Recall this scent from primary school days, and the 'sooty' after effects on your finger tips? Even if sharpening your coloured pencils, the odour was the same. Amazing how certain scents can take us way back in time in fractions of seconds or in no time. Enjoy the week ahead.

Thank you Hilaire for your confidence in my talents for handling the razor 😘

My father's shaving brush

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

Metal shavings from Railway works in Bury. (1734)

just a basic shot of a carpenter's pencil with a touch up laid on terracotta.

Submitted in Macro Mondays PPEP

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macro mondays: spiral...pencil shaving from manual sharpener

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Wilkinson Sword

Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia

Macro Monday: bathroom.

digital art

USF Botanical Gardens

Sony A7RIII, Sigma 105 mm Macro, focus stacking

Restore old wooden furniture

Macro Mondays-Vibrant Minimalism

auch eine Idee zu “Macro Mondays” Thema: “Ecke”

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allen Besuchern und Freunden meines Fotostreams ein herzliches Dankeschön für eure Kommentare und Kritiken, Einladungen und Favoriten.

all visitors and friends of my photostream, a heartfelt thank you for your comments and reviews, invitations and favorites

shave it

groups.yahoo.com/group/extremehaircuts/ www.headshavevideos.com/

macro mondays - spiral

In the window of a shop selling shaving equipment, in Berne.

Taken for the 07/12/20 Macro Mondays theme "Celebration"

HMM!

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.

It's hard to shave when you don't have opposable digits.. or a shaver. This didn't stop Captain Morgan from trying though.

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A Macro Mondays submission on the topic "trash".

namibia - sossusvlei

Pseudobombax ellipticum

(White)

Shaving Brush tree/ Amapolla tree

(Malvaceae/ Bombacaceae)

On an overcast day.

Liberty Tree Park | Plantation | Florida

Planing along the edge of a length of wood produces thin shavings which naturally curl into spirals.

For Flickr group "MACRO MONDAYS", topic: "Soap"

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My contribution to Macro Mondays' challenge, "Brush", on 2 March 2020. It's an old shaving brush which belonged to my late father-in-law (1917-2005). HMM,

Flower made with green colored pencil shavings, brass ring band.

HMM!

Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

inspired by the old Esquire cover.

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