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Goat's-Beard
Tragopogon pratensis (common names Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon,[1] meadow salsify, showy goat's-beard or meadow goat's-beard) is a biennial plant in the Asteraceae family, distributed across Europe and North America, commonly growing in fields (hence its name) and on roadsides. It is found in North America from southern Ontario to Massachusetts; most of England; on the eastern and southern edges of Scotland; and central Ireland but not the coastal edges.
It flowers between June and October and its flowers have a diameter of 3–5 cm. The root and buds are edible, and it has a milky latex.
Description
It grows 30 to 100 cm tall.
It differs from viper's-grass (Scorzonera humilis) in that Viper's-grass has short, pale green bracts, whereas in Goat's-beard they are long and pointed.
The lower leaves are 10 to 30 cm long, lanceolate, keeled lengthwise, grey-green, pointed, hairless, with a white midrib. The upper leaves are shorter and more erect. It is the only United Kingdom dandelion type flower with grass like leaves.[2]
The flower heads are 5 cm wide. They only open in the morning sunshine, hence the name 'Jack go to bed at noon'.
The achenes are rough, long beaked pappus radiating outwards interwoven like a spider's web of fine white side hairs (referred to as a "Blowball").[3]
Usage
Young shoots and roots of meadow salsify can be used in diabetic salads.
In Armenia, rural kids make bubble gum from the juice of meadow salsify. For this purpose, when milky juice is released from the torn stems it is collected on the walls of a glass and dried.
Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragopogon_pratensis
The view outwards at The Shoppes, the shopping mall at Marina Bay Sands.
On top, over the glass ceilings are aluminium louvres designed to reduce solar heat gain from Singapore's often scorching equatorial sun.
Through the huge windows here at the south end of the mall are the towers of Marina Bay Financial Centre (MBFC) which house the head offices of three major banks, DBS, HSBC and Standard Chartered in Singapore.
Singapore; October 2025
This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. All the sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, including the flowers. The flowers are vintage French metal sequins from the 1930s in this bauble, so they are rare. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the flower sequins until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, and because it is a simple pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
Water from the Alps flowing outwards through the valley. Spring in the mountains is one of the most magical times for a visit if you ask me, and the abundance of water plays a huge role in the many lifeforms you'll encounter here during this time of the year - or any time really.
Nearest point to Earth since 1948 and here in Coventry it was quite elusive due to the clouds and rain.
In the view here is the Tycho Crater bottom right which appears like a south pole with lines generating outwards. Moving north west from Tycho is the Sea Of Clouds and the Sea Of Moisture. On the far western view is the Ocean Of Storms which is around a very large crater Copernicus. Moving eastwards toward the centre is the Sea Of Rain which takes up the more central part of the picture. Continuing eastwards you will see the Sea Of Serenity and then the Sea Of Tranquility made famous by the moon landings of the 1960's and 1970's. Then comes the Sea Of Crisis and finally the piece with the huge crater Langrenus to the north east is the Sea Of Fertility.
Anyone who has ever seen a decent display of Aurora knows that it explodes to fill up the whole sky, typically during a geomagnetic storm. When that happens colorful pillars and bright bands dance and wiggle all over to the point where you don't even know where to look… unfortunately our eyes don't have a 360 view so in this particular situation the best way to avoid missing the whole picture is to lie down on the ground and just gaze up.The most impressive of all are the one that happen just above your head, this particular type of light is called ‘Corona’. All the pillars seem to converge into the Zenith (the point right above your head) because of the 3-D perspective created by the globe effect of the Earth. Actually it would be more correct to say that the light seams to stream outwards from a central point, much like when you are flying through a spacial vortex. Those of you who watched Star Wars or even Stargate will know what I am referring to. For this reason people that have studied or watched the aurora a few decades (even centuries) ago thought the overhead aurora described a crown (hence the name Corona). A big thank you to everyone who took time to comment and take a look at my photo. Much appreciated!
Finally managed to get into this part of the red zone to get a few shots of the Catholic cathedral. This damage was done mainly in the 6.3 quake on Feb 22nd... more damage has apparently occured in the latest 6.3 as well but this was shot a few days before that happened.
The two front towers have collapsed and gone and that front wall on the left is held up by a bit of kiwi inginuity - shipping containers and hay bales.
To the right of the shot out of frame there is a carpark full of blocks and stone from the collapsed cathedral each layed out seperately and numbered - there being saved to possibly rebuild in the exact way once the quakes finally stop.... if they ever do... (they are doing the same to the Anglican cathedral in Christchurch's Center
The latest Quake has damaged it a lot more and it might now be never rebuilt, on this ground anyway....
Just as an interesting fact. The still standing tower at the back had a statue of the virgin mary facing inwards in the front window, during the feb 22nd quake the statue turned an exact 180degrees to face outwards - looking through the window - without falling over or being damaged.
The road im standing on - Barbadoes St - has been identified as having a Fault Line directly underneath - previously unknown. There are now 3 Major active faults under Christchurch.....
