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Gulf Fritillary (Dione vanillae) chrysalis on the Landings Sparrow Field “Pollinator Garden Berm”, retainer wall, 11/4/2022, Skidaway Island, Savannah, Ga
A perfect example of the smaller type of fortified manor house, Penhow was developed from a heavily-built keep necessary to protect the knightly retainers of the local earl, who lived in almost impregnable majesty at nearby Chepstow Castle. This great Norman stronghold and bridgehead into Wales was the first castle with a stone keep to be built in Britain by the conquering Normans in 1070. "Knight's Fee" manors and castles like Penhow were established to protect the outlying farmlands and give advance warning of any Welsh uprising. The area that is now known as Gwent was settled by families that had come over from France with or in the wake of William the Conqueror, and we know that Sir Roger de St Maur was at Penhow by 1129, for he witnessed the charter that founded the priory of Monmouth in that year. In return for the task of keeping down the Welsh, providing a quota of men for guard duty at Chepstow every month, and for supplying one man mounted on a horse in times of War, Sir Roger was permitted to usurp the Manor of Penhow from its native Welsh prince, and gain a toehold on the feudal ladder. Sir Roger's home was a cold stone Pele tower that stood alone on its rocky knoll, and directly overlooked the conquered natives in their 'Welshry' at Talgarth. It was the first home in Britain of a family destined to become one of the greatest in the land.
Source: www.castlewales.com/penhow.html
For TOTW: Tiny Words
For tHe VeNt: Anything but blood? Jamie rocks.
Round 2 bitches.
I wore braces as a teenager. I didn’t wear my retainer. My stupid teeth shifted back to their dumb ass original placement. And at the age of 31, single father, full blown adult, very much a MAN, in charge of many people at my job, I today got my braces on.
Bam!!!
A 31-year-old man with braces. Suck it baby.
But I couldn’t help but think I could pull the “cute” look off. Some girls dig the braces look. Or at least I heard that when I was 17. My kid thinks they are hilarious. Almost scary.
This reminds me back when I was a teenager. A high school kid. Those were by far the worst years of my life.
I was always a quiet kid in high school. I walked around in fear. I kept to myself. I didn’t understand anything. I was petrified of the other kids. I hated life. I was confused. I didn’t understand my penis any more than did I understand these girls I was suddenly much attracted to.
It was so confusing. I hated all those fucks I was surrounded by everyday. High school for me was a complete nightmare. I was unhappy, confused, and dorky. I didn’t have much friends. And the friends I did have were nerds like me. I guess I wasn’t a “nerd” in the true sense of the word, but I sure was quiet. I hated the peer pressure. I hated the assholes that seemed to rule me till I got out of high school.
I’m 31 now. I’m an adult. I’m so far removed from that high school horseshit. I love being 31. My teenage years were so confusing and fucked up. I hated every minute of it. Seriously.
And it’s so funny. People that I meet right now in my life that LOVED high school typically end up to be losers and people who HATED high school typically end up to be rock stars.
Not true across the board, but that’s just my experience.
High school kids can suck my cock. They are usually immature dickwads who are a pain in my ass.
In any case, here I am with my BRAND NEW braces looking like a total high school kid. By next year my teeth will be PERFECTLY straight.
I CAN’T WAIT!!!!! Actually it sucks right now. I have a headache. My teeth hurt. I can’t eat carrots or hard nuts anymore (my favorite snack foods?).
Yeah…It’s worth it.
STRAIGHT TEETH HERE I COME!!
This time I’ll wear my retainer when I’m done. Fuck me for not doing it the first time I had braces. This time it’s costing my $6000 out of pocket.
ARGHGHHGHGHHHGHGHHGHGHHGHG!!!!
June 2nd, 2009
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I had a wander around the garden this morning and grabbed a shot of this dandelion head losing seeds more quickly than I'm losing hair!
I'm really rather pleased with the way this one's turned out and think it makes a great addition to my month of iPhoneography for my project 365!
Shot using my iPhone's excellent macro lens!
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Working on cleaning my teeth a little better. I’ve always tried to be thorough but I hate anything less than white so polish polish polish.
I hate this but it kept going wrong and Lightroom was playing up and I have a million other things (that are wayyy more important!) to do.
The is the beginning of my kinda theme week. I'm doing a week of cliche 365 shots, the ones that you see so many of in the pool. I'm not sure who did any of them first but they've all since been done hundreds of times. With only a couple of months left I thought I should make sure to include them all in my set!
This is where the 47 Rōnin of Akō, along with their lord, Asano Naganori, are interred. Sengaku-ji is located in the Takanawa are of Minato-ku, Tokyo, near Shinagawa Station.
