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Scandalize Onayra Set (tube top & skirt) - available at Sensation Event through 26-Nov
Insomnia Angel Puff Sleeve Gothic Bolero
Le Fil Casse Melanie Boots - available at FaMESHed through 27-Nov
Foxy Awake hair
Tentacio Aguetarre Headpiece
IDTTY Morning After eyeshadow/lipstick - available at Kinky through 22-Nov
Taken at Elysion Halloween - Omen
Full details at Grumpy Kitten.
An eye patch is big enough if you don't want to contaminate people. The nose is no threat unless you blow your nose in someones hair:-)
I don't know. This was one that I loved certain parts while I was doing it, but then as a total, not a big fan. Here is the original.
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Something different from my usual. They were parked along the road side in the middle of nowhere, so I couldn't resist.
Thanks to SkeletalMess for the Cosmic Band texture
Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.
To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection...
-- Edward Weston
Found this today while on a ' deleting old photos spree'.
Taken in another lifetime.
I miss my Cybershot,and it's silvery biscuitiness.
This weathered dairy barn, with its handsome brickwork and distinctive gambrel roof, stands as a century-old survivor from the early 1900s, when similar architectural combinations defined rural America. The gambrel design itself traces back to Dutch settlers who brought this practical roof style to America in the 1600s.
On the modest family farms of that era, a substantial barn like this served as the farming operation's heartbeat. From their initial construction until the widespread decline of Minnesota small dairies in the 1970s and 80s, these barns witnessed generations of farmers housing their cattle and storing tons of hay in the loft above. The upper level sometimes held grain bins for winter feeding, making the barn a complete storehouse.
That cupola crowning the roof wasn't a mere decoration as it provided essential ventilation to prevent hay from spoiling and kept air circulating throughout the structure, protecting both feed and livestock.
Around the time this barn was built, St. Cloud served as a Minnesota brick manufacturing center, with the industry established in Stearns County during the Civil War era. While smaller brick yards operated closer to this barn's location in Kennebec County, practical considerations likely meant these bricks arrived by rail from St. Cloud's larger, more established kilns.
The farm children who grew up around barns like this remember them as centers of endless daily labor, but also a place where they learned lessons about life's fragility through caring for animals from birth to death.
Those same youngsters, many of them now elderly, carry vivid memories of Saturday morning conversations with fathers long gone, shared while mucking stalls and the infectious laughter of siblings goofing around at milking time, their voices still echoing despite needing hearing aids now to catch them.
Most of those once-young farmer boys have aged beyond heavy labor, but their hands remain calloused from decades of pitchfork handles, five-gallon feed pails, and the cool feel of snapping metal stanchions together before milking the trapped cows.
So forgive us old-timers for our wistfulness when we see an empty barn standing silent on a farm place. For during very formative years of our lives, structures like this one were at the heart of everything we knew, even if that heartbeat has now slowed down and grown faint.
(Photographed in Kennebec County, MN)
This container of rosehip eye balm is 100% biodegradable.
An idea whose time has come.
container dimensions: 1.75" across by 1" high.
Macro Mondays, subject: Container
Project 365-282
www.blackpool.gov.uk/Services/M-R/MartonMereLocalNatureRe...
Marton Mere Local Nature Reserve
Marton Mere Local Nature Reserve is a tranquil refuge on Blackpool’s urban fringe, important for nature conservation, quiet recreation and environmental education.
The reserve is nationally recognised as a Site of Special Scientific Interest for its bird populations, but it also supports a number of other nationally important species such as dragonflies, butterflies, bats and orchids. Marton Mere is Blackpool’s biodiversity hot spot, despite it once being part of Blackpool Corporation’s rubbish tip.
The site contains a diversity of habitats including open water, reed beds, grassland as well as pockets of woodland and scrub. Visitors can enjoy the area through following the designated footpaths around the site and visiting the numerous bird watching hides.
Marton Mere Local Nature Reserve is owned, managed and funded by Blackpool Council’s Ranger Service in partnership with Marton Mere Holiday Village. The Rangers undertake large conservation projects with the Volunteer Rangers, protect the interests of people and wildlife as well as undertake a varied programme and events and tours around the reserve.
The Parks Events Programme is availible between April and October, please pick up your copy in the Stanley Park Visitors Centre or on the publications page. In additon to the events programme the Ranger Service will be carrying out several walks this winter (Nov-Feb) to learn all about Long Eared Owls - you might even spot one of these elusive birds! See the publications section on the right for further details.
Visit Blackpool's Parks and Open Spaces on Facebook for detailed updates on park projects, developments and events - www.facebook.com
For information on walking in Lancashire contact: www.walkinginlancs.co.uk
Where can I see Long Eared Owls?
Long Eared Owls winter at Marton Mere Nature Reserve before returning to their breeding areas in the spring. During winter (Nov-Feb) Blackpool Council's Ranger Service organise walks which show you where these elusive birds are located and leave you to enjoy this beautiful site. Remember your binoculars - you may also spot a Bittern if you're lucky! For further details please go to the Publications section on the Ranger Service website
How can I join the Junior Rangers Club?