This is a 3 exposure handheld hdr processed in photomatix
Cheers for looking, ive got a few more of this from different angles ill post up
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A struggling solitary Arbutus tree growing on an exposed rock hill, bent outwards the Juan de Fuca Strait in the West. Metchosin, Vancouver Island, BC.
Arbutus trees are generally found on sunny exposed rocky bluffs or hills with little moisture, often in coastal areas in proximity to the ocean.
Splay, a verb meaning slant, slope or spread outwards
AR365 Day 109 - A Thick trickle-mist fog moves through the Arkansas' night.
This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year. This is for a friend who decorated their tree with gold and black decorations.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the flowers which are 8mm and the stars which are 3mm and very fiddly. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the flowers until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, and because it is a simple pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
One of the things I love to do is to try and make interesting images of ordinary scenes. It can be all too easy to be 'seduced' by the perfect specimen, the brightest and largest flowers and the 'usual suspects' but I find an extra challenge more rewarding.
So, here is a non-descript bit of scrubby woodland, nothing remarkable at all. However, by stepping inside the thicket and shooting outwards with a little underexposure, a double exposure and a tweak to colour settings I feel I made something appealing. It's not what we see it's how we see and marry our camera skills with a little imagination and flair.
This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the large stars which are 12mm in diameter and the small stars which are 3mm in diameter. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the snowflakes until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, and because it is a simple pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year. In this case they are for a friend, who like me, elects blue as her favourite colour.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the butterflies which are 10mm, and the central butterfly which is 12mm. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the flowers and stars until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, however because it is a complex pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 2 to 2 1/2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
Each time you
Allow your inner
Goddess to
Radiate Outwards,
You're the Glow
In the Dark for
Someone else.
Lilith pose pack (mine)
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This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year. This one is for a special friend's beautiful sister whose favourite colour is turqoise blue. She's had a tough year this year, so it is nice to send her some joy, and I have photographic proof of her smile, which beams like a star in the night sky and makes the effort put into making this bauble very well worth it!
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the butterflies which are 10mm, the small stars which are 3mm and very fiddly. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the flowers and stars until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, however because it is a complex pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 2 to 2 1/2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
Crepuscular rays near India are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 29 crew member on the International Space Station. The sight of shafts of light, beaming down from the heavens through a layer of clouds, has provided many an artist, scientist, and philosopher with inspiration throughout the centuries. Atmospheric scientists refer to this phenomenon as "crepuscular rays", referring to the typical observation times of either sunrise or sunset. Shadowed areas bounding the rays are formed by obstructions in the solar (or lunar) illumination pathway such as clouds or mountain tops; however this alone is not sufficient to create the phenomenon. The light must also be scattered -- by airborne dust, aerosols, water droplets, or molecules of the air itself—to provide the visible contrast between the shadowed and illuminated parts of the sky. When observed from the ground, crepuscular rays appear to radiate outwards from the source of illumination due to the effects of distance and perspective; however the rays are actually parallel. This photograph from the space station provides an unusual viewing perspective from above the rays. The sun was setting to the west on the Indian subcontinent at the time the image was taken, and cumulonimbus cloud towers provide the shadowing obstructions. The rays are being projected onto a layer of haze below the cloud towers. The image clearly illustrates the true parallel nature of the crepuscular rays.
Image credit: NASA
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This is a mature parasol mushroom with its cap fully extended. At 4cms, it is tall as it is wide. To get to this stage, the immature 'egg shape' cap breaks its seal around the top of the stem and slowly extends outwards. As it does it leaves a smal moveable ring, which you can see in the photograph.
They have a lovely sweet taste, akin to maple syrup, and are therefore highly sought after. They may be eaten raw, but are best cooked. They can be sauteed with melted butter or even pan fried after being mixed with egg and breadcrumbs. Served with bread, they makes a delicious meal.
Throughout Europe, they are easy to identify, as other look-alike poisonous mushrooms, some of which are deadly, are not to be found there. This not the case in North America however, so care needs to be taken when foraging for them.
CATALÀ
Cerastium és un gènere de plantes cariofil·làcies. Són pràcticament de distribució cosmopolita però la seva major concentració és a la zona nord de la regió temperada. Moltes es troben en camps pertorbats.
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The inflorescences consist of up to 15 flowers. The calyx is 5 to 7 millimetres long. The petals are white and twice as long as the calyx. The teeth of the capsule are slightly bent outwards. The flowering period is from May to July in the northern hemisphere, but may also bloom at other times of the year.
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Macho inmaduro, supongo que de un par de días, de Ischnura graellsii, que será el primero de una serie de imágenes de esta especie. A veces es fácil de confundir con I. elegans, por lo que hay que prestar atención al pronoto, que presentará un ligero arqueo hacia arriba del borde posterior, y no con un pincho, como en elegans. También fijarnos en los apéndices anales superiores, cercoides, que estarán curvados hacia el centro, en I. elegans están hacia afuera.
