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One of the quirks of the U.S Virgin Islands is that driving is done on the left side of the road, but the cars have the steering wheels on the left as well. It was my first try at driving on the left, and I can proudly report that there were no major mishaps. I did have to keep reminding myself to keep to the left - Wanda was good at helping me remember as well. Now my friends in the U.K. and other places that drive on the left can rest easy if I ever visit, knowing that I can make the switch! This is the view from our balcony looking west after sunset - even the non-beach view was nice!
Has anyone else run into this behavior? Guru does it when he's really happy. He latches on with his teeth (usually somewhere on my arm), but without breaking the skin. He isn't sucking, but I wonder if it's some sort of carryover from nursing. Maybe he was orphaned or weaned very young? We got Guru from a rescue organization, but they weren't very forthcoming about his history--other than that he was taken from a shelter. I actually don't mind it, because it makes him so happy.
update: I am reposting this for the Happy Caturday group theme that includes "your cat behaving in a way that is... special to them". Inexplicably, I love it when Guru does this. His purr becomes really loud.
One of my many quirks when travelling is the irresistible urge to eat up at a place that is named for a food in this case I had to stop to have penne pasta in Penne. While this town is not famous for its pasta namesake they are famous for being the home of Brioni arguably the worlds finest suit makers. This shot captures a few of the other things Penne is known for “La città del mattone” the city of bricks and the beautiful city gates this one is San Francesco with its bust of the cities patron saint San Massimo.
I took this on Oct 01, 2012 with my D70s and Tamron 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 Lens at 28mm, 1/200s, f7.1 ISO 200 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia ,Topaz, and DXO Nik
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I took this picture inside The Party House in the little town I built, Quirk.
Here's how to get to Quirk if you feel like going there:
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La Taverne (bar restaurant au décor médiéval) se reflétant dans l'étang du château.
NATURE'S QUIRKS... CAN BE VERY BEAUTIFUL! In a massive bouquet, I spotted this bud with an odd petal, I knew I had to be patient, keep my eye on it, it delivered and opened, half leaf-half petal, thus leaving the bloom open for all to see ... open sideways... one of nature's abnormalities that sometimes occur.
Lilium longiflorum.
This plant is native to Japan and the Ryukyu Islands. It is a stem rooting lily, growing up to 1 m high and bears a number of trumpet shaped, white, very fragrant, and outward facing flowers.
I saw the majesty and sculptural quality in close up. Such panache!
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A quirk in the 173 timetable sees the isolated village of Cressbrook served a handful of times per day in place of Wardlow by diverting off the B6465 at Monsal Head, running parallel to the River Wye along an unnamed and rather narrow road which features a hairpin bend to climb into the village before continuing on to Litton to re-emerge on the main route.
10 is seen negotiating the hairpin bend with a 173 to Tideswell via Cressbrook.
UPDATE: The town I mention below, Quirk, has been closed for a while. However, there is now a new attraction at the same landmark called Going Places. It's way more fun and photogenic. Stop by there sometime, if you want, and feel free to take photos. This winter garden is still there. If you want to find it, go to Going Places, then walk through the door titled Honey's House, and then step into the wardrobe!
This next paragraph was what I originally wrote to accompany this picture. I've only left it here for sentimental reasons. The LM should still work for Going places though...
I spent some time this week changing and building onto the town I already made in Second Life, which is called Quirk. It's even weirder and sillier now, and the premise of it is, it's a town where everyone who lives there has suddenly vanished a few hours before your arrival there, and no one knows why. So you're basically exploring a town that's exactly the way they left it, wondering where they all went and why, and clicking on lots of weird things to hopefully amuse yourself with. This wintery garden, as seen in the picture above, is the latest addition to Quirk.
