Rubber Duckies
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Grey Tree Frog . You really have to look to find them. Now, autumn is here and they are winding down.
“Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.
Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.
Their language has been lost.
But not the gestures.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiratio
This is the cracked rough bark of an old cherry tree
The tree was standing in the garden of my father's childhood home and had to be felled when I was a teenager. I can still remember the delicious cherries and climbing the tree when I was a kid.
My father painted a view of the property on a slab of the tree and later gave it to me as a gift. It is a beautiful memento : )
Macro Mondays - theme: tree bark
the bark of this slab is 2 cm wide; lit with a reddish LED-light
Happy Macro Mondays, everyone !
(I will catch up tonight)
Scrap tyres: Rubber Donuts. Billions of waste tyres around the world = massive pollution. Yet ground-up tyres can be used in asphalt for roads. Roads with rubber in them have better grip, and they’re 50% quieter. These last three times longer than normal tarmac, and don’t need as much maintenance.
It's a black and white issue
#Flickr21Challenge 4 #Donuts
Babydoll, Lingerie and Gloves : .ET. Enfant Terrible - Cupids Kiss
Head : lel evox / AVALON
Hair : tram Q0208 hair. At C88.
Skin : [Glam Affair] Penelophe [Lelutka EvoX] L006 A. At The Fifty
Pose : GOYO. Liv. Weekendsales.
Decor :
YOKAI - Zodiac Rubber Duck Gacha - Zodiac Lake RARE. At Gacha Arcana.
Ariskea[Bloomwell] Climbing Leaf Bush
BROKEN ARROWS - Celestial Hanging - Golden. Weekendsales.
::Static:: Lunar Phase Windows and Moonbeams.
Display the D—Duck—a giant sculpture near Orebro Castle in Sweden, a creation in rubber tires, the work of Finnish sculptor Villu Jaanisoo! We were fortunate to see it a couple years ago before it was scheduled to return to Finland.
These two giant rubber ducks are to be displayed near the seaside of Tamar Park (in Admiralty, Hong Kong) from 10-June-2023 for two weeks.
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These are conservative or "low" Amish horses. The church district no longer exists. 10 years ago there was a schism. The conservative families moved and the remaining Amish became more liberal or "high" in adopting more technology and expanding the type of jobs that were allowed......................................................
The conservative Amish did not allow rubber on tires, tops on buggies, use of propane and required farming and lumber production as acceptable economic activities. The remaining turned to industrial farming practices building large Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOS). Unfortunately given few state pollution regulations and the isolation of the community the few regulations are not enforced. This has led to practices that pollute ground water...................................................................................
Unlike their co-workers the horses don't mind having their pic taken..... #kentstrock
You know it's the month of September when the rubber rabbitbrush along the banks of the Price River turn golden-yellow.
Armstrong Collective's Canyon Spirit luxury cruise train has exited the twisting gooseneck curves as it tackles a short section of 2.43% grade on the approach to the tunnel and siding at Kyune, Utah. The train will crest Soldier Summit in 13 additional miles.
"Rubber Duckie you're the one
You make [Christmas] time lots of fun
Rubber Duckie I'm awfully fond of you."
--Jim Henson and writer Jeff Moss
Junior sized rubber ducky all decked out in his best Christmas garb. For the Macro Mondays group. Theme: Holiday Bokeh. HMM!
"Rubber Duckie" is a song sung by the Muppet character Ernie (voiced by Jim Henson) on Sesame Street. The song is named after Ernie's toy, a rubber duck affectionately named Rubber Duckie.
Smile on Saturday.
Song Title.
Explore: Highest position: 73 on Friday, July 22, 2016
Well...not really, he's a Pied Grebe, but they are such adorable little ducks that he SHOULD be the model for those little yellow rubber duckies!
I watched him for quite some time as he swam happily around the lily pads looking for a snack on a beautiful winter day in Everglades National Park.
Part bird, part submarine, the Pied-billed Grebe is common across much of North America. These small brown birds have unusually thick bills that turn silver and black in summer. These expert divers inhabit sluggish rivers, freshwater marshes, lakes, and estuaries. They use their chunky bills to kill and eat large crustaceans along with a great variety of fish, amphibians, insects, and other invertebrates. Rarely seen in flight and often hidden amid vegetation, Pied-billed Grebes announce their presence with loud, far-reaching calls. (background material courtesy of Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Inflatable rubber dingy "SeaHawk 2" near Northshore Beach. Pic taken from Northshore Cove.
*Note: More Ships, Boats and Watercraft pics in my Ships, Boats and Watercraft Album.
These are rubber finger thimbles shaped of Haniwa.
I usually keep them on my desk in the office, but I brought them home to take photo for this weeks theme. I like them because they're cute, but difficult to use.
The hight is 4cm, the part shown in the photo is 2cm.
Haniwa are clay figures in the shape of men, women They were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects during the Tumulus period.
We've had a lot of grey and wet weather recently. In fact as I type it's raining again. The other day when I was out and about I asked for a sign for when this abysmal weather would stop. Soon after a rubber duck appeared in the sky (I'm sure I heard a quiet heavenly chuckle as well....). OK more wet weather for the foreseeable future, I get it :D
Joking aside, I think this "duck" is better viewed on a smaller screen, like the back of my camera or phone. On a larger screen I feel it loses its shape somewhat. A couple of people that's seen this photo think it looks more like a sea horse. Still, I know what it is and it's not everyday you see a rubber duck in the sky! This one's for you Dom!
not something I would do LOL
This is a tower in Vienna where people pay tp have a set of rubber bands tied around there ankles and then they jump off, aka Bungy jumping
Handheld shot during a walkthrough of one of the many street markets in Metro Manila Philippines. No flash, available light.
This tree has grown through this tire,I believe this to be a rare find or at least in my 48years here it's the first I've seen!
This amazing woman in her sixties named Barbara Schwenk that I've been working with at the Greenhouse gave me these to give to Mauro when I go to Italy in September.
I told her he liked rubber stamps of American food which is true. I also told her he liked skulls and skeletons and she wants to give me some of those too, wants me to meet her at an outlet mall, says that's convenient for her.
This was after I knew she collected rubber stamps because she brought her scrapbook into work to show me the letters she had recieved from Bill Clinton and Mother Theresa and people who write romanticized novels about American Indians and she sends all these people rubber stamp decorated envelopes. And to people in the hospital and she sends money to a family living on a reservation in South Dakota and for thirty years she sent money to a black family in MIssissippi whom she's never met.
And the only reason she works at the greenhouse is make money to give away because her boyfriend, who's rich, thinks that her giving money away is silly.
I got mad and said, Barbara, you've got to make that man buy you a plane ticket to Mississippi so that you can go meet this family you helped.