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She lived in Youngstown, Ohio and was probably in her twenties in 1941 when she started keeping scrapbooks from news and magazine stories about World War II. She may actually have worked for the newpaper in Youngstown; some of her scrapbook covers are cut from the pulp mold into which lead is poured to get the plates that print a newspaper. She is believed to have had a brother or other close relative or perhaps a lover in the service and the scrapbooks were an overt way of keeping up with HIM and with the expectation of WHEN he might come home again.
Many years later she gave them to a friend, who then many more years later gave them to one of his friends. That friend is letting me scan and post them on the internet. Here is the url to that site:
www.flickr.com/photos/15760311@N03/
I think the lady visited me last night. I have felt very intensely about these scrapbooks, the information they contain, the apparent love or concentration with which they were put together. I was drawn dramatically to them the moment I saw them. I knew they HAD to be made public.
Last night I had made my decision, the scrapbook "Italy Two" would have to be taken apart to be scanned. I used a staple remover to remove the staples holding the scrapbook together at the top and bottom of the left margin. In the center, our scrapbook lady had used something like an ice pick (there were a lot of those still around in the early 1940s) to punch a hole in the center of the left margin, then she used a piece of a shoe lace to tied with a "hard knot" as we used to call them.
I'm good at knots, I can tie them AND untie them. I learned every knot in the Boy Scout handbook and learned a lot more during my two years of seagoing activity. My fingernails are good and I'm always the guy they called on to untie hard knots, but THIS knot was giving me trouble. Nothing I did would loosen in the slightest this very tenacious knot.
I felt the lady really wanted this scrapbook to stay together. I felt her presence there with me. I relaxed a moment and silently said, "more damage will be done if I don't take the scrapbook apart AND I think it is important that these scrapbooks be put on the internet for people to see." Almost immediately the knot surrendered and I was able to untie it. I still have that one inch of black shoelace in my wallet. It will remind me of the night the scrapbook lady visited with me for just a moment.
Now, I'm off on another mission. I'm going to find someone in the Youngstown, Ohio area to try and find out who the scrapbook lady is. Is she still alive? Did she work for the Youngstown newspaper? Who was the inspiration for all that time spent on her scrapbooks? Coincidences seem to happen to me and I think I'll get one here.
I've changed the image to include the piece of shoe string. It was so tightly tied, I suspected she had tied it and then saturated it with the paste she was using to paste up the news clippings. My memory of the piece of shoe string is that it was completely black, but now I see the color it has faded to. This is the substance of which dreams are made.
Tapioca slime mold (Brefeldia maxima) deep in ints sporulating phase, with exposed capillitium.
Siatecznica okazałą (Brefeldia maxima) głeboko w fazie produkcji zarodników, z odkrytą włośnią.
Excited to find this impressive slime mold in Thetford Forest! Can anyone help with ID please? I wonder, is it Insect Egg Slime Mold (Leocarpus fragilis)?
These are the polymer molds that I made yesterday from my friend's belt. Although they seemed nice, I didn't like them when I used them with metal clay.
A late-stage slime mold standing only millimeters tall resembles tufts of cotton bright pink cotton candy. This is a focus-stacked composite image consisting of ~20 images.
Trichia ambigua...
My first Slime Mold discovery. Found up in good old Swineholes Wood. A damp piece of bark lying face down on the ground. Fascinates me this genre of photography :)
Size reference in the comments....
On decaying wood, about 1 1/2" across.
Probably an earlier stage of Fuligo septica, a plasmodial slime mold in the family Physaraceae, according to Wikipedia. Common worldwide. It is also called "dog vomit" slime mold.
One at the stage I'm used to seeing 4 or 5 photos back.
OK large
Arriva Buses Wales VDL Cadet 2572 - CX06 BGY is pictured in Mold bus station on route 4 to Chester Railway Station.
Focus stacked from 25 photos taken with in-camera focus shift app. On decayed Log in the Anacortes Community Forest Lands.
Shot at about 1:1.
Note Liverwort among them -- Click photo to enlarge.
Unposted slime mold image from my hike to Lodge Lake a few years ago on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). I believe that this is Trichia decipiens, which apparently has no common name.
Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie Nat'l Forest, WA
“A bit of mold is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars”. ― Victor Hugo; ‘Les Misérables’.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Black mold ♫ youtu.be/-vuxZZJlWS4
---- Myxomycetes. Photo taken with Nokia Lumia 930.
46100 royal scot passes the site of mold junction with saturday's crewe-holyhead special --behind the camera the shed building of 6b still survives more or less intact
Shotgun fungi (Pilobolus spp.)
Okay who stops to look at equine manure on a hot humid sticky ... nasty day?
Me.
I just had to take a shot of the curious 'stuff' growning there.
Tiny world of Fungi/Slime Mold.
Apparently it shoots out its spores.
Is that cool or what?