Are you interested in exploring? Do you like art, science, history or nature? Would you like to learn more about local parks and nature reserves that belong to you? Did you know you can help protect these special places? Well, guess what? Now you can, and all you need to do to be a part of all the fun is join the Junior Rangers Club, and better still, it's all free! As a junior Ranger you'll get to explore the local wildlife, go on trips, use hand tools to make things, take part in arts and crafts, go orienteering, play games and loads more. The Junior Rangers Club is run by Blackpool's Ranger Service on Marton Mere Local Nature Reserve and is a fun packed wildlife club for children aged 8 to 13 years old. The club will meet on a Sunday afternoon, once a month from 1.00 p.m to 3.00 p.m. If you want to find out more please contact the Ranger Service on (01253) 478012 or email parks@blackpool.gov.uk.
What wildlife can be seen on the reserve?
Marton Mere has a superb diversity of habitats, making it attractive to a number of flora and fauna. You will find a variety of wildflowers such as bee orchids, yellow rattle, marsh woundwort and birdsfoot trefoil. The site supports a number of invertebrates such as bees, dragonflies and moths. Butterflies such as the common blue, red admiral, meadow brown and gatekeeper are particularly numerous.
The reserve attracts good numbers of scarcer birds such as water rails, bitterns, whimbrels, marsh harriers and ospreys. The extensive reed bed habitat supports breeding sedge warblers, reed warbler and reed bunting. Long eared owls, sparrowhawks, peregrines and the occasional merlin are also present.
How can I become a Volunteer Ranger?
We welcome applicants to our Volunteer Ranger Service who work around the borough supporting the work of the Rangers on ecological sites. Volunteer Rangers undertake foot patrols, litter picking, practical conservation work and maintenance – as well as assist in guided walks, events and running the Ranger Station.
If you are interested, please contact: (01253) 478478 or download a pack which can be found under Publications to the right of this page..
What is the history of Marton Mere?
The Mere is one of only two nature lakes in Lancashire. The site was formed at the end of the last Ice Age over 10,000 years ago, covering a much larger site than you see today.
Surrounded by forest and marsh attracting animals such as beaver, elk, wild boar, wolves and bears, local people would have caught fish and hunted wildfowl as well as collected reeds and rushes for thatching their homes.
In the early 18th century the original Mere was drained for agriculture significantly reducing the open water habitat. In more recent times, much of the site and surrounding area was used as a refuse tip until 1972. After the site was reclaimed the Nature Conservancy Council designated the area as a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1974 and Blackpool Council declared the site as a Local Nature Reserve for wildlife in 1991.
Berry is a Home Rule Class City with a 2020 population of 350 located in rural Harrison County . Tobacco farming declines every year in this area. The tobacco barns were designed for the hanging and curing of tobacco with ventilating slotted openings that would regulate the barn's inside temperature. Often not practical to convert the barn for other purposes.
How Practical! If you get the timing just right, the fish come out already cooked!
Something I couldn't help wonder though, how is it possible there are even fish in the Laacher See in the first place? How did they get there? It's not much older than 10,000 years, which isn't much time at all in nature's reckoning. And the lake presumably has never been connected to any other body of water in that time. It's sitting at the bottom of a caldera after all.
So, how did the fish get there? I read a bit into that, and it turned out sometimes fish eggs get stuck on water birds. And this way they can get carried to another body of water and begin a population there. Life finds a way. Or humans just put them in there, that's also possible, I guess. If all else fails, life finds a taxi.
Do these fish still remember those original first fish in the lake? If not, do they have an Adam and Eve story to make up for that? Do they even care? Well, probably not; they're fish. And do they know there are millions of other lakes and streams outside their little lake? Many with fish of their own?
Perhaps most crucially: If one of the fishes sniffs on the mofettes too long and starts wondering about things like that, do the other fish call him crazy and exile him?
Standing outside this century old barn, I looked up to see an aircraft flying overhead and thought of how far we'd come. The barn featured a unique swing beam construction that allowed a team of horses, hitched to a wagon, to turn around without having to back up. Horses apparently don't like to walk backwards so this made life easier for farmer and animal alike. When you compare that marvel of practical engineering to the complexity of the plane, it seems there are no limits to what we can accomplish.
Original started as a micro spaceship, I felt it needed some minifigs to help bring it to life and to play with the sense of scale.
I'd never have got this stuff into the Corsa, and the Applause has otherwise proved to be an extremely useful vehicle, thereby more than earning it's keep, as the saying goes.
Ilford Single-Use Camera
30mm f 9.5 lens
Fixed focus 3' to infinity
Ilford HP5+ 400 speed B&W film uses standard B&W film processing.
Taken by Brian Nicholls and used with permission.
One thing I like in this country is that, people are practical. They tend to buy things that they only need.
The Look:
From the SALEM Event;
Hair: Foxy - Maeve
Shirt: TORI TORRICELLI - Ophelia Turtleneck
Jacket: TORI TORRICELLI - Minerva Bolero Jacket
Glasses: BONDI - The Oscuro
Rings: RE - Beast RIngs
Skirt: Emily C - Skirt Tulle
Stockings: Blueberry - FLF-7/17
Photo By: Chrissy Sparrowtree
Location: Sapphire Retreat
Allison Grace & Chrissy Sparrowtree
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