I've finally, FINALLY finished building my silly little town in Second Life. It goes by the name of Quirk, and it certainly does live up to that name! I'm still trying to work out if I'm proud of it or ashamed of it, because of its oddball weirdness, but at least I can say with certainty that it's done. Well, I'm kind of certain it's done, anyway. Mostly. Maybe. Meh. I don't know anymore. I think I might have melted my brain, working on it. lol
Anyway, if anyone wants to go there for a visit, to look around or take photos or pass out drunk on the furniture or to see how weird I am as a creator of things in SL or just to scoff all the cakes in the café while playing games in the games room, you're welcome to stop by anytime!
Be sure to look at all the little things when you stop by the town. The fine print is often the funniest, I think.
UPDATE: Quirk is now closed. Sorry about that. It had a limited run.
Rosie the elephant, “Is she going to be ok?”
Usif the unicorn, “What’s wrong with her eyes?”
“Yes, she’ll be just fine now. There's nothing wrong with her eyes Usif, they’re just as unique as she is.”
Duke the pomeranian, “Indeed, we all have our special quirks.”
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This is only a small view of a very big lake. As you can see our weather has not been ideal for lighting. It is in-between, late Fall drab and bright Winter snow.
I kinda like how it looks like a still from a movie. :)
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It's one of the quirks of growing up and living in New York City that many of the best places to visit are left for the tourists.
For example, the only reason I've been to the top of the Empire State Building and spent some quality time with Lady Liberty is because I was showing friends around town who were visiting.
Just crazy really.
So I was happy that Laura and I visited the Cloisters on our own initiative - and I'm very glad we did. It's an amazing place and we're already planning a return trip.
The best one line description of the place is straight from their website: "Wonders of medieval Europe through its art, architecture, and gardens."
Pictured above is the crypt. I stood there feeling transported - and so happy I had my widest angle lens with me...
Flickr keeps stealing my description and tags. 4 times now!
Let's try this again. :P
I've been caught in an obsessive, *ahem*, I mean, creative whirlwind designing new dresses to add to the Hopeless Romantic series and putting the finishing touches on this little one, along with a few other projects I am dying to share with all of you! ^__^
I always wish I could be one of those incredible artists (and many friends here) who are able to present a constant steady flow of lovely things to share, while taking regular pictures, keeping in touch with everyone and still living the rest of their lives with family, friends, pets, exercise, errands, chores, business, etc. I am genuinely in awe of all of you! I really have tried, but I don't think I will ever be that person. I seem to go through phases and need large chunks of time to accomplish each part of this balance rather separately and become very quiet at times as well.
Maybe it's just different for everybody and that's ok, too.
I guess I just want you all to know, that even though I don't update or post comments regularly, I do care about you all and think of you quite often. <3
ps- also, I don't recommend spilling an entire glass of water on your open laptop... while it's on... or off either I guess. That doesn't do much to help with keeping in touch, either.
Kisses & Squish!
A quirk of stitching in my pano led to the same guy featuring twice in the finished shot - it looks like he's being followed by his twin brother.... Pic was taken at Navy Pier, Chicago - not the best quality set of shots I've ever taken, but thought the outcome was a bit of fun...
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Space Science image of the week:
Thanks to a quirk of our cosmos, the Moon’s average distance from Earth is just right for it to appear as the same size in the sky as the significantly larger Sun. Once in a while the Moon slides directly between Earth and the Sun such that it appears to cover our star completely, temporarily blocking out its light and creating a total solar eclipse for those along the narrow path cast by the Moon’s shadow.
Next week, on 21 August, observers situated along a 115 km-wide swath stretching from Oregon to South Carolina in the US will be on this path of totality, with peak totality occurring at 18:26 GMT (check here for detailed timings). For up to 2 minutes 40 seconds, observers at a given location will be bathed in an eerie twilight in the middle of the day.
It is not possible to view totality from Europe, although those in the westernmost region may see a partial eclipse before the Sun drops below the horizon at sunset.
A team of astronomers from ESA will be studying the eclipse from the USA and, like many others, hoping that skies will be clear so that they can capture the phenomena visible only during eclipses. These include beads of light shining through gaps in the lunar terrain, and the glittering ‘diamond ring’ effect as the last and first slither of sunlight glints through immediately before and after totality.
