is for my friend Crow's cat Tippy and the grey is her cat Merry. The white is Billy's little white cat and the tan row is for my friend Alison's cat Teddy. Wouldn't this make an adorable scarf!
ANSH137: 1. Unfinished or loose ends
I was at a loose end so I started knitting a scarf from all the odds and ends in my wool bag, these are some of the loose ends that haven't been sewn in.
“I have lived one more year on this planet. Today I´m four – a grown up thinking dog. And for my birthday I would like my human friends to regard their own loose ends with generous affection. And, as they do so, I wish they take a deep breath to free themselves from the past and from the future. My dear human friends, be attentive today. And live each moment of your lives with joy and responsibility.” Flô.
“Vivi mais um ano neste planeta. Completo quatro anos hoje – sou um cachorro adulto e pensante. Pelo meu aniversário, gostaria que meus amigos humanos encarassem suas pontas inacabadas com generosa afeição. E, ao fazê-lo, desejo que respirem profundamente para que se livrem do passado e do futuro. Queridos amigos humanos, estejam atentos hoje. E vivam cada momento de suas vidas com alegria e responsabilidade.” Flô
OK, the thing is that my dearest hubby loves desserts and cakes and remembers everyone's (and I really mean everyone's) birthdays, so we celebrate them regardless of if we're actually with them or not. I made this cake for my sister-in-law's birthday last week, who lives in Bangalore and celebrated her birthday with lots of family and friends around her.
I love blueberries and this came out really tasty. This piece broke as I took it out of the pan too soon. So impatient in waiting for it to cool :-)
Recipe from my flickr friend looseends.
PS: I was not able to find fresh blueberries. I went from store to store to look for them and bought several jars of blueberry yogurt just in case I couldn't find them. Eventually, I found frozen blueberries and used them in this.
Having a new sweater to wear is a great way to fight off the mid-winter blahs.
We have actually had lots of sun, however, I am antsy for some fresh snow.
I did some tinkering with the pattern. Details here.
The yarn is DIC Spring Tickle. I am picky when it comes to superwash but this one I love.
Having a new sweater to wear is a great way to fight off the mid-winter blahs.
We have actually had lots of sun, however, I am antsy for some fresh snow.
I did some tinkering with the pattern. Details here.
The yarn is DIC Spring Tickle. I am picky when it comes to superwash but this one I love.
Loose Ends - Sinead Lohan
tie up loose ends
darling baby's heart is broken
as the road bends
look at all you are becoming
stretch your calling
way beyond where distance finds you
what is calling
now must take you to the harbour
i trouble all the time
but in lines
i stand up to be strong
and i meet you
in the green
and in the blue
and in the wanting to belong
all of us do really love you
you are surrounded
you can come out now
it is time to be unburdened
stretch your calling
way beyond where distance takes you
what is calling
now must take you to the harbour
i trouble all the time
but in lines
i stand up to be strong
and i meet you
in the green
and in the blue
and in the wanting to belong
we are connected to others
through a tapestry of place and time.
before us are the ancestors - of all living things
and earth forms.
beside us are family, friends, the global community
and all that grows and exists.
after us is the future we help to (hope to) honor, create and preserve.
loose ends are not things left unaccounted for -
at least, they don't have to be.
give them purpose.
like hands reaching out
or a rope thrown to a drowning person,
they are available and willing
to any being who needs them.
creating ties where none existed before.
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I love the quiet that follows Christmas and have enjoyed a few days off from work.
I am even managing to sleep past 4 am! Maybe getting more sleep was all it took to get my finishing mojo back.
I have more last projects of 2009 to post...
Due to a heavy storm the road was covered with loose tree ends like this. I couldn't resist the temptation to pick this one up and take it home.
Great Finborough, Suffolk
teenage dreams so hard to beat
Everytime she walks down the street
Another girl in the neighbourhood
Wish she was mine, she looks so good
I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night
- John O'Neill, The Undertones, Teenage Kicks, 1978
I wandered around to the west side of the tower, and looked out across the valley to Buxhall. There are number of 19th century gravestones here, and one modern one. This is to the radio presenter John Peel, who lived in Great Finborough, and died of a heart attack while on holiday in Peru in 2004. For someone of my generation, a teenager at the end of the 1970s, Peel assumed almost a Messiah status. He was like a touchstone for the emerging alternative culture, at a time when it was simply very difficult to hear any music which was not part of the bland mainstream.
Listening to his late night show on Radio One, we heard the exciting punk and new wave bands for the first time, and were introduced to the reggae, folk and electronic music that would otherwise have passed us by. But more than that, we made a connection, and were rescued because of it. To listen to Peel playing music was to hear him discovering it for himself; a clever trick perhaps, but it meant something to a fifteen year old. He was the still point of a turning world which would have been quite different without him. He was a catalyst.
Part of the rock culture of the late seventies was the enthusiasm with which young people, although often unable to play a note, would form bands and try to release records. By the early 1980s, his role as the mediator for the left field of popular music was being taken on by others away at Radio One and elsewhere, but still he was the first port of call for these undiscovered bands. I remember talking to him once at a show he did in Sheffield, when I was working for the student newspaper. We chatted about the emerging scene in the city. He showed me a box which was full of cassette tapes. "See these?" he said. "These are just the ones I've been given since I got to Sheffield this morning."
I can't honestly say I listened to him much after about 1990, and I only ever heard his Radio 4 programme once or twice (what was it called?) but by then his work was done. No doubt the tapes and CDs kept coming.
His grave now is a mound of flowers, some of them recent. I bent down to read a few of the messages, and saw that, among them, some hopeful band had left him a home-produced CD. Even in death, he can't escape. This made me smile.
After I moved to Suffolk, I met him a few times at parties. We had friends in common. I found him difficult to talk to. He didn't suffer fools gladly, and perhaps he thought I was one, for he always presented me with a rather cynical, jaded face. They say you should never meet your heroes, for then you see them as they really are. But thirty five years ago, his voice spoke to me as no other did, or has since.
More about Great Finborough churchyard here.
This is an alpaca named Sonja. A special thanks to Andy and Debbie at LooseEnds Alpaca Farm near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota for letting me photograph some of their beautiful Alpacas. What fun, unique and magnificent animals!
This is the Turkish Bed Sock, a pay pattern that I discovered on Ravelry.
They go especially well with my old stretched out pair of Danskos that I wear while gardening and doing errands. The socks make them fit better.
The pattern takes only one skein of Koigu. I happen to have a small stash of single skeins of Koigu and have already started making another pair.
It has been nice to wear a bit of wool during the summer.
I heard about the idea for these socks on a Knitpicks podcast.
The sole of the sock is knit in reverse stockinette so that the smooth side of the fabric is against the feet and toes resulting in greater comfort on long walks.
I admit that when I do my walks, I reach for my Smart Wool socks (I feel like a traitor!). I am hoping that these socks will be as comfortable.
These are made from Smooshy, a favorite yarn of mine!