Fotografiado en: Río Congost. Granollers. Barcelona. España.
Ischnura graellsii, ♂
Immature male, I suppose a couple of days old, of Ischnura graellsii, which will be the first in a series of images of this species. It is sometimes easy to confuse with I. elegans, so pay attention to the pronotum, which will have a slight upward arch from the posterior border, rather than a spike, as in elegans. Also note the superior anal appendages, cercoids, which will be curved towards the center, in I. elegans they are outwards.
Photographed in: Río Congost. Granollers. Barcelona. Spain.
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396. It is found in the constellation of Cepheus and lies 2,400 light years distant. The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant's Trunk nebula. The first attempt imaging with my new William Optic GT71. I have had the telescope for 11 weeks but not been able to use it as I am still waiting on the corrector/reducer to arrive. I decided to try it out without the corrector and got what I expected. the stars in the central region were fine but moving outwards they became horribly shaped. I cropped the image, removed the stars and added the stars from a previous image. Imaged on the 18th and 22nd of March 2020.
HEQ5 PRO
WO GT71
QHY163M Gain325 Offset100 -20C
Baader 7nm Ha and 8.5nm OIII narrowband filters.
62 x 120sec Ha
65 x 120sec OIII subs
Acquisition time 4hrs14mins
Processed using Starnet++, RegiStar, Pixinsight and Photoshop.
This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the snowflakes which are 12mm in diameter. These snowflake sequins are special vintage 1920s celluloid sequins. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the snowflakes until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, and because it is a simple pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
This is a pretty colourful and wild-looking part of sky. I believe that the area is best described as a very faint nebula complex located in Monoceros, about 2700 light-years away. The field is filled with dusty streamers throughout, and black ribbons of dark nebula radiating outwards. It also contains areas of glowing red emission and several beautiful blue reflection nebulae.
NGC 2170 is the bluish nebula on the extreme left side. Just to the right and slightly down, an area that resembles glowing embers surrounded by three nebulae with reds and blues. Near the centre of the image, there is another blue reflection nebula, NGC 2182. At the lower right-hand side, NGC 2183 is just entering the frame. Unfortunately, my instrument’s narrow field of view does not allow this nebula to be presented in its entirety. I just couldn’t bring myself to crop it out as it’s such an incredible looking nebula, and I believe that it adds a bit of mystery to just what lies outside the frame. I must come back to this area and image that intriguing object.
The areas that I find most attractive and striking are the blue reflection nebula. Their properties, precisely the particle size that makes up the dust preferentially, reflect blue light from the nearby hot stars. This combination produces that beautiful blue glow seen in many astrophotographs.
There are glowing red areas throughout the frame. They are emission nebula. The ultraviolet light from nearby stars interacts and excites the nearby hydrogen gas, causing these areas to emit light. Other types of gas also emit light of their own in colours determined by the composition of the gas. Perhaps the most striking features are the dark or absorption nebula. The absorption nebula is seen in silhouette, blocking the light from behind. From our vantage point, we see black. Near-Infrared imaging reveals telltale signs of ongoing star formation and massive young stars that are hidden by dust, and not seen in traditional RGB optical images like this.
Instruments:
10 Inch RCOS fl 9.1
Astro Physics AP-900 Mount
SBIG STL 11000m
FLI Filter Wheel
Astrodon Lum, Red, Green, Blue Filters
Exposure Details:
Lum 40 X 900
Red 18 X 450 Binned 2
Green 18 X 450 Binned 2
Blue 18 X 450 Binned 2
Ha 20 X 1800
Total Time 26.75 hours
Location
Australia, Central Victoria
Mangroves build outwards and the trees on the outer edge bear the brunt of any storms or tidal surges before the colony becomes properly established
Hypholoma is a genus of fungi which are quite well known due to the commonness of sulphur tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare) on stumps in temperate woodlands. Species in this genus are easily recognizable because the dark spores create a distinctive greenish effect on the yellow cap underside. Hypholoma means "mushrooms with threads" because of the thread-like veil that connects the cap to the stem when young and for the bundles of rhizomorphs which radiate outwards from the stem base
This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the gold outer flowers which are 6mm, the inner flowers, which are 4mm and the tiny gold sequins which are 3mm and very fiddly. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the flowers and stars until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, however because it is a complex pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 2 to 2 1/2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 4mm in diameter, except the flowers which are 4mm, the stars, which are 3mm and the sunburst sequins which are 6mm. The sunburst sequins are French and are known as "éclate de soleil" - "sunbursts". The flower sequins are raised cups and are imported from France. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the "éclate de soleil" - "sunbursts" until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, and because it is a simple pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
The Mughal emperor Shah Jehan constructed this white marble mausoleum for the mortal remains of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died giving birth to their fourteenth child. Construction began in the year 1632. The minarets lean slightly outwards, a deliberate feature designed to spare the main building damage from them if they fell in an earthquake.