They will also aim to image the Sun’s extended atmosphere, the corona, which is visible to the naked eye only during totality when the rest of the Sun’s light is blocked out.
Observations of the corona are business as usual for the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, SOHO, which can use a special filter to block the Sun’s light. During Earth’s total eclipse, SOHO will provide important context of the corona and Sun’s activity from its viewpoint in space.
Outside of the path of totality observers will experience a partial eclipse – seeing the Moon appear to take a bite out of the Sun’s disc. This is similar to what our Proba-2 satellite will see – an example is shown in the image presented here, which was taken during the annular eclipse earlier this year. It shows the turbulent solar disc and swirling corona at extreme-ultraviolet wavelengths.
In fact, Proba-2 will see a series of partial eclipses from Earth orbit. Proba-2 orbits Earth about 14.5 times per day, and thanks to the constant change in viewing angle, will dip in and out of the Moon’s shadow several times during the solar eclipse.
In addition, astronauts aboard the International Space Station, including ESA’s Paolo Nespoli, should also be able to see some aspects of the eclipse. From their unique vantage point, they will view partial eclipses and also hope to capture the Moon’s shadow on the surface of our planet.
Follow ESA’s ground-based activities via cesar.esa.int and join the conversation on Twitter with #eclipse2017 and #solareclipse. We’ll keep you posted on our activities – from ground and space – via @esascience.
Remember: never look directly at the Sun, even when partially eclipsed, without proper eye protection such as special solar eclipse glasses, or you risk permanent eye damage.
Credit: ESA/Royal Observatory of Belgium
Sometimes I 'sketch' with my iPhone. This is one of those times.
Ever since we put up a new light in the bedroom Eva has taken to hiding under the bed while it is on at night. Not sure why, but I have a feeling it freaks her out a bit. It's been on the ceiling for over a year and a half now. When the overhead light goes off, she happily jumps on the bed and settles in for the night.
Taken with 'you can't see me' studio 26 assignment in my mind. I have no idea what was in her mind.
Quirk of French Motoring #3 Yellow lamps
Black plates and the full yellow lights treatment on this Capri! A lot to like here.
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The Quirk Mansion is one of the most interesting historic homes in Ypsilanti. The home was built by Daniel Lace Quirk about 1860 in Second Empire style with mansard roof. Quirk's children donated the house to the city of Ypsilanti in 1911, and it served for several years as the City Hall. The mansion is presently used as private offices and the property owners reside in apartments on the top floor.
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The Quirk Mansion is one of the most interesting historic homes in Ypsilanti. The home was built by Daniel Lace Quirk about 1860 in Second Empire style with mansard roof. Quirk's children donated the house to the city of Ypsilanti in 1911, and it served for several years as the City Hall. The mansion is presently used as private offices and the property owners reside in apartments on the top floor.
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NEW! CHAI. Peculiar available at the mainstore.
We all carry little quirks: gentle oddities tucked into the corners of our personalities, shaped by memories, dreams, heartbreaks, and wild hopes. Sometimes we try to smooth them out. Sometimes we hide them. But what if we didn’t? What if we celebrated the strange angles and offbeat lines that make us.. us?
Peculiar is a sculptural reflection of that very idea. Sold as a set of two distinct yet harmoniously strange characters. Available in 8 hand-selected color finishes, each set offers a new personality.
This collection honors the inner lives we often keep quiet. With asymmetrical features, curious expressions, and unapologetically eccentric forms, each piece reminds you that your uniqueness isn’t something to be corrected. It’s your fingerprint. Your story.
Peculiar asks us to welcome the parts of ourselves that don’t fit neatly into boxes. Metaphors for our lived complexity. These are portraits of being human.
Because at CHAI, we believe that home is not just where you live - it’s where your truth is safe to breathe.
So go ahead. Be bold. Be soft. Be strange. Be peculiar.
Welcome home.