Ōishi Kuranosuke was the chief retainer of the Asano clan during the turmoil associated with the 47 Rōnin incident, in which the feudal lord, Asano Naganori, attacked and wounded Kira Yoshinaka within Edo Castle. As drawing a weapon within the shogun's castle was a capital offence, Asano was sentenced to commit seppuku the same day.
As a result of Asano's impulsive behavior, the Shogunate disbanded the Asano clan and seized their lands. Ōishi and 46 other former Asano retainers waited and unleashed their misguided revenge on Kira, attacking his home in the dead of night in December 1703, killing his body guards as well as taking his head and placing it in front of Asano's tomb in Sengaku-ji Temple in Takanawa, Tokyo.
All the Akō rōnin were sentenced to death by seppuku (harakiri). Actually, recent scholarship is saying that the rōnin may have not been allowed the honor of death by seppuku, but were actually beheaded like common criminals. The promise of the right of death by seppuku may have been a sugar-coated lie told by the shogunate to help the public more easily swallow the death sentence imposed on the Akō rōnin.
Anyway, the loyalty that these guys showed to their foolish lord by committing what can only be described as what me and some of my friends refer to as a feudal "drive-by"- Japanese style, has been lauded by the Japanese public ever since. The facts behind the actual events have been buried in the countless puppet and kabuki plays as well as movies that have been made about this.
I'm not a terribly big fan of Asano Naganori, nor do I think the Akō rōnin were particularly "brave" by carrying out a night attack after a party and fighting a small group of drunk bodyguards and taking the head of a feeble old man. But, this perspective is from modern, western eyes. In reality, night attacks of this nature have always been a staple of samurai warfare, being documented since the Heian period. As much as I don't partake in the 47 Rōnin Kool Aid drinking parties, I do admit to enjoying watching a good fictional film or kabuki play about these guys.
dr. vlakova: an elegant, driven, no-nonsense evil scientist, working for the brotherhood of makuta (on retainer, though this hasn't stopped her from referring to herself as "makuta vlakova" occasionally in conversation and on her business cards) alongside mutran. not typically a people person, she has a soft spot for her homunculus, zygor (not that she'd let anyone else see it, reputation and all that)
zygor (pronounced zee-gor): a homunculus and vlakova's first successful attempt at creating life back during childhood. energetic, friendly, and clumsy, zygor was originally the pet vlakova was never allowed to have, and is supposed to be the doctor's lab assistant... if not for the fact that his massive eye is constantly distracted by shiny things due to his childlike nature. he also has a tendency to wander off when the pair go out in public, much to her frustration.
for mitch henry's two-of-a-kind contest. two complimentary characters. tried to think of something less obvious than "opposite elements" or "x and y things that go together," so i wound up on a mad scientist and their creation. also i finally got to use that stupid soccer ball and nestle top for something and that makes me happy. additional photos on my page.
This was taken at the Glencoe Campground in Sturgis during the motorcycle rally. Our friend Kirk about had the paint washed off his bike. He kept taking it back for another wash.
Beneath the iconic (and much photographed) gas holders at Washwood Heath old retainer 08762 slowly pushes back its train of rail sleepers as Freightliner 66558 heads past with 4O09, 10.09 Trafford Park - Southampton FLT.
The sleepers operation turned out to be quite slick in fact - as one fork-truck unloaded those being delivered another fork-truck further down the train was loading up new / recycled ones. Before we left a class 66 had arrived ready to take out the loaded train.
11th March 2014
The unusually warm weather this season ensured that pockets of autumn foliage remained well into mid-December here in Tokyo. This was taken at Sengaku-ji.
This is where the 47 Rōnin of Akō, along with their lord, Asano Naganori, are interred. Sengaku-ji is located in the Takanawa are of Minato-ku, Tokyo, near Shinagawa Station.
Ōishi Kuranosuke was the chief retainer of the Asano clan during the turmoil associated with the 47 Rōnin incident, in which the feudal lord, Asano Naganori, attacked and wounded Kira Yoshinaka within Edo Castle. As drawing a weapon within the shogun's castle was a capital offence, Asano was sentenced to commit seppuku the same day.
As a result of Asano's impulsive behavior, the Shogunate disbanded the Asano clan and seized their lands. Ōishi and 46 other former Asano retainers waited and unleashed their misguided revenge on Kira, attacking his home in the dead of night in December 1703, killing his body guards as well as taking his head and placing it in front of Asano's tomb in Sengaku-ji Temple in Takanawa, Tokyo.
All the Akō rōnin were sentenced to death by seppuku (harakiri). Actually, recent scholarship is saying that the rōnin may have not been allowed the honor of death by seppuku, but were actually beheaded like common criminals. The promise of the right of death by seppuku may have been a sugar-coated lie told by the shogunate to help the public more easily swallow the death sentence imposed on the Akō rōnin.