I would say it is probably the most beautiful building in the world, certainly the most beautiful I have ever seen, but somewhat marred by the inevitable presence of such huge crowds. It is after all, a burial site (also for the emperor himself) and therefore supposedly a place of serenity and quiet contemplation.
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Red Rocks Amphitheatre is a rock structure near Morrison, Colorado 10 miles west of Denver, Colorado, where concerts are given in the open-air amphitheatre. There is a large, tilted, disc-shaped rock behind the stage, a huge vertical rock angled outwards from stage right, several large outcrops angled outwards from stage left and a seating area for up to 9,450 people in between. The amphitheatre is owned and operated by the City and County of Denver, Colorado and is located in Red Rocks Park, part of the Denver Mountain Parks system.
EXPLORED! September 7, 2013, #41
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Adoxa moschatellina (Adoxaceae) 102 22
Adoxa moschatellina is a species of flowering plant in the family Adoxaceae
Adoxa moschatellina is a rhizomatous plant growing in mats with a delicate appearance. It has thin, erect unbranched stems which end in clusters of five green flowers which are 6 to 8 millimeters across. These flowers give the species one of its common names, "Town Hall clock", as they face outwards in four directions at 90 degrees to each other, resembling the four faces of a town clock.
Adoxa moschatellina has a boreal, circumpolar distribution in Europe, Asia, and North America.
This species grows in humid brown soils under shade on the banks of rivers and streams, in deciduous woodlands, and under hedgerows.
Source: Wikipedia.
This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year. In this case they are for a friend, who like me, elects red as her favourite colour, but also likes gold, white, black and silver accents for her tree.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the butterflies which are 12mm in diameter at their widest point. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the flowers and stars until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, however because it is a complex pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 2 to 2 1/2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
The shimmering colors visible in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image show off the remarkable complexity of the Twin Jet Nebula. The new image highlights the nebula’s shells and its knots of expanding gas in striking detail. Two iridescent lobes of material stretch outwards from a central star system. Within these lobes two huge jets of gas are streaming from the star system at speeds in excess of one million kilometers (621,400 miles) per hour.
Read more: go.nasa.gov/1hGASfl
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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I liked the simplicity of this terrace of houses. guess late 17 th early 18th century ?
The brickwork to the right hand three is of finer quality than the left (finer joints).
Also, I don't understand why the chimney stacks are in different positions ?
windows to nr 14 open outwards. why ?
why has nr 10 put a light where the number should be ?
Thought I'd look back at some archived photos from summer. Maybe I was posting too many leaf shots :P
I love our waterfront, full of interesting subjects to look at. I photographed many spots along The Beaches and especially at Kew Beach. Here, I noticed an unattended boat sitting in the pebble shores between a pier and lookout point outwards to the lake. I thought it might have been a good subject for a BW long exposure. As I was waiting for the the image to expose, the owners of that boat came back. Luckily they were really friendly and gladly allowed me to finish the shot :)
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This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year.
I have a Flick friend for whom I made this bauble in appreciation for her generosity in spirit. She has been like a ray of light. This bauble, made deliberately in Mardi Gras colours because I know how much she likes the celebration, is a thank you gift.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the butterflies which are 10mm, the small stars which are 3mm and very fiddly. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the flowers until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, and because it is a simple pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
One of the benefits of using Richmond Station in south-west London is that it’s the beginning (or the end) of the London Overground train system – or, to be precise, one of its branches. From here, the train travels eastwards out to Stratford, 22 stops away. The Overground is quite a comprehensive network, visiting destinations such as Chingford, Barking, Croydon, Watford, Cheshunt and Upminster.
But back to Richmond. Travelling outwards, the advantage here is that you can be sure of a seat. As you can see here.
We can consciously become sensitive to our own energy fields, and we can manipulate this energy to increase our sense of pleasure and enhance our spirituality. When we admire something, our energy expands to encompass the object of our desire. We are more open and receptive. The essential principle is -if we are open, and ask, we shall receive.
It is an interesting experiment to try this for yourself -fill a room with your energy, imagine it in whichever way suits you. Make the energy thick like a fog, the diffuse like soft mist. Expand outwards; cover your house, town, country to the universe itself! Then constrict it into a tiny point of awareness inside your body.
Your ability to perceive your energy field will develop as you practice noticing how you react on an energetic level. By consciously expanding energy fields (and you can use whatever inspires you to facilitate this) you can tune into t he pleasure and sense of well-being it evokes. During conflict, a challenging time to practice this, expanding your energy field will certainly have a calming, healing effect.
Allow spirit to touch your soul! This creates a certain energy (like brain waves or magnetic force) which attracts guidance in the form of synchronicity and dreams.
The Fog. Nellie Vin. Limited Edition. Color. Film.
This photo was taken looking outwards from the hong kong ferry pier. Had to rush it a bit because we had 10 mins to catch the next ferry...which we missed unfortunately. But nonetheless got a nice photo out of it which was beneficial.
