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Recent stormy weather pushed a huge number of razor shells onto this beach, where they joined the shell of an old shipwreck.
Big Horn National Forest Scenic Byway
Wyoming
Shell Creek forces its way between the 3 billion year-old granite walls of Shell Canyon in a 120 foot plunge to another, lower level of the canyon floor.
Hardly anyone was on the beach this morning except for a family of four, each bent over holding a bag, collecting sea shells.
Shell Cottage built in the sand dunes at Freshwater West beach in Pembrokeshire for the final Harry Potter film.
Macro shot of a sea shell....I just loved the shapes.....the twirls and curves.....doesn't nature produce the most amazing shapes?
Shell (3,690 square feet)
208 Charter Colony Parkway, Charter Colony Shopping Center, Midlothian, VA
This location opened in 2019; it was originally the gas station for Martin's Food Markets, which opened on November 7th, 2014 and closed on August 2nd, 2017
An activist in a polar bear hat in Discovery Green Park outside Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center, Dec. 5, 2012, to stage a "Winter Wasteland" in protest of Shell’s 2013 Arctic drilling plan. Greenpeace, Alaska Wilderness League, Sierra Club, Environment Texas, and Environmental Action protesters join with Santa Claus and a troupe of polar bears to do battle with a fake oil spill as Shell and its colleagues at the Arctic Technology Conference plan for a real Winter Wasteland in America’s Arctic Ocean.
These are believed to have been the preferred light source for early cave dwellers: a shell, packed with moss that had been soaked in animal fat. The fat burns with the moss acting as a wick; the shell makes it possible to carry around. (For the sake of sensitive modern noses, the guide used candle wax instead of animal fat, but the principle is the same.)
We were surprised just how much light these actually gave off. After demonstrating how well they worked, the guide then extinguished the flames, to let us see how dark 'really dark' can get (which is very). It didn't worry me at all, living away from streetlights and such things; but I fancied that I could sense a few people in our party tensing.
Infrared converted Canon G10
Shell Mex House is situated at number 80, Strand, London, UK. The current building was built in 1930-31 on the site of the Hotel Cecil and stands behind the original facade of the Hotel and between the Adelphi and the Savoy Hotel. Broadly Art Deco in style, it was designed by the architectural firm of Messrs Joseph, with F. Milton Cashmore responsible for most of the work.
Standing 58 m (190 ft) tall, with 537,000 sq ft (49,900 m2) of floor space, Shell Mex House has 12 floors (plus basement and sub-basement) and is immediately recognizable from the River Thames and the South Bank by the clock tower positioned on the south side of the building (flanked by two large, hieratic figures at the south corners). The clock, which was known for a time as "Big Benzene", is one of the biggest in London. It is known for its face looking towards the river, but also has a face looking towards the Strand. In the words of architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner, the building "is thoroughly unsubtle, but succeeds in holding its own in London's river front."
The building was for many years the London headquarters of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd for whom it was originally built. Shell-Mex and BP Ltd was a Joint Venture company created by Shell and British Petroleum in 1932 when they decided to merge their United Kingdom marketing operations.[1] Upon the "Brand Separation" of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd in 1975, Shell Mex House became the head office of Shell UK Ltd, which was Shell's "UK operating company". Changes in the way that Shell was run in the 1990s led to the disposal of the property by Shell. Today, simply known as 80 Strand, most of its floors are occupied by companies belonging to Pearson PLC, who use it as their registered office, including Mergermarket, Penguin Books, Dorling Kindersley, Hamish Hamilton, Michael Joseph and Rough Guides.
Other notable businesses in this building are Groupe Aeroplan, which manages the Nectar loyalty card, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The entrance of the building, which is set back from the Strand, is through a large gated archway. A green plaque was affixed to the wall just inside the gate in March 2008, proclaiming: The Royal Air force was formed and had its first headquarters here in the former Hotel Cecil 1 April 1918. Below it is a brass plate stating: This plaque was unveiled by the chief of air staff Air Chief Marshall Sir Glenn Torpy KCB CBE DSO ADC to mark the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Royal Air Force.[2]
During the Second World War, the building became home to the Ministry of Supply which co-ordinated supply of equipment to the national armed forces. It was also the home of the "Petroleum Board" which handled the distribution and rationing of petroleum products during the war. It was badly damaged by a bomb in 1940. The building reverted to Shell-Mex and BP Ltd on 1 July 1948 with a number of floors remaining occupied by the Ministry of Aviation (latterly the Board of Trade, Civil Aviation Division) until the mid-1970s.
An einer Shell-Tankstelle haben wir Aufkleber angebracht, um auf die Problematik der
Ölbohrungen in der Arktis hinzuweisen. (c) N. Schmidt/Greenpeace Münster
more shells at the beach. i dont think this one was taken on the same day as the other one, but it may have been.
I finally finished my first shell mosaic! It's an odd little craft - pretty much no information whatever on the web at all. I suspect folks who make these are of an older, non-web-tutorial-making generation. I found Bill Jordan's DVD to be invaluable - actually the only information at all. The husband is at work on the case. Walnut, I think.
Olive shells are gastrpods in the family Olividae. All have cylindrical, glossy shells with narrow, elongated apetures.
Letttered olives havea thick shell with a small pointed spire about 1/9th total shell length. Shells that are not faded or beach-worn are covered with overlapping, slightly blurry, brown zigzags that are darkest below the suture and as part of two, broad, spiral bands. Oliva reticularis (the Netted Olive) has no bands and a larger spire of about 1/7th total shell length.
The species' range is from North Carolina to Florida and the Gulf states of North America, including Louisiana and Texas; It also occurs in Mexico, and may also occur in Brazil. The lettered olive typically lives in near-shore waters, on shallow sand flats near inlets. The empty shell is occasionally, or sometimes commonly, washed up onto ocean beaches.
Lettered Olives are carnivores and actively prey on bivalves and crabs.
The lettered olive is the state shell of South Carolina.
Native Americans long ago made necklaces of the handsome shells. In the early 1900s these “Panama Shells” were collected and strung to make portières (door-curtains) to sell to tourists.
www.squidoo.com/lettered-olive-shells
Second run with the same spiral rendered in smaller steps to yield smoother curves, and the caustics switched on in povray.