BALD AND SHAVING FRIENDS
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"The star of the North
will bring the shaving.
But as if seen through the sea sail,
I will become a wave and a fire,
to embrace you abroad.
And you, my lost homeland, are far away,
you will become a caress and a wound
as if dawning on another earth.
Now I fly for the festival of life.
Now I fly for my joy's celebration.
My old moons,
my new birds,
chase the sun and the day from the mountain,
to see me pass
like lightning in the sky."
Taken @ Before Dawn
The smell of fresh pencil shavings is associated with my childhood years when I constantly used HB, 2HB and colour pencils. Google tells me that this smell is cedar as it is the favoured wood for pencils as it is soft and sharpens easily without splinters.
For Macro Monday 13 September 2021 topic: Smell
The tool is an antique drawknife. A historically costumed gentleman was using it on some cut tree branches to make ax handles and walking sticks last week when I visited Kline Creek Farm, in West Chicago, Illinois. The farm is intended to depict for visitors what life on the farm was like in the 1890s. The shavings are from the branches that were being shaved. I had intended to post this image for the Crazy Tuesday "Cutting Instruments" theme this week, but life intervened, and I didn't get it posted. So here it is today for the Thursday Monochrome groups.
HMBT & HMT
Pencil sharpener taking some shavings. With the Nikon Z50, the 24-200 zoom lens plus the NISI close up filter screwed on.
Your comments and faves are greatly appreciated. Many thanks.
Crimson Rosella
Platycercus elegans
Description: There are several colour forms of the Crimson Rosella. The form it is named for has mostly crimson (red) plumage and bright blue cheeks. The feathers of the back and wing coverts are black broadly edged with red. The flight feathers of the wings have broad blue edges and the tail is blue above and pale blue below and on the outer feathers. Birds from northern Queensland are generally smaller and darker than southern birds. The 'Yellow Rosella' has the crimson areas replaced with light yellow and the tail more greenish. The 'Adelaide Rosella' is intermediate in colour, ranging from yellow with a reddish wash to dark orange. Otherwise, all the forms are similar in pattern. Young Crimson Rosellas have the characteristic blue cheeks, but the remainder of the body plumage is green-olive to yellowish olive (occasionally red in some areas). The young bird gradually attains the adult plumage over a period of 15 months
Similar species: The adult Crimson Rosella is similar to male Australian King-Parrots, but differs by having blue cheeks, shoulders, and tail, a whitish, rather than red, bill and a dark eye. Immature Crimson Rosellas also differ from female and immature King-Parrots by having blue cheeks, a whitish bill and a more yellow-green rather than dark green colouring.
Distribution: There are several populations of the Crimson Rosella. Red (crimson) birds occur in northern Queensland, in southern Queensland to south-eastern South Australia and on Kangaroo Island. Orange birds are restricted to the Flinders Ranges region of South Australia, while yellow ones are found along the Murray, Murrumbidgee and neighbouring rivers (where yellow birds meet red birds they hybridise, producing orange offspring). Red birds have been introduced to Norfolk Island and New Zealand.
Habitat: Throughout its range, the Crimson Rosella is commonly associated with tall eucalypt and wetter forests.
Feeding: Crimson Rosellas are normally encountered in small flocks and are easily attracted to garden seed trays. Once familiar with humans, they will accept hand held food. Natural foods include seeds of eucalypts, grasses and shrubs, as well as insects and some tree blossoms.
Breeding: The Crimson Rosella's nest is a tree hollow, located high in a tree, and lined with wood shavings and dust. The female alone incubates the white eggs, but both sexes care for the young. The chicks remain dependent on their parents for a further 35 days after leaving the nest.
Calls: The Crimson Rosella has a range of calls, the commonest being a two-syllabled "cussik-cussik". It also has a range of harsh screeches and metallic whistles.
Minimum Size: 32cm
Maximum Size: 36cm
Average size: 34cm
Average weight: 129g
Breeding season: September to January
Clutch Size: 4 to 8 (usually 5)
Incubation: 20 days
Nestling Period: 35 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Platycercus-elegans)
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The original photo was of a large shaving products display . Photofox Cloud Wanderer components were used to create this image.
Yesterday in California's Anza-Borrego Desert we found these amazing 3 mm. planthopper nymphs which I am calling Shaving Brush Bugs. We found them under rocks, where presumably they feed on exposed plant roots in that damp micro-environment. I've read several possible explanations for the waxy fibers that this and many other planthoppers have. It might discourage predators, who could end up nibbling non-tasty wax instead of yummy bug. It may disguise them as bits of fungus. Or possibly, since the nymphs drink plant fluids and are constantly excreting excess sugary honeydew, the waxy fibers might help shed the liquid (wax is hydrophobic) so the bug doesn't get "gummed up." In any case, it's quite a look.
Pseudobombax ellipticum
(White)
Shaving Brush tree/ Amapolla tree
(Malvaceae/ Bombacaceae)
On an overcast day.
Planing along the edge of a length of wood produces thin shavings which naturally curl into spirals.