This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the stars which are 8mm. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the stars until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, however because it is a complex pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 2 to 2 1/2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
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During my latest evening of Tango dancing, I was wearing a skirt which was just a bit longer than this one. As you may have read in my profile I really enjoy the nakedness and adventure of wearing short skirts and dresses without wearing panties. One of the guys I danced with really swung me around a lot and my boyfriend told me later with a worrying voice that he spotted my vaginal lips at least 4 times. I felt embarassed and aroused at the same time, but I didn't have a lot of time to think about it, because I was asked for the next dance.
It was a guy who was at least twice my age and it surprises me sometime how great vitality and smooth dancing go together with older age. When he complimented me with my sensual lips I didn't know for sure which lips he was referring to. That cafe (The Syndicate) has quite a small dance floor and the next tango was a slow one. It was very crowded and we danced in close embrace. I let my left hand slide down in an easy manner and felt his sturdy bottom move with my body and the music. He obviously felt he could do the same, because I felt how his hand slid down casually onto the back of my skirt.
At that same time I felt his manhood grow in his trousers, while his hand slid down a little lower under the rim of my skirt. My heart started to beat a little higher, but then he slowly and casually moved his hand up under my skirt! I was doubting what to do until I looked him in the eyes. He had this warm, daring and intense look in his eyes and I felt sure that he was quite playful about what he did right then. It was that playfulness that made me relax into his arms and dance on.
He kept looking into my eyes when his hand moved up, his fingers slowly caressing my inner thigh. It was only a matter of (very long) seconds before he touched my bare vaginal lips! His eyes became even more intense, while we were still slowly moving around between the other dancers packed within the cafe. He began feeling and rubbing my lips slowly, while my heart was now bouncing in my chest. I checked if my boyfriend could see what was happening, but I spotted him at the bar, trying to get throug the cue to buy a drink.
I felt how my dancing partner now had a thick and hot rod hidden in his pants and my lower lips felt like they were dripping with wetness from the excitement. I noticed a couple sitting at the edge of the dancing space looking with a big smile and great interest at my skirt. It was only then that I realised how part of my nude butt was exposed to their eyes and so was the hand that was caressing my lips below that butt with lovely intent. Within a second I moved my hips in a sudden turn.
This made it even worse because my partner was not as quick, making my skirt slide up completely, exposing all my completely naked flesh under my skirt for everyone to see. The packed crowd saved me, because I only noticed a few people giving a possible sign that they could see my derriere! And than something strange started to happen. The look in my partner's eyes was still playful but at the same time there was an intensity to it that connected with the intimacy and vulnerability of being naked. Something that I would normally only feel while making love with my boyfriend.
I suddenly felt a total surrender to my sensuality within the dance. I felt eager to be watched by all the men and women within the cafe, while my body was being touched only by the music, my partner and the air that I was breathing. It wasn´t my heart that was pounding anymore. It was my whole body pulsating with sexual energy and it wanted to be seen, enjoyed by admiring eyes that were already undressing me now with their interested looks. It felt like being drunk and I wanted my partner to bluntly expose me as much as possible.
It was as if his eyes were saying "are you sure" and it felt like there was a slightly dangerous touch added to his gaze. It was like he looked right into my heart and I only remember my heart shouting "yes, please, expose me, show me, let me feel naked completely!" It felt like I wanted everyone to see ME. Dancing naked with all these people around me would show them all of ME. Not the cover, the package, but ME.
My body moved in a spasm, pushing my behind even more outwards, as if it was begging for his hands to keep caressing it's halves. As if he could feel my thoughts, my partner now moved his hand casually to the side of my skirt and with a swing in the dance his arm moved my skirt up completely again, now even more than before, right up to my middle, showing my completely naked butt, my naked and shaved vagina, and my naked upper part of my thighs right down to the edge of my hold-up stockings. I was bending over, leaning my breasts against his chest, pushing my butt backwards, positioning my vaginal lips outward as if my body wanted everyone to feel induced to lick me and penetrate me, and I shivered from the fear about the desire that made me dare to go beyond all fear!
It frightened me that I was thrilled! I didn't drink a drop of alcohol and I was completely drunk from the feeling this blunt exposure brought home to me. I saw quite a few gazing faces that noticed my completely bare bottom and naked genitals, and it made me drunk in the surrender that I felt during the few seconds that my partner held up my skirt. As if nothing had happened, he changed the position of his arm and my skirt fell down friveously, while we kept on dancing.
All this had happened in only a few minutes and I'm still trembling when I think of what happened. My boyfriend was one of the gazing faces at the end and that put an end to the excitement. I still have to cope with the not so nice reaction he had and somehow I understand. On the other hand I feel this experience is very important for me and I need to come to terms with it. I wrote this spontaneously, when looking at this picture, giving a comment.