Anyway, the loyalty that these guys showed to their foolish lord by committing what can only be described as what me and some of my friends refer to as a feudal "drive-by"- Japanese style, has been lauded by the Japanese public ever since. The facts behind the actual events have been buried in the countless puppet and kabuki plays as well as movies that have been made about this.
I'm not a terribly big fan of Asano Naganori, nor do I think the Akō rōnin were particularly "brave" by carrying out a night attack after a party and fighting a small group of drunk bodyguards and taking the head of a feeble old man. But, this perspective is from modern, western eyes. In reality, night attacks of this nature have always been a staple of samurai warfare, being documented since the Heian period. As much as I don't partake in the 47 Rōnin Kool Aid drinking parties, I do admit to enjoying watching a good fictional film or kabuki play about these guys.
Why all the flags at half mast
Why the murders the rage
Where the retainers of passion
Left from a sensible age
To wipe the wretched history from this page
Why the people so bloated
What making cancerous sin
Where the godmerging shamans
To make new sense out of this din
To make beast calming music out of this din
Why all the present confusion,
When will the answering cry come?
We'll be able to hear it,
So busy dying to die?
How is it we live dying to die?
Don’t disrespect your parents
Rather calm their panic
Curb their distemper
Don’t tamper with their rot
No diaper no rash
Put out the trash
It’s a jinx
it’s a jinx…
An unexpected visitor to Frodsham .... class 31 and old retainer 31106 heads west with 3Q04, the 13.55 Crewe - Longsight Network Rail Test train earlier this evening, 11th July 2013.
Thought I was back in the 70s for a minute......
If you don't know by now, I broke a tooth a bit back... it was surely weakened by a filling that has been there forever, and possibly a smaller cavity working its way from underneath. The solution: a crown *growl* So I spent my afternoon numbed up, while Curtis grinded off the filling and bits of tooth needed to knock out of the way for the crown to attach. I _did_ get to geek out a bit, watching him "re-create" my tooth on the compy. _That_ was pretty cool!
ODC: Eccentric
I'm not sure why this image popped into my head when I read the challenge but it did and here you go...probably the best looking self portrait you'll see of me throughout this project. :)
I had one of those days where every little thing was getting on my nerves and my patience was very thin so I figured I needed something to give me a good laugh.
I use to get hours of entertainment when I was kid doing this.
FGR: Okeh
This is the first time i've photographed this ancient beech tree in the morning for my quest to take a picture on the first of each month this year. I can't believe how quickly it has gone. It was freezing with a hard frost but the tree looked magnificent. And the moon was still up.
The model who was in these braces was great, just think of what is was like for her to have this orthopedic appliance applied to her body. First she had to move her ankles to the inside of the brace so I could get the ankle straps on her sandals buckled up. She sat patiently while I buckled each of the 32 straps to her legs and body. I then CAREFULLY stood her up and listened for the drop locks to engage. The knees locked first followed by the hips. She had a pair of crutches to steady herself but was very worried she would fall over. Then I had to readjust some of the straps to tighten them down properly. The whole process took about 25 minutes. As you can see the pictures came out well and after about an hour of me picking her up by the braces turning her around and taking shots from every angle she was freed from her brace prison. Upon unbuckling the straps, sandals and removing the braces I expected her legs to be completely marked with "strap marks" from all the hardware she was wearing, marks similar to a girls feet after wearing high heeled sandals all day. Much to my surprise she had barely a mark on her and light marks at that. She said that she was very comfortable while wearing them and the fact that they did not leave a pattern tells me that this brace fits very well. Brand new genuine orthopedic leather. These braces were sold, you missed out. Made to measure recreational leg braces or other leather and metal restraint or fetish items, contact me at my1970junk@msn.com and put "braces" in the tag line. Also check out Flickr group "Leg Brace Desires" I just started it for recreational bracers
A perfect view of her heavily Braced legs with triple ankle strap sandals AND mid foot retainer straps buckled tightly onto her feet. Custom made leg and/or back braces can be made for you, contact me at my1970junk@msn.com.
20/365
This guy scared me senseless, so I thought I'd put a little fear into him too.
I'm in a great mood today. I'm looking forward to next Thursday. New camera is the same, just a little different... and is taking great shots!
Edo Competition’s engine modifications:
■ A bump in displacement from 6.0 to 6.3 liters,
■ new camshafts,
■ new titanium valve spring retainers
■ connecting rods,
■ modified cylinder heads,
■ new high performance exhaust headers,
■ high flow catalytic converters,
■ mufflers and air filters:
The standard hydraulic tappets are replaced with newly developed solid tappets, enabling the 12 cylinder engine to rev to an incredible 9,600 rpm.