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Quirk Mansion, 300-302 North Huron Street, Ypsilanti, Michigan. The home was built by Daniel Lace Quirk Sr. (1818–1911) in about 1860. Quirk Sr. was founder of the Peninsular Paper Company, the First National Bank of Ypsilanti, and other business enterprises. The mansion is in the Second Empire style with a mansard roof. Quirk's children donated the house to the city of Ypsilanti in 1911, and it served as the Ypsilanti City Hall from 1914 to 1974. Today the mansion is used for private offices.
Inquisitive swan...
I’m not really a bird photographer. Which is odd.
Ever since I was a youngster I’ve been interested in birds (and the natural world in general). My family were ardent members of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Britain’s main bird conservation society - the equivalent, I guess, of the USA’s National Audubon Society), I was a member of the Young Ornithologist’s Club, and for a while the British Trust for Ornithology.
Even today I live seven miles from Slimbridge, the headquarters of the Wetland and Wildfowl Trust (WWT) the UK’s premier wildfowl conservation charity.
And by a strange quirk of life, my godmother in Venezuela happened to be a close relative of Sir Peter Scott, the founder of the WWT. Not that it has ever given me free entrance as I would hope ;)
This, I think, is my first ever published bird image. Being a poor cameraman I am tempted to blame the absence of avian imagery on my photostream on lacking the right lens (my longest lens is the 105mm macro).
But I suspect the truth is that I am running away from the competition. The genre is densely populated and there are some stellar bird photographers out there, including some I follow. I much prefer the quiet waters of abstract or even macro, where I can make mistakes and nobody will notice :)
This is an in-camera multiple-exposure of a mute swan, the most common of the three British swans, taken in St Ives in Cambridgeshire a few weeks ago.
I’ve been investigating the effect of using the camera’s multiple-exposure facility combined with continuous shutter-release mode (at a low frame rate of about 5fps). This is one of those experiments.
And it’s odd and curious and I don’t understand it.
The camera is set to create a multiple-exposure composite internally using an Average function (which is suitably vague - even the advanced manual is hardly loquacious).
But looking at this one it became apparent that the first image of the sequence contributes much more than the others to the result - the white is more opaque. And perhaps the last image contributes more than the ones in between? Maybe.
Now if I were writing the program I would have either created a result where every capture contributes the same amount (equally opaque) or, simpler, where the later images are more significant (by averaging each capture with the preceding average to date).
I smell a plot! I wonder what Canon cameras do…
For most of my life killing an unmarked swan has been a treasonable offence because they belong to the Queen - I’d be hung, drawn and quartered.
In English law, only very privileged people or entities could own swans (including some of London’s powerful guilds). The swans needed to be marked though (and they could be killed and eaten by their owners). Unmarked swans belong to the Crown.
The law was changed a couple of decades ago, presumably because the cost of all that drawing and quartering became prohibitive.
Nowadays, though, killing any bird is illegal. I think they just shoot you...
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image!
[In-camera 10-shot multiple-exposure taken handheld in continuous shooting mode (5fps) letting the bird swan around… as they do.
Developed in Capture One to add contrast and colour saturation, and get the colours a bit more agreeable (partial fail there I think!).
In Affinity Photo extended the canvas downwards from the capture and smart infilled with inpainting to give more space in the photo for the crop and composition.
Used a Lighting filter with a white spot down and to the right of the image pointing diagonally in. This was to throw more light and emphasis on the budgie’s head. Kind of worked :) ]
One quirk of QUBE's Deniliquin rice train since it's resurrection has been the use of 9095/9096 instead of 9071/9072 as the train number; with the numbers in the 909x range normally used by SSR for grain services.
As a result, it was only a matter of time before we got two consecutive 9096 trains one day after the other with one from each operator. That happened on the 21st and 22nd of October 2025, with SSR's Kensington rake seen on the evening of the 21st running as 9096 from Deniliquin with N463 "City of Bendigo" and N455 "City of Swan Hill", while the next night was QUBE's turn with VL353 "Comic Court" and VL360 "Gurner's Lane" on the rice train to Victoria Dock.
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