Reading my comment back, it had become so lenghty, I decided to copy the picture of Arnd Butoh on my own stream (with a link back to the sourceof course), as the source of inspiration that made me share this confession and get to terms with what has taken me over recently. This picture makes feel me less alone about my personal experience, knowing other people may have similar experiences and dare to share them here. I'm learning about me and I love and dread it!
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This week’s picture shows spectacular ribbons of gas and dust wrapping around the pearly centre of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1398. This galaxy is located in the constellation of Fornax (The Furnace), approximately 65 million light-years away. Rather than beginning at the very middle of the galaxy and swirling outwards, NGC 1398’s graceful spiral arms stem from a straight bar, formed of stars, that cuts through the galaxy’s central region. Most spiral galaxies — around two thirds — are observed to have this feature, but it’s not yet clear whether or how these bars affect a galaxy’s behaviour and development. This image comprises data gathered by the FOcal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph 2 (FORS2) instrument, mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal Observatory, Chile. It shows NGC 1398 in striking detail, from the dark lanes of dust mottling its spiral arms, through to the pink-hued star-forming regions sprinkled throughout its outer regions. This image was created as part of the ESO Cosmic Gems programme, an outreach initiative to produce images of interesting, intriguing or visually attractive objects using ESO telescopes, for the purposes of education and public outreach. The programme makes use of telescope time that cannot be used for science observations. All data collected may also be suitable for scientific purposes, and are made available to astronomers through ESO’s science archive.
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Palazzo Pubblico in Sienna
The Palazzo Pubblico (town hall) is a palace in Siena, Tuscany, central Italy. Construction began in 1297 and its original purpose was to house the republican government, consisting of the Podestà and Council of Nine.
The outside of the structure is an example of Italian medieval architecture with Gothic influences. The lower story is stone; the upper crenelatted stories are made of brick. The facade of the palace is curved slightly inwards (concave) to reflect the outwards curve (convex) of the Piazza del Campo, Siena's central square of which the Palace is the focal point. The campanile or bell tower, Torre del Mangia, was built between 1325 and 1344 with its crown designed by the painter, Lippo Memmi. The tower was designed to be taller than the tower in neighboring rival Florence; at the time it was the tallest structure in Italy. It was fitted with a mechanical clock during the mid 14th century. Its design has been used as the basis for several other campaniles including the Dock Tower in Grimsby, England constructed in 1852 and the Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower in the edgabston campus of the University of Birmingham (completed in 1908).
The Rosette Nebula is a cloud of dust containing enough gas and dust to make about 10,000 stars like our Sun. In the centre of the nebula, and off to the right hand side of this image, is a cluster of hot, bright young stars. These are warming up the surrounding gas and dust, making it appear bluer. The small, bright white regions are cocoons of dust in which huge stars are currently being born. These “protostars”, each one of which will probably become a star up to ten times more massive than the Sun, are heating up the surrounding gas and dust and making it clow brighter. The smaller, redder dots on the left side and near the centre of the image also contain protostars, but these are smaller, and will go on to form stars much like our Sun. Just as the centre of the nebula contains bright young stars, in a few tens or hundreds of millions of years these stars will have died, but the protostars will have evolved into fully-fledged stars in their own right. In this way, the star formation will move outwards through the nebula.
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Zizina otis, the lesser grass blue,[2][3] is a species of blue (Lycaenidae) butterfly found in south[2] and southeast Asia.[3] The lesser grass blue is often misidentified as Zizina labradus, the common grass blue.
Description
Male upperside
Pale violet blue, with a silvery sheen in certain lights, forewing: a broad brown edging along the termen, which covers in some specimens quite the outer fourth of the wing, while in others is much narrower. It is always broadest at the apex and is bounded by an anteciliary darker line, beyond which the cilia are brownish at base and white outwardly.[5]
Hindwing: anterior or costal third to half and apex brown; a slender black anteciliary line, beyond which the cilia are as in the forewing.[5]
Male underside
Brownish grey. Forewing: a short, transverse, dusky lunule on the discocellulars and a transverse, anteriorly curved, discal series of seven minute black spots, all the spots more or less rounded, the posterior two geminate (paired), the discocellular lunule and each discal spot conspicuously encircled with white; the terminal markings beyond the above consist of an inner and an outer transverse subterminal series of dusky spots, each spot edged on the inner side very obscurely with dusky white, the inner line of spots lunular, the outer with the spots more or less rounded. Cilia dusky.[5]
Hindwing: a transverse, curved, sub-basal series of four spots and an irregular transverse discal series of nine small spots black, each spot encircled narrowly with white. Of the discal spots the posterior four are placed in an outwardly oblique, slightly curved line, the middle two spots geminate; the three spots above these are placed in an oblique transverse line further outwards; lastly, the anterior two spots are posited one over the other and shifted well inwards, just above the apex of the cell; discocellular lunule and terminal markings as on the forewing, but the inner subterminal lunular line in the latter broader and more prominent. Cilia dusky. Antenna black, shafts ringed with white; head, thorax and abdomen brown, with a little blue scaling; beneath: white.[5]
Female upperside
Brown, with a more or less distinct suffusion of violet blue at the bases of the wings, on the hindwing continued obscurely along the dorsum; both forewings and hindwings with slender anteciliary lines, darker than the ground colour.[5]
Female underside
Ground colour slightly darker than in the male, markings precisely similar. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male, but the thorax and abdomen above without any blue scaling.[5][6]
Distribution
Zizina otis occurs in south Asia. It was reported from Oahu (Hawaii, United States) in 2008.[7] Zizina otis labradus is found in the North Island, and the northern part of the South Island of New Zealand. While the Zizina otis oxleyi is found in the southern part of the South Island of New Zealand only.