Additionally the intake system of the V12 was modified,
■ a new high performance clutch - available with „strada“ or „pista“ friction pads –
■ a more powerful oil pump were installed.
The power output is increased by 180 to 840 horsepower.
Without mufflers more than 860 horsepower is possible. The maximum torque of 780 Nm (575 ft-lb) is available at 5,800 rpm.
Specifications
Engine V12 cylinder 6.3 ltr.
Power est. 840 hp
Max. torque est. 780 Nm / 5.800/min
Performance
Top speed > 390 km/h
0 – 100 km/h (0 – 62 mph) est. 3.2s
0 – 200 km/h (0 – 124 mph) est. 9.0s
0 – 300 km/h (0 – 186 mph) est. 19.0s
This is a retaining bracket used to hold a railway sleeper in place. Its clearly been in place for a long time, and doubtless has served numerous times the fisherman unloading their catch at Dungeness beach. This is a strange location, but one I've photographed many times. On first arrival it appears to all be a uniform colour tone - a dullish green/beige, except for the occasional white boat stored on the stoney beach. Yet when you look closer an array of bright contrasting colours reveals itself, as in this image, right below my feet. The lighting was fortunate, with low angle late afternoon sunlight dappling the decaying metal. In this kind of colourful detail lies the photographic allure of Dungeness, and its the reason I'll likely return many more times in the future.
herausnehmbare Retainer meiner Freundin (Tragedauer: voraussichtlich 36 Monate, anfangs ganztags, später ca. 70 Wochenstunden).
This is where the 47 Rōnin of Akō, along with their lord, Asano Naganori, are interred. Sengaku-ji is located in the Takanawa are of Minato-ku, Tokyo, near Shinagawa Station.
Ōishi Kuranosuke was the chief retainer of the Asano clan during the turmoil associated with the 47 Rōnin incident, in which the feudal lord, Asano Naganori, attacked and wounded Kira Yoshinaka within Edo Castle. As drawing a weapon within the shogun's castle was a capital offence, Asano was sentenced to commit seppuku the same day.
As a result of Asano's impulsive behavior, the Shogunate disbanded the Asano clan and seized their lands. Ōishi and 46 other former Asano retainers waited and unleashed their misguided revenge on Kira, attacking his home in the dead of night in December 1703, killing his body guards as well as taking his head and placing it in front of Asano's tomb in Sengaku-ji Temple in Takanawa, Tokyo.
All the Akō rōnin were sentenced to death by seppuku (harakiri). Actually, recent scholarship is saying that the rōnin may have not been allowed the honor of death by seppuku, but were actually beheaded like common criminals. The promise of the right of death by seppuku may have been a sugar-coated lie told by the shogunate to help the public more easily swallow the death sentence imposed on the Akō rōnin.
Anyway, the loyalty that these guys showed to their foolish lord by committing what can only be described as what me and some of my friends refer to as a feudal "drive-by"- Japanese style, has been lauded by the Japanese public ever since. The facts behind the actual events have been buried in the countless puppet and kabuki plays as well as movies that have been made about this.
I'm not a terribly big fan of Asano Naganori, nor do I think the Akō rōnin were particularly "brave" by carrying out a night attack after a party and fighting a small group of drunk bodyguards and taking the head of a feeble old man. But, this perspective is from modern, western eyes. In reality, night attacks of this nature have always been a staple of samurai warfare, being documented since the Heian period. As much as I don't partake in the 47 Rōnin Kool Aid drinking parties, I do admit to enjoying watching a good fictional film or kabuki play about these guys.
Batman Cameo - Ted Cassidy as Lurch the Butler Addams Family 1966 Vintage Halloween the 1960s - Charles Chas Addams cartoon cartoonist Eccentric holiday Evil creature monster Frankenstein like mask costume creatures vamp undead patchwork man monsters toy toys valet servant retainer manservant nanny domestic portrait climbing up wall batrope side of building TV television show 60s series bat rope screengrab screen grab 2022
Retainers set, blue smoke swirls around the cars as No. 489 descends from Cumbres Pass.
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, Chama, New Mexico
There is a sad legend in this pond.
"The old woman who piled the daughter of the senior retainer around a pond has lost a daughter in the pond by mistake. The daughter has been just depressed. It is informed that I am completely at a loss, and the old woman jumped into the pond."
Carvings of staff and retainers around a large box tomb in the Chancel of the Church. A pleasant hour spent at St Andrew's Church Wroxeter
Loyal Retainer
Long since these sightless eyes have seen
The love, the life, that once had been
Who daily strove to grasp each day
And finally simply walked away
Do they return to see my face,
To dream of days spent in this place?
Or have they left the Earth behind
For lights that even brighter shine?
The answer moot, for I will wait
To meet at last my final fate
I was not made to stand so strong,
But to remember, and to long...
by John Griggs