Larval host plants
The species breeds on many plants of the family Leguminosae including Alysicarpus vaginalis, Desmodium species, Glycine max, Indigofera species, and Mimosa species.
Conservation status
This species has been classified as "Not Threatened" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
Onopordum acanthium (cotton thistle, Scotch (or Scottish) thistle) is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe and Western Asia from the Iberian Peninsula east to Kazakhstan, and north to central Scandinavia, and widely naturalised elsewhere, with especially large populations present in the United States and Australia. It is a vigorous biennial plant with coarse, spiny leaves and conspicuous spiny-winged stems.
It is a biennial plant, producing a large rosette of spiny leaves the first year. The plants typically germinate in the autumn after the first rains and exist as rosettes throughout the first year, forming a stout, fleshy taproot that may extend down 30 cm or more for a food reserve.
In the second year, the plant can grow to as much as 3 m tall with a width of up to 1.5 m. The leaves are 10–50 cm wide, alternate, spiny, and often covered with white woolly hairs with the lower surface more densely covered than the upper. The leaves are deeply lobed with long, stiff spines along the margins. Fine hairs give the plant a greyish appearance. The massive main stem may be 10 cm wide at the base and branched in the upper part. Each stem has a vertical row of broad, spiny wings (conspicuous ribbon-like leafy material), typically 2–3 cm wide, extending to the base of the flower head.
The flowers are globe shaped, 2–6 cm in diameter, from dark pink to lavender, and are produced in the summer. The flower buds form first at the tip of the stem and later at the tip of the axillary branches. They appear singly or in groups of two or three on branch tips. The plants are androgynous, with both pistil and stamens, and sit above numerous, long, stiff, spine-tipped bracts, all pointing outwards, the lower ones wider apart and pointing downwards. After flowering, the ovary starts swelling and forms about 8,400 to 40,000 seeds per plant. (Wiki)
[20:50] Gaston Khandr walks in from the empty pool hall and sees Sable standing in the living room. He grins as he looks over her outfit "Hey" he says as he moves ot the dridge to grab a beer.
[20:52] Sable Levee looks up as seeing Ston happy to see him but not saying as much," hey Ston..." golden eyes watching him as hips swing back and forth
[20:54] Gaston Khandr downing half a can of beer, he tosses a second one towards Sable, for her to catch or let splatter on the floor. Walking towards her he says "How you healing up? I heard about your adventure."
[20:55] Sable Levee catches the beer as it is tossed bruising along body still their but fading," am alright. So ya spoke to Tank?"
[20:57] Gaston Khandr shakes his head as he plops down onto the sofa "No, just got a text that you had been cracked up pretty bad." He opens his arms for you to come closer "What happenned? You can usually spot a psycho a mile away"
[20:59] Sable Levee walks over as climbs up onto your lap," well that big fucker said he had something for ya. Had just thought he was looking for an piece of my cunt and was gonna make some credits on him" shifting hips as gets comfortable
[21:01] Gaston Khandr grunts a little bit at her answer and asks "Who was this big fucker? Or were you too fried to remember?"
[21:04] Sable Levee frowns some as snorts," I remember.." hand sliding into your jacket as talks," said his name was Chuck. He owned that bar..four whores or something. He wanted to make sure I remembered to tell ya. As you were not around I told Tank.." pausing then not sure if you will hit her or not
[21:07] Gaston Khandr scowls at Sable a moment, knowing the Four Horseman bar well as he's had too many drinks there. He asks "You sure he's the owner of that shit hole?" Ston's face then goes a little blank in shock as Sable caresses his chest under his jacket "He wanted me to know who fucked you over?"
[21:11] Sable Levee just snorts an little more as golden eyes flash at Ston," well ya that is what he told me. I told him to fuck off and he banged my head into wall some saying he could give me the full message. " wriggling fingers as search your pocket," yes he want to be sure ya knew was him. Gloated it almost as if he wanted ya to come find him"
[21:15] Gaston Khandr nods with a loud grunt, scowling as he thinks over the meaning of your words. Finally his scowl turns into a frown and then a smile as he looks into your golden eyes "Well, I'll have to see what this fucker wants from me." He runs his fingers through your hair, letting you search his so far empty pockets to your own desire all you want.
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[21:19] Sable Levee fowns as fingers find nothing but lint mostly in your pockets as hand slides outwards," ya well hit the fucker for me.." still pissed of how big male had punched her." oh and I want his cowboy hat.."
[21:22] Gaston Khandr kisses your neck and says "I'll see, not a good idea to piss off rich shit heads even if they take their fun out with your blood."
[21:24] Sable Levee frowns sorting," what do i care if pisses him off"
[21:26] Gaston Khandr bites your lip and throws you to the floor. Wit ha grin he pulls out of his back pocket a small back of nip and drops it on you "I care if it hurts the family, remember that." and he walks out without a word
Thanks to the haven of gorgeous wonders that is Doves Farm, here we have a gluten-free, brown bread flour that is at once easy to handle and completely delicious. For those of you who like to prepare and blend (even grind) your own flours - and I will join you, eventually - I have listed the flour ingredients in order of largest amount first but for now I must allow your experience (or intuition if you're new to blending) to be your guide when it comes to relative proportions. It is my intention to contact Doves Farm, organic farmers and cultivators of home baking, regarding the reverse engineering of product components for home use. In my mind I group such things as knowledge of organic farming, recipes and ingredients with the free software movement but who knows which of my favourite gluten-free-product-producing companies share... well, anything. A topic for a post to the upcoming blog, perhaps.
Currently, I'm making this for one (I miss you, BooBoo) so...
Handmade, gluten-free, brown bread pitta
Ingredients:
about 100g Doves Farm Brown Bread Flour
(components: rice, tapioca, potato, maize, sarrasin & carob flours, sugar beet fibre, xanthan gum)
generous pinch of salt
2 tbsp oil (olive, vegetable and sunflower all work well) + a few drops for the pan
between 60ml and 90ml semi-skimmed milk
Utensils:
a 1lt glass mixing bowl
a metal fork
a metal tablespoon
a small wooden spoon, about 1½" x 2" (~4x5cm) at the bowl part
a shallow dinner plate, preferably glass without raised rim,
though any portable, flat, glass or marble surface will do
a large (at least 9" (23cm) diameter) shallow frying pan or skillet
flat metal spatula or pizza slice
a bread knife
(no scoffing at utensil specification, please. It's important!)
Method:
1. put the flour in the mixing bowl
2. add the pinch of salt, then a tiny bit more for luck ;-)
3. mix lightly but quite thoroughly with a metal fork
4. give the bowl a little tap to level the flour
5. measure each tablespoon of oil and drizzle over the flour
6. mix the flour and oil with the fork until small spheres of various sizes are formed
7. using the metal tablespoon, scrape any residual flour+oil from the fork into the bowl
8. add a little of the milk and with the back of the wooden spoon begin gathering the mixture together with circular movements, first around the inside wall of the bowl, then through the centre of the mixture. When it looks a bit dry and starts to separate, add a little more milk and repeat, making sure that with each sweep of the spoon you transfer sticky mixture from the bowl surface to the dough
9. mix and gather the dough quite loosely into a sticky ball. It should only take about four or five tablespoons of milk (about 2-2½fl oz (60-75ml)) to achieve the correct consistency
10. dust a big pinch of flour over the top of the dough and another into the bowl around its base
11. roll the ball around in the flour with the back of the wooden spoon until the dough is covered with flour. At this point you can form the dough into more of a sphere by pulling it in various directions up the sides of the bowl with the back of the wooden spoon but don't press too hard into the dough as this will expose the sticky part and cause the sphere to split
12. pick up the ball and form it gently with your hands. Doesn't it feel nice? 8-)
13. dust the plate or flat surface with flour and place the ball in the centre
14. with the flat palm of your least dexterous hand, begin flattening the ball, little by little in the following way: press with the palm, then with your hand still on the dough, pinch the edge with the thumb of the same hand to help keep the edges of the emerging circle from splitting. Rotate the plate or surface a little with your dexterous hand and repeat. When the circle is about 5" (12cm) diameter, carefully lift the dough and dust more flour underneath. Replace the dough, dust a little flour over the top and continue, now working from the centre outwards to carefully expand the circle, keeping the surface as even as you can. Continue until the dough is roughly 3/16" (4mm) thick (thin!) and about 8" (20cm) in diameter
15. oil the surface of the pan. I do this by adding a few drops and spreading it all over the surface with my hand. Well it works! Place over a medium (or just below medium) heat
16. while the pan heats up for about a minute, carefully slide the pizza slice under the dough, bit by bit, rotating the plate as before to ensure no part of the circle is sticking
17. slide the dough circle into the pan, give it a bit of a shake to centre and cook for about four minutes each side
After three minutes or so air pockets will start to form and expand. It is at this point you know you did your mixing correctly and will ultimately have somewhere to stuff the filling of your choice. A little scorchin' is desirable so don't worry if your pitta has a few dark marks on it; they taste good!
Let your finished pitta cool a little before cutting it across the middle, then carefully open up each half with a bread knife.
